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Uganda has deployed special forces in South Sudan as fears grow that the country could descend into civil war. Kampala’s military chief announced that the troops had been sent to help “secure” Juba, the capital of Uganda’s northern neighbor. Tension between President Salva Kiir and First Vice...

South Sudan has seen an “alarming regression” as clashes in recent weeks in the country’s northeast threaten to undo years of progress towards peace, the United Nations commission on human rights for the country has warned. The statement from Yasmin Sooka, chairperson of the UN Commission on Human...

A South Sudanese general and dozens of soldiers have been killed after a United Nations helicopter trying to evacuate them from the northern town of Nasir came under attack, the government has said. The UN said the incident, which could deal a blow to an already fragile peace process, was “utterly...

More than 500 people may have been tortured or starved to death and then buried in a secret mass grave north of Khartoum. A visit to a base belonging to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) shortly after it was retaken by the Sudanese military found a previously unknown detention center, with...

South Sudanese forces have arrested the petroleum minister and several senior military officials allied with First Vice President Riek Machar as soldiers surrounded his home in the capital, Juba. Deputy army chief, General Gabriel Duop Lam, a Machar loyalist, was held earlier in the week, while...

Germany has halted new development aid to Rwanda and is reviewing its existing commitments in response to the African nation's role in the conflict in neighboring Congo, the German development ministry said. “In coordination with partners, Germany will further restrict bilateral cooperation with...

Explosions have rocked a major city in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) during a rally for the M23 rebel group and their supporters that one of the armed group’s top commanders attended. The first explosion in Bukavu caused panic, sending attendees fleeing from the area before a...

Rwanda has said international sanctions will reduce the likelihood of peace with M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), after the United Kingdom said it would pause some bilateral aid and impose other diplomatic sanctions on Kigali. “The punitive measures announced today by the UK...

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières or MSF in French) has said it is suspending its work in a famine-stricken camp for displaced people in Sudan’s North Darfur region, as an increase in violent attacks has made it too dangerous to operate. In a statement, the medical charity said...

Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), accused of carrying out crimes against humanity as it fights the country’s army in a 20-month war, has signed a charter with allied political and armed groups to establish a “government of peace and unity”, its signatories said. The signing ceremony...