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The deputy head of the U.N. children's agency said Thursday that a famine is looming in southern Sudan because of scarce rainfall and inadequate foreign funds for the region.
Turkey said Sunday that Sudan's internationally indicted leader, President Omar al-Bashir, will not attend a conference of Muslim nations in Istanbul.
Permit delays, lack of funds and security intimidation are obstructing international and local observers from monitoring registration for Sudan's first ever nationwide elections, former President Jimmy Carter's foundation said on Tuesday.
The leader of southern Sudan called on his people to vote for secession in an upcoming referendum if they do not want to end up as second class citizens, as voter registration began Sunday for elections across the country.
President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions against Sudan, saying the government's actions and policies pose a continuing threat to U.S. national security and foreign policy.
In a story Sept. 11, The Associated Press quoted a representative of refugees in the Darfur region of Sudan as saying a U.S. envoy was not welcome in the region's camps. The story should have said that the refugee representative identified himself only as Abu Sharati, an informal nickname he is known by, and that he spoke on condition of anonymity because he said he feared arrest by Sudan's Arab-led government.
Southern Sudan may secede from the Muslim-dominated north of the country in an upcoming referendum because unity has become "unattractive," the south's leader said Monday.
Gunmen kidnapped a French staff member working for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Sudan's western Darfur region on Thursday, the group said.
The Obama administration, after months of fierce internal debate, outlined a new approach Monday to settling the conflicts in Sudan, asserting a moral obligation to end "a vast sea of human misery" and a need to prevent the African nation from serving as a haven for terrorists.
A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire.
Two foreign aid workers seized at gunpoint more than three months ago in Sudan's Darfur were released Sunday by their captors in the third — and longest — kidnapping of aid workers in the arid region.
In a new effort to engage the government of Sudan, U.S. officials say the White House will shift its policy toward Khartoum, but they warn that the violence and humanitarian abuses in Darfur must stop.
The Obama administration plans to roll out a new policy toward Sudan with an eye toward engaging the government in Khartoum but also warning that continued violence in Darfur will result in penalties, U.S. officials said Friday.
Gunmen attacked a village in southern Sudan and killed some 80 people and wounded 46, said a southern government official Monday, adding that he believed the militia was organized by the central government.
The Sudanese army said Sunday it has cleared several more areas of rebel control in North Darfur province ahead of peace talks set for October. Rebels denied the government claims.
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan is not welcome in Darfur's refugee camps because he has downplayed the scope of the crisis there, a refugee representative said Friday.
President Barack Obama's envoy to Sudan launched a new mission Wednesday to overcome obstacles in the country's fragile north-south peace deal, as activists sharply criticized U.S. policies as too lenient on the Khartoum government.
Sudan's central government could owe its semiautonomous south hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue, threatening a 2005 peace deal that ended Sudan's two-decade civil war, a watchdog group said Monday.
A woman journalist convicted of public indecency for wearing trousers outdoors was freed Tuesday, despite her own desire to serve a month in prison as protest against Sudan's draconian morality laws.
An attack on a southern Sudan village has left 24 people dead, including a tribal chief, his three wives and several children, while dozens were wounded, a newspaper reported Saturday.
The outgoing U.N. peacekeeping chief in Sudan's Darfur region said the world should no longer consider the long-running conflict a war after a sharp decline in violence and deaths over the past year.
In an Aug. 31 story about tribal violence in southern Sudan, The Associated Press erroneously quoted a U.N. official as saying the Dinka Bor tribe attacked a village of the rival Lou-Nuer tribe.
Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday.
An armed group kidnapped two foreign civilians working for the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.
Darfur activists upset about President Barack Obama's Sudan policy are launching a critical advertising campaign that urges him to step up pressure on Khartoum.
Video: Whitewashing the History of Islam"Even today… Islamic fundamentalism is maintaining the idea of enslaving a non-Muslim." Who said these ignorant Islamophobic words? Some hate-filled racist European, right? Wrong! The speaker was Dr. Keul Jok, a black African from the Sudan.
BBC News - Egypt recalls Algerian envoy as football row deepensThe Egyptian government has recalled its ambassador to Algeria following complaints about violence toward football fans, reports say. The move comes hours after Algeria's ambassador in Cairo was summoned to the Egyptian foreign ministry.
Are Muslims better people?Two days ago, I read something in the newspapers that really shocked me. It was a statement from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in which he defended the planned visit of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to Turkey.
