The aircraft came under fire as it tried to rescue wounded soldiers, the United Nations said. The attack came amid fears that ...

Tensions are running dangerously high after an opposition-linked militia overran an army base loyal to President Salva Kiir in South Sudan's Upper Nile state. Regional leaders should urgently press ...

South Sudan’s ruling coalition, the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGNoU) had been a loose arrangement meant to ...

Earth's warming climate is causing problems for big coffee producers everywhere and some are looking to excelsa, a rarely ...

JUBA | Xinhua | Diplomats from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), an East African bloc, on Wednesday ...

Its British colonizers grew robusta and arabica, but much of that stopped during decades of conflict that forced people from ...

The organization was recognized officially by the Vatican in March 2000. The State Department has lifted its funding ...

The pressing need to accelerate the establishment of a Nile Basin Commission topped the issues at this year's Nile Day celebrations on Feb. 22 in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.

NAIROBI, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The escalating conflicts in Sudan and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have deepened the humanitarian crisis, requiring an urgent increase in life-saving ...

Dr. Ramiz Alakbarov was appointed as the UN Resident Coordinator and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in August 2023. Prior to his current assignment, ...

NAIROBI, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Kenyan President William Ruto has appealed for calm in South Sudan, where an escalating security situation threatens to jeopardize a peace agreement that ended a five-year ...