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The study highlights the grim reality that girls in the region face a higher likelihood of succumbing to childbirth complications than completing their education.

Severe food insecurity and the spread of preventable mosquito-borne diseases in South Sudan continue to intensify.

Around 219,000 pregnant women are living in Khartoum – the epicentre of the Sudan conflict. Attacks on hospitals and healthcare facilities have made for a lack of medical resources and staff shortages.

The UK pledges £143 million to support more than a million people in the Horn of Africa. The committed donor will provide humanitarian aid for people in Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, who are witnessing the worst drought in 40 years.

Living in flimsy shelters made of wood and plastic tarp or half-finished concrete buildings, South Sudanese who have returned to Sudan are finding life tougher as their former country's economy tumbles.

South Sudan's economy is almost entirely dependent on exports of oil from its 3.5 billion barrels of reserves.

In South Sudan's civil war, sexual violence against men and boys is common. New UN report reveals how men have been castrated and children were forced to watch rape.

Over 19,000 children are thought to have been recruited, often by force, by armed groups on all sides of South Sudan's brutal civil war.

Netanyahu's government is offering 20,000 male migrants, most of whom are from Sudan and Eritrea, $3,500 (£2,500) and a plane ticket to what it says is a safe destination in Africa.

A 9-year-old girl has died from suspected Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in the central district of Nakaseke, in Uganda, a health official has stated.

South Sudan descended into war in 2013, when president Salva Kiir accused the then prime minister Riek Machar of plotting to overthrow him.

The shooting occurred at dawn at the Lokichogio Mixed Secondary School when a suspended student and other gunmen, thought to be from South Sudan, attacked pupils.

Twenty-six-year-old American freelance journalist Christopher Allen was shot dead as he reported on the fight.

South Sudan, the world's newest nation, descended into a brutal civil war in 2013.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he apologises to Japanese people 'from the bottom of my heart' over the situation.

More than one million children have fled South Sudan since war erupted in 2013.

The war is tearing families apart, but new ones are created during the dangerous escape to Uganda.

Some 20 million people in Africa and the Middle East are facing extreme hunger.

Kiir vowed to never give in to military force, insisting it would set a bad precedent for the war-torn nation.

World Food Programme tells IBTimes UK more has to be done to help people in war-torn country.

Aid agencies are struggling to provide food and services in South Sudan due to a funding crisis.

Fifteen died in total during botched measles vaccinations that saw children act as medics.

Judge: Akon Guode, who is from Sudan, was suffering from post-traumatic stress and showing signs of depression.

Brent, WTI futures jump as market prices in fresh output cuts by major oil exporters.

Thousands have been killed and millions displaced since war erupted in South Sudan in 2013.

Cholera has killed hundreds of people fleeing conflict and famine in South Sudan.

Mass murder and rape of citizens who are not part of the dominant Dinka tribe is "genocide" says Priti Patel.

Uganda's progressive system of accommodating refugees is on the brink of "explosive" collapse

The world of covert spy tech trading cuddles up to Iran and South Sudan.

Aid agency staff have been raped, kidnapped and murdered while working in war-torn states.