20101030
RFI

President Barack Obama and former South African president Thabo Mbeki have held talks on upcoming independence referendum in Sudan, insisting that that they should not be delayed.

20101030
Sudan Tribune

Doha — Sudanese government has agreed to dedicate two billion dollar for Darfur rehabilitation and reconstruction, the move represents a breakthrough in Doha peace talks, a rebel leading official disclosed.

20101030
Garowe Online

Washington — The president of the International Criminal Court (ICC) expressed disappointment on Thursday that arrest warrants remain outstanding against a handful of suspects and called on the international community to assist the tribunal to step up efforts to bring them to justice.

20101030
Sudan Tribune

Khartoum — The meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) on Sudan that was scheduled to start this weekend in Addis Ababa has been postponed indefinitely amid conflicting reports on the causes of the change.

20101025
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers monitoring a fragile 2005 peace deal between north and south Sudan could not stop new hostilities between the northern and southern armies, the U.N. peacekeeping chief said on Monday.

20101024
East African

Nairobi — In a rare diplomatic concession, the Obama administration has offered to resume diplomatic relations with Sudan provided Khartoum meets some conditions.

20101022
Sudan Tribune

Juba — An advisor on security affairs to president of southern Sudan, John Kong Nyuon, on Thursday urged the region not to believe statements attributed to senior officials from Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) that the north and south may return to war.

20101022
Sudan Tribune

Juba — South Africa's former President, Thabo Mbeki on Friday held a high level meeting with South Sudan's President, Salva Kiir Mayardit to discuss how to salvage the recently failed talks on the conduct of Abyei referendum.

20101022
Sudan Tribune

Juba — The United Democratic Party on Friday called on the dominant parties of north and south Sudan to hand over the running of the referendum on the future of the oil-rich region of Abyei to the United Nations.

20101023
africanews

Washington — The United States today made it clear that it wants the January 2011 independence vote in South Sudan despite talks by northern officials about a postponement and a fresh push by Egypt in that direction.

20101020
africanews

Khartoum — Sudan’s defense minister Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein became the most senior official from the National Congress Party (NCP) in control of the north, to explicitly suggest that the referendum in the South has to be moved back from its original date of January 9, 2011.

20101020
africanews

Sudan president Omar Hassan al-Bashir promised that there will be no return to civil war with the south as a war of words between Khartoum and Juba rose.

20101018
New Vision

Kampala — Central African nations affected by the activities of Uganda's notorious rebel group Lords Resistance Army (LRA) have agreed to form a joint military force to strengthen their fight against the group.

20101017
Sudan Tribune

Washington — The Chinese government is fighting hard to prevent the publication of a report showing the flow of weapons it sold into the war ravaged region of Darfur over the course of last year despite a ban imposed by the UN Security Council (UNSC), according to a newspaper report.

20101017
africanews

The United Nations have come under fire in Sudan following moves to set up buffer zones along the country's north-south border ahead of the political referendum. The Sudanese army has called the plan a sign of either ignorance or interference.

20101015
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army has criticised U.N. moves to set up buffer zones along the country's north-south border ahead of a politically sensitive referendum, calling the plan a sign of either ignorance or interference.

201010
africanews

Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir accused the country's southern autonomous leadership of breaking terms of a peace deal. He warned a conflict could re-erupt if the two sides did not resolve disputes before referendum vote. al-Bashir's speech raised the stakes in a war of words between Khartoum and former rebel group of the Sudan people's liberation movement (SPLM), the south government.

20101010
africanews

Nairobi — One of the most important votes in post-independence African history is less than 100 days away.

20100927
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Northern and southern Sudanese officials traded accusations on Monday of deploying troops along their joint border as tensions mounted in the build-up to a referendum on southern independence.

20100927
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Sudan's vice president on Monday urged U.N. member states to forgive the debts of Africa's largest country in order to strengthen prospects for peace ahead of a referendum on independence for south Sudan.