Peter Martell

Northern troops seized control of Abyei on Sudan’s north-south border on Sunday, Khartoum said as the south accused it of an "illegal invasion".

South Sudan has a new tool in the fight against maternal mortality: motorbike ambulances, complete with sidecar and padded bed.

Just two steps into the tall grass and jungle at Ri-Kwangba, a remote border outpost, and the dreadlocked gunmen clad in worn camouflage merge into the leafy forest — invisible, protected and feared. For nearly 20 years, Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels have relied on standard guerrilla techniques to wreak havoc and destruction across war-torn northern Uganda, staging quick and lethal raids before disappearing into the bush.