JUBA: Street sweepers in South Sudan’s capital Juba have cleaned up the blood and bullet casings after gunbattles at the presidential palace, but salvaging...
It was looting on an epic scale: a month’s worth of food aid for over 220,000 South Sudanese, all stolen in just two days along with the giant warehouses that...
JUBA: The metal gates are still twisted where troops in December 2013 stormed the house of South Sudan’s now new Vice President Riek Machar, as war erupted...
JUBA: In a country awash with guns, a faltering peace deal aimed at ending over two years of intense civil war in South Sudan came down to a dispute over just...
Nairobi: The many ways people have died during South Sudan’s two-year civil war are well documented, but the number killed is unknown. Men, women and children...
NAIROBI: It was one of the British Empire’s bloodiest insurgencies, but the thousands killed, tortured and jailed in Kenya’s Mau Mau rebellion were forgotten...
Nyiragongo, DR Congo: Tourists perch perilously on a volcano’s edge as swirling smoke belches from the fiery cauldron of lava below, the latest unlikely...
NAIROBI: South Sudanese government troops crushed fleeing civilians with tanks, then reversed to check they had killed them, carried out public gang rapes and...
NAIROBI: The leader of South Sudan's rebels said Wednesday that the country's civil war would continue as long as President Salva Kiir remained in power."We...
JUBA, South Sudan: South Sudan's warring leaders must strike a compromise deal, the European Union's aid chief said Saturday, warning the international...
NAIROBI: A Kenyan court convicted three men Monday for the brutal gang rape of a schoolgirl, boosting their original punishment of being made to cut grass to...
NAIROBI: Refugees from war-torn Yemen fleeing intense airstrikes are arriving in the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, aid agencies said Wednesday, warning...
NAIROBI: Kenya's interior minister and police chief were removed from their posts Tuesday, hours after Somalia's Shebab rebels carried out a fresh massacre in...
NAIROBI: Internationally funded African Union troops in war-torn and impoverished Somalia have raped women and girls as young as 12 and traded food aid for...
NAIROBI: A fly-covered baby crawls on the baked earth of southern Sudan watched by a vulture: a brutal but iconic photograph of famine that shocked the world...
NAIROBI: South Sudan’s warring leaders have agreed another deal aimed at ending six months of civil war but even if this one holds, analysts expect violence...
NAIROBI: Warring forces on both sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war have likely carried out crimes against humanity, the UN said Thursday, a day ahead of...
NAIROBI: Attackers shot dead four worshipers on Sunday when they burst into a church service near the Kenyan port city of Mombasa, spraying the congregation...
NAIROBI: As East African mediators attempt to push South Sudan’s government and rebels into signing a truce, analysts and diplomats fear it may already...
NAIROBI: Gunmen who massacred at least 67 people in Kenya's Westgate mall in September were special suicide commandos, Somalia's Shebab insurgents said...
NAIROBI: Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta announced Tuesday a formal inquiry into apparent security lapses during the deadly assault on Nairobi’s Westgate...
NAIROBI: Kenya on Thursday buried victims of a four-day mall massacre by Islamist gunmen, as police pleaded for patience and searchers combed the charred...
MOGADISHU: Not yet named but much loved by watchful parents, a newly born baby boy is a small symbol of change: a birth, not a death for Somalia’s key...
NAIROBI: Kenyans awaited presidential results with growing frustration Wednesday at controversial delays and mountains of spoiled ballots, five years after...
NAIROBI: Once his reputation was that of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small-town Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali...