NNPA NEWSWIRE — In 2022, Russia has decimated Ukraine and left 40 million people without water, food, heat, and a place to sleep. As Ukraine and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — An estimated 13 million are facing severe hunger mostly because of droughts that have afflicted the Horn of Africa, and those in Ethiopia,...
THE BURTON WIRE — The North African Country of Sudan is in crisis. After the forced and successful removal of president Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled with...
CHARLESTON CHRONICLE — Instability is growing in the East African nations of Sudan and South Sudan.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — The birth of the #MeToo movement and the awarding of the Nobel Prize to he and Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist Nadia Murad,...
By Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) As you read this, our world stands at a crossroads. As you read this, 20 million people stand at risk of...
Denis Dumo, REUTERS JUBA, South Sudan (Reuters) – More than 100 people were killed in South Sudan when an oil truck exploded as a...
(BBC) – Russia and Angola have opposed moves at the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on a South Sudan general and a rebel commander, diplomats...
(BBC) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has signed a peace deal with rebels after a threat of sanctions from the UN. He told those gathered...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Media organizations in Sudan imposed a 24-hour news blackout on Friday to demand a full investigation into...
(BBC) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has failed to sign a peace deal in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, aimed at ending the civil war in...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The South Sudanese government has stopped operations of two newspapers, editors at the publications said Wednesday, in...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudanese troops committed war crimes and possibly crimes against humanity by killing and raping civilians during...
JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan marked four years of independence from Sudan on Thursday, but the celebrations were tempered by...
(BBC) – South Sudan’s army and allied militias “abducted, torched and gang-raped girls” during fighting against rebel forces, a UN report says. Investigators found that at...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — South Sudan government troops are setting villages on fire and abusing civilians in an ongoing military assault on...
RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JASON PATINKIN, Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Four civilians, including a woman and a child, were killed on Tuesday when two...
MAGGIE MICHAEL, Associated Press KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — During a quarter-century in power, President Omar al-Bashir has succeeded in keeping an iron grip on Sudan despite...
Malwal: Elder Statesman Traveling Across U.S. to Build Stronger Ties by Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward-Times Bona Malwal is considered...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan’s rebels on Tuesday warned that peace talks with the government could fail if the government...
Jason Patinkin, ASSOCIATED PRESS JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.N. children’s agency said on Saturday that hundreds of children were abducted two weeks ago...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan’s warring factions early Monday signed another peace deal in the latest effort to end hostilities...
(BBC) – More releases will occur in the coming weeks, said the agency, which helped negotiate the children’s freedom. The soldiers were recruited into an armed...
CHARLTON DOKI, Associated Press RODNEY MUHUMUZA, Associated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — About 3,000 child soldiers will be gradually released from an armed group in...
ELIAS MESERET, Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — South Sudan will hold general elections between May and July, said a government spokesman. The government will...