On 15 December 2013, conflict broke out in the world's youngest nation. In September 2018, President Salva Kiir and opposition leaders, including Riek Machar, signed an agreement ... Read more »

Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo has now spread to urban areas. The Conversation Africa's Moina Spooner spoke to Mosoka Fallah who was head of case detection during Liberia's ... Read more »

A number of local initiatives are trying to ease the way for refugees to rebuild their lives, as an agreement signed in September by President Salva Kiir, rebel leader Riek Machar, ... Read more »

Africa's newest and 54th state, South Sudan, has seen an increase in political turmoil, famine, fighting over oil, violence and allegations of rape and killing of women and ... Read more »

Aid organisation Medicins Sans Frontieres in a joint report with the UN, has said that up to 20 men are responsible for raping and assaulting women walking to collect food to take ... Read more »

Despite its role as peace broker, Uganda has been among the clandestine suppliers of weapons that originate in the EU, U.S. and China to both sides of the bloody civil war in South ... Read more »

Advertising an 18-year-old on Facebook for marriage brought more attention to the substantial riches to be gained from trading adolescent girls in this way. As a result there is a ... Read more »

After years of conflict-induced shutdown, the country expects a windfall from resumed oil production to spur economic growth, as it opens its territory to new investors to explore ... Read more »

South Africa's Minister of Energy Jeff Radebe announced his country's plans to invest one-billion U.S. dollars in South Sudan's oil sector, including in the construction of a ... Read more »

Lawyers in the country are urging the government to shut down an online auction for marriage rights to a teenage girl saying the practice is a gross human rights violation. Read more »