Sudan News

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 9, 2012 - Russia and China, two veto-wielding permanent members of the Security Council described as key arms suppliers to the embattled regime in Syria, are now accused of supplying weapons and fuelling an ongoing conflict in another military hotspot: Sudan.

The political history of the 20th century can be written as the biographies of six men: Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Zedong, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.

The United Nations hopes to cut one billion dollars off its peacekeeping budget this year as it seeks to close or shrink many missions, a top UN official said Wednesday.

New York, Feb 8 2012 1:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomed today the inauguration of the Darfur Regional Authority, a body intended to stimulate development and facilitate peace in the war-torn western region of Sudan.

Juba-Khartoum - Rebel groups fighting South Sudan's government have bolstered their ranks through the forced recruitment of southerners living in Khartoum, according to a senior official in Juba, a self-styled rebel leader, and a man who escaped a pressgang in Sudan's capital.

Across the Darfur region of western Sudan, female workers weighed down by heavy buckets are a common sight on building sites.

Omar al-Bashir, right, the president of Sudan, and Salva Kiir, the president of South Sudan, at Juba airport on in 2010.

El Fasher - About two million people displaced by conflict in Sudan's Darfur should go home, President Omar al-Bashir, who has been indicted for alleged war crimes in the conflict, said on Wednesday.

Well, my one-year South Sudan journey is underway! After 10 days of training at the Canadian Police College in Ottawa, we were bussed to Montreal where we flew to Amsterdam on Jan.

QNB Group has been rated the Middle East and North Africa regions most valued banking brand in a survey done by The Banker magazine, an affiliate publication of The Financial Times.

A South Sudanese journalist covering a session of the country's National Assembly yesterday was removed and later allegedly assaulted by security guards, according to news reports.

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war between the two countries during an interview with state TV, in Khartoum, February 3, 2012.

Sudanese rebel forces released 29 Chinese workers kidnapped ten days ago in the main oil-producing state of South Kordofan, where the army has been fighting insurgents for seven months, Sudan's foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

A relative of one of the detainees told Radio Dabanga 'security services launched a crackdown on a number of known people in the region starting at 9:00 a.m. ending two hours later.' Three retired teachers named as Muhammed Adam Jadeed, Abdullah Mahmoud Muhammed and Adam Fadil Murdi were detained along with a merchant called Amer Salih Mahdi, and ... (more)

I am really excited about 2012, and what the future holds for Uganda as a nation.

The vultures are circling around Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir. He's faced problems before, of course, but a perfect storm of resistance and discontent brewing in and out of his country is the most serious threat to his rule yet.

Juba - 16-year old Nyayan Giet lies helpless on a metallic bed in a maternity ward at Walgak Primary Health Care Center as she quietly stares at at roof with no ceiling.

Sudan rebels "seeking way" to hand over abducted Chinese Sat, Feb 4 2012 BEIJING, Feb 4 - Sudanese rebels said they are looking for ways to hand over 29 Chinese workers held in the border state of South Kordofan, Chinese state media said, as Sudan's government confirmed the death of one worker in a firefight.

When the people of South Sudan celebrated the birth of their country last year, they didn't know that by that act, they were waking up a 74-year-old-man somewhere in France out of his well-earned retirement.

The General Assembly today admitted the Republic of South Sudan as the 193rd member of the United Nations, welcoming the newly independent country to the community of nations.