A day after polls returned President Omar al-Bashir to power, Sudan on Tuesday turned its attention to forging unity in Africa’s largest country.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was headed for a near-certain win on Monday in landmark polls that observers said failed to reach world standards.
Four South African peacekeepers have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the largest single abduction of foreigners in the war-torn region.
Sudan heads to the polls on Sunday for its first multiparty elections in more than two decades.
A key Sudanese presidential hopeful has pulled out of April’s vote, leaving the way clear for a first-round win by President Omar al-Bashir.
It’s hip hop night in Khartoum and the crowd is ready to boogie as the DJ spins his turntable and the rapper from the Darfur belts out lyrics.
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/ 18 November 2009
Thousands of Algerian and Egyptian fans have flocked into Khartoum in Sudan ahead of Wednesday’s make-or-break World Cup qualification play-off.
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/ 31 October 2009
Uganda’s rebel Lord’s Resistance Army are now rumoured to be heading into new terrain in Sudan’s troubled Darfur.
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/ 20 October 2009
The United Nations and international agencies came to Juba after the war, pushing up the price of the little housing that is available.
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/ 3 September 2009
Women and children are being deliberately targeted in ethnic clashes in south Sudan, Médecins sans Frontières said on Thursday.