It took weeks of walking on raggedy flip-flops and crusty bare feet, over wooded mountains and across muddy plains, before news of the atrocities could reach the outside world. Stumbling over the ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan government forces have seized control of a strategic city in Blue Nile state after fighting with rebels allied with South Sudan, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. A rebel ...

Devastating floods in Sudan’s Nile State have killed more than 30 people and left thousands of others stranded. Authorities say flooding of the Blue and White Nile rivers has destroyed hundreds of ...

Authorities in Sudan have issued a flood alert after the level of the Nile river and its tributaries rose to dangerous levels. The Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation said water levels had risen in ...

KURMUK, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Sudan's aerial bombardment of its Blue Nile state has driven thousands of people across the border into Ethiopia, a painful return for many to a refugee existence they ...

In the dusty, sun-baked capital of Khartoum, Africa’s biggest new nation prepared this week for the Sudan’s first general election since independence was formally achieved two years ago. On the ...

The organised return of internally displaced people (IDPs) in south-eastern Sudan's Blue Nile State back to their home villages in the southern part of the state is gathering momentum. Eight convoys ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 28 October 2011 Aerial bombings in ...

The Nile is the longest river in the world, coursing about 6,650 kilometers (4,132 miles) across northeastern Africa to meet the Mediterranean Sea at the broad, green delta in Egypt. The Nile’s ...

Sudan is the largest country on the African continent. One major topographical feature of Sudan is the Nile river (Nīl, Nahr an-). The White Nile (Abyad, Al-Bahr al-)goes into the country through the ...