By Fidel Amakye Owusu In conflicts around the world, women and children are rarely the main combatants – but they are often the most devastated. Among...
By Godfred Zina The humanitarian crisis in South Sudan is deteriorating rapidly as a deadly combination of armed conflict, intercommunal violence, economic instability, climate change, and...
By Mary Alorh As the first pope hailing from the Global South, Pope Francis brought a profound understanding of the entrenched issues of inequality, imperialism, and...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Strategically located at the crossroads of these regions, Uganda plays an indispensable role in maintaining regional stability. Despite being landlocked, Uganda connects...
South Sudan announced plans to produce at least 90,000 barrels of crude oil daily as it resumes normal production, following the lifting of a suspension caused...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
By Gregory Simpkins As I have written previously, South Sudan is critically placed in the geopolitical context. For example, waters that form the White Nile River...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
AP | President Salva Kiir of South Sudan says his country’s long-delayed elections will take place in 2024 and that he will be on the ballot....
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) – the Central Bank of East Africa – will be made this year, a key...
AFP | More than 50,000 fighters including former rebels from rival camps in South Sudan’s civil war were set to be integrated into the country’s army...
By Gregory Simpkins Elections play a significant part in the establishment and maintenance of representative democracy worldwide, but all too often, the entirety of the process...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
Actor Forest Whitaker and best-selling author Dambisa Moyo join group of NBA Africa investors.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce...
AFP | South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, a long overdue condition of a fragile peace deal...
South Sudan’s leaders will meet in Ethiopia on Monday, the latest deadline set by East African mediators to reach a deal to end 20 months of...
South Sudan’s rival factions resumed peace talks on Thursday to end 20 months of conflict, under growing international pressure and the threat of further sanctions if...
U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation....
Negotiations between South Sudan’s government and it’s opponents were adjourned on Friday. There is no date set for the next meeting. The conflict erupted in December...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed another ceasefire agreement on Monday, edging them closer to a final deal to end a...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (l) and Riek Machar (c) exchange documents at the peace signing ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 9 2014. PHOTO/Reuters South...
East African nations have threatened to impose sanctions on South Sudan’s conflicting sides unless they resolve their differences peacefully and end “flagrant violations” of three agreements...
By Djifa Kothor In 1999, Foday Sankoh, the leader of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), came to Lome, Togo to sign a peace accord. The agreement...
Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan are expected to invite bids for a consultant to oversee the building of an oil pipeline to transport crude. The crude...
More than 3.5 million South Sudanese are facing a severe famine situation, aid agencies have warned. They said the current fragile ceasefire could help in relief...
Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda will send 2,500 troops to South Sudan to prevent renewed fighting between government and rebel forces, an Ethiopian official said. Soldiers from Ethiopia,...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has called for an expeditious approval and deployment of a regional deterrence and protection force to end ongoing violations of the...
Uganda’s economic growth should accelerate to just above 6 per cent in the next fiscal year through June 2015. This was despite the risk of reduced...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir (l) and Riek Machar (c) exchange documents at the peace signing ceremony. PHOTO/Reuters South Sudan president Salva Kiir has said that...
South Sudan’s presidential spokesman says a transitional government could be established within the next three months, following the ceasefire agreement signed last week between President Salva...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir arrived in Ethiopia’s capital on Friday to meet rebel leader Riek Machar under growing international pressure for an end to the...
South Sudan Refugees are pouring into Ethiopia following the capture of Nasir town by government forces, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said. UNHCR on...
South Sudan’s president has tentatively agreed to revitalize peace talks that have been stalled for months, taking the necessary step toward creating a new government and...
South Sudan’s warring factions resume face-to-face peace talks on Thursday; the third such effort this year. The resumption of negotiations coincides with U.S. Secretary of State...
South Sudan has urged Sudan to prevent armed groups, including rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar, from using its territory to launch attacks against...
Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and elements aligned to former Vice-President Riek Machar resumed in Ethiopia on Tuesday, mediators said, urging both sides to return...
South Sudan government troops say they have recaptured Malakal town located near oil fields, in the oil rich Upper Nile state. South Sudan army spokesperson, Colonel...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
East African leaders will meet in Ethiopia on Thursday to discuss the mandate and size of a stabilization and protection force to be deployed in...
Thousands of people moving through the South-Sudan-Uganda border post now have access to a MTN customer service center in the area. On Friday, mobile operator MTN...
South Sudan has reversed a plan by local authorities to partially shut down oil production and evacuate foreign workers in its main oil-producing region after it...
Peace talks, aimed at ending nearly two months of fighting in South Sudan, are under threat after rebels refused to take part in the next round...
On Monday, peace negotiations between South Sudan’s warring factions will begin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dina Mufti. Officials indicate that...
The United States has been putting pressure on South Sudan President Salva Kiir to release political prisoners loyal to former vice president, Riek Machar, in a...
South Sudan government forces have recaptured Leer, an important oil-producing area and the hometown of nominal rebel leader Riek Machar in the northern oil-producing state of...
Uganda stated that it will not fully withdraw its forces from South Sudan, despite concerns their continued presence is complicating efforts to bring peace to the...
The international community is urging South Sudan’s government to release the last four political detainees it arrested as the country erupted in violence last month as...
The government of South Sudan has released seven of the 11 political detainees whose arrest became a sticking point at peace talks with rebels. The seven...
South Sudan’s government and the faction aligned to former Vice President Riek Machar are scheduled to sign a ceasefire deal later on Thursday, the mediator said,...
South Sudanese rivals started peace talks on Tuesday in a bid to end the conflict that has left the world’s newest state on the brink of...
South Sudan’s warring parties have gathered in Ethiopia Thursday for peace talks aimed at ending nearly 3 weeks of a conflict that may escalate into a...
South Sudan President Salva Kiir declared a state of emergency in two states on Wednesday as his negotiators prepared for peace talks with rebels to end...
South Sudan’s government has committed to an immediate ceasefire, the country’s regional neighbors said on Friday, as they urged opposition, (now rebel) leader Riek Machar to...
There has been a coup attempt in South Sudan. Government spokesman Barnaba Marial Benjamin told reporters that police had arrested 5 political leaders with suspected links...
In an unofficial referendum, residents of a disputed area between Sudan and South Sudan said they want to join South Sudan. The outcome, announced Wednesday, is...
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir (l) meets with his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir (r). PHOTO/Reuters (AFP) – Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on Monday pledged to work...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
(AP) – The Salva Kiir administration in South Sudan has suspended two cabinet ministers and ordered an investigation into corruption allegations against them. President Salva Kiir...
Several thousand former South Sudanese rebels have surrendered to the government and returned home from alleged rear bases in neighboring Sudan, government and rebel officials in...
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in South Sudan on Friday for the first time since Africa’s once-largest country split in 2011, raising cautious hopes the...
(Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to order the resumption of the flow of southern oil exports through pipelines in Sudan within two weeks,...
East African financial institution, the Kenya Commercial Bank has announced another round of layoffs. This comes 2 years after the bank started reducing on staffing costs...
Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir try to push forward on stalled security, oil and border agreements.
(Reuters) – Sudan has put a fresh obstacle in the way of allowing its land-locked southern neighbor to pipe its oil to the Red Sea, South...
South Sudan plans to resume oil shipments in February 2013 once its parliament ratifies a raft of deals reached last month in Addis Ababa with the...
(Reuters) – Former civil war foes Sudan and South Sudan are to resume talks on Tuesday in Ethiopia that mediators hope will produce a deal to...
(Reuters) – South Sudan expects to restart some oil output in December and more after June next year, an official said on Tuesday, after the new...
