20100829
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Russian pilots were kidnapped from Nyala town in Darfur on Sunday, state media said, the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting foreigners in the violent region.

20100828
IPS

Nairobi — Kenya was in the eye of a storm on Saturday over its decision to invite Sudan President Omar al-Bashir to witness the promulgation of the new Constitution on Friday.

20100824
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan plans to build a four- reactor nuclear power plant to fill a gap in the energy needs of Africa's largest country by 2030 costing between $3-6 billion, the head of Sudan's atomic energy agency said on Tuesday.

20100823
East Africa

New York — With less than four months until South Sudan's scheduled referendum on secession, the Obama administration as well as advocacy groups in Washington appear uncertain as to what course of action the United States should take.

20100823
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's ruling party said on Monday it would accept a northerner in a key post on the commission planning a referendum on the region's independence because having the vote on time in January was more important.

20100823
reuters

JUBA Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan said on Monday that the central government had stopped paying its share of oil revenues in foreign currency, creating a foreign exchange crisis in the region ahead of a January vote on independence.

20100823
africanews

The Sudanese government is planning to build a nuclear reactor which is first of its kind purposely for peaceful electricity by 2020, according to the state news agency, SUNA. It has also built dams along the Blue and White Niles, which merge in Sudan, to generate power. But large swathes of the country remain without regular electricity.

20100822
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan is planning to build a nuclear reactor and its first nuclear power plant for peaceful electricity purposes by 2020, the state news agency SUNA said.

20100817
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two Jordanian police officers serving with the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur were freed on Tuesday after three days in captivity, a Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman said.

20100817
africanews

Sudan Authority has expelled five humanitarian staff from the United Nations and the Red Cross in west Darfur, aid officials. The aid workers, along with the head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation office in the state capital El-Geneina, were ordered to close and back to Khartoum.

20100816
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has expelled five U.N. and ICRC workers from West Darfur state, a U.N. official said, in the latest confrontation with international organisations in a region with the world's largest aid operation.

20100816
africanews

Armed men abducted two U.N.-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region in the biggest town Nyala. The mission said the two men were walking to a UNAMID transport dispatch point about 100 meters from their residence when they were approached by three individuals in a four-wheel-drive vehicle.

20100816
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The head of a commission to plan south Sudan's looming vote on independence said north- south divisions within the body were undermining preparations and threatened to resign if the deadlock continued.

20100814
xinhuanet

KHARTOUM -- Two peacekeepers of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were abducted on Saturday by unknown gunmen in the South Darfur State in western Sudan, the peacekeeping mission said in a statement.

20100814
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. humanitarian chief on Friday urged Sudanese authorities to allow humanitarian aid workers into a Darfur refugee camp that they have been prevented from entering for nearly two weeks.

20100810
reuters

JUBA Sudan (Reuters) - Corruption, a small private sector and the reluctance of southern Sudanese to farm the land are stalling development just months before the region could become the world's newest country, a minister said on Tuesday.

20100810
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's former north-south foes began much-delayed talks this week on how to divide wealth and power, with time running out five months before a referendum on independence for the south.

20100809
reuters

JUBA Sudan (Reuters) - A deadly tropical disease has killed 31 people since June and infected 118 others in south Sudan, with tribal clashes and heavy rains hindering treatment, a government health official said on Monday.

20100809
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The BBC's licence to broadcast in Arabic on local frequencies in north Sudan will be suspended from Monday, the government announced, citing violations by the broadcaster such as smuggling in satellite equipment.

20100809
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has halted direct censorship of daily newspapers, journalists said on Monday, but few believed that this marked a genuine step towards press freedom which is enshrined in the constitution.