The gunmen arrived at dawn on motorcycles, horses and in cars. For hours afterward, they fired into houses, rampaged through shops and razed clinics, witnesses said, in a frenzied attack that upended life in El Geneina, a city in the Darfur region of Sudan. The violence in mid-May, which killed at least 280 people in […]
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More than 100,000 people have fled Sudan for neighboring countries and more than 300,000 have been internally displaced, according to figures released by United Nations agencies on Tuesday, as the fighting between rival generals threatened to undermine regional stability and tear apart Africa’s third-largest nation. The United Nations refugee agency also warned that more than […]
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The countries they are fleeing to are themselves vulnerable. In just the past few years, there has been the civil war in Ethiopia, hunger and economic challenges in South Sudan, and a coup in Chad, for instance. Aid workers have warned that a broader displacement of people fleeing the fighting in Sudan could have a […]
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ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE — Pope Francis on Sunday doubled down on his assertion that homosexuality should not be criminalized, saying on the papal plane returning from South Sudan, a country that penalizes homosexual acts, that “to condemn a person like this is a sin.” But Francis, 86, also turned his attention back toward Rome, […]
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JUBA, South Sudan — On the last full day of his trip to Africa, Pope Francis met with the displaced South Sudanese who have borne the brunt of the conflict he came to help resolve by issuing blunt and insistent calls for leaders to get serious about peace. “I am with here you, and I […]
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It is just over a decade since the steamy capital of South Sudan exploded in joy, with revelers singing and dancing through the night to mark the birth of their new nation as it split from its old enemy, Sudan. The new country was cheered on in 2011 by the American diplomats who had midwifed its […]
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