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South Sudan: More gloom as kala azar hits
The quandary in South Sudan has been worsened by reports of the rising deaths of its citizens plagued by fly-borne kala azar tropical disease....
Sudan: Oil threatens South’s independence
Northern Sudan has been accused of settling Arab nomadic tribes in oil-rich Abeyi region where votes are required to influence whether or not the...
Sudan: What next for Darfur?
The United Nations had declared the genocide in Darfur over. Last August, the UN's outgoing military commander in Darfur General Martin Agwai told reporters...
Sudan: IMF Executive Board Concludes 2010 Article IV Consultation
On June 23, 2010, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Sudan.
Economic growth weakened in 2009,...
The African Union defies the International Criminal Court…
The International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) together with its Sudanese member organizations, the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) and the...
Sudan: Japan Emergency Grant for Referenda
On Friday, July 30, Japan decided to provide through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) an emergency grant in the amount of approximately 8.17...
Omar el-Bashir, a source of African-European conflict?
Sudanese President al-Bashir is still in Chad where he is attending a summit of the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD). The European Union (EU)...
Press statement by Mr Djibrill Bassole, Joint au-un chief mediator for Darfur
I have just had a meeting with the First Vice President of the Republic of the Sudan, H.E. Salva Kiir Mayardit, about the state...
Sudan: U.S. envoy calls for urgent preparation for independent south
The upcoming referendum in southern Sudan to decide the region’s political future must be “free, fair, credible and transparent” to ensure lasting peace and...
Sudan: ICC Warrant for Al-Bashir on Genocide
The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant on July 12, 2010, for President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for genocide committed in Darfur....
Football for peace tournament
As part of activities marking the Nelson Mandela Day in El Fasher and in its efforts to reach out to the teeming youths of...
Sudan: Darfur chants victory over Bashir genocide charges
Genocide charges brought against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) have been dismissed by Khartoum as a "political" decision by...
Security situation in Darfur
After assessing security reports for the past month, UNAMID estimates the number of fatalities due to armed conflict and criminality in Darfur in June...
South Sudan: Tensions rise as independence polls approach
Southern Sudan plans to contain the uprisings by renegade militia leaders protesting the results of Sudan's April elections, which saw an overwhelming victory for...
Sudan banking on foreign-run archaeological digs
While the practice of sharing archaeological digs becomes more and more rare, Sudan continues to share half of its archaeological finds, in some cases,...
Darfur: Former combatants lay down arms
More than 800 former combatants are expected to take part in a three-week voluntary discharge exercise that begins today in El Geneina, West Darfur.
The...
Libya pledges strong ties with Sudan as border closes
Sudan's decision to close its borders with Libya took effect on Thursday. Khartoum is seeking the expulsion of rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim, who heads...
Sudan: Zalingei-Darfur peace deal ends violence
Prospects of peace has increased in Darfur after leaders of rival rebel groups signed a reconciliation deal in the West Darfur town of Zalingei...
Sudan: Prospects of Darfur peace deal agreement bleak
The Sudanese government attacked a Darfur rebel group Liberty and Justice Movement (JEM) hours after Qatari mediators and UN officials proposed peace talks, plunging...
Sudan: PCP appeal for Al Turabi’s release or trail
The Popular Congress Party (PCP) yesterday went to the Sudanese Constitutional court to appeal for the release of it's leader, Dr Abdallah Turabi.
"We have...
Mugabe, Zenawi, Bashir, Afwerki, Mubarak, Biya… World’s worst despots list
A United States based think tank, Foreign Policy/Fund for Peace has ranked President Mugabe as the second worse despots in the world after...
Sudan-ICC: Surrendered Darfur rebels to appear in court
Sudan rebel leaders wanted for war crimes in connection with the deaths of 12 African Union peacekeepers in 2007 have voluntarily surrendered to the...
Sudan: List of Cabinet members and State ministers in new Sudan government
List of Cabinet members and State ministers in new Sudan government.
1 - Bakri Hassan Salih - Minister of presidential affairs
2 - Luka Byong...
Sudan Rights Defenders: UN Rights Body Must Not Abandon Sudan
Our organisations regret that the Human Rights Council has decided to defer its discussion of the human rights situation in Sudan to its fifteenth...
Sudan: U.S pressures Sudan in diplomat’s murderers’ escape
The United States has demanded the Sudanese government find and put to death four Sudanese who killed an American diplomat and his driver in...
Sudan: US supports south Sudan’s independence
The United States has pledged technical and financial support for the referendum of an independent South Sudan amidst fears that civil war, ethic and...
South Sudan: Rebel war-lord chased into Northern Sudan
Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) spokesman, major general Kuol Diem Kuol has said that the rebellion which has been going on in Unity State...
South Sudan police hunt WFP employee killers
Police in Southern Sudan are hunting for four unknown gunmen who on Saturday reportedly killed a World Food Programme (WFP) worker. The four also...
South Sudan says Sudan Army backing militias
The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of South Sudan has said that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the National Security are supporting...
Ban Ki-Moon renews calls for Bashir and Kony arrest
United Nations Secretary, Ban Ki-Moon Tuesday urged African leaders to convince the President of Sudan, Omar Bashir and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel leaders...