20120708 AFP The speaker of the legislature in Sudan's war-torn South Kordofan state has been killed in an ambush along with seven other people, official media reported, as rebels in the region denied any involvement.
20120707 AFP Fear is a factor keeping more Sudanese from joining unprecedented demonstrations against a regime relying on an extensive internal security network for control, activists and others say.
20120706 AFP Sudan's opposition parties have pledged to step up anti-regime protests, their alliance said on Thursday, nearly three weeks after the start of unprecedented public demonstrations sparked by inflation.
20120704 AFP Sudanese government forces and rebels said on Tuesday there has been fresh fighting in Blue Nile state, part of a war zone where the UN reports worsening humanitarian conditions.
20120701 AFP About 1,000 people were arrested and hundreds hurt, many by tear gas, during anti-regime protests in Sudan on Friday, an activist group said on Saturday's anniversary of President Omar al-Bashir's coup.
20120626 AFP There will be no turning back on Sudan's policy of phasing out fuel subsidies, the finance minister said on Monday, despite public outrage over high prices in the bankrupt nation.
20120625 AFP Nine days of country-wide protests against high prices in Sudan are no "Arab Spring", President Omar al-Bashir said on Sunday, referring to a series of uprisings against regional strongmen.
20120624 AFP Protesters hurled stones, burned tyres and blocked roads in the Sudanese capital on Saturday, the eighth day of widening unrest sparked by rising prices, AFP reporters said.
20120624 AFP Khartoum has seen an outburst of social unrest in the past week, driven by rampant inflation and simmering discontent, with the regime determined to crush a movement led by Sudanese students that has strong historical resonance.
20120623 AFP Face to face talks between Sudan and South Sudan resumed Friday, with little progress on the establishment of a demilitarised buffer zone along the disputed border, a chief negotiator from Juba said.
20120620 AFP AFP correspondent Simon Martelli was arrested on Tuesday while covering a student demonstration in Khartoum, according to a Sudanese security official.
20120612 AFP Next month's African Union summit has been moved to Ethiopia after scheduled host Malawi refused to welcome Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, a war crimes suspect, an AU official said on Monday.
20120612 AP NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A rare video shot by a soldier in a unit nicknamed the "match battalion" shows Sudanese troops burning a village in southern Sudan last year.
20120606 AFP International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday clashed with a top Sudanese diplomat at the UN Security Council, threatening an investigation into the envoy's defense of alleged war crimes in Darfur.
20120606 AFP International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday clashed with a top Sudanese diplomat at the UN Security Council, threatening an investigation into the envoy's defense of alleged war crimes in Darfur.
20120606 AFP Sudanese journalists and Communist Party members held a sit-in on Tuesday to protest against repeated restrictions against their newspaper, part of what press freedom advocates describe as an intensifying clampdown on critical voices.
20120603 AFP Sudan's army said it killed 45 rebels who were looting in eastern Darfur on Saturday but the insurgents told a different story, saying they had seized an army compound.
20120602 AFP A Sudanese police contingent has pulled out of the disputed Abyei area, Sudan's army said on Friday, after the foreign ministry denied their presence and the UN called for their withdrawal.
20120602 AFP Sudan has expelled four foreign aid groups working in the country's east, a government source told AFP on Friday, in the latest restriction against foreign humanitarian agencies.
20120529 AFP Sudan's army will begin pulling out of the contested region of Abyei from Tuesday, as demanded by the United Nations, the army spokesman said.
