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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.
African members of the International Criminal Court will not pull out despite their opposition to its indictment of the Sudanese president.
Sudan and Chad accused each other on Friday of aiding rebels determined to topple their governments as fears grew that a peace deal could collapse.
Sudan’s president rallied thousands of tribesmen in Darfur on Wednesday as he maintained his defiant stance against moves to arrest him for war crimes
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir will be responsible for ”every single death” caused by the expulsion of 13 foreign aid groups from Sudan.
A Sudanese minister said on Tuesday the country had no plans to expel all foreign aid groups.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir flew into Darfur on Sunday to rally supporters in defiance of criticism for his shutdown of aid agencies.
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/ 23 February 2009
The ICC in The Hague will announce on March 4 whether it will issue an arrest warrant for Sudan’s President, Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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/ 3 February 2009
Sudanese planes bombed close to a rebel-held town in Darfur on Monday after the government asked peacekeepers to leave ahead of a planned assault.
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/ 18 October 2008
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday he will present a case for the indictment of some rebel commanders.
The UN on Thursday raised concerns that Sudanese anti-terrorism courts which condemned 30 Darfur rebels to death did not meet international standards.
The UN Security Council renewed the mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur on Thursday in a resolution that Washington criticised.
The International Criminal Court’s possible indictment of Sudan’s president on genocide charges could disrupt the peace process, said a Chinese paper.
The International Criminal Court’s Luis Moreno-Ocampo said on Thursday he intends to proceed with charges against Sudan President Omar al-Bashir.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that he was worried that a Sudanese rebel group active in Darfur region appeared to be using child soldiers.
An international arrest warrant sought against Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir is never going to be implemented, South Africa said on Tuesday.
China expressed ”grave concern” on Tuesday after the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president with genocide in Darfur.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor charged Sudan’s president on Monday with masterminding a campaign of genocide in Darfur.
Sudanese opposition parties warned on Monday that an international arrest warrant for President Omar Hassan al-Bashir would destabilise the country.
The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor looks poised to seek the arrest of Sudan’s president on Monday for alleged war crimes in Darfur.
Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno said on Wednesday he would not meet his Sudanese counterpart for peace talks.
Burned and looted huts stretch as far as the eye can see in Sudan’s oil-rich town of Abyei, now empty of civilians, the United States special envoy to Sudan, Richard Williamson, said on Saturday. Williamson, who toured Abyei on Friday, said he saw ”scorched earth” devastation in the town where heavy fighting last month sent tens of thousands of civilians fleeing.
Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Monday he would launch more attacks on Sudan’s capital Khartoum until the government fell. ”This is just the start of a process and the end is the termination of this regime,” said Ibrahim, whose Justice and Equality Movement attacked Khartoum at the weekend.
Sudan broke off diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday after an attack by Darfur rebels on the capital, Khartoum, that the government said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno. On Saturday, the rebels fought Sudanese troops in a suburb of Khartoum in a bid to seize power, but officials said the attack was defeated.
Sudanese government bombs have hit a primary school and a busy market place in Darfur, killing at least 13 people, including seven children, two aid organisations said on Monday. The Sudanese army has repeatedly denied bombing in the area, which would be a violation of a United Nations Security Council resolution banning all offensive flying.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was due to attend a rescheduled peace accord signing with Chad’s President Idriss Déby Itno on Thursday after failing to show up on Wednesday and telling mediators he had a headache. The mediators hope the non-aggression pact will end years of hostility between Sudan and Chad.
Senegal wants the international community to guarantee a peace accord between Chad and Sudan to end years of conflict between the two feuding neighbours, President Abdoulaye Wade said. The Senegalese leader will host the signing of a peace pact on Wednesday between Chadian President Idriss Déby Itno and Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
Fighting triggered by a rebel assault on Chad’s capital, Ndjamena, last month killed about 700 people, President Idriss Déby Itno said in comments broadcast on Thursday. Rebels opposed to Déby attacked Ndjamena on February 2 and besieged his presidential palace.
China has urged Sudan to do more to stop fighting in Darfur and speed up the arrival of more peacekeepers, Beijing’s envoy on the crisis said of Friday, defending his country as a diplomatic bridge to help end the bloodshed. China has faced widespread criticism that it has not used its stakes in Sudan to press for an end to deadly havoc in the Darfur region.
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/ 27 February 2008
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday that Danes will not be allowed to set foot in his country after Danish newspapers reprinted a satirical cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Protests and rioting erupted in 2006 in Muslim countries around the world when the cartoons first appeared in a Danish daily.
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/ 11 February 2008
Chad said on Monday it would not accept any more refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region and would expel them unless the international community sent them back home or found another country to shelter them. Prime Minister Nouradine Delwa Kassire Coumakoye gave the warning as thousands of fresh Sudanese refugees crossed Chad’s eastern border.
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/ 6 February 2008
Chad’s government is in total control of the country after beating off a rebel offensive, President Idriss Déby Itno said on Wednesday. Making his first public appearance since rebels attacked the capital, Ndjamena, on the weekend, Déby accused the president of neighbouring Sudan of backing the rebel offensive.