AID GROUPS CRITICISE SOUTH SUDAN FOR $10,000 VISA FEES

International aid groups have criticised South Sudan's decision to sharply increase foreign worker visa fees, warning it would aggravate a humanitarian crisis in the famine-hit country... READ MORE›

WORLD BANK TO RAISE $1.6B TO COMBAT HUNGER IN NIGERIA, OTHERS

We are mobilising an immediate response for Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen... READ MORE›

FAMINE-HIT SOUTH SUDAN HIKES FEES FOR WORK PERMITS

War-ravaged South Sudan has hiked work permit fees 100-fold for foreign aid workers to 10,000, officials said, despite suffering from famine... READ MORE›

EX-ARMY GENERAL FORMS REBEL GROUP AIMED AT DEPOSING PRESIDENT KIIR

South Sudan, Africa's youngest nation, was plunged into its first war in 2013 after Kiir sacked his then deputy and political rival, Riek Machar... READ MORE›

SUDANESE REBEL GROUP RELEASES 127 PRISONERS

The SPLM-N had captured the prisoners in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states, where the group has been fighting Sudanese government forces for years... READ MORE›

STARVING SOUTH SUDANESE REFUGEES SWARM BORDER TRANSIT CAMP AFTER ORDEAL LIVING OFF LEAVES

On my way I saw many old women starving to death and young men shot dead in fighting, said James, wearing traditional South Sudanese dress... READ MORE›

WAR-RIPPED SOUTH SUDAN DECLARES FAMINE DEEMED BY AID GROUPS TO BE 'MAN-MADE'

Aid agencies said 100,000 people were affected by the famine, which threaten to affect a further 1 million people in the coming months... READ MORE›

ALMOST 1.4 MILLION CHILDREN FACE 'IMMINENT DEATH:' UN AGENCY

The agency says nearly 500,000 children are expected to face severe malnutrition this year in Borno, Yobi and Adamawa states... READ MORE›

FAMINE DECLARED IN SOUTH SUDAN, WITH 100,000 PEOPLE FACING STARVATION

The United Nations has been alarmed by the recent deterioration in South Sudan... READ MORE›

FAMINE DECLARED IN PART OF SOUTH SUDAN'S UNITY STATE

This famine is man-made, said Joyce Luma, head of the World Food Programme in South Sudan... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN MILITARY OFFICIALS QUIT OVER 'WAR CRIMES'

Oil-rich South Sudan has been mired in civil war since 2013 when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer... READ MORE›

'GOD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS': MOTHER REUNITED WITH CHILDREN IN SOUTH SUDAN AFTER 3-YEAR SEARCH

In the chaos of South Sudan's civil war, it took three years for Nyagonga Machul to find her lost children... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN WAR REACHES 'CATASTROPHIC PROPORTIONS FOR CIVILIANS'

A confidential U.N. report is warning that the war in South Sudan has reached catastrophic proportions for civilians and the rise of militias risks spinn... READ MORE›

'CHILDREN SHOULD BE INSPIRED': TWO DENGS ASSISTING DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS

Deng Adut is a lot taller and older than Deng Akech, but the two Sudanese-Australians both dressed sharply for their meeting in Canberra today... READ MORE›

QUANDARY IN SOUTH SUDAN SHOULD IT LOSE ITS HARD-WON INDEPENDENCE

Of all the quixotic rebel armies fighting for freedom in Africa, the South Sudanese actually won... READ MORE›

REPORT: U.N. GAVE ARMS TO SOUTH SUDAN REBELS LATER IMPLICATED IN MASSACRE

The United Nations established a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2011 that has grown to more than 13,000 soldiers and police officers... READ MORE›

OBAMA JUST SAID THE SLAUGHTER IN SOUTH SUDAN IS NOT BEING REPORTED ON. HE'S WRONG.

President Obama said no one is reporting on South Sudan. But that's just not true... READ MORE›

THE WOODEN BRIDGE BETWEEN DEATH AND SAFETY

Nelson Ladu Thomas has twice walked over the small wooden bridge dividing South Sudan and Uganda at an unofficial border crossing known as Busia... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA ATTACK: 200 PEOPLE DEAD, 100 CHILDREN MISSING

South Sudanese officials were not immediately available for comment... READ MORE›

AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY

MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›

DROUGHT TAKES TERRIBLE TOLL IN ETHIOPIA

The Ethiopian government has set aside nearly ?130m to deal with the crisis but the UN says a further ?330m is needed... READ MORE›

KENYA WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM UN MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN

Continued deployment of Kenyan troops in South Sudan is no longer tenable, the ministry said, saying Kenya would withdraw, immediately its forces there... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN SPENDS BUDGET ON FIGHTING AS PEOPLE STARVE

South Sudan spends budget on fighting as people starve... READ MORE›

OBAMA IN ETHIOPIA PLANS TO ADDRESS SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASH KILLS DOZENS; BABY AMONG SURVIVORS

Ateny Wek Ateny, a press secretary in the South Sudan President's office, said 18 people were aboard the flight 12 South Sudanese passengers and six crew members... READ MORE›

'HUNDREDS' OF S SUDAN BOYS SEIZED

South Sudan strife Hundreds of boys in South Sudan have been kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, the United Nations children's agency says... READ MORE›

WHAT'S THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY?

