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/ 7 December 2009
Girls and boys in south Sudan do not need bogeyman scare stories to make them behave: the child snatchers are real.
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/ 30 November 2009
The US and other world powers should impose sanctions on members of the Sudanese government for refusing to end violence in Darfur and south Sudan.
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/ 24 November 2009
The UN secretary general says peacekeepers in Darfur are facing increasing threats from fighting between government forces and rebels.
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/ 8 November 2009
The Sudanese government and rebel groups in Darfur refuse to abandon the military option and are increasingly violating a UN arms embargo.
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/ 29 October 2009
African leaders meet in Nigeria on Thursday to discuss an AU report on ways to resolve the six-year-long conflict in Sudan’s Darfur province.
A leading international rights watchdog on Tuesday urged Sudan to rein in its forces in Darfur.
Sudan’s Darfur region is no longer in a state of war, the head of the area’s peacekeeping force said as he ended his tour of duty.
Sudan has accused Chad of launching air raids on Darfur, an area believed to be the base of Chad opposition rebels, state media reported.
Negotiations with the kidnappers of two aid workers in Darfur are progressing well, and officials have established regular contact with the women.
An AU panel led by former SA president Thabo Mbeki on Friday backed an international court’s indictment of Sudanese officials for war crimes.
Botswana has distanced itself from a decision to ignore the International Criminal Court order to extradite Sudan’s President Omar al-Bhashir.
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir on Monday denounced moves to prosecute him for war crimes as an "infringement" on his country’s sovereignty.
The ICC said on Tuesday it was looking closely at charges child soldiers have been used by militias in Sudan’s Darfur region.
Darfur rebels on Sunday seized the town of Umm Baru near the border with neighbouring Chad from Sudanese soldiers, the UN-African Union Mission said.
Sudan’s top official in North Darfur on Monday accused Chad of sending troops into his territory to fight alongside Darfur rebels.
The UN Security Council is heading to Africa for a series of meetings and visits focusing on the continent’s hotspots.
Sudan’s government and Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement resumed peace talks on Wednesday in Qatar.
The Darfur war has gone from intense fighting in 2004 when tens of thousands were killed to ”a low-intensity conflict” with about 150 deaths a month.
A Sudanese court sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death on Sunday for a 2008 attack on Khartoum.
Sudanese authorities on Monday executed nine men found guilty in the 2006 murder of a Sudanese newspaper editor, state media said.
The UN chief confronted Sudan’s president on Monday with demands to allow the return of aid groups to Darfur — and was met with a defiant response.
Up to 650 000 people in Darfur have been left without access to full healthcare, writes Xan Rice.
Sudan is ready to expel foreign ambassadors "if they exceed their diplomatic mission", President Omar al-Bashir was quoted as saying on Thursday.
Sudan will no longer need any international NGOs in war-ravaged Darfur in a year’s time, President Omar al-Bashir said on Monday.
Three foreign aid workers abducted in Darfur were released unharmed on Saturday, three days after their capture at gunpoint.
The United Nations will try to fill life-threatening gaps left by Sudan’s expulsion of more than half the aid workers in Darfur.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir flew into Darfur on Sunday to rally supporters in defiance of criticism for his shutdown of aid agencies.
President Omar al-Bashir is to travel to Darfur on Sunday, in his first visit since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest.
African leaders should support a bid to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Desmond Tutu wrote in a New York Times editorial on Tuesday.
The ICC will announce on Wednesday whether it will issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Bashir for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
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/ 21 February 2009
Western governments are on a collision course with Africa, China and Russia over Sudan’s president.
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/ 19 February 2009
Sudan’s army on Thursday denied accusations it attacked a Darfur rebel group a day after the country signed a goodwill agreement with the movement.