INTERVIEW - Muslims watching U.S. with guarded optimism - OIC chiefISTANBUL - The Muslim world is watching how the United States will act on the stalled process for Palestinian-Israeli peace and wondering how one of the main sticking points, Israeli settlements, will be resolved, the world's top diplomat for Islam said on Saturday.
The Honeymoon Phase of Social MediaA thought piece on how Social Media may just help a new social revolution; but it's too early to tell how.
Want prosperity? Index ranks Finland as place to be"For those who value their freedom of expression as much as health, wealth, and prosperity, then Finland is the place to be, with an index ranking the Nordic nation the best in the world.
Obama extends sanctions on Sudan"U.S. President Barack Obama formally renewed U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Tuesday under his new strategy of keeping up pressure while offering incentives to the Khartoum government.
Obama at Odds With His Own Vision for the World by Michael BaroneLast year, Obama told Berliners that we and they are "heirs to a struggle for freedom." This year, his administration has been busy trying to appease dictatorial and authoritarian regimes. So maybe he was wise to skip a return appearance in Berlin.
Surveys for major neglected tropical diseases in sub-Saharan Africa can be integratedAccording to research undertaken by Malaria Consortium Africa and published today in the high profile journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, it is possible to survey major tropical diseases simultaneously, thereby effectively reducing the time and money required to identify a …
Obama's Appeasement of Sudan's Genocidal Leader OK with Human-Rights CrowdFor most of the past few years, liberals who claim to care about human rights have pointed to the disaster in the Darfur region of Sudan as the prime example of the failure of the international system to act against genocide.
French aid worker kidnapped in Darfur French aid worker Gauthier Lefevre from the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) was kidnapped in Darfur on Thursday, the organisation said in a statement. The ICRC currently has no indication of who the abductors might be or of their motives, the statement said.
Today, my Administration is releasing a comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan.
Obama shifts U.S. approach toward SudanPresident Barack Obama said Monday that the U.S. will shift its policy toward Sudan to one based on working with the Khartoum government instead of isolating it.
Two aid workers kidnapped in Darfur set free after three monthsTwo members of Irish aid agency GOAL kidnapped at gunpoint in Sudan's Darfur region in July were freed early Sunday after more than 100 days in captivity, a Sudanese minister told AFP.
Three peacekeepers wounded in Darfur shooting: UNThree peacekeepers were wounded, two of them seriously, when their vehicle came under fire in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Saturday, officials of the UN-African Union peace mission said.
Sudan Gunmen Kill 2 Policemen Guarding WFP Staff in Darfur Masked gunmen shot dead two policemen in Sudan who were guarding a guesthouse used by World Food Program staff in South Darfur, the United Nations organization said.
Obama Drops Plan to Isolate Sudan Leaders "The Obama administration has formulated a new policy for Sudan that proposes working with that country's government, rather than isolating it as President Obama had pledged to do during his campaign.
Darfur refugees raped in Chad camps: Amnesty "Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighbouring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.
Security Council demands end to conflict-related sexual violenceWomen marching against sexual violence in the DRC (file photo) 30 September 2009 – The Security Council today demanded that all parties to armed conflict take immediate action to protect civilians, including women and children, from all forms of sexual violence, and urged gr …
Ehud Barak: U.N. Goldstone Report Supports Terrorism - WSJ.comThis shameful document was produced by the Human Rights Council, a body whose obsession with Israel has led it to produce more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined.
Israel's thirst for the Nile's water... All international and Arab observers and experts unanimously agreed that Lieberman's visit targets Egypt and its relation with upper Nile states, as well as the Nile waters itself, and the enemy press confessed accordingly.
We're failing Darfur: ClooneyActor George Clooney lamented at the weekend the ongoing failure to secure a lasting peace in Sudan's Darfur region, but vowed to keep shining a light on the country's problems.
She Wears the Pants"Lubna Hussein, the Sudanese woman found guilty of the crime of wearing trousers, may not have won her case, but she has done one important thing: made the Khartoum regime fear the world's response.-
Support counterjihad heroine in her time of need...STOPShariaLAWnow is the victim of a new flagging campaign on YouTube. This time they're targeting her video about slavery in Sudan, "My Slave, My Infidel."
Trouser case: Sudanese woman freed from jailA Sudanese woman jailed for wearing trousers has been freed after the country's journalists' union said it had paid a $US200 fine on her behalf.
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