S. Sudan's first Khartoum ambassador urges trade not war
Ambassador says Sudan's Bashir has promised to help speed up the return of thousands of southerners still trapped in legal limbo on the northern side of the border
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
Global stem rust tracker unveiled in China
[BEIJING] A global monitoring system was unveiled today to track the spread of devastating wheat pathogens known as stem rusts, at the 2012 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI) Technical Workshop in China.
Study highlights lack of climate-linked aid to Malawi
Relatively little donor funding is being channelled towards climate adaptation activities in Africa, researchers 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