Sudan

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 Israel, thousands of Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers are stuck in limbo. Photographer Kobi Wolf documents a national crisis.

Talks are stalled over how to deal with the impact of a $5 billion dam that could threaten Egypt’s lifeblood.

Rights advocates, fearing loss of leverage over Khartoum, are dismayed

Khartoum hopes to get a permanent lifting of sanctions now that it’s playing ball with Washington in the fight on terror.

A lone Republican lawmaker is threatening to hold up the Trump administration’s pick for the next assistant secretary for Africa.

Lack of key appointments may have forced the Trump administration to push back the deadline.

As Khartoum tries to convince the Trump administration it's worth more as a counterterror partner than as a designated sponsor of terrorism.

Two weeks after Barack Obama began rehabilitating the pariah state, Donald Trump slammed the door on it once again.

Five years after its viral video broke the internet, Invisible Children is on the front line of a covert war against the Lord’s Resistance Army.

Sudan's leader has been indicted for genocide and crimes against humanity. After two decades as a pariah, he’s being paid by Europe to keep migrants from its shores.

A Sudanese refugee who walked on foot through the tunnel from France to Europe was found guilty of obstructing train traffic.

Italian and British authorities are investigating whether they have been holding an innocent refugee, not a top human smuggler.

Sudan’s Janjaweed are back. Only this time they’re better armed.

To spies, David Vincenzetti is a salesman. To tyrants, he is a savior. How the Italian mogul built a hacking empire.

A leader of the militia that terrorized Darfur is pocketing $54 million a year from gold sales. Why won’t Moscow release a confidential report documenting his abuses?

Israel has rescued tens of thousands of Jews from conflicts around the world.

Hassan al-Turabi remade his once cosmopolitan country into a strict Islamic state. But, for him, the revolution never stopped.

Newly declassified documents show Osama bin Laden set aside about $29 million in his will to fund terrorism.