South Sudan

The International Red Cross today appealed for $400m to help millions of people who are facing famine across four conflict ridden countries.

The UK has pledged more funding to ease the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.

More than one and a half million people have been forced to flee their homes in South Sudan over the last few months – in what the UN says is the world’s fastest growing refugee crisis.

More than a hundred thousand people are already on the verge of starvation.

South Sudan is the world’s youngest nation but also one of its bloodiest. Founded in 2013 it has spiralled into a civil war which has left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands facing famine. Today gunmen attacked a humanitarian convoy, killing two and injuring three more, in a country that no longer posses…

Up to 20 million people are at risk from famine in parts of the Middle East and Africa: the world stands at a critical moment in history.

Maurice Onyango, Head of Humanitarian Programmes in Africa for Christian Aid, on the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.

A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned is freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents.

Sudanese Christian convert Meriam Ibrahim and her two young children are re-arrested at Khartoum airport, just hours after photos are released showing her smiling, and free from prison.

The reported massacre of hundreds of people in South Sudan is an “abomination”, the White House says.

Channel 4 News speaks to the former foreign secretary, now chief executive of the International Rescue Committee, David Miliband, about the crisis in South Sudan.

As a Japanese man is released after 48 years on death row – a new report shows that publicly disclosed executions jumped nearly 15 per cent in 2013.

The United Nations warns that overcrowding at the main South Sudanese hospital in the capital Juba is becoming an increasing problem, with thousands of people suffering from malaria or disease.

South Sudanese rebels and a government delegation start face-to-face peace talks, aimed at ending fighting that has left the world’s newest state on the brink of a civil war.

Ethnic violence in Sudan has killed thousands, according to the UN, with an estimated 180,000 displaced. Can peace talks stop the violence?