JUBA: Aid groups are mounting a "major emergency operation" in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands of people fleeing and killed an unknown number of people, the UN said.
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NAIROBI: Fighting has erupted along a new front near the internal border between north and south Sudan with dozens of people reported killed, aid workers and a UN report said.
The violence in South Kordofan has killed at least 25 people, (...)
JUBA, Sudan: Arab tribesmen accompanied by a Khartoum-backed militia killed 20 policemen in Sudan's disputed region of Abyei, a southern military spokesman said Monday, raising concerns of violence as the south carries out a weeklong independence (...)
NAIROBI, Kenya: Ten African countries have halved their poverty rates over the last two decades, but child mortality rates have increased in six sub-Saharan nations, a report on the UN's Millennium Development Goals released Tuesday found.
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