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AUC and Arab League want Mbeki to head Sudan talks
The African Union (AU) will press for a negotiated peace settlement in the troubled Darfur region in western Sudan, rather than back the warrants...
Resurgence of violence in Darfur puts UN actions at risk as offices are burnt to the ground
Recent violence in the Darfur region of Sudan has forced a UN operation to relocate after fresh fighting destroyed a UN office, according to...
Jailed ex-ally marks Omar Bashir’s murky political future
The latest blow to hit Sudan’s President, Omar al-Bashir, yet has come from the Islamist leader and his one-time close ally, Hassan al-Turabi. A...
US billonnaire’s acquisition of Sudanese land a mistake?
There are few regions in Africa as remote and undeveloped as southern Sudan. Unity state, where Philippe Heilberg, a US businessman, says he has...
Sudan and FGM: “The clitoris is dirty”
A law passed in November 2008 prohibiting female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) in the state of Southern Kordofan is unique in Sudan. But for it...
UN pleads for the demobilization of child soldiers
Unicef has recently released a documentation of child soldiers in Sudan which stands at an alarming 6000 children aged between 11 and 16. The...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army in shambles
After Joseph Kony's narrow escape from a joint military operation, last week, over 70 per cent of the camps occupied by members of his...
LRA Rebel leader narrowly escapes death
Head of Lords Resistance Army (LRA) Joseph Kony is reported to have narrowly escaped death from a joint UgandaSudan military operation. According to the...
Arabic speaking Sudanese cleanse villages, subject victims to slavery
A coalition of African charities have confirmed that children and adults are subject to slavery in Sudan's Darfur region.
It is reported that the Sudanese...
Rebel group Lord’s Resistance Army attacked
The Armies of Uganda, DR Congo and the government of South Sudan have launched a joint offensive against Ugandan rebels known as the Lord's...
Sudanese oil rich town deserted
The disputed Sudanese oil town of Abyei has become a ghost town as thousands have fled in fear of an impending civil war.
A 13-hour...
EU deploys troops to Eastern Chad not DR Congo
The fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region has spilled over to the republic of Chad but the European Union has already deployed troops to manage...
Violent attacks by Gov’t and Rebel forces in Darfur worrying
The recent bombings and gun-fire exchanges between Sudan government forces and the genocide threatened black Sudanese rebels have led United Nations Secretary General Ban...
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir announces ceasefire in Darfur
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashirn Wednesday announced an immediate ceasefire in the country's western Darfur region, where five years of fighting between government and rebel...
Kenya slams Egypt and Sudan over Nile agreement
Kenyan Minister of Water Charity Ngilu has slammed Egypt and Sudan after the two nations refused to endorse the agreement for the Nile Water...
Egyptian gov’t makes donation to Sudanese military
The Egyptian government has donated two electricity generators, 50 tons of tents and kitchen equipment to Sudan's Joint Integrated Units (JIUs), as part of...
China to do more business with Sudan despite threats
The government of the Peoples Republic of China has vowed to continue investments in Sudan after the killing of five of Chinese citizens in...
Sudanese president still legally free
As a result of insufficient evidence to indict the Sudanese president on war crimes, and crimes against humanity, the Judges at the International Criminal...
European tourist kidnappers killed
Six of the kidnappers who seized a group of European tourists in Egypt last week have been killed by Sudanese forces in a high...
A dark day in Athens : Somalis and Sudanese nourish Greek racism
It was a bloody afternoon as machetes, axes and cutlasses swung from every corner leaving pieces of flesh and puddles of blood on the...
Deadly attacks in Northern Sudan under UN Investigation
According to a commander of a section of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, Ibrahim al-Helwu, many civilians and soldiers have died in an attack...
Rebel hijackers release hostages and insist on proceeding to Paris
According to reports from the Libyan press agency, all passengers aboard a hijacked Sudanese aircraft which landed in Libya for refueling were freed, Wednesday...
Four sudanese hijackers want plane to proceed to France
A Sudanese plane, hijacked during a flight from Nyala, in Darfur, to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, landed Tuesday at the Koufra airport ,...
Gov’t military police opens fire killing several IDPs
Victims of Sudanese military police raids in a displaced persons camp in Darfur have resisted efforts to airlift them to safety because they are...
South Africa and Egypt want Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir’s arrest for war crimes delayed
Egypt and South Africa again said they supported a 12-month delay of the arrest of Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir for war crimes. The Sudanese...
Al-Bashir promises to compensate Darfur victims
Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir has pledged to offer state protection to the joint UN peacekeeping force in Darfur and scoffed at efforts to slap...
Al-Bashir back in Darfur
Ten days after he was indicted on a charge of genocide Omar al-Bashir danced his way back to the scene of his alleged crimes...
The Arab League to help secure peace in Darfur
Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said the Arab League needs to work closely with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations...
Al-Bashir’s indictment criticised by Arab league
The head of the Arab League travelled to Sudan on Sunday night to discuss an Arab plan aimed at defusing the crisis over the...
Demonstrations in Khartoum following ICC indictment
More than a thousand angry demonstrators chanting anti-western slogans massed in Khartoum on Thursday in the biggest protest yet against the International Criminal Court’s...