People queue during mass Easter weddings for 3,000 people, some polygamous, at the International Pentecost Holiness Church in Heidelberg, east of Johannesburg, South Africa, Sunday, April 20, 2025.

A year ago, Atalena Napule Gaspore Loliha crafted a new story for Africa’s youngest nation, South Sudan. She unexpectedly won the first gold medal for her country in the history of the African Games.

The UN is “deeply concerned” by reports of clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army-In Opposition that have led to casualties and the ...

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) is deeply concerned by reports of clashes between the South Sudan People’s Defense Forces and Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition in Morobo ...

Chris Nyamandi, Save the Children Country Director in South Sudan, said: "There should be global moral outrage that the decisions made by powerful people in other countries have led to child deaths in ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Enough is enough. Another senseless shooting killing at least two people in South Memphis. “The whole community is hurting and enough is enough,” said Mary Trice, Ride of ...

adding the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-North), a rebel group based along Sudan’s border with South Sudan, linked to the ruling party of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir.

Fresh violence by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) follows a multi-day attack that killed more than 400 people, according to the UN. Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF ...

Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have killed more than 30 people in another deadly attack in the war-torn nation's Darfur region, according to activists. The RSF and allied militias ...

The southern state of Central Equatoria, which includes the capital Juba, was split into areas controlled by the government and opposition forces under a 2018 deal that ended South Sudan's five-year ...

JUBA, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The South Sudan People's Defense Forces (SSPDF) has regained control of Nasir town in Upper Nile State, which it lost following intense fighting with the White Army ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A Pentecostal church in South Africa celebrated Easter Sunday with mass wedding ceremonies for around 3,000 people, with many of them entering into polygamous marriages.