Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flooded Tahrir Square and towns across Egypt on Tuesday in the biggest show of defiance to Hosni Mubarak.
South Sudan won the majority it needs from a landmark vote to become the world’s newest state, preliminary figures showed on Thursday.
South Sudan has won the majority it needs to become the world’s newest state with just 60% of results declared from a vote, preliminary figures show.
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/ 30 December 2010
Sudan will withdraw from Darfur peace talks in Doha and organise its own negotiations if no accord with the rebels is reached soon.
Fighting between the army and Darfur rebel groups is intensifying ahead of a referendum on southern independence that could change the map of Sudan.
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/ 18 October 2010
The United Nations has not yet decided whether to send more troops to the tense border between north and south Sudan.
Fears of renewed conflict haunt the run-up to a southern referendum in January that analysts expect will partition Sudan.
Sudan’s Nubian Desert, about 500km north-east of Khartoum, draws thousands of fortune seekers, equipped with water barrels and enough food for weeks.
A referendum on south Sudan’s independence will be derailed unless the country’s electoral commission swiftly resolves a row, a leader has warned.
Media censorship and repression have made a comeback in Sudan since the re-election in April of President Omar al-Bashir, say independent papers say.
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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/ 7 September 2009
A Sudanese woman journalist was on Monday spared a whipping for wearing trousers, but a court instead fined Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein $200.
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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.
Sudanese authorities were on Saturday trying to establish contact with kidnappers who snatched two foreign aid workers from their offices in Darfur.
Researchers from some 60 countries will try to better understand the Earth’s poles in 2007 and the effect of climate change as part of the first "International Polar Year" since the 1950s. The scientific effort, unlike previous undertakings, will be marked by the spectre of global warming and transformed by collaboration with Inuits living in the Arctic.