20110525 Xinhua KHARTOUM, May 24 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government on Tuesday reiterated commitment to protect the civilians in Abyei and provide them with relief supplies.
20110525 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's president on Tuesday refused to withdraw troops from the disputed Abyei region they seized over the weekend, defying international calls for them to pull out and raising the stakes in a standoff with the south.
20110524 Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan has risked $38 billion in potential debt relief and other incentives by occupying Abyei and must agree to resume talks on the disputed region quickly, the U.S. special envoy for Sudan said on Monday.
Call comes after Sudanese troops gained control of disputed region and moved tanks into main town.
The UN Security Council has called on the north Sudanese army to withdraw from positions it has taken in the disputed region of Abyei. In a statement read to reporters in Khartoum by the French council ambassador on Sunday, the council also condemned south Sudanese forces for attacking a UN convoy in Abyei on Thursday.
20110522 all africa Washington, DC — The United States on Saturday rebuked the Sudanese government over its army's move on the disputed border region of Abyei which elevated fears of a full-scale war between the North and South.
20110522 press tv North Sudanese troops have seized the Abyei town along Sudan's contested north-south border after clashes with forces of South Sudan.
20110521 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - North and south Sudan's armies on Friday accused each other of launching attacks in the contested Abyei border region, marking an escalation of tensions in the countdown to the south's independence in July.
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - More than 80 rebels and civilians were killed when insurgents attacked a cattle camp in south Sudan, the army said on Tuesday, in the latest violence to mar preparations for the region's independence.
Washington — U.S. and French officials were present at the inauguration ceremony of Djibouti president Ismail Omar Guelleh on Sunday along with Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir.
United Nations blue helmets in Sudan today found the bodies of 14 people in the Abyei area, the apparent victims of the latest round of clashes in the disputed region of central Sudan.
Bor — A South Sudan army official said the rebel Gabriel Tanginya is under house arrest in the South Sudan capital, Juba since he was flew there late last month, waiting for charges to be brought against him.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Soldiers from north Sudan's army clashed with southern forces in the oil-producing border region of Abyei, killing 14, the United Nations said on Tuesday in the latest violence in the contested region.
The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur has announced a new initiative to help aid agencies access hard-to-reach communities in parts of the strife-torn Sudanese region.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Behind a high white wall next to an unpaved road in the Sudanese capital, the two-storey house where Osama bin Laden once lived has remained vacant since the leader of al Qaeda was expelled from Sudan in 1996.
Washington — The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Friday removed the private Bank of Khartoum from a blacklist of Sudanese entities and individuals subjected to economic sanctions since 1997.
Nairobi — North Sudan's governing National Congress Party (NCP) has more than once proved to be able to overcome divisions - but a rare show of discord between senior party officials this week has indicated it might be teetering on the edge of implosion.
Juba — South Sudan's army claimed today killing 57 militia members during Saturday's clashes with Tanginya's forces, in Jonglei state, adding three major-generals and several high ranking officers were among them.
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 55 fighters were killed when south Sudan's army clashed with a rebel militia, a state minister said on Sunday, the latest in a wave of violence across the territory ahead of its independence in July.
