The International Criminal Court (ICC) today issued a second arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, adding genocide to the list of charges for crimes he has allegedly committed in the war-ravaged Darfur region.
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's government and rebels must stop blocking missions by aid workers and peacekeepers in Darfur or risk breaking international law, the head of the territory's peacekeeping mission said on Tuesday
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Aid officials accused South Sudanese soldiers of arresting and beating four members of a UK aid group in a politically-sensitive area of the oil-producing region, but the army denied any use of violence.
Nairobi — Ongoing clashes between various armed groups in western Sudan have intensified since May, displacing 725 households from Jebel Mara to Hassa Hissa camp in Zalingei, West Darfur, aid workers said.
Sudanese MPs have agreed a long-awaited commission to oversee a January referendum on independence of the country's oil-rich south. The body will be headed by former foreign minister, Mohammed Ibrahim Khalil. Although the commission clears a path for the vote, many logistical problems remain.
Sudanese police briefly detained more than 20 models, make-up artists and designers after a rare mixed-sex fashion show in Khartoum, participants said on Saturday.
Sudan on Sunday said it had asked Libya to expel the leader of Darfur's rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), accusing him of trying to undermine peace talks and threatening attacks on Khartoum.
Sweden's public prosecutor opened a criminal probe on Monday into allegations that Swedes working for a consortium of oil companies during the Sudanese civil war may have been complicit in human rights abuses.
Armed men killed three Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region on Monday in the latest assault on members of the U.N./African Union (UNAMID) force operating in the area, an official from the force said.
A rebel militia leader said on Sunday his forces had fought six battles with south Sudan's army in the past week, killing scores of people in the region's Jonglei oil state.
KHARTOUM- Sudan may ask the United Nations to run a referendum on the future of a politically sensitive border region after northern and southern leaders failed to appoint organisers, a party official said on Sunday.
- A top Australian mining magnate and five other senior figures from iron ore miner Sundance Resources Ltd were aboard a company aircraft that disappeared in Africa, the company said on Sunday.
Manute Bol, of Sudan, who became famous for playing basketball in the United States and contributed millions of dollars to help the Sudanese, died on Saturday. He was 47.
The US embassy in Sudan's Khartoum has called for an investigation into how four murderers of a US aid official and his driver managed to stage a prison break in the country. The men escaped through the sewerage system of Kober Prison and shot dead a police officer while fleeing via a checkpoint Saturday.
The International Criminal Court is calling on the United Nations Security Council to push for the arrest of two Sudanese men indicted for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur. The ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said Khartoum had failed to Ahmed Haroun and Janjaweed militia leader Ali Kushayb.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has urged the UN Security Council to push for the arrest of two Sudanese men indicted for war crimes in Darfur.
The entry of a Swedish-led oil consortium into southern Sudan in 1997 triggered civil war and crimes against humanity, concludes a new report by a European coalition of aid agencies.
