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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.
Two refugees who managed to escape from a ravaged village torn apart by the Sudanese civil war in 1987 are graduating from Ohio State this month.
“Among the Mission’s mandated activities, and among the efforts of the UN in Darfur, none is as important as those aimed at achieving a comprehensive political solution to end Darfur’s marginalization and enable its rightful representation in the national political process”, Edmond Mulet, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, told the Security Council today.
Nigerian soccer player Stephen Worgu, who was sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan after being convicted of drunk driving, said on Monday he would move to Europe if he got a suitable offer.
Discontented young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Discontent young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work around the world next year, with Sudan and its troubled Darfur region most in need and Afghanistan rising to second.
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.
A judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court has denied a request by military prosecutors to expand their case against a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan's Islamic law into the spotlight.
TORIT, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - An ancient tradition of community governance in Southern Sudan could encourage peace-building among warring communities, say researchers.
A Darfur gang which says it kidnapped three French aid workers in Chad and the Central African Republic threatened on Monday to kill the trio unless Paris negotiates directly with them, a spokesman for the shadowy group said.
Prolonged starvation left a 12-year-old Honolulu girl so emaciated that she resembled someone "from Darfur or a concentration camp in World War II," a prosecutor said in court yesterday. The child's parents, Melvin and Denise Wright, were sentenced to life in prison for attempting to starve their daughter to death in 2007, and Senior Deputy Prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado said he will ask the Hawai ...
A Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an "indecent" knee-length skirt, her lawyer said on Saturday.
I just listened to U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell's press conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the other day. Given the...
December 4, 2009: Last year, alarmed at how vulnerable their peacekeepers were without helicopters, Ireland hurriedly leased two Mi-8 helicopters from a Ukrainian firm, for use in Chad (where a battalion of Irish were serving along the Sudan border).
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