The warning from General Oyai Deng Ajak, a key opposition figure loosely aligned with the holdout Real SPLM faction, comes ...

South Sudanese leaders should "honour" Pope Francis' legacy by ending the country's conflict, the nation's diplomatic representative for the Vatican stated. "We must try to make concrete in the daily ...

One in 5 of the world’s Catholics now live in Africa, and African cardinals will be key in determining Francis’s successor at ...

Pope Francis’ more than 12-year pontificate deeply resonated with the people of God in Africa, with one exception related to ...

The United Nations called for a cessation of hostilities between the army and fighters loyal to South Sudan’s deputy ...

African bishops’ conferences, largely among the church’s most conservative, pushed back against Francis' positions. After he ...

Pontiffs have been players in global affairs for hundreds of years. Pope Francis carved out his own form of global influence.

Pope Francis kissed the feet of South Sudan's rival leaders in a dramatic call for peace. His death rekindles memories of ...

South Sudan's army said it had recaptured a key town in Upper Nile state that it lost to an ethnic Nuer militia in March in ...