Oil’s importance to South Sudan’s economy is often exaggerated – the bigger challenge facing Juba is its inability to secure ...

Leaders from countries party to a regional peace and security framework expressed solidarity with Sudan and affirmed support ...

The UN Security Council is due to vote in late May on whether to renew an arms embargo on South Sudan for another year.

Global concern had once again shifted to South Sudan, where a long-simmering conflict had claimed thousands of lives, ...

Juba's new order aims to rein in private armies, but history shows the path to disarming militias is fraught with peril.

If properly implemented and enforced, a renewed UNSC arms embargo would not obstruct security sector reform. Instead, it ...

International efforts to end the conflict have included aUnited ... UN Security Council members are set to vote on a draft resolution to extend the South Sudan sanctions regime.

Tayfor Alamin The war in South Sudan between the Sudan Army Forces (SAF) and Anyana from 1955 to 1972 is estimated to have ...

All around Egypt's borders, African countries descend into a widening arc of civil wars and state collapse. To the south, ...