20110905 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Sunday it planned to move its capital to a more central location in the next few years, a project analysts say would be a costly distraction for a nation with almost no roads.
20110905 Reuters KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan demanded on Sunday that the southern-aligned Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) cease operations in the country, stoking tensions with the newly independent south after fighting flared in border areas.
20110904 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - Seventeen people were killed in fighting between Sudan's army and rebels aligned to South Sudan in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, the official news agency SUNA said on Saturday.
20110903 Reuters KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's army and forces aligned to South Sudan clashed on Friday in a Sudanese state on the border with the newly independent south, prompting what witnesses said was an exodus of people from the state capital.
20110825 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy dismissed fresh allegations by a U.S. group that says it has identified a total of eight mass graves in the African country's conflict-ridden Southern Kordofan region.
20110817 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday it would form its own committee to assess the human rights situation in its conflict-ridden Southern Kordofan region, a day after the U.N. called for a probe into reports of violence and abuses there.
20110808 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese security forces have confiscated the entire edition of an independent newspaper in the capital Khartoum, its editor said on Sunday, the latest sign of a media crackdown.
20110807 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy on Friday vehemently rejected allegations from a top U.N. official who accused Khartoum of delaying a Medivac helicopter trying to evacuate three dying Ethiopian peacekeepers.
20110806 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's U.N. envoy on Friday vehemently rejected allegations from a top U.N. official who accused Khartoum of delaying a Medivac helicopter trying to evacuate three dying Ethiopian peacekeepers.
20110806 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan said on Friday it is holding an oil shipment from South Sudan because the new African state has failed to pay custom duties.
20110731 Reuters JUBA, (Reuters) - South Sudan has agreed with Khartoum that it will a pay a pipeline transit fee for its oil in line with international standards after the north dropped its demand for a "discriminatory" $22.8 a barrel, a senior southern official said on Saturday.
20110727 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Tuesday it was ready to negotiate an end to fighting in its main oil state of South Kordofan but accused armed groups there of trying to prolong the violence by teaming up with rebels in neighbouring Darfur.
20110720 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan has sold its first oil this week, heralding its appearance on the market 10 days after gaining independence and despite having yet to reach a deal with the north on the split of oil revenues.
20110718 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council said on Friday it was gravely concerned about violence in a volatile and oil-rich Sudan border territory, and called for an immediate end to hostilities there.
20110717 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council said on Friday it was gravely concerned about violence in a volatile and oil-rich Sudan border territory, and called for an immediate end to hostilities there.
20110717 Reuters CAIRO (Reuters) - South Sudan, already recognised by Israel, will forge relations with the Jewish state and hopes to help bring peace to the Middle East, the new state's vice president said in remarks received on Friday.
20110715 Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The General Assembly admitted South Sudan on Thursday as the 193rd member of the United Nations, sealing the new African country's independence after decades of conflict.
20110715 Reuters JUBA (Reuters) - Newly independent South Sudan, eager for investment, wants to pass a new and attractive mining act before October, when bad weather could hinder exploration for minerals such as gold, a government official said.
20110714 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's parliament on Wednesday gave initial approval to cancel the citizenship of South Sudanese, state news agency SUNA said, less than a week after South Sudan became independent.
20110714 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - The world should recognise the efforts made by Sudan in bringing peace to its southern region, now an independent state, and normalise relations with Khartoum, state media on Thursday quoted a senior Chinese diplomat as saying.
