20111021 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's armed forces have seized a town close to a rebel stronghold in the border state of Blue Nile where fighting has been going on for almost two months, state media said on Thursday.
20111014 Reuters NEAR KURMUK, Sudan (Reuters) - A convoy of white Toyota pick-up trucks and 4x4s, smeared with mud for camouflage, lurches off the road and hastily parks under the shade of some trees to the drone of a plane overhead.
20111010 Reuters NEAR KURMUK, Sudan (Reuters) - A Sudanese rebel leader has called for the government to stop bombing its own citizens, create humanitarian corridors and provide safe zones for civilians in two turbulent border territories.
20111009 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan will resolve their disagreements through dialogue, Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and southern counterpart Salva Kiir said, but gave no hint of any progress after several meetings on Saturday.
2011108 Reuters OSLO (Reuters) - Declaring women's rights vital for world peace, the Nobel Committee awarded its annual Peace Prize on Friday to three indomitable female campaigners against war and oppression -- a Yemeni and two Liberians, including that country's president.
20111001 Reuters JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said it would not withdraw its army from the disputed Abyei region by Friday as expected by the United Nations, triggering sharp criticism by its former civil war foe South Sudan.
20110929 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said Sudanese government forces were poised to attack a stronghold of armed rebels in Blue Nile state, and vowed not to negotiate with what he called mutineers, state news agency SUNA reported on Wednesday.
20110927 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Police used tear gas on Monday to disperse around 300 people who demonstrated for several hours in the Sudanese capital against spiralling inflation, witnesses and activists said.
20110925 Reuters JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has deployed a heavily armoured brigade along a road leading to an armed opposition group's stronghold in Blue Nile State and may be poised to launch an attack, a satellite monitoring activist group said on Friday.
20110924 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan faces severe food shortages because the new African nation will produce less than half the food it needs to feed its population this year due to heavy rains and widespread violence, the United Nations said.
20110922 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese police used teargas to disperse a protest by hundreds of tribesmen in east Sudan on Thursday after two people died during clashes with police, residents said.
20110922 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan government forces have seized control of a strategic city in Blue Nile state after fighting with rebels allied with South Sudan, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
20110921 Reuters. KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese armed forces clashed with a major rebel group near the border with Libya and Chad in the troubled Darfur region, an army spokesman said on Tuesday.
20110919 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan signed a border security agreement on Sunday and said they would set up 10 crossing points, the first time the two neighbours have signed a deal over the tense boundary since the south declared independence in July.
20110917 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Ishraga Youssef was running out of options as food prices spiralled in Sudan's capital Khartoum, so she decided to take drastic action by giving up meat.
20110917 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is drawing up new guidelines to permit U.S. oil companies to operate in South Sudan without running afoul of U.S. sanctions that apply to Khartoum, a U.S. official said on Friday.
20110914 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's President on Tuesday appointed his first vice president from the Darfur region -- but rebels from the strife-torn territory dismissed it as an empty gesture that would not answer their call for a bigger say in government.
20110912 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A major rebel group in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur said on Sunday its leader Khalil Ibrahim has returned after leaving his Libyan refuge following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's regime.
20110906 Reuters DAMAZIN, Sudan (Reuters) - Sudanese government troops and groups allied to South Sudan hAVE continued to skirmish along their joint border, but life has returned to normal in some border areas, a northern government official said.