Or Paris where hotels restaurants and boutiques cater to almost 50 million tourists a year in the world's most visited city?... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA DECLARES TWO DAYS OF NATIONAL MOURNING

He also added that Ethiopia's security forces may cross into neighbouring South Sudan to pursue the attackers... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN 'BACK TO WAR', SAYS VP RIEK MACHAR'S SPOKESMAN

Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA LONG MIRED IN POVERTY RIDES AN ECONOMIC BOOM

Ethiopia's economic growth comes as its strategic, geopolitical role remains critical... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN FAMINE WARNING: LIVING ON GRASS AND LEAVES

Four million people in South Sudan are at risk of famine, according to the United Nations... READ MORE›

AS THE WORLD'S NEWEST COUNTRY SLIPPED INTO CHAOS, ITS LEADERS STOLE MILLIONS, REPORT SAYS

The United States is by far and away the largest contributor of foreign aid to the South Sudanese government... READ MORE›

FEARS AFTER KENYA DEPORTS SOUTH SUDAN REBEL SPOKESMAN

South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Machar's spokesman... READ MORE›

DOZENS KILLED IN CARGO PLANE CRASH IN SOUTH SUDAN ALONG NILE

The flight had been headed to strategic oil fields in the Upper Nile region of the country, where there is a large South Sudanese military presence... READ MORE›

ETHIOPIA ARMY ENTERS S SUDAN TO FIND KIDNAPPED CHILDREN

Ethiopian officials have blamed Murle tribesmen from South Sudan for a series of deadly attacks on Ethiopian villages in Gambela... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDANS PRESIDENT SIGNS PEACE DEAL WITH REBELS

In its report to the United Nations, the panel found that both the government and rebels had devoted vast resources to the conflict... READ MORE›

MASS RAPE A COMMON WEAPON IN SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT

The United Nations report came as the world body's Human Rights Council prepared to take up the South Sudan conflict... READ MORE›

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States may have midwifed the birth of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation... READ MORE›

GEORGE CLOONEY-BACKED REPORT: SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT PROFITS FROM CIVIL WAR

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but plunged into conflict soon after Kiir fired Machar as vice-president in 2013... READ MORE›

'WOMEN ARE UNDER A LOT OF DOMESTIC PRESSURE'

100 Women Live The pressures on women across the world... READ MORE›

89 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED IN SOUTH SUDAN AS THEY TRIED TO SIT THEIR EXAMS

At least 89 children, some as young as 13, have been kidnaped by an armed militia in South Sudan as they sat their exams, Unicef reported today... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN REBEL CHIEF RIEK MACHAR SWORN IN AS VICE-PRESIDENT

Addressing the media, he said his main priorities were to ensure a permanent ceasefire, to stabilise the economy and ensure humanitarian access throughout South Sudan... READ MORE›

IN SOUTH SUDAN CITY OF HOPE IS NOW CITY OF FEAR

There's massive access constraints, roadblocks everywhere, widespread extortion, said Jonathan Veitch, head of Unicef's South Sudan office... READ MORE›

WIKILEAKS SAUDI CABLE SAYS IRAN SHIPPED NUCLEAR EQUIPMENT TO SUDAN

There have been no previous reports of Iran sending nuclear equipment to Sudan, which has no known nuclear program... READ MORE›

RAPE AND CANNIBALISM CITED AMONG SOUTH SUDANS HORRORS

The stories and reports of the human toll of the violence and brutality have been heart-wrenching the report said... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN LEADERS ORDER CEASEFIRE AS CIVIL WAR FEARS GROW

President Salva Kiir is determined to carry on his partnership with Riek Machar... READ MORE›

SOUTH SUDAN CLASHES 'LEAVE DOZENS DEAD' IN JUBA

Dozens of people are killed in clashes in South Sudan's capital Juba, military, medical and journalistic sources say... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: SOUTH SUDAN'S MACHAR SAYS BLOCKED FROM JUBA

Speaking to Al Jazeera from Pagak on the South Sudan-Ethiopia border, Machar called the government accusations absolute nonsense ... READ MORE›