Google updates its maps adding the new state of South Sudan, after an online petition signed by 1,600 people.

Querying Google Maps on South Sudan yields the response: “Did you mean: Sudan?” Yahoo Maps zooms in on Sudan Road on the outskirts of Augusta, Georgia. Bing Maps used to take the reader to ...

A few weeks ago, South Sudan became the 195th country on the planet, but that wasn’t reflected in Google Earth until now. Stefan at Ogle Earth made some interesting comments about it when the ...

Several hundred new locations, which were added to Google Maps during the four-hour event, will help a nascent South Sudan—slated to become the world’s newest nation in July 2011—and its development ...

Expect the world to change overnight. Africa’s battle-scarred South Sudan on Saturday is poised to become the newest country on Earth despite renewed attacks launched by Sudan last week as ...

South Sudan’s independence was widely publicized because it officially marked the end of a long civil war that claimed millions of lives. It was a landmark moment in African history, where a ...

This map, from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, succinctly shows the number people displaced by fighting in South Sudan and where they have fled. There is a deeper story to ...

South Sudan's crisis is only three weeks old but it has already displaced 189,000 people, according to the United Nations refugees agency.

Sudan warned of renewed hostilities with newly independent neighbour South Sudan as disagreements over the creation of a demilitarised border zone held up peace talks between the former civil war ...

The word appears in territory in the south-east of South Sudan The word "demo" has been spotted lurking in the terrain of South Sudan in Google Maps. Cyber-security researcher Tim Hopper noticed ...

Niall O’Connor travelled to South Sudan and the Sudan border to report on the forgotten African crisis. This is his third dispatch from the region.