The United Nations rights chief urged on Friday for warring sides in South Sudan to pull back from the brink, warning that the human rights situation risks further deterioration as fighting intensifies.

Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight reportedly intended for South Sudan this week.

Africa's third largest country has been ravaged by more than two years of war between the government and paramilitary forces.

The United States will impose sanctions on Sudan after determining that its military used chemical weapons against its breakaway paramilitary forces during their civil war, the State Department said.

A Libyan ambulance service says at least at seven Sudanese migrants were found dead after their vehicle broke down and left them stranded for days deep in the desert

Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos, shot and killed a German tourist in Southern California in 1994 when he was 17. He was convicted of shooting and killing Gisela Pfleger and wounding her husband Klaus, during a robbery. Klaus survived and just celebrated his 93 rd birthday.

Before the war erupted in April 2023, Sudan was already experiencing a severe humanitarian crisis that left 15.8 million people in need of humanitarian aid. Two years of war have gravely exacerbated these conditions, displacing over 12 million people and ...

“Some of the children were left behind, and they haven’t arrived yet,” said Khadija Adam Youssouf, a refugee who managed to reach the site safely. “The war separated us. We don’t even know where they are. Sudan… We cannot return to Sudan. We will stay here, and our children will go to school.”