The International Criminal Court’s decision to accuse Sudan President Omar al-Bashir of genocide will not solve the problems of Darfur, the AU said.
Darfur’s Justice and Equality Movement rebels said they clashed with Sudan’s army on Monday and Tuesday.
Armed men killed three Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan’s Darfur region on Monday.
Sudan must relax a near blanket ban on travel to remote parts of South Darfur to let aid groups reach areas hit by a resurgence of violence.
Nearly 600 people died in rebel and tribal fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region in May, United Nations officials said on Monday.
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir, the only sitting head of state wanted for war crimes, will be sworn in on Thursday.
Clashes between rival tribes have claimed 107 lives since March in Darfur, the UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan said.
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.
Four South African peacekeepers with the joint UN-African Union mission who had been held in Darfur since April 11 were freed on Monday.
Four South African peacekeepers who were kidnapped in Darfur over a week ago will be released after election results are out.
Four SA peacekeepers from the joint UN-AU mission who were kidnapped this week in Darfur are "in good health", the mission said on Friday.
No ransom demands had been made for four South African peacekeepers kidnapped in Sudan, the UNAMID in Darfur said on Wedesday.
Four South African peacekeepers have been kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region, in the largest single abduction of foreigners in the war-torn region.
The United States has urged Sudan to immediately lift restrictions on political parties.
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.
US ambassador Susan Rice warned on Thursday that "blatant disregard" of a UN arms embargo in Darfur are undermining peace efforts.
Darfur’s strongest rebel group on Wednesday threatened to walk out of new peace talks with Sudan’s government.
Hundreds of civilians are feared to have died in a surge of fighting between the Sudanese army and rebels in Darfur, a UN source said on Monday.
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/ 25 February 2010
A Darfur rebel group has accused the Sudanese army of attacking its positions on the same day that the president declared the Darfur war over.
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/ 25 February 2010
"Darfur is now at peace," Sudan President Omar al-Bashir said on Wednesday of the seven-year conflict that devastated the region.
Sudan and Darfur’s main rebel group signed a ceasefire agreement on Tuesday.
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/ 23 February 2010
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said a ceasefire to be signed by Khartoum and a rebel group marks the "start of the end" of the Darfur conflict.
Sudan’s former rebels launched their campaign on Sunday for the nation’s first multiparty elections in 24 years.
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/ 5 February 2010
AU says a decision by the ICC to consider adding genocide charges to an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir harms the peace process in Sudan.
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/ 3 February 2010
A Darfur rebel group has hailed a court’s decision to order a review of the dropping of genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
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/ 22 January 2010
Nearly 80% of the 300 000 conflict-related deaths in Darfur were due to diseases like diarrhoea, not violence, Belgian scientists said on Friday.
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/ 21 January 2010
Darfur rebels on Wednesday condemned a death sentence on two of its members by a Khartoum court, saying it endangered the peace process.
On Saturday, there will be exactly a year left to prevent the return of a conflict that was once the longest-running in Africa.
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/ 18 December 2009
Election observers in Sudan said on Friday they were gravely concerned about government crackdowns on opposition rallies.
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/ 17 December 2009
Sudan is heading towards ”violent break-up” due to the lack of implementation of peace deals, the International Crisis Group warned on Thursday.
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/ 15 December 2009
A France-Africa summit will be held in France instead of Egypt after Paris made clear it did not want Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to attend.
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/ 13 December 2009
The two main political parties in Sudan’s north and south reached agreement on Sunday on democratic reforms.