Fighting hunger? Arresting South Sudans idle youth
Young men cannot be left to drink tea and play cards all day while food insecurity threatens the country, police say
Sudan, S. Sudan resume border talks with eye to oil
Fighting along the 1,800-km (1,200-mile) border threatened to boil over into a full-scale war in April when South Sudan seized an oil-producing region long held by Sudan
LRA rebels capture dozens in raid in Central African Republic
Attack highlights challenges facing Ugandan and U.S. forces trying to help end one of Africa's longest-running insurgencies
Sudan army clashes with rebels ahead of border talks
South Sudan split away from Sudan last year, but the two have remained at odds over a range of issues and conflict has continued to plague their borderlands
Scholars call for aid to end "genocide" in Sudan
Genocide scholars urge the US to "act now to stave off the starvation of an entire people"
South Sudanese war child, Emmanuel Jal, 'the accidental rapper'
Born in what is now South Sudan, Emmanuel Jal grew up with war raging between the predominantly Arab Islamic north and largely Christian South Sudan. As a boy, he also lost most of his family including his mother, saw his house being burnt down and witnessed his aunt being raped by soldiers.