The world has a responsibility to ensure human rights are upheld, from Ireland to Syria and Afghanistan, writes Colm O’Gorman

South Sudan raised the flag of its new nation for the first time today, as thousands of South Sudanese citizens and dozens of international dignitaries swarmed the new country capital of Juba to celebrate the country’s birth.

Darfurian rebels have partially destroyed an oil field in a rare eastward extension of their campaign toward central Sudan, the rebels and government said.

Darfur rebels have attacked an oil field in Southern Kordofan, making a rare extension of their campaign eastwards toward Khartoum, the rebels and government said today.

A Russian cargo plane has crashed in war-ravaged southern Sudan, killing all four people onboard, Russian media reported today.