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SPLA commandoes deploy in Juba, South Suda (photo by Ally Ngethi). Making sense of the situation unfolding in South Sudan is a daunting task. There is however, a lot accumulated knowledge that can help us in this pursuit. Reading journalistic accounts...

South Sudanese forces tighten security after gunmen killed SPLA-IO officer South Sudanese security forces have stepped up security measures in and around the capital, Juba, after gunmen, reportedly to be members of the Military Intelligence (MI), killed...

by Alex Perry: How George Clooney and his celebrity friends helped engineer the birth of a new African country and then saw it implode. March 2012, A Bar on the Nile: It was mid-morning and the staff were still wiping down the bar and clearing away...

In 2012 John Kerry declared in a Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing that the United States had “helped midwife the birth of this new nation” of South Sudan. His choice of verb—soon to become fashionable—is revealing, not only about the motivations...

The camp for internally displaced persons on April 22, 2013. (Armin Rosen) The conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, which I visited over the last week of April, has killed somewhere between 3.5 and 5.4 million people since 1996. It...