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 ...

Zhang Meng/Xinhua News Agency/picture alliance The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces — which hold nearly all of Sudan's western Darfur region and parts of the south — recently signed a charter ...

In July 2011, Sudan’s southern territory seceded and formed a new state: the Republic of South Sudan. The dictatorship of Omar al-Bashir defined Sudan’s post-colonial period. Bashir seized ...