The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) has fought in one of Africa's longest-running wars, between the Khartoum government and Sudan's Christian and Animist south. That war has also been one of ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia, pearl ...

The U.S. charged Lt. Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo and his Rapid Support Forces, a paramilitary-turned-rebel-group largely ...