20110612
Reuters
ZAWIYAH, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan troops loyal to Muammar Gaddafi fought gun battles with rebels in the town of Zawiyah on Saturday, witnesses said, shutting the coastal highway that links the capital Tripoli with Tunisia.

20110612
xinhua
ADDIS ABABA, June 11(Xinhua) -- The African Union High Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) for Sudan will convene a summit meeting here on Jun 12-13 to discuss immediate issues between northern and southern Sudan.

20110612
xinhua
KHARTOUM, June 11 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Special Envoy on African Affairs Liu Guijin on Saturday urged north and south Sudan to adhere to the peace option, commit themselves to calmness, exercise self-restraint and adopt the principle of dialogue to resolve the outstanding issues between them.

20110611
Xinhua
UNITED NATIONS, June 10 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people have been displaced by recent clashes between the Sudan Armed Forces ( SAF) and elements of the southern Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA) in the South Kordofan region of Sudan and its regional capital Kadugli, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Friday.

20110610
Reuters
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - More than 10,000 people displaced by fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan were staying near a U.N. compound on Thursday, the country mission spokesman said, after nearly a week of clashes in the tense border state.

20110606
presstv
Sudan has dismissed a request by the UN Security Council (UNSC) to pull its forces out of the oil-producing region of Abyei on the border between the South and the North.

20110605
aljazire
Security Council considers Khartoum's military control over Abyei a "serious violation" of north-south peace accords.

20110605
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers in Sudan stayed holed up in their barracks for two days during violent clashes between northern and southern forces that sparked the flight of tens of thousands of civilians, diplomats told Reuters.

20110605
Reuters
JUBA/KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Clashes have broken out in a flashpoint region of Sudan controlled by the northern government, exacerbating tensions as the southern portion of the vast country prepares to secede following a referendum.

20110604
ReutersKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Khartoum on Saturday dismissed calls by the U.N. Security Council for it to withdraw its forces immediately from Abyei, the disputed region of divided Sudan they seized on May 21.

20110601
Reuters
Announcement comes 10 days after the north seized the disputed Abyei region, prompting tens of thousands to flee.

20110601
Reuters
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - North Sudan's government laid out new proposals to resolve a dispute with the south over the central Abyei region, including setting up a rotating administration for the contested territory.

20110530
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) has appointed a military governor for the country's disputed oil-rich area of Abyei after the SAF controlled the area on May 20, local Al-Sudani daily reported on Monday.

20110527
presstv
The number of people displaced as a result of violence in the Abyei region of southern Sudan has reached 150,000, a southern Sudanese minister says.

20110527
Reuters
TURALEI, Sudan (Reuters) - Alel Bol fled with four of her six children when armed northerners on motorbikes roared into her home in Sudan's contested Abyei border region and, she said, bombs started falling from the sky.

20110526
presstv
The UN says all the residents of the Sudanese oil town of Abyei have left due to the recent violence on the border between South and North Sudan.

20110526
Reuters
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people fled Sudan's contested Abyei region as northern militias accused of helping seize the area over the weekend moved further south, the United Nations said on Wednesday.

20110526
Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has proposed a new peacekeeping force of some 7,000 blue-helmeted troops for south Sudan once it secedes from the north in July, according to a new U.N. report published on Wednesday.

20110525
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Tuesday that north Sudan would not allow double nationality, and southerners who want to reside in north Sudan must get residence permission after July 9, 2011, when south Sudan will be officially independent.

20110525
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Tuesday that Abyei "belongs to north Sudan" and the Sudanese army would not pull out of it.