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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.
Election officials from war-ravaged Sudan are on a cross-country voter registration campaign. For the first time in more than two decades, Sudanese refugees will have the chance to vote in a presidential election of their home country.
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 ...
Gunmen kill five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission says.
The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The second attack took place at Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur, where the UNAMID troops were providing water to local civilians.
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.
Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for...
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.
CAIRO (AP) — A spokesman for the peacekeeping force in Darfur says gunmen have killed three Rwandan soldiers in an...
It is one of the grim paradoxes of climate change that nations on the front line of global warming are among those with the least political clout at the United Nations conference in Copenhagen.
Flying high above the dry, sweeping plains of southern Sudan, Paul Elkan is a man on a mission.
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.
After fleeing his Sudanese home and moving across the world, Big East play can't seem too intimidating to Ater Majok. Majok, a 6-foot-11, 233-pound freshman on the Connecticut basketball team, has had many stops along the way to landing in Storrs to play for legendary coach Jim Calhoun.
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.
U.S. Department of State Launches Open Government Initiative Washington, DC December 9, 2009 The Department of State is releasing unprecedented new information about conflicts in Africa, making it possible to analyze sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence. This work represents only the beginning of an ongoing commitment across all ...
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.
