20100925
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Leaders of north and south Sudan vowed to work for peace on Friday as U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders pressured them to hold a referendum on southern independence peacefully and on time.

20100925
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudanese people will lose the right to be citizens in the north if their region votes for independence in a referendum, the information minister said, raising fears for southerners living in northern settlements.

20100924
UN News

World leaders and high-ranking officials meeting at the United Nations today renewed their support for the parties to the 2005 peace accord that ended Sudan's north-south civil war as they embark on the critical final phase of the agreement - the upcoming referenda on the self-determination of southern Sudan and the central region of Abyei.

20100924
America.gov

President Barack Obama says Sudan's leaders face a choice between war, continued isolation and international pressure, or peace that can open the way to economic and agricultural development, global integration and improved ties with the United States.

20100924
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The African Union urged the United Nations on Thursday to put war crime charges against Sudan's leader on hold, warning they could destabilize Africa's biggest nation and endanger an upcoming referendum on southern independence.

20100920
UN News

A committee involving the United Nations has produced a preliminary draft peace document aimed at ending the bloody conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, in which some 300,000 have been killed and 2.7 million other driven from their homes in the past seven years.

20100919
africanews

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan hopes to start registering voters in mid-October for a referendum on the independence of its oil-producing south, a senior official said on Sunday, the first formal indication of a date.

20100918
Crisis Action

New York — Thousands of activists are gathering at events in 14 countries in a coordinated global day of action, calling on world leaders to take urgent steps to prevent a collapse in diplomacy in Sudan that could lead to deadly conflict in 2011.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sudan risks "violence on a massive scale" if there is any delay to a planned January referendums that will likely split the oil-rich African nation in two, South Sudan's leader said on Friday.

all africa

Washington, DC — Southern Sudanese leader Salva Kiir appealed to Washington on Friday for heightened international engagement in preparations for the January referendum in which southerners are expected to vote to secede from Sudan, Africa's largest country.

20100917
africa news

At least 37 people were killed and 26 injured on Thursday when two buses collided in the northern Sudanese state of White Nile, the director of Sudan's traffic police said. Four children were among the dead.

20100917
all africa

Sudan is woefully unprepared for the upcoming referenda on the possible independence for the southern region of Africa's largest country and the Government has a duty to ensure that all people can vote free from fear or intimidation, a United Nations human rights expert said on Friday.

20100913
reuters

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday he has convened a high-level meeting at the United Nations to discuss the situation in Sudan as it prepares for a vote on the self-determination of the south of the country.

20100911
reuters

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese man as he tried to slip into Israel on Friday, security sources said, at least the 32nd migrant killed at the sensitive frontier so far this year.

20100906
Unamid

The security situation remains tense following separate incidents over the weekend.
Shortly before midnight on 3 September, reports were received that a firefight broke out in the Hamadiya internally displaced persons (IDP) camp in Zalingei, West Darfur. The shooting ceased at approximately 08:00 hours on 4 September.

20100906
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan plans to more than double its gold output in two years partly to help make up for a possible fall in oil revenues if its crude-producing south chooses to secede in a looming referendum, the minerals minister said on Monday.

20100904
africanews

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed men killed dozens of people in attacks on a busy market and surrounding villages in rebel-held territory in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday and Friday, rebels said.

20100830
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A U.S. aid worker was released in Darfur on Monday after being held by her kidnappers for more than 100 days, a Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman said.

20100829
Nation

Nairobi — Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir held talks with President Kibaki and other visiting heads of state after the promulgation of the new Constitution on Friday.

20100829
reuters

LONDON (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief prosecutor has accused Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of abusing African hospitality and threatening the West as he seeks to avoid arrest on genocide charges.