David Elkins

The gov­ern­ments in South Su­dan and Su­dan con­tin­ue to be mired in dis­putes while a hu­man­i­tar­i­an cri­sis looms.

Ox­fam re­ports that more peo­ple have been killed in Su­dan in the first months of 2011 than in the whole of 2010.

The de­ploy­ment of more than 1,000 Sau­di troops to Bahrain could in­crease the Sun­ni-Shia di­vide, an­a­lysts say.