Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country's instability stems from the absence of democratic rule; failure to manage its ...

Sudan, which included South Sudan up to 2011, has never known peace and stability since independence in 1956. The country’s ...

Fighting around Sudan’s largest oil refinery has set the sprawling complex ablaze, sending thick, black polluted smoke over the country’s capital, Khartoum.

Satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC ... the noose” around that area. China, Sudan’s largest trading partner before the war, has not acknowledged the blaze at the refinery.