The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...

Some pseudonyms are used to protect the identities of interviewees. “I saw a lot of suffering.” The old man, Lokwi, gestures ...

Following a year of "record violence" in Sudan in 2024, the start of the new year sees new bouts of violence inflicted on civilians, especially by the SAF in Wad Madani, a strategic point on the map ...

Regardless of their political orientations, many people are preoccupied with MAGA discourse — a troubling sign that Trump is ...

All but two countries in the Americas grant automatic birthright citizenship to people born within their borders, but that ...

Ethnic killings in Sudan, documented to have been committed overwhelmingly by the RSF, have been called genocide by the US government. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talks with reporter Nicholas Niarchos, ...

South Sudan still hasn’t held a long-delayed presidential election, and Kiir remains in power.His rivalry with Machar is compounded by ethnic divisions. Machar has long regarded himself as ...

The conflict in Sudan that erupted two years ago has unleashed waves of ethnic violence, created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, and plunged several areas of the country into famine.

Two years later, the country was in a bloody civil war fueled by ethnic violence, with Mr. Machar on one side and Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, on the other. The two leaders agreed to ...