As the war increasingly threatens to split Sudan into rival mini-states, it not only offers an insight into the humanitarian ...

South Sudanese authorities imposed a countrywide dusk-to-dawn curfew after a night of violence during which shops were looted in the capital.

SOUTH SUDAN could have been off to a good start ... in part due to fighting in areas it crosses (see map). Map: The Economist That has tanked the government’s finances. The IMF estimates ...

and South Sudan officially gained independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011. In the early years of South Sudan’s independence, peace processes failed to address long-standing grievances and ...

There is also tension on other parts of Ethiopia and Sudan's shared - and in places, contested - border. To the south, Sudan faces a relatively new nation, South Sudan, which formally broke away ...