The Sudanese government has vowed to do more to normalize ties with the United States after Washington removed the country from its travel ban list and amid reports that decades-old US sanctions on Khartoum could be lifted.
People attending the funeral procession of a prominent Sudanese rights activist have forcefully pushed Prime Minister and First Vice President Bakri Hassan Saleh and a number of high-ranking officials from the ceremony.
Gunmen have killed eight people from a Sudanese ethnic minority group and injured five others as they were praying in a mosque in the country’s war-torn Darfur region.
Sudan has reiterated that it will not abandon its “sovereign right” over the two border territories of Halayeb and Shalateen, which have long been subject to a dispute with Egypt.
Sudan has called on neighboring Egypt to discuss two contested border areas near the Red Sea, days after Cairo transferred the ownership of two islands to Saudi Arabia.
A referendum will be held in Sudan’s conflict-ridden Darfur region on Monday on whether to unify its five states into one, as long demanded by rebels seeking greater autonomy, amid a recent surge of clashes there.
The deadly conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has resulted in the displacement of more than 160,000 people since the beginning of this year, the United Nations says.
A South African court has given the government seven days to explain the reason behind defying an order to keep Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir in the country.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has called on South Africa to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in the country to attend a summit of the African Union (AU).
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has formed a new government, a month after he secured a landslide victory in elections boycotted by the opposition and marred by allegations of fraud.
Sudan’s army has claimed that it has shot down an Israeli drone following reports that Israeli warplanes have pounded sites around the Sudanese capital of Khartoum, the Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV reported.
Sudan’s government has accused peacekeepers in the country’s western region of Darfur of killing seven civilians, dismissing the UN-African Union (AU) mission’s version saying its forces had repelled two attacks by gunmen.
A senior EU official has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the prolonged and deadly war in South Sudan, calling on the sides involved in the conflict to reach a compromise deal.