The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...

Map: The Economist Juba began life as a river port on a bend ... Sign up to the Analysing Africa, a weekly newsletter that keeps you in the loop about the world’s youngest—and least understood ...

The South African government petroleum agency has refused to provide details of its controversial oil and gas exploration project slap-bang in the middle of the world’s largest animal migration path.

Oil extraction poses a pressing concern, notably within a development area known as “Block B2”, operated by South Africa’s Strategic ... at the University of Juba, South Sudan, and a key contributor ...

Kismayo, Somalia — Somali special forces from the elite Danab unit, backed by specially trained Jubaland police, carried out a coordinated operation in parts of the Lower Juba region targeting ...

By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya Riek Machar, the vice president of South Sudan, has been detained at his residence in an upscale neighborhood of the capital, Juba, since March.

Vietnam's list of its embassies in Africa shows the closest one to South ... country" if not South Sudanese.Some in the capital, Juba, worried their country would become a kind of dumping ground.

Vietnam's list of its embassies in Africa shows the closest one to South Sudan is in Tanzania ... to their correct country" if not South Sudanese.Some in the capital, Juba, worried their country would ...

That politically unstable country in North Africa is beset by “terrorism, unexploded landmines, civil unrest, kidnapping, and armed conflict,” according to the State Department. Human rights ...

In his 47 apostolic journeys outside Italy, Pope Francis, who passed away on Easter Monday, April 21, at the age of 88, visited 68 countries — 10 of them in Africa. He began with Kenya in ...

Mr. Hudson is a senior fellow in the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Conflict, famine and a great-power competition are colliding in the Horn of ...

Vietnam’s list of its embassies in Africa shows the closest one to South ... opened fire on each other in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, in 2013. The two men’s tensions have been so much ...