Leaders from the Ngok Dinka and Misseriya communities in the disputed Abyei region have signed a new agreement aimed at ...

Africa’s drylands are often imagined as vast, empty spaces. Romantic wilderness on the one hand. Zones of hunger, conflict ...

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.’’ Nelson Mandela ...

This place is known for some of the tallest people in the world, with men averaging nearly 6 feet in height. Scroll down to ...

Hundreds of returnees and forced migrants reported being terrorised by soldiers and armed militias on both sides of the Sudan ...

Tens of thousands fled the Sudanese city of El Fasher after it fell to a paramilitary group, leaving many families hungry and ...

Geneva / El Fasher / Port Sudan — UN Women has warned that rape is now being "used intentionally and systematically" in Sudan, where hunger and displacement deepen daily. Women and girls, the agency ...

As an extremist Muslim, I beat a Christian boy and left him to die. His faithful prayers for me led to my salvation. When I was 16, a new student named Zakariya showed up at school. His forehead bore ...

CAIRO — A few weeks before the fall of her hometown to Sudan’s paramilitary group, Nadra Mohamed Ahmed, seven months pregnant at the time, trekked for nearly 40 kilometers (25 miles) across unsafe ...

GENEVA, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Women fleeing Sudan's al-Fashir city report killings, systematic rape and the disappearance of their children following its capture by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces ...

The UN Women on Tuesday called for urgent action to protect and prioritize women and girls in Sudan, where the ongoing conflict and deepening hunger crisis have left millions in peril. "For over two ...

In war-torn Sudan, rape is likely being used as a weapon of war and simply being a woman there is "a strong predictor" of hunger, violence and death, the UN's gender equality agency warned on Tuesday.