The horrendous conditions of poverty, war and disease faced by the populations of Central Africa has given rise to bizarre and terrifying armed groups involved in barbarous and inhuman activities.

New York - The documentary short "Reporting on the Times" exposes the New York Times for burying holocaust stories. The 18-minute film will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival.

We need to change the minds of Americans, not change the laws. Will bomb control be next on the ballot? Attacks like the Boston Bombing and the Texas college stabbing attack prove we need to change our way of thinking.

Lewisburg - A team of researchers found a bat with a strong resemblance to a panda. The animal, the fifth recorded capture of the species, was discovered in South Sudan; it is distinct from other species of the same group and has been classified in a new genus.

A newly released Human Rights Watch (HRW) report, entitled "This Old Man Can Feed Us, You Will Marry Him:’ Child and Forced Marriage in South Sudan," calls on the government of South Sudan to adopt measures to protect girls from child marriage.

After several days of negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan have not managed to reach an agreement on security arrangements and oil exports.

The UNAMID peacekeeping force claims that rebels have seized the towns of Golo and Rockero in the Jebel Marra region, as fighting rages in several parts of Darfur.

Juba - Two South Sudan state broadcast journalists have been arrested for failing to ensure coverage of a speech by President Salva Kir, according to a government official.

Experts claim that the outbreak of yellow fever currently affecting Sudan is the worst the world has experienced in the past 20 years.

The story of a 23-year-old woman gang-raped by six men on a moving bus, attacked with an iron rod, and thrown out of the bus in New Delhi, India (and the lack of proper official response to her case) has outraged the Indian society.

In its offensive against President Francois Bozize, the Seleka rebel coalition in the Central African Republic (CAR) has seized the key city of Bambari on Sunday, situated at a crossroads between diamond mining sites and routes to the east.

Juba - South Sudanese armed forces shot down a United Nations reconnaissance helicopter in eastern South Sudan. All four Russian crew members were killed. There were no passengers aboard the helicopter.

The Sudanese Defense Minister announced that more troops wouls be sent to Sudan’s South Kordofan state, after rebels from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) claimed on Friday to have killed 21 government soldiers last week.

Khartoum - Sudanese officials say they have captured an Israeli Mossad spy, a vulture. The vulture ostensibly on an espionage mission was found tagged with electronic equipment that carried an inscription "Israel Nature Service" and "Hebrew University, Jerusalem."

Actor George Clooney and a group of genocide scholars in the U.S. have accused Sudan of committing crimes against humanity in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.

Tehran - In a weekly press conference the Iranian Foreign Ministry denied supplying Hamas with Fajr-5 missiles, as an Iranian delegation prepares to go to the embattled Gaza Strip.

Sudan has invited Chaloka Bayeni, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to assess the situation of displacees and affected communities throughout the country.

In the last six weeks more than 100 people have died from yellow fever in the Darfur region of Sudan. Today WHO warned that the disease could spread across the war torn nation.

On September 27, 2012, the presidents of Sudan and South Sudan reached an agreement allowing oil exports to resume and created a demilitarized zone along their contested border.

Today a military factory in Sudan's capital was destroyed by what appears to have been an air strike. The Sudanese government has blamed Israel. Did Israel carry out such a strike?