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/ 28 May 2008

Sudan: ‘There is no return to war’

Military leaders and officials from north and south Sudan have agreed there would be ”no return to war” after more than a week of bloody clashes over the disputed oil town of Abyei, a senior northern official said on Tuesday. Tens of thousand of civilians fled Abyei last week during clashes between northern and southern troops.

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/ 18 November 2007

Sudan’s president ‘threatens war’

Former southern rebels on Sunday accused Sudan’s president of ”threatening and calling for war” in speech he gave in honour of a government-allied militia charged with a string of atrocities. Pagan Amum, Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, said he deplored the comments by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.

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/ 4 September 2007

UN chief in Sudan to push peace deal

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon flew in to south Sudan’s capital, Juba, on Tuesday to try to speed implementation of the 2005 peace deal that ended Africa’s longest civil war. Aides said Ban would try to resolve sticking points in the roll-out of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.