Washington, DC, US (PANA) - The US has expressed deep concerns over the reported violations by both the Government of South Sudan and anti-government forces of the Cessation of Hostilities agreement th...

China is to intensify mediation efforts aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the crisis in strife-torn South Sudan. Zhong Jianhua, China's special representative for African affairs, said a qui...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has reported that more South Sudanese civilians were deserting their homes and crossing into neighbouring Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya. Society

A shift to a hotel nightclub dance-floor in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa for talks on a truce in South Sudan leaves some delegates bemused.

Peter Clottey South Sudanrsquo;s foreign minister says President Salva Kiir has instructed the minister of justice to expedite ldquo;legal processesrdquo; against the detained officials accused of...

Efforts to broker a ceasefire in South Sudan have continued with a US special envoy and other mediators meeting the rebel leader, Riek Machar. Special envoy Donald Mr Booth met Mr Machar at an und...

Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) ? The Mauritanian press on Monday highlighted last Thursday's election of president Mohamed Ould Abdel as chairman of the African Union (AU) at the opening of its 22nd sum...

(Source: Confédération Africaine de Football) The third Orange CAF African Nations Championship gets underway in Cape Town today Saturday 11th January with hosts South Africa taking on neighbours ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ? Cowardly acts of ambushing humanitarian workers will not discourage them to carry on with their mission, according to the Special Representative of the Chairperson of the...

10 January 2014 Last updated at 18:51 GMT South Sudan's military says it has recaptured the oil hub of Bentiu from rebels but ceasefire talks in neighbouring Ethiopia have stalled. Meanwhile, thou...