Kenya has for many years played an important role in promoting peace and stability across Africa, especially in Sudan. As a regional powerhouse and a trusted mediator, Kenya has been at the forefront of conflict resolution efforts in Sudan and South Sudan.

Kenyan President William Ruto has appealed for calm in South Sudan, where an escalating security situation threatens to jeopardise a peace agreement that ended a five-year civil war.

Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything from Coca-Cola to M&M's sweets, is increasingly being trafficked from rebel-held areas of war-torn Sudan, traders and industry sources say, complicating Western companies' efforts to insulate their supply chains from the conflict.

The RSF responded by announcing at a gathering in Kenya that it and its allies will establish a ... The group, which fought the military in the past, is a breakaway faction of the SPLM, South Sudan’s ruling party. The growing ties with the RSF could ...

As global temperatures continue to rise, similar extreme heat waves in February could occur once every 10 years, according to the study. And if warming doubles by the end of the century, similar heat waves could occur annually. High temperatures are forecast to continue in the region through March.

Since Tuesday, soldiers of the South Sudanese army have surrounded Machar’s home in Juba, according to members of the vice president’s party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM/IO). Kiir heads the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM).

Kenya has reaffirmed its position as a key regional peace mediator following the signing of a peace agreement in Nairobi by Sudanese political parties, civil society representatives, and military factions.

Ruto said the country will host annual cultural activities that bring together the Turkana of Kenya, Toposa of South Sudan, and Karamajong of Uganda, communities that have for years fought over ...

The study, published in the journal BMJ Global Health in January, assessed cholera elimination attempts in the World Health Organization’s African region between 2018 and 2022. Since 2021, the region has faced “an acute upsurge” in cholera, the authors write.