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Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.
Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein said Tuesday she had donned a full Islamic veil to sneak out of Sudan and travel to France, two months after she was freed from jail for wearing trousers.
The Sudanese journalist briefly jailed for wearing "indecent trousers" said Wednesday she might not return to her country but instead continue her campaign for women's rights from abroad.
LOS ANGELES — Shareholders at American Funds, among the biggest fund families with $900 billion, have rejected a measure that seeks to screen out investments possibly linked to genocide in Sudan's Darfur region and other international hot spots.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Christian and Jewish clergy from around the country marked the anniversary of the Nuremberg trials last week by sending President Obama a petition urging him to recognize America's "moral responsibility" to arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and bring him to a Nuremberg-style trial for his role in the Darfur genocide.
Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is on the verge of plunging into yet another north/south civil war. International failure to guarantee the key provisions of a linchpin peace agreement means that a renewed war could be the most widespread and destructive in the country's half century of independence.
WASHINGTON (BP)--Efforts by the Sudanese government to hire a U.S. lobbyist have been stopped, according to The Washington Post.
Why Sudan Matters Foreign policy realists sometimes ask how much seemingly marginal states such as Sudan really matter. The answer is that Sudan matters for...
JUBA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - Suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have attacked Nzara region of Southern Sudan at least three times this month, forcing civilians to flee their homes, local officials said.
Kampala - The president of Southern Sudan on Wednesday narrowly avoided becoming the second successive leader of the autonomous region to die in an air crash when a tyre burst on his plane just before take-off at an northern Ugandan airfield. Salva K...
Shareholders at American Funds have rejected a measure that seeks to screen out investments possibly linked to genocide in international hot spots like Sudan's Darfur region.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Unidentified gunmen, many riding on camels, killed 11 people in attacks on two villages in Sudan’s Darfur region, the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping mission said today.
I ntricately beaded wall hangings, hand-stitched pillows and photos of family and friends fill Rosa Yol's living room, reminding her where she's come from. The wall hangings were beaded by women from Yol's homeland of Sudan. The purple pillows came from Egypt, where Yol lived as a refugee for three years. The photos throughout the home are of people from Yol's past and present. read more
Three weeks have passed without news of two kidnapped civilians working for the joint United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur, a UNAMID spokesman said on Tuesday.
Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December.
France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants.
