ON December 8, 1919, the author of this book, then Governor of the Mongalla Province of the Sudan, was killed while ... The bulk of the tribes are Nilotic, though some show Negro or Bantu affinities.

We tackled some questions about why this Chwezi issue has found currency again, pondering its relevance – or lack thereof – to contemporary times. We also endeavoured to disentangle the myriad myths ...

The Piny Luo Festival, a gathering of the Luo community, is expected to draw participants from Kenya, Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia and parts of Congo ... who are categorised as Lake Nilotes because ...

True, the Luo – living on the coast of Lake Victoria in the west of Kenya and speaking a Nilotic language, having been driven south 800 years previously by the Arab Muslim conquest of South Sudan – do ...

In 2004, I traveled to Darfur, the western region of Sudan, with then-Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) and my chief of staff, Dan Scandling. We came back to the U.S. and shared what we had seen.

JUBA, Jan 17 (Reuters) - South Sudan's police imposed a nationwide curfew from 6 p.m. (1600 GMT) on Friday after a night of deadly rioting in the capital over the alleged killing of South Sudanese ...

But actual genocide has been under way for months in Sudan. Last week Secretary of State Antony Blinken officially recognized the carnage that has killed tens of thousands and left hundreds of ...

Paradoxically, Sudan is home to both the worst humanitarian crisis in the world and the most heartening possible response to it. The government of the Northeast African country has ceased to ...

People celebrate following the reports that, Sudan's army had entered the central city of Wad Madani and pushed out its paramilitary rivals the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), in Merowe, Sudan ...

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has called for calm and urged citizens not to take the law into their own hands, following a spate of attacks on businesses and homes owned by people from ...

If the Biden administration is calling out the famine in Sudan, why not also address the ongoing famine in Gaza? In a statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken decried what he called the ...