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A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
The United States' special envoy to Sudan reluctantly agreed Thursday that he is negotiating with a government that is accused of carrying out genocide in Darfur in western Sudan.
A former top United Nations investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a 5-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region. Enrico Carisch, a Swiss national who until October led a U.N. panel looking into violations of the embargo, contrasted the efforts with those of the Bush administration, noting the previous ...
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan voiced concern on Thursday about rising ethnic violence in its southern region and said Washington would step up efforts to help curb fighting ahead of nationwide elections next year.
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has named his special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, as new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Ban's office said Thursday on its website.
President Barack Obama's administration Thursday defended a new policy of engagement with Sudan in the face of withering attacks from lawmakers who said Washington is placating war criminals.
With less than five months before national elections, leaders of Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) said the 2005 Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement is on the brink of collapse.
A military judge dealt the Pentagon a double-barreled blow Thursday, rebuffing a bid to include al Qaeda 's 1992-96 founding era in a Sudanese captive's war crimes case and separately ordering the government to put on a show-cause hearing Jan. 6.
Sudanese opposition parties and former rebel groups from the south could field a single challenger to Omar al-Beshir in next year's presidential elections, senior politicians said on Wednesday.
KASSALA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) - Eastern Sudan hosts more than 66,000 registered Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the early years of Eritrea's war of independence against Ethiopia. These days, Eritrea's policy of indefinite military conscription, coupled with drought and poor economic opportunities, prompt some 1,800 people to cross into Sudan every month, according ...
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed the Enough...
Sudan needs to redouble efforts to register voters ahead of its first elections in 24 years, international observers have said, amid denunciations of "irregularities" and even calls for a boycott.
New York - Sudan's warring parties have begun a new round of talks, but they lack conviction for an agreement in the six-year conflict, a UN official said Monday. The talks in Doha were attended by representatives from all communities in Darfur, the ...
To mark the Nov. 20 anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, 220 clergy representing five Christian and four Jewish denominations signed a petition urging President Barack Obama to bring about the arrest of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and bring him to a Nuremberg trial of his own.
December 4, 2009: The Nuba Mountains lie in central Sudan, which puts the territory along a fault line between the national government (north Sudan) and the Government of South Sudan (GOSS, south Sudan).
Armed with a new law, military prosecutors sought Wednesday to expand the war crimes case against an accused Osama bin Laden bodyguard to cover the years of the Clinton administration.
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