Last month, Suhair Salih canceled the lease on her small bakery in Cairo and boarded a southbound train for the Sudanese border — joining the flood of returnees to Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, even as a ...

In concluding that Gaza had reached level 5, the IPC further noted that since the crisis is “entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed.” For months, the starvation of Gaza has seized ...

The United Nations reports that at least 91 civilians were killed in Sudan's city of el-Fasher in attacks by the Rapid Support Forces last month.

Eritrea was once one of Africa’s most industrialised parts. Now even the most basic goods, like soap or bottled water, have to be imported. Perhaps a third of the population has fled abroad to escape ...

On September 12, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States announced a joint road map for ending Sudan’s devastating two-and-a-half-year civil war. The announcement, on its ...

Syria is due to hold parliamentary elections for the first time since its autocratic former president, Bashar Assad, was unseated in December ...

A s a number, 150,000 is usefully round. In May 2024 Tom Perriello, then America’s special envoy to Sudan, told Congress that anywhere between 15,000 and 150,000 people might have died in the 13 ...

IO, formed after the December 2013 massacres of Nuer civilians in Juba, is the armed and political movement representing Machar’s core power base. President Salva Kiir has relied heavily on fighters ...

With a café in New York City and a new cookbook, Beejhy Barhany is bringing the stories and flavors of Ethiopian Jews to the States ...

Ethiopia has attempted to transition to democracy twice. First in 1991, when a new government overthrew a dictatorial military regime. Second in 2018, when Abiy Ahmed took over as prime minister after ...