Skye Wheeler

Opposition groups in south Sudan accused soldiers and officials on Wednesday of tampering with ballots and intimidating polling agents.

Confusion, delays and charges of fraud marked the start of Sudan’s first multi-party elections in a quarter-century.

Tribesmen attacked a village in south Sudan on Sunday, overwhelming soldiers guarding the settlement and killing an unknown number.

Daruka Lueth knew it was no ordinary cattle-rustling raid the moment armed tribesmen circled her south Sudanese village and opened fire.

At least 177 people have been killed in weekend attacks on villages of the Lou Nuer tribe by armed men from the Murle ethnic group in south Sudan.

SABMiller said it would launch a lager in south Sudan, the first beer produced since Islamic law shut down the region’s last brewery 25 years ago.

Aid flowing to South Sudan following a 2005 peace deal is beginning to improve healthcare for women.

The government of South Sudan ordered Ugandan troops hunting rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army to leave its territory on Monday.

A thatched roof propped up by sticks provides the only shelter from driving rain for Sudanese mother Akur Chol Akur and her three young sons.

Ugandan rebels have killed 23 people including 14 south Sudanese soldiers and ”started war”, a south Sudanese minister said on Saturday.

Rheumy-eyed Chief Joseph Lokoi has lived through two civil wars in south Sudan, but the scars covering his body are not the relics of battle.

South Sudanese officials accused the government on Tuesday of reinforcing troops in the disputed oil town of Abyei, raising tensions as United Nations Security Council envoys…

Lying on a sagging mattress and wincing slightly, Anna Lado laughs at the idea that she should have been afraid of giving birth to her first child, now lying in a crib near her…

Southern Sudan’s Minister of Defence and a presidential adviser were among at least 23 people killed on Friday in a plane crash blamed on engine failure, officials said. ”Two…

Ugandan government officials quit peace talks on Friday after fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony delayed signing a final deal, casting doubt over the fate of nearly two years of…

Elders from northern Uganda tried to meet fugitive rebel leader Joseph Kony on Friday to salvage long-running peace talks after he delayed signing a deal to end one of Africa’s…

Uganda’s fugitive rebel chief Joseph Kony will sign a final peace deal with the government on the South Sudan-Democratic Republic of Congo border two days before an official…

The forlorn wrecks of cars and motorbikes dotting southern Sudan’s potholed dirt tracks and rare tarmacadam roads might signal chaos to some. But Zeru Woldemichael sees a…

Uganda’s government and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army have signed the last in a series of documents paving the way for a final peace agreement to end one of Africa’s…

Representatives of seven Darfur rebel groups met in south Sudan on Monday to try to reach a common negotiating position ahead of peace talks with the government. But huge doubts…