UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on ...
US envoy Scott Gration will return to Khartoum and Darfur this week as part of US diplomatic efforts to ease tensions in the ...
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that a French staff member had been abducted by several armed men in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan and its war-ravaged Darfur region. Laurent Maurice, an agronomist, was snatched at around 9:00 pm ...
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has made a big show of defying a global arrest warrant against him, but in fact it has greatly curtailed his travel, as shown by his scrapping of trip to Istanbul. Beshir has derived pleasure from cocking a ...
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on Monday threatened to attack any election officials that came into their territory, underlining the challenges facing the country's first multi-party poll in 24 years. The insurgent Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) gave its warning ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based firm were linked to video surveillance devices sold to Sudan and used in unmanned drones in Darfur in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, a U.N. report said. The 94-page report ...
Millions of people in South Sudan and Darfur face dire and worsening health conditions and a severe shortage of care, the World Health Organisation warned Thursday. WHO funding for health care in Darfur is also set to run out within weeks, with ...
Survivors of the Darfur conflict will no longer be deported from Britain, the government said Tuesday, after concerns about a deterioration in conditions in the Sudanese capital. Asylum seekers will have the right to remain in Britain for up to five years, ...
US-based Carter Center says Sudanese authorities obstructing its monitors ahead of key vote Permit delays, lack of funds and security intimidation are obstructing international and local observers from monitoring registration for Sudan's first ever nationwide elections, former President Jimmy Carter's foundation said ...
The US-based Carter Centre, which has been charged with monitoring preparations for Sudanese elections next April, criticised the Khartoum authorities on Tuesday for impeding poll observers. The Carter Centre "expressed concerns about the obstacles facing election observers, including delays in finalising their ...
Due to be held in April, the ballot comes at a crucial time for Sudan. The president faces an international arrest warrant for alleged crimes in the troubled western region of Darfur and tensions remain between the Khartoum government and the semi-autonomous, ...
African leaders on Thursday adopted proposals on how to resolve a six-year conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, which include the creation of a hybrid court to try perpetrators of atrocities in the province. The conflict has claimed up to 300,000 lives and ...
