The United States has designated former Sudan’s spy chief Salah Abdallah Mohamed Saleh, also known as Gosh, for his involvement in “gross violations of human rights”

South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday met the head of Darfur rebel faction Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Dr Gibril Ibrahim Mohammed in efforts to restore peace and stability in the northern neighbour Sudan

Nyala, like most of the towns and villages in Darfur, have struggled with the presence of pro-government militias for decades, but the heaviest presence to date has been the Rapid Support Force

South Sudan’s President, Salva Kiir and the British Foreign Office Minister for Africa, Andrew Stephenson on Tuesday to discuss the implementation of the 2018 peace accord

Former South Sudan vice president Riek Machar returned to Khartoum on Tuesday from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, where he held talks with various leaders

Egypt today announced that a two-day meeting between Sudan’s Freedom and Change forces and the Sudanese Revolutionary Front had come to a close yesterday without revealing details of any agreements made

If the African Union delays its decision to reinstate Sudan, it would harm the soon to be formed civilian government

The chairman of the ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC), Lt Gen Abdelfattah El Burhan, said in a speech on the occasion of the Eid El Adha on Sunday that the TMC is determined to make the coming interim period successful. El Sadig El Mahdi called for an “ethical basis” to guide the cooperation between the military and the opposition in the interim period

“This is a year of peace. Anybody that has benefitted from our suffering, you go and look for something to eat from somewhere else not from our blood!”

As South Sudan works to increase its oil production beyond the current 150,000 barrels per day, it has enlisted the help of the African Development Bank’s African Legal Support Facility in fixing the sector