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When the world’s newest country broke away from Khartoum, it discarded Sudan’s main official language, too. But casting aside the oppressor’s tongue did not heal the country’s divisions.

Myanmar and Sri Lanka were praised for minimal progress. Now it’s all falling apart.

Its freedom fighters have turned into brutal oppressors, and it is near to becoming another failed state, despondent U.S. supporters say.

The end of economic isolation hasn’t brought a financial windfall or more freedom. Instead, the regime is as strong as ever while ordinary people suffer.

If the U.N. withdraws peacekeepers from a long-contested oil-rich enclave, it's likely to spark further fighting in an already unstable region.

In a proposed aid overhaul, Nikki Haley embraces an “America first” foreign policy.

One diplomat’s stinging resignation letter offers a glimpse into declining morale at the State Department under Trump.

The measures single out the offshore fortunes of top generals and officials.

The sudden exodus from war-torn South Sudan is the largest Africa has seen since the 1994 Rwandan genocide. This is what a nation without civilians looks like.

Americans are exhausted keeping up with Donald Trump’s every tweet. People in Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Yemen are exhausted by violence and hunger.

Aid organizations slammed the government’s proposal.

Across Africa and the Middle East, a vacuum of U.S. leadership is exacerbating crises and emboldening abusers.

The country's warring leaders have left their citizens with two options – flee or starve.

Unless the world undertakes 'major transformations' to address world hunger.

South Sudan just declared a famine. But it’s been years in the making and it could have been stopped.

South Sudan’s president has outmaneuvered his opponents politically. Now he has carte blanche to crush them militarily.

From China's bubble to Russia's undersea drones, here are big stories around the world that flew under the radar this year.

The Security Council is balking at an arms embargo that is too little, too late for the world’s youngest nation.

A scathing internal investigation details multiple failings by U.N. blue helmets to protect civilians during July violence in Juba.

FP staffers talk about their reporting on the ground in South Sudan and Colombia and how war crimes, revolution, women, and Washington all played a role in those countries’ faltering peace processes.