20100808
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - South Sudan's referendum on independence must either be delayed or some arrangements will have to be skipped, as time is too short to hold the vote as required, a referendum commission member said on Saturday.

20100808
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir warned foreign organisations they would be expelled if they disrespected government authority, deepening a stand-off with U.N. peacekeepers over six Darfuris wanted by Khartoum

20100803
africanews

World football governing body FIFA gives Sudan an August 15 ultimatum to rerun their Football Association presidential elections or face a ban from global football. The Sepp Blatter-led administration said it does not recognize the Sudanese Football Association (SFA) vote which was held on 26 July.

20100803
africanews

Four Sierra Leonean peacekeepers serving in the joint United Nations-African Union mission were killed in the Sudanese war-torn region of Darfur. The peacekeepers died in a road accident which happened late on Sunday in Nyala, south Darfur, the mission said Monday.

20100801
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Talks have stalled between Sudan's rival northern and southern halves over the disputed oil-producing Abyei region and could re-ignite a conflict which claimed millions of lives, the region's leader said on Sunday.

20100731
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan said on Saturday it would monitor travel by U.N./African Union peacekeepers in Darfur -- a day after the U.N. Security Council extended the force's mandate and told Khartoum to stop hindering its work.

20100731
reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council extended the stay of peacekeepers in Sudan's western Darfur region by another year on Friday, telling the force to focus primarily on protecting civilians and aid deliveries.

20100730
allafrica

The Security Council today voted to extend by another year the mandate of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, where violence once again rocked a large camp for people uprooted by the conflict in the war-ravaged Sudanese region.

20100727
reuters

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Darfur rebels seized a Russian helicopter with four crew and five Sudanese passengers but three of the Russians and one Sudanese were later reported to be in safety, Russian media said on Tuesday.

20100727
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Two German aid workers kidnapped in Darfur more than a month ago were released on Tuesday and are in good health, a United Nations official said.

20100727
africanews
The African Union president Bingu wa Mutharika has criticized the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments against Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir. He said they were "undermining African solidarity and African peace and security." The ICC is trailing the Sudanese leader for genocide and other crimes.

20100726
Reuters

African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on suspicion of genocide, diplomats at a summit told Reuters on Sunday.

20100724
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - President Omar Hassan al-Bashir returned to Sudan on Friday after defying indictment for genocide by visiting Chad, a party to the International Criminal Court and so in theory obliged to arrest him.

20100720
reuters

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Heavy rains and floods across Sudan have killed at least 16 people and driven thousands from their homes, aid groups and government officials said on Tuesday.

20100720
allafrica

With less than six months before the residents of southern Sudan vote on a reform which is expected to result in the cessation of South Sudan from the north, a new report implicates Sudan's security services in "carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture, and mental and physical intimidation" against opponents of the government.

20100719
africanews

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's security forces systematically torture detainees and enjoy immunity from prosecution, Amnesty International said on Monday, urging Khartoum to reform a law which grants security agents wide powers.

20100717
allafrica

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's army said it has killed more than 300 fighters from Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in recent clashes in which 75 of its own soldiers also died, state media reported on Saturday.

20100716
africanews

Sudanese government has expelled two foreign employees of the International Organization for Migration working in the country's Darfur region, the agency said Thursday. The organization's Geneva-based spokesman, Jean-Philippe Chauzy, said the Sudanese government gave no explanation for the move.

20100713
africanews

The problems of Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir doesn't seem to go away. The International Criminal Court has issued a second arrest warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir - this time for charges of genocide. He already faces charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, which he denies.

20100712
allafrica

The Hague — Today, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a second warrant of arrest against the President of Sudan, Omar Hassan Ahmad Al Bashir, considering that there are reasonable grounds to believe him responsible for three counts of genocide committed against the Fur, Masalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups, that include: genocide by killing, genocide by causing serious bodily or mental harm and genocide by deliberately inflicting on each target group conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction.