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The army announced Monday it was ready to “receive and prepare” volunteer fighters, after Abdel Fattah al-Burhan last week urged Sudanese “youth and all those able to defend” to join the military.
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Protests broke out in areas of war-torn Darfur, Blue Nile states and the capital Khartoum with demonstrators burning tyres and blocking roads
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One South African peacekeeper was killed and four wounded when a convoy they were escorting came under fire in Sudan’s Darfur region.
The defence force rejected reports that South African National Defence Force troops in Darfur were threatened to prevent the arrest of Omar al-Bashir.
Gas-rich Qatar says it will contribute to the Darfur Development Strategy, which aims to help the war-devastated region become more self-reliant.
The UN’s World Food Programme says about 20 000 people have been displaced by fresh unrest in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Seven peacekeepers were killed and 17 wounded when they came under heavy fire from gunmen in Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region on Saturday.
The search for about 100 workers believed to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region has ended, says a miner.
The economic recovery of Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur needs about $6-billion, a top official has said, appealing for international support.
A French former fireman and a circus performer have been sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to smuggle 103 children out of Chad.
Rebels in Sudan’s Darfur have claimed that they seized a district capital just days after taking control of a major town.
Serious human rights abuses have risen in the last six months in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region, Human Rights Watch has said.
Catholic Relief Services fears it will have to shut its West Darfur food programme at the end of the month unless Khartoum lifts a ban.
Sudanese security forces arrested Sudan’s top Islamist opposition leader after he called for a Tunisia-style uprising in the country, his family says.
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/ 18 December 2010
Clashes between the Sudanese army and former rebels who signed a peace treaty have forced the displacement of more than 12 000 people.
Khartoum has committed breaches of an arms embargo over Sudan’s Darfur region and China has done little to ensure its weaponry is not used there.
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/ 22 October 2010
Beijing dismisses UN report alleging that Chinese ammunition was sent to Darfur and used in attack on peacekeepers.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon thanked Rwanda President Paul Kagame on Sunday for keeping peacekeeping troops in Sudan.
Global leaders are voicing mounting concerns over votes that could force the break-up of Africa’s biggest nation, Sudan.
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/ 5 September 2010
Gunmen shot dead six people and injured 33 in clashes at a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region on Saturday, peacekeepers said.
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/ 3 September 2010
A Darfur rebel group said on Friday that the Sudanese army had launched a major offensive against territory under its control, killing 74 people.
Sudan’s army has killed more than 300 from Darfur’s rebel Justice and Equality Movement in recent clashes and 75 of its own soldiers also died.
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) expressed regret on Thursday after Sudan moved to expel two of the agency’s officials from Darfur.