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AP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 11:13 am ET
Turkey said Sunday it will welcome Sudan's leader even though he has been indicted for orchestrating crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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Fox News - Sun Nov 8, 11:28 am ET
Turkey says it will welcome Sudan's leader even though he has been indicted for orchestrating crimes against humanity in Darfur.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 12:59 pm ET
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, facing an international arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Darfur, has pulled out of a summit in Istanbul, the Anatolia news agency reported Sunday.
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Fontana Herald News - Tue Nov 10, 12:05 am ET
In an attempt to raise awareness and money to defeat what many observers have called a “genocide” in Darfur, a region in Sudan, dozens of celebrities and professional poker players gathered at San Manuel Indian Bingo and Casino in Highland on Oct. 29 to participate at the Ante Up for Africa Poker Tournament.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 9, 11:41 am ET
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir has made a big show of defying a global arrest warrant against him, but in fact it has greatly curtailed his travel, as shown by his scrapping of trip to Istanbul.
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IRIN - Tue Nov 10, 7:30 am ET
NAIROBI, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Armed groups in Sudan's Darfur region have continued to violate a UN arms embargo as well as international humanitarian and human rights law, a new report by a UN panel of experts has said.
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Voice of America - Mon Nov 9, 10:16 am ET
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has canceled a planned visit to Turkey to attend a summit of the Islamic conference in Istanbul.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sun Nov 8, 2:46 pm ET
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Sunday -- a trip that the European Union had objected to because of his indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) .
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 14 minutes ago
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that a French staff member had been abducted by several armed men in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan and its war-ravaged Darfur region.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 4:20 pm ET
Two Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based firm were linked to video surveillance devices sold to Sudan and used in unmanned drones in Darfur in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, a U.N. report said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Nov 9, 8:34 am ET
Istanbul - The aborted visit to Turkey by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has renewed questions whether Ankara's push to reengage with the Middle East is coming at the expense of its traditional alliance with the west. For a country like Turkey, w...
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The Huffington Post - 2 hours 45 minutes ago
By Julia Fromholz Three weeks ago, the Obama administration announced its comprehensive policy toward Sudan, relying on both incentives and pressures to move that country...
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UPI - Mon Nov 9, 8:59 am ET
JERUSALEM, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would rather meet with the president of Sudan, indicted of war crimes, than with Israel's prime minister.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sun Nov 8, 2:49 pm ET
Istanbul - Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, has cancelled a scheduled visit to Turkey, Turkish media reported Sunday. Al-Bashir had intended to attend an economic s...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 6, 12:25 pm ET
Turkey on Friday rebuffed a European Union call to reconsider its decision to host Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, who is wanted for alleged war crimes in Darfur, saying it had no plans to arrest him.