20110629
Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Wednesday that relations with Sudan would remain good no matter what changes may occur as the African nation prepares for its south to secede.

20110629
xinhua
DUBAI, June 28 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan has chosen the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the destination to establish its first embassy in the Gulf Arab region, with the aim of boosting trade relations between the two sides, the vice president of South Sudan 's government said Tuesday.

20110629
xinhua
VIENNA, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Austria will recognize South Sudan as a sovereign state on July 9, 2011, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.

20110626
xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 25 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's South Kordofan State Governor Ahmed Haroun said Saturday that life in the region has been restored to its normal course after clashes it has witnessed since June 6.

20110623
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The United Nations said on Wednesday 73,000 people had fled violence in Sudan's Southern Kordofan border state, after more than two weeks of fighting between the northern army and southern-aligned troops.

20110621
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- UN representatives of Sudan and South Sudan welcomed an agreement here Monday on demilitarizing the disputed oil-rich area of Abyei, but exchanged bitter accusations over who started the violence in Abyei and another battleground.

20110621
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 20 (Xinhua) -- North and south sides of Sudan have inked a deal on the demilitarization of Abyei and are in the midst of working towards other agreements, Thabo Mbeki, head of the African Union (AU) panel on Sudan, told a UN Security Council meeting here Monday.

20110621
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 20 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's National Congress Party ( NCP) in the north and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in the south, on Monday signed an agreement stipulating withdrawal of all military forces from the country's disputed oil-rich area of Abyei.

20110620
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Satellite images showed the north Sudanese military massing in the Southern Kordofan border state, a monitor said, and rebels in Darfur accused Khartoum of attacking them with military vehicles and warplanes on Sunday.

20110619
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Eleven civilians were killed on Saturday in an armed attack by a rebel group in Sudan's Darfur region, reported Sudanese Ashrouq TV channel.

20110617
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan's army vowed on Thursday to continue fighting against southern-aligned groups in the oil-producing border state of Southern Kordofan to end what it calls an armed rebellion.

20110616
Reuters
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan's army said on Thursday it was ready for more attacks by northern forces, accusing them of clashing with its troops in the disputed Abyei area, situated in an ill-defined border region.

20110616
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed alarm on Wednesday at recent fighting in Sudan's oil-producing Southern Kordofan state ahead of southern Sudan's July 9 secession.

20110615
Reuters
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - A rebel militia killed 29 people including police and civilians in a south Sudan cattle raid, the southern army said on Tuesday, adding to the region's woes ahead of independence in July.

20110615
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Tension is mounting at Sudan's South Kordofan State amid the escalating armed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) in the region.

20110615
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 15 (Xinhua) -- At least 71 people were killed and 36 others injured in armed clashes in the Lakes State of south Sudan, Miraya FM radio which belongs to the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) reported on Wednesday.

20110613
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 12 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese army on Sunday refuted claims that its military planes were shot down in the South Kordofan State during the armed clashes last week.

20110613
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 12 (Xinhua) -- At least five people were killed and 11 others were injured in an armed attack launched by the forces of the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) on a civilian vehicle in South Kordofan State, official SUNA news agency reported Sunday.

20110612
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army denied on Sunday that any military aircraft were shot down in the border state of Southern Kordofan, where the northern military has been fighting armed groups for more than a week.

20110612
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North Sudan's army battled southern-aligned troops across the volatile Southern Kordofan border state for a seventh day on Saturday, adding to tensions ahead of talks between the northern and southern leaders.