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More Than 23,000 Refugees Flee South Sudan Conflict
(JUBA, South Sudan) — A U.N. official says more than 23,500 people have fled fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei state and sought refuge in neighboring countries...
Sudan: Is Bashir’s Regime Crumbling?
As economic woes deepen, many observers suspect that Bashir, subject of a war-crime indictment at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, will face an...
The Sudans’ Fragile Peace: Will Economic Necessity Create Brotherly Love?
The sudden spurt of activity involving the still-contentious border and oil prices has been inspired by the almost certain economic cataclysm in the event of...
Sudan’s Blue Nile Offensive: Is This the Next Darfur?
It took weeks of walking on raggedy flip-flops and crusty bare feet, over wooded mountains and across muddy plains, before news of the atrocities could reach the...
Sudan: Wishful Spring Thinking or the Beginning of the End for Bashir?
In a bunker hidden by camouflage from Sudanese bombers roaming overhead at a secret rebel base in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, Major General Izzat Kuku...
An American in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains Tells of Sudanese Bombing
I traveled with Ryan Boyette for a week last month in Sudan‘s Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. Boyette is an American and former aid worker who has lived in the...
The War of the Sudans: All Not So Quiet on the Southern Front
From the grass stalls of Bentiu, where a burnt market and upended billboard bear scars of air strikes, South Sudan's road north to Sudan buzzes with the...
The Crisis in the Sudans: The Urgency of U.S.-China Cooperation
On the surface, our recent trip to the rebel-held areas of Sudan’s Nuba Mountains hauntingly echoed earlier visits to Darfur and South Sudan. A huge group of...
In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, Rebels Make Gains—And Talk of Marching on Khartoum
In the shade of a thorn tree on a plain of cracked earth and yellow grass, Brig. Gen. Namiri Murrad lays out how the rebels of southern Sudan plan to unite and...
With Time Running Out, South Sudanese Are Stuck on the Wrong Side of the Border
Sudan and South Sudan are plunging deeper into conflict, raising global fears that war could break out again between the two sides. In one of the more serious...
Sudan: Kidnapping of Workers Highlights Risk for Chinese Businesses Abroad
The capture of Chinese workers by rebel troops in Sudan is putting added pressure on Beijing to protect its citizens and investments abroad. China’s foreign...
Sudan vs. South Sudan: The Rising Risk of a New Confrontation
The escalating confrontation between Sudan and the new republic of South Sudan is not for lack of communication: days of talks last month in the Ethiopian...
South Sudan: At What Point Does Conflict Become a War?
Assassinations. Pitched battles. Cross-border bombing raids. Hundreds of thousands of refugees. At what point will the rising conflict between Sudan and South...
Famine as a Weapon: It's Time to Stop Starvation in Sudan
"We left our homes with not even a cup like this one," recounted the woman from a Sudanese refugee camp in Ethiopia last month, gesturing toward a red plastic...
In Sudan, 3,000 Troops, Heavy Armor, Choppers Headed South
Bad news. Hovering over Sudan, George Clooney's spy satellites have detected a massive column of roughly 3,000 troops, tanks, artillery, and helicopters moving...
Sudan's Conflict Spreads: Is This the Start of a New Civil War?
Clashes erupted in Sudan's Blue Nile state early Friday, making the area the latest and most critical to descend into fighting between the Sudanese government...
South Sudan? Where? Don't ask Google Maps.
An excellent riff on how technology can struggle to keep up with giant human events, from TIME's East Africa correspondent and Sudan specialist, Alan Boswell...
The Next Big Mess: The Conflict Between the Sudans
One month in, Sudan's version 2.0 is not showing much improvement over the original. So far, the July division of Africa's largest country into the newly-free...
Clooney's Satellites Capture Piles of Bodies, Mass Graves in Sudan
George Clooney's Satellite Sentinel Project set up to monitor the spiraling violence in Sudan has a stunning report out today with convincing evidence showing "a...
Can China Help Avert a Looming War in Sudan?
When you're wanted by the International Criminal Court and subject to possible arrest when abroad, travel can be a problem. So perhaps it's not surprising that...
