A divided U.N. Security Council has voted to extend an arms embargo on South Sudan, where escalating political tensions have ...

Ethnic killings in Sudan, documented to have been committed overwhelmingly by the RSF, have been called genocide by the US government. The World’s Carolyn Beeler talks with reporter Nicholas Niarchos, ...

These groups don’t share a single goal. Some fight for self-defence, others for political power. Some for revenue and wealth. Others are seeking ethnic control – Sudan’s population has 56 ...

The group's members are from the Malual tribe of the Dinka ethnic group in southern Sudan, an area that has been racked by slavery and war for decades. The tribe has long passed down its stories ...

Most schools are closed. But this war is not just between two armed groups; it is also a war on the Sudanese people. The RSF is targeting ethnic African minorities for extermination and SAF is ...

Because of the unpredictable situation in South Sudan’s northern Upper Nile State, President Salva Kiir has requested the ...

A force fighting Sudan’s army in a brutal civil war committed ... and deliberately targeted women and girls from certain ethnic groups for rape and other forms of brutal sexual violence ...

This marginalised smaller ethnic groups. The army’s rhetoric is further supported by the overlap of tribal and ethnic affiliations across Sudan’s borders, including South Sudan and Chad.

Soon after, violence erupted between presidential guard soldiers from the two largest ethnic groups in South Sudan. Soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group aligned with Kiir, and those from the Nuer ...

The government has profiled the country's second-largest ethnic community, splitting the counties where they are dominant into "friendly" and "hostile".

But instead of being allied with Sudan’s military ... targeted members of the Masalit, a non-Arab ethnic group, in a brutal assault that became a central element of the U.S. genocide ...