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Sun-Sentinel - Sat Dec 5, 10:49 am ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 3:54 pm ET
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.
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INO News - Mon Dec 7, 7:26 pm ET
(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.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 5:44 pm ET
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."
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CNN - Tue Dec 8, 3:36 pm ET
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?
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CNN - Wed Dec 9, 2:44 am ET
The children of this dusty village rarely see cars or trucks, but they fashion toy airplanes out of mud with paper propellers that turn in a hot, dry wind. It's what they know.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 1:33 pm ET
Two Rwandan peacekeepers were shot dead and one was wounded in Sudan's Darfur region on Saturday, the second attack on their contingent in 24 hours, the force said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 2:17 pm ET
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the killing of five Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region. Unknown gunmen attacked the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Friday and Saturday, resulti...
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Bloomberg - Mon Dec 7, 1:18 am ET
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sudanese police arrested Pagan Amum, secretary-general of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, at a protest rally in the capital Khartoum, the Southern party’s spokesman Yen Mathew said by phone today.
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International Herald Tribune - Sun Dec 6, 2:03 am ET
Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in two attacks on the international peacekeeping force in the Darfur region of Sudan, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Dec 5, 8:10 am ET
A Rwandan peacekeeper in Sudan has died of his wounds after an attack by gunmen in Darfur, raising to three the number of soldiers killed in the incident, a senior peacekeeping official said Saturday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:39 pm ET
Southern protesters torched an office of Sudan's ruling party after Khartoum police arrested three leaders and dozens of demonstrators on Monday in a crackdown against a pro-reform rally.
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Amnesty International - Tue Dec 8, 4:06 am ET
Amnesty International has strongly condemned a violent crackdown by Sudanese security forces on political protests in Khartoum on Monday.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 4:44 am ET
Sudanese police arrested three senior figures from the south's ruling party and dozens of protesters on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a pro-reform protest, witnesses said.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 4:32 pm ET
Two Rwandan peacekeepers were shot dead and three wounded in an ambush by unidentified gunmen near a market in Sudan's Darfur region Friday, the peacekeeping force said.