The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the U.N. said Thursday, a grim milestone for what has become the world's...
At least 312 people were killed and more than 2,000 left homeless Monday when heavy flooding hit Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown, leaving morgues...
South Sudan government forces said Monday they had seized the rebel stronghold of Pagak near the Ethiopian border, after weeks of heavy fighting that forced...
Five men suspected of belonging to Al-Qaeda were killed in Yemen Monday in a drone strike likely to have been carried out by the United States, a security...
The United States warned leaders in South Sudan on Thursday that they risk losing U.S. support if they don't participate in a high-level forum and stick to...
“I’m addicted to cutting trees,” Taban Ceasor says.His stained hands sift through jagged pieces of charcoal in his busy shop in South Sudan’s capital.
United States and Somali military forces raided a rebel-held village in southern Somalia and killed several al-Shabab fighters early Thursday, a senior Somali...
South Sudanese activists are using music, poetry, theater, comedy, dance and fashion to preach tolerance in the world’s youngest nation that has been divided...
South Sudan marked its sixth independence anniversary Sunday in muted fashion, with no official celebration, as the world's newest nation reels from a brutal...
After South Sudan’s peace deal collapsed, gun battles rocked the capital and soldiers ransacked his clothing store, Ahmed al-Nur faced the economic crisis in...
The United Nations says unknown gunmen seized eight foreign and local contractors outside a civilian protection site in South Sudan's capital before releasing...
Somalia’s insurgency suffered a significant split after government officials confirmed Friday that they had sent troops to repel Islamist fighters seeking to...
Solomon was just 7 years old when he woke up missing a leg.
When United Nations Secretary-General Ant?nio Guterres traveled to Uganda earlier this month, his stated mission – to raise billions of dollars for the...
The U.S. military in Africa says it carried out an airstrike in southern Somalia that killed eight Islamic extremists at a rebel command and logistics camp,...
South Sudan's rebels have claimed responsibility for an ambush on a convoy of buses and other vehicles travelling on a major highway that killed at least 14...
A South Sudan military court Tuesday opened the trial of 13 soldiers accused of raping foreign aid workers and murdering a local journalist during fighting in...
Thirteen South Sudanese soldiers accused of raping five foreign aid workers and killing their local colleague appeared before a military court Tuesday, a case...
The South Sudanese government on Friday freed a local journalist working for a United Nations radio station who spent two and a half years in jail without...
The United States, Britain and the United Nations were skeptical on Wednesday of South Sudan President Salva Kiir's declaration of a unilateral ceasefire,...