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Sudanese officials who deny and deceive the world about crimes committed in Sudan's western Darfur region might face criminal charges, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday.
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seeking help from Sudan's president to free two members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who have been held hostage for more than 100 days.
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor reported Friday to the U.N. Security Council that violence continues in Darfur and that the Sudanese president and his government are not cooperating with investigators.
Sudan will never comply with a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hand over President Omar al-Bashir to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
Amnesty International today strongly condemned a violent crackdown by Sudanese security forces on protestors gathered outside parliament in Khartoum and said it received reports that those arrested had been tortured while detained
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Two Rwandan peacekeepers were killed today by gunmen in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, bringing the number of peacekeepers killed since yesterday to five, the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping mission said.
A former Darfur rebel group said on Tuesday it captured three gunmen who killed five Rwandan peacekeepers in attacks in the restive province last week.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sudanese police released senior officials from the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, a junior partner in the government, following their arrest today before an unauthorized demonstration.
The U.N. chief phoned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity, for the "sole purpose of an urgent humanitarian matter," the international body said Monday.
CAIRO (AP) — A pair of attacks in Sudan's western Darfur (dar-FOOR') region have killed five peacekeeping troops.
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Two Rwandan peacekeepers were killed and three injured in Sudan’s western region of Darfur in an attack today by unidentified gunmen, the United Nations and African Union Peacekeeping mission said.
CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday, marking a swift upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.
The U.N. and a U.S. advocacy group warned that the detention of three senior southern Sudanese politicians during a crackdown Monday on pro-reform protesters in Khartoum could undermine the country's upcoming elections and its fragile north-south peace deal.
(RTTNews) - Thousands of people took to the streets in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum on Monday, demonstrating against the arrests of three senior officials from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), a coalition partner in the Sudanese power-sharing government.
The United States on Tuesday condemned political violence and arrests in Sudan in the wake of unrest in the troubled African country, and urged Khartoum to "allow freedom of expression and peaceful demonstrations."
With production levels of a half-million barrels of oil a day and rising, Sudan's oil should be a blessing for its people, but is it a curse?
