Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Tahrir Square and towns across Egypt on Tuesday in the biggest show of defiance to Hosni Mubarak.
South Sudan won the majority it needs from a landmark vote to become the world’s newest state, preliminary figures showed on Thursday.
South Sudan has won the majority it needs to become the world’s newest state with just 60% of results declared from a vote, preliminary figures show.
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/ 30 December 2010
Sudan will withdraw from Darfur peace talks in Doha and organise its own negotiations if no accord with the rebels is reached soon.
Fighting between the army and Darfur rebel groups is intensifying ahead of a referendum on southern independence that could change the map of Sudan.
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/ 18 October 2010
The United Nations has not yet decided whether to send more troops to the tense border between north and south Sudan.
Fears of renewed conflict haunt the run-up to a southern referendum in January that analysts expect will partition Sudan.
Sudan’s Nubian Desert, about 500km north-east of Khartoum, draws thousands of fortune seekers, equipped with water barrels and enough food for weeks.
A referendum on south Sudan’s independence will be derailed unless the country’s electoral commission swiftly resolves a row, a leader has warned.
Media censorship and repression have made a comeback in Sudan since the re-election in April of President Omar al-Bashir, say independent papers say.