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Security forces in South Sudan were preparing Thursday for the arrival of Pope Francis who visits the nation as part of his African journey. Francis...

Pope Francis arrived Friday in South Sudan, one of the poorest countries in the world, the first papal visit to this independent country for...

Pope Francis is expected to arrive in South Sudan on Friday, and the Catholic Church there plans to perform special prayers on Thursday for...

Concern has been raised by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) in response to recent claims of an increase in the Agwelek,...

Francis, 86, says that a "forgotten genocide" is happening in the DRC as he starts his journey through two African countries. Pope Francis, who recently arrived...

Pope Francis's highly anticipated trip to the DRC and South Sudan, two of the most neglected crises in the world, is currently taking place. Marie Louise Wambale had to flee with almost nothing about ten years ago due to fighting between the M23 rebels and the DRC army in the country's eastern region, and it took her years to rebuild her life. She hoped, along with the majority of Catholics in the eastern DRC, that Pope Francis would bring a message of hope at a time when the rebels are posing their greatest threat to this region since 2012. “Many...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and Sudanese military ruler Lt Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan have agreed to set up a joint force to secure...

According to the state-run Sudanese news agency Suna, at least 1,700 people have crossed into Sudan as a result of fighting between armed factions...

The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA), an umbrella group of ten opposition political parties, has urged the government to intervene immediately to deescalate the...

UN experts have urged South Sudanese authorities to look into officials accused of supervising systematic gang rapes, some of which involved girls as young...