Sudan’s army will begin pulling out of the contested region of Abyei from Tuesday, as demanded by the United Nations, the army spokesman said. “We will...
Sudan says it is ready to hold talks with South Sudan about outstanding issues between the two countries. Sundan’s Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the “security...
Tullow Oil says that it has found even more oil at a site in northern Kenya discovered in March. Tullow said previously that 20 meters (about...
(Reuters) – Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Sunday he would not allow conflict with South Sudan to overshadow “strategic relations” with its people, striking...
The African Union (AU) says that Sudan has endorsed the AU’s roadmap to avert an all-out war with South Sudan. The AU Commission said late Wednesday...
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday threatening non-military sanctions against Sudan and South Sudan if they don’t halt escalating violence on their border...
(Reuters) – The United States on Thursday circulated to the U.N. Security Council a draft resolution that warns Sudan and South Sudan of sanctions if they...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, right, reviews an honour guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao. PHOTO/Alexander F. Yuan/AP The president of the world’s newest nation, South...
South Sudan will withdraw its troops from the disputed oil town its forces took over last week, the president announced Friday, pulling back from offensive military...
Sudan on Wednesday asked Ethiopia to intervene in its latest conflict with South Sudan, which has heightened fears of a fresh war. Sudan president Omar Al...
Troops from South Sudan moved into an oil-rich border town claimed by Sudan as fighting intensified between the countries over who controls the area, officials said...
Joseph Kony. PHOTO/AFP The African Union (AU) said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new...
Major international companies are in South Sudan for a summit aimed at showcasing the new country’s potential to investors. Investors received presentations from different ministers across...
Presidents Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan’s Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi lay foundation for the new port. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya, Ethiopia and South...
South Sudan has called on the United Nations to push Sudan to free dozens of its citizens that the later was holding in slavery. Chief negotiator...
Landlocked South Sudan has signed a second oil pipeline deal in a bid to reduce its dependence on Sudan – amid a deepening oil crisis. The...
(Reuters) – South Sudan has signed an agreement with Kenya to build a pipeline to connect its oil fields with the Kenyan port of Lamu, both...
Plans by South Sudan to build an alternative pipeline through Kenya are expected to acquire fresh urgency in coming weeks as Juba shops for a route...
Plans to construct a pipeline to transport South Sudan’s oil through Uganda and Kenya in a bid to reduce over-reliance on Sudan’s infrastructure are at an...
(Reuters) – Royal Dutch Shell Plc., said it is eyeing potential opportunities in South Sudan, which last July broke away from Khartoum, taking with it two-thirds...
(Reuters) – South Sudan makes its debut for western oil companies, aid organizations and agribusiness this week at a U.S.-backed conference aimed at setting Africa’s newest...
(Reuters) – East African heads of state admitted South Sudan as a member the regional bloc Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Friday, some four months...
(Reuters) – Africa’s newest country South Sudan is looking for foreign investors to help build a refinery, a government official said on Wednesday. “We are keen...
North Sudan will go ahead with plans to adopt an entirely Islamic constitution and strengthen Islamic law, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday, three months...
JUBA, South Sudan — South Sudan’s information minister says the new nation is planning to move its capital from the bustling but crowded city of Juba...
UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations has a new member — South Sudan. The African nation, which gained independence Saturday, became the U.N.’s 193rd member by...
Fledgling nation forms cabinet and details plan for release of new money, two days after independence from North Sudan.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new peacekeeping force for South Sudan on Friday...
JUBA, Sudan — The people of South Sudan finally get their own country on Saturday, an emotional independence celebration few thought possible during a half century...
JUBA, Sudan — Lual D’Awol cultivated a passion for rap and basketball while living in Baltimore. Today he is in Southern Sudan, which becomes the world’s...
CAIRO — An Egyptian foreign ministry official says Egypt will recognize South Sudan after secession later this week. Mohammed Mursi told the Al-Ahram daily on Tuesday...
