The Satellite Sentinel Project has released images showing Sudanese Armed Forces deployments at the time of South Sudan's independence referendum...

Uganda returns to the polls in February, where President Yoweri Museveni is favoured to win a fourth term.

Former United States President Jimmy Carter has a long history of working for peace in Sudan. In January a delegation...

Fifty years after the assassination of Congolese Independence leader Patrice Lumumba, the ordinary people of Congo are no closer to...

South Sudanese voters went to the polls during the week beginning January 9, 2011, to decide whether they wanted independence.

A small curbside office suite in Alexandria, Virginia, USA becomes a polling site of the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, administered...

Photo Essay courtesy of Christian Aid/The Guardian Much of Sudan is in transit as southerners return from Khartoum and other...

An official of Sudan's National Elections Commission inspects a shipment of ballots delivered via helicopter by the United Nations Mission...

More than one million people received a shot against group A meningococcal meningitis in pilot programmes carried out in Burkina...

Delegates from many countries attended this year's United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancun, Mexico.