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An international donors conference on Sunday raised $850 million for projects intended to ensure the safe return of nearly 3 million people displaced during the war in Darfur.
A South African university is training Southern Sudan government leaders in international law, security and other affairs of state as the region prepares for a 2011 independence referendum, university officials said.
Sudan's upcoming elections must be as transparent as possible to prepare for a referendum on independence for the oil-rich south in 2011, but many obstacles remain, including continued conflict in Darfur, a U.S. official said Wednesday.
The U.N.-African Union mission in Darfur says two of its peacekeepers who went missing after an ambush on their patrol earlier this week have safely returned to base.
Heavy fighting between government forces and a rebel group in central Darfur led a French-aid group to suspend its activities, sent thousands of people fleeing, and sorely tested a recent cease-fire in the war-ravaged region, rebels and U.N. officials said Friday.
Sudan released 57 Darfur rebels on Wednesday, including 50 who had been sentenced to death, under a new truce agreement between the government and the most country's powerful rebel group.
A spokesman for the international peacekeeping mission in Darfur says Sudanese authorities have arrested two people in connection with an ambush earlier this week on joint U.N.-African Union forces.
The U.N. says gunmen opened fire on a convoy in South Darfur, wounding seven Pakistani police officers serving with the African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force.
New research on the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region shows that more than 80 percent of the 300,000 deaths since fighting began in 2003 were the result of disease, not violence.
The top U.S. diplomat for Sudan is urging a range of steps to quell violence surging in southern Sudan as two key votes approach — one of them a referendum on independence that some fear could spark a new civil war.
Sudan's volatile southern region could collapse into chaos again if the international community does not do more to strengthen the 2005 peace deal that ended more than 20 years of civil war, a group of aid agencies warned Thursday.
A southern Sudanese official says parliament will review a disputed law on holding a referendum over his region's independence after it was altered in a way that violates a fragile peace deal.
The United States is worried that a peace agreement between Northern and Southern Sudan could be jeopardized by a law passed by Sudan's parliament.
At least 2,000 people have died and 250,000 have fled their homes following violence in southern Sudan this year, worsening a humanitarian crisis in a region seeking its independence, officials from a medical aid group said Monday.
Two civilian members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who were held hostage for more than 100 days have been released, the U.N. said Sunday.
Sudan's leaders have settled their differences Sunday over the hotly disputed 2011 referendum on southern independence, the official news agency reported, clearing a main hurdle facing the fragile four year-old north-south peace deal.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Sudan's president to seek help in freeing two members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who have been held hostage for more than 100 days, the U.N. said Monday.
The U.N. and a U.S. advocacy group warned that the detention of three senior southern Sudanese politicians during a crackdown Monday on pro-reform protesters in Khartoum could undermine the country's upcoming elections and its fragile north-south peace deal.
Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday, marking a swift upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court raised the possibility Friday of charging Sudanese officials who cover up the government's involvement in alleged war crimes in Darfur and said President Omar al-Bashir will ultimately face international justice.
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.
France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants.
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.
Sudan's land of 'black pharaohs' a trove for archaeologistsFrench, Swiss and British archaeologists are in a "paradise" of discovery, unearthing the mysteries of a civilisation that once conquered ancient Egypt.
Kidnapped French aid workers freed in DarfurTwo French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings.
Last kidnapped aid worker freed in SudanThe last captive aid worker in the Sudan, an employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) who was kidnapped in Darfur last October, has been freed.
Australian racism and cover-up pervade response to Aboriginal deaths in custodyAlmost 20 years after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, a culture of racism, cronyism and cover-up is evident in Australia. Its targets are overwhelmingly Aboriginal but also young Africans ...
Palin to Obama: "Push the reset button with Israel"The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world's worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba.
Barack Obama: the lonely world leaderFor a president who ran an election campaign promising to raise "America's standing" in the world, he is doing a spectacularly bad job.
Warning over Sudanese fightingUS Ambassador Susan Rice has warned that recent fighting and "the blatant disregard" of a UN arms embargo in Darfur are undermining peace efforts in the region.
Darfur truce could pave way for peace - Yahoo! NewsDarfur's leading rebel group and the government of Sudan have a bitter history of failed cease-fires and peace deals.
Truce raises hopes for peace in DarfurA truce between Darfur's most powerful rebel group and the government of Sudan could pave the way for peace to the war-ravaged region weeks ahead of the first national elections in decades.
Darfur rebels sign truce deal with Sudan N'DJAMENA — Darfur's most powerful rebel group has initialed a truce with the Sudanese government, marking the rebel group's return to peace talks aimed at ending the Darfur conflict.
New Details on Hamas-Iran Ties Revealed The Revolutionary Guards in Iran are training Hamas terrorists in ground-to-ground missiles in Sudan.
Why Naive Westerners Constantly Exaggerate Middle Eastern ModerationThere are three basic reasons why many Westerners are so gullible that they often overstate the moderation—or inaccurately claim that a major step toward moderation has taken place—on the part of radical states or groups.
MALOUALKON, SOUTHERN SUDAN—Food stocks are running out in areas of Southern Sudan that experienced unusually poor harvests this year, Action Against Hunger | ACF International announced today.
Chad President Deby in Sudan talks on Darfur BBC News: "Chad President Idriss Deby is visiting Sudan for the first time since 2004 for talks on the troubled Darfur region. The two countries have been fighting a proxy war for several years along their common border around Darfur.
Intelligence Official Warns of Genocide in South Sudan"Looking ahead over the next five years, a number of countries in Africa and Asia are at significant risk for a new outbreak of mass killing."
USA takes in 6,000 Somali from Uganda. By Abdulkarim Ssengendo. Monday, 25th January, 2010The American government is to resettle 5,800 refugees from Nakivale refugee camp in Isingiro district to the United States, Prosy Katura, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) protection officer, has revealed.
BBC News - Sudan shoe-thrower targets President Omar al-BashirA man has thrown a shoe at Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir while he was making a public speech in Khartoum.
Study: Most deaths in Darfur war from diseaseResearch on the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region shows that more than 80 percent of the 300,000 deaths since fighting began in 2003 were the result of disease, not war.
Nearly Eighty Percent of Darfur Conflict Deaths Due to Disease"Nearly 80 percent of the 300,000 conflict-related deaths in Darfur were due to diseases like diarrhea, not violence, Belgian scientists said."
Ask President Obama to Make Ending Genocide a Priority"Just over 60 years ago, with the horrors of the Holocaust fresh in mind, the world adopted the U.N. Genocide Convention, and promised to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.
Sex predator deportedCanadian border officials have sent a convicted sex offender who preyed up on a Calgary senior citizen back to Sudan.
New Attacks in Darfur: Mutilation, Rape and Killing of Civilians"This week the African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS) reported on a series of attacks on the civilian population in North Darfur by Chadian rebel groups.
China and the Islamic Republic Blocking U.N. sanctions is more than just a business decision.
Southern-most royal Ku@!$%#e statues found in SudanHuge granite statues of a pharaoh and other kings have been found in Sudan, a discovery that has shocked archaeologists at how far south the expansive Ku@!$%#e empire extended, the dig directors said Monday.
Cuba doesn't belong on this list Under new rules prompted by the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack, airline passengers coming to the United States from 14 nations will undergo extra screening: Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Y …
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