20110308
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's president plans to create two additional states in the western Darfur territory, officials said, in what rebels described as bid to curb their influence and strengthen central control from Khartoum.

20110305
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Militias burned down a village in Sudan's contested Abyei region on Saturday, a southern official said.

20110301
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's health minister said on Tuesday he had quit because members of the north's dominant party had been taking decisions in the ministry behind his back.

20110226
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has suspended the work of the humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services in West Darfur state, accusing it of distributing Bibles, a local aid official said on Saturday.

20110225
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Safiya Eshaq said she was kidnapped in Khartoum by plainclothed security men, beaten, gang raped and left in the street to limp to safety for her part in anti-government protests.

20110225
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The Sudanese army said it had attacked a Darfur rebel stronghold to open roads in the central Jabel Marra region and killed 25 rebels, the latest step in an escalation of fighting in western Sudan.

20110225
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Twenty-seven people were killed in renewed clashes between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, said a statement issued by the SAF on Friday.

20110224
Xinhua
KHARTOUM, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) -- The Sudanese government on Wednesday expressed concern over violent incidents against civilians in Libya and urged for resorting to wisdom and self- restraint to prevent bloodshed in a way that achieves aspirations of the Libyan people in peace, security and stability.

20110223
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's leaders have offered tentative concessions as pressure from within the ruling party and possible contagion from uprisings in the region rises, but reformists will only be silenced with action not empty promises.

20110218
reuters

NYALA, Sudan, Feb. 18 (Xinhua) -- The third international conference on peace in Darfur on Friday reiterated its support for the Qatari-hosted Darfur peace talks, and reaffirmed its call for the Darfur militants to join the ongoing efforts to settle the conflict in the region.

20110214
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese authorities on Monday expelled French aid group Medecins du Monde from a state in the Darfur region, accusing it of spying on the government and helping rebels.

20100214
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - An angry mob killed three traders in Sudan's flashpoint town of Abyei, officials said, underlining growing tensions in the area claimed by both the country's north and the south, which is about to secede.

20110213
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday vowed to provide freedom for all, affirming that his government does not fear people's revolution against it after a wave of popular uprisings at the Arab region that toppled Tunisian and Egyptian presidents.

20110208
africanews

As Africa prepares to welcome the birth of a new country, military tensions have been on the rise among the new Joint Integerated Units (JIUs) deployed to the volatile town of Abyei during the last couple of days as northern Sudan JIU elements reject any attempt to relocate them northward.

20110207
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- With the announcement of the final results of the south Sudan referendum that lead to the separation of the region, the relationship between north and south Sudan entered a new phase amid challenges and barriers that would test the peace between north and south Sudan.

20110207
xinhua

KHARTOUM, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan referendum ended on Monday with the official announcement of the results which indicated that 98.83 percent of the voters have voted for separation.

20110207
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare its independence in final results of a referendum made public on Monday, opening the door to Africa's newest state and a fresh period of uncertainty for the fractured region.

20110206
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudanese leaders said on Sunday they were considering building a new capital after their expected independence as the current hub Juba lacked infrastructure and space for new business.

20110206
reuters

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - At least 50 people have died as a mutiny in the Sudan army spread through towns in oil-producing Upper Nile state, stoking tension as the south prepares for independence, the military said on Sunday.

20110203
sudan tribune

Nairobi — Sudan is expecting the recent flurry of meetings between American and Sudanese diplomats to bring about a normalization in ties with the ultimate goal of removing Sudan's name from the US blacklist of countries sponsoring terrorism and remedying Sudan's debts problem, a Sudanese diplomat said today.