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GENEVA, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Advances by paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in Sudan could trigger another exodus across the country's borders, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, told ...

The strike on a United Nations base in the southern Kordofan region was the deadliest single episode for the body’s personnel in Sudan’s civil war. By Declan Walsh Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya Six ...

NAIROBI, Dec 11 (Reuters) - South Sudan has sent its troops to neighbouring Sudan to guard the strategic Heglig oil field near the border, its military head said on Thursday, days after the ...