20101213
allafrica.com

On 9 January, 2011, southern Sudanese are due to vote in a referendum on whether to remain part of Sudan, Africa’'s largest country, or to become independent. At the time of the accord, negotiators envisaged five years of work to build national unity and bring development to the south. Instead, southerners say, little has changed to incorporate southerners as full citizens, and a vote to separate is widely predicted. Along with that expectation, fears have risen that the north and south could return to disastrous, full-scale war.

20101212
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Sudanese campaign group launched a legal bid on Sunday to halt Sudan's referendum on southern independence, accusing organisers of mishandling the process, a move which could derail the January 9 vote.

20101210
UN News

An attack by the Sudanese armed forces against rebels in Darfur, the second such incident in the past 24 hours, has prompted the joint United Nations-African Union representative in the volatile region to démarche the Government.

20101209
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — Sudanese army clashed today with troops loyal to the former Darfur rebel leader Minni Minnawi heading to southern Sudan, Sudan's military spokesperson said today

20101206
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The Sudan Armed forces (SAF) and the Sudan People Liberation Army (SPLA) on Monday signed a framework agreement on securing oilfields and related infrastructure in the South.

20101207
africanews

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has expressed concern that Zambian President Rupiah Banda invited indicted Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to participate in a regional conference scheduled for 15th December.

20101206
Sudan Tribune

Sudanese presidency will meet on Monday to discuss the future of the central Sudan disputed region of Abyei as the referendum on southern Sudan independence will take place within a month.

20101205
Sudan Tribune

Southern Sudan's ruling party, the Sudan's Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM), will not accept any proposal aimed at delaying the timely conduct of the regions self-determination referendum, a senior party official said Saturday.

20101129
Sudan Tribune

The Sudanese government on Sunday issued a strongly worded statement after president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir was forced to cancel his attendance at the 3rd Africa-European Union (EU) summit that starts Monday in the Libyan capital.

20101128
africanews

A new report by a coalition of European and African economic and political think-tanks shows that the return to war in Sudan would entail costs in excess of US$100 billion. The 35-page report also recognises the difficulties in measuring the costs of potential future conflict.

20101122
africanews

Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir will fly to African Union headquarter in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the 15th extraordinary Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) Summit on Sudan. Al-Bashir would lead a delegation to the special summit to take stock of the progress of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA).

20101113
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - After weeks of delays due to Chinese objections, the U.N. Security Council on Friday received a report on violations of the arms embargo in Sudan's western Darfur region that infuriated Beijing.

20101109
africanews

Sudan's national intelligence and Security services director on Monday asked Southern Sudan administration to arrest Darfur rebel officers who are allegedly in South Sudan. The Sudanese spy chief Mohamed Atta Al-Moula urged Southern Sudan to arrest immediately Darfur rebels who are present in Southern Sudan because of the interest of sustainable peace between the north and the south.

20101108
africanews

The United States has promised Sudan to remove from its list of states sponsors of terrorism if Khartoum ensures two key referendums take place on time.

20101106
africanews

The United Nations top relief coordinator today urged the administration in southern Sudan to ensure the protection of aid workers, decrying cases of harassment and violence against humanitarian staff in the region.

20101106
UN News

The head of the United Nations humanitarian office today called for better protection of civilians in southern Sudan when visiting thousands of people who have fled their homes over the past three years because of persistent attacks on villages by members of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

20101106
UN News

Juba — The government of the semi autonomous region of south Sudan (GoSS) on Friday rejected an Egyptian proposal calling for a delay to the conduct of the upcoming self determination referendum in south Sudan.

20101106
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The U.S. senator and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee made a previously unannounced visit to Khartoum, his second one to the country in a little over a week.

20101102
africanews

President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions agains the Sudanese government in Khartoum.

The following is the text of a letter he sent to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and the President of the U.S. Senate, announcing his decision:

20101102
africanews

Sudan detained nine Darfur activists among a prominent human rights lawyer, just weeks ahead of a southern referendum timetable. "The total number arrested is nine activists -- all of them from Darfur. One of them is a very active lawyer in the Darfur lawyer's association," a civil society leader Elbaqir Mokhtar said.