The United States urged an immediate end to violence in South Sudan on Sunday after fresh clashes left scores dead in the capital, threatening the young nation’s shaky peace deal. The battles are the first between the army and ex-rebels in Juba since rebel leader Riek Machar returned in April …

Eight soldiers were killed when a suicide car bomb targeted a Somalia military training camp and attackers then entered the base on foot, the military said on Monday. The car bomb on Monday morning allowed the fighters to infiltrate the Lanta Buro base in Lower Shabelle region, a military officer, …

Explosions and heavy weapons gunfire are shaking South Sudan’s capital Juba on Monday in the fifth day of clashes between government and opposition forces, raising the spectre of a return to civil war. Widespread shooting preventing residents from moving in the city. A “massive explosion” hit shortly after 09:00 followed …