New research has rated the fledgling state of South Sudan in the top five countries most at risk from terrorist attacks after Somalia, Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan, whilst data also reveals that
The independence of South Sudan, and the birth of the fifty-fourth state on the African continent, is a pivotal and historic event for the state of Sudan, and for the continent as a whole. The
It will not be the biggest global powers - including the United States (US) and China - who will have most influence in the new country, but South Sudan’s neighbours. It will also be these
The Horn of Africa’s leading powers, Ethiopia and Sudan, have long been caught in a relationship of mutual suspicion that regularly pulls them into interlocking, regionalized conflicts. But