By AFPPope Francis appealed Sunday to the people of South Sudan to lay down their "weapons of hatred" at an open-air mass on the final day of his pilgrimage to a country blighted by violence and poverty.Large crowds of ecstatic worshippers streamed i...

By AFPTribal fighting in Sudan's restive Darfur region has left at least 24 people dead and triggered a localised state of emergency, state media said Monday.Violence broke out late last week between two Arab tribes, the Misseriya and Awlad Rashed, i...

By AFPThousands of Sudan's Hausa people protested in several cities Tuesday, demanding justice for comrades killed in a deadly land dispute with a rival ethnic group in the country's south.At least 79 people have been killed and 199 wounded since hea...