JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's army has retaken an eastern town captured by rebels two weeks ago, a military spokesman said on Monday, in a conflict that has uprooted thousands of people and hampered government plans to explore for oil. Full story
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks ago. Full story
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - In a cramped government office in Khartoum, engineer Ahmed Taha and dozens of other Sudanese, lured by local newspaper adverts for jobs in the Gulf, sit waiting to get a permit to leave the country and work abroad. Full story
JUBA (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn helped to open a new bank in the world's youngest nation, South Sudan, on Tuesday, a low-key return to the international stage for the former IMF chief brought down by a sex scandal. Full story
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan accused South Sudan of having supported rebels who launched a major assault two weeks ago, warning this could derail recent oil and security agreements between the African neighbors, state media said on Saturday. Full story
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The organizer of a forum on promoting ideas through the Internet accused Sudanese state security agents on Saturday of shutting down the event in Khartoum by cutting off the power. Full story
Activists are urging President Barack Obama to endorse the International Arms Treaty to stem violence around the world and stop the proliferation of guns in South Sudan. Actor and Oxfam global ambassador Djimon Hounsou and Ryan Offenheiser, president of Oxfam America, discuss.
Several tall Sudanese players fight for the right to play on a Illinois high school team, win their case to play, and to continue with a high school education. NBC's Chris Clackum reports.
Sudanese supermodel and refugee advocate Alek Wek joins Melissa Harris-Perry to talk about political disputes and unrest over border agreements in South Sudan.
Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests discuss the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Sub Saharan Africa, and the global investments into the region.
The violence that has followed last year's division of Sudan has spawned a refugee crisis that aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen. Jonathan Miller, Channel Four Europe reports.
An officer delivers passports to Sudanese migrants at the Secretariat for Sudanese Working Abroad in Khartoum, May 13, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
Sudanese migrants wait to get their visas at The Secretariat for Sudanese Working Abroad in Khartoum, May 13, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah
Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn stands next to South Sudan's Central Bank Governor Kornelio Mayik during the opening of National Credit Bank in the capital Juba May 14, 2013. REUTER/Hereward Holland (SOUTH SUDAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)
