This practice is conducted almost entirely by government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribe in western Sudan, and it is directed mostly at the civilian Dinka population of the southern ...

The Sudanese army is tapping into nationalist and xenophobic sentiments to gain domestic support and distract attention from its actions and failures.

The confusion dates back to 1899, when Britain, which controlled the region at the time, established the 22nd parallel as the ...

The clashes began in Blue Nile’s Bakuri village on Wednesday when a farmer from al-Hamaj, one of the oldest African tribes in the region and one that fought with the former Sudan People’s ...

it used militias in southern Sudan to remove any obstacles to oil drilling. Musa Hilal, sheikh of the Um Jalloul tribe, has a history of instigating fights against the Fur; now the U.S. State ...