“Come, come and eat with us!” came the cry from a family grouping eagerly tucking into rice and curry spread out on a banana ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tharaphi Than, Northern Illinois University (THE CONVERSATION) While the United ...

By early Friday, the army claimed to be in full control of the palace, marking its biggest symbolic victory in two years of horrific civil war, and a possible watershed in the conflict.

and later that year violence erupted in Juba as government soldiers loyal to Kiir fought those devoted to Machar in the start of a civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people. Machar has ...