Sudan’s army has killed a key rebel leader from the Darfur region — three days after anti-government forces began advancing on the capital Khartoum.
A top Darfuri rebel leader says he’s working with other armed groups to topple the Sudanese regime.
Darfur’s Justice and Equality Movement rebels said they clashed with Sudan’s army on Monday and Tuesday.
Two Sudan rebel leaders surrendered to the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday to answer to accusations of war crimes in Darfur.
A Darfur rebel leader was caught in a diplomatic stand-off in Chad’s main airport on Wednesday after authorities refused to let him enter the country.
Sudan signed a three-month ceasefire deal with a second Darfur rebel group on Thursday, a diplomatic source close to the negotiations said.
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.
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.
"Darfur is now at peace," Sudan President Omar al-Bashir said on Wednesday of the seven-year conflict that devastated the region.
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.
Darfur rebels on Wednesday condemned a death sentence on two of its members by a Khartoum court, saying it endangered the peace process.
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.
Darfur rebels said on Monday they clashed with Sudan’s army in the neighbouring oil-producing region of Southern Kordofan.
Darfur rebels have signed an accord with one of Sudan’s main opposition parties, agreeing to push for a new transitional government, both sides say.
Sudan on Wednesday threatened to destroy any Chad forces that invaded its territory.
Sudan’s top official in North Darfur on Monday accused Chad of sending troops into his territory to fight alongside Darfur rebels.
Sudan’s government and Darfur rebel group the Justice and Equality Movement resumed peace talks on Wednesday in Qatar.
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.
A Sudanese court on Wednesday condemned 10 rebels from the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement to death for an attack on Khartoum in 2008.
