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South Sudan voted overwhelmingly to declare its independence in final results of a referendum made public on Monday, with a total of 98,83%.
Hundreds of Sudanese packed into a hall in Khartoum late on Thursday for the country’s first public debate on independent rule for south.
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Confusion, delays and charges of fraud marked the start of Sudan’s first multi-party elections in a quarter-century.
With voters hunkered down for hours on benches or sheltering under trees from the baking sun, Sudan’s elections got off to an often chaotic start.
South Sudan’s main party said on Tuesday it would boycott elections in most states in northern Sudan, in a further blow to the poll.
Sudan’s former rebels launched their campaign on Sunday for the nation’s first multiparty elections in 24 years.
Two kidnapped aid workers from the Irish agency Goal were released on Sunday in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region after more than 100 days in captivity.
South Sudan’s president has blamed the military in the north for an escalation in violence in his semi-autonomous region, an official said on Monday.
It will take weeks to deploy more peacekeepers to Darfur because of the difficulties of operating in the remote region, the force commander says.
Sudan’s north and south armies have not fully withdrawn from the disputed oil-rich Abyei region as called for under a plan aimed at defusing tensions.
The UN on Thursday raised concerns that Sudanese anti-terrorism courts which condemned 30 Darfur rebels to death did not meet international standards.
Two Sudanese courts sentenced 22 more Darfur rebels to death by hanging on Thursday for their involvement in a raid on the capital in May.
A Darfur rebel faction that has a pact with Sudan’s government accused the army on Friday of bombing a village this week.
Darfur’s new chief mediator, Djibril Bassole, made his first visit to Sudan on Sunday as he begins his uphill task of reigniting stalled peace talks.
Sudanese opposition parties warned on Monday that an international arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir would destabilise the country.
African leaders on Monday pushed Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe to open talks with the opposition after his controversial re-election.
The UN has so far found 89 bodies in the disputed oil-rich Abyei region of Sudan from fighting that erupted last month, a UN official said on Monday.
Sudan on Wednesday urged the international community to list the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) as a terrorist group, after its lightning weekend assault on the…
