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Police in Sudan arrested more than 60 journalists during a protest against media censorship, report the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and news sources. Riot police armed with canes and shields rounded up the journalists outside parliament on 17 November and took them to a police ...
Khartoum has long maintained a studious silence over its suspicions that the Kenyan government was assisting the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA), which governs the semi-autonomous south of Sudan to replenish its armament.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today urged all sides to the Darfur conflict to refrain from hostilities as the United Nations tries to verify "troubling reports" of aerial bombings by Sudanese military forces and renewed fighting in recent days across the war-torn region.
The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is trying to confirm reports received from various sources that Sudanese military planes bombed an area in the war-torn region in recent days.
At least 100 Somali youths have been arrested in the southern Sudan town of jubba those allegedly wanted to pass on to Libya, victims said.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest and detention of about 70 journalists on Monday, as they were demonstrating against the censorship practice and tactics employed by the Sudanese government.
The Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 to end the civil war in Sudan is losing momentum because of slow implementation, the Sudanese bishops have said.
Women marched through the Southern Sudanese town of Bor recently to highlight an important message: "Treat women with respect".
President Isaias Afwerki returned home today concluding a two-day official working visit to Sudan at the invitation of the Sudanese government.
The Sudanese government's announcement of a ceasefire in Darfur would not alone solve a crisis that has lasted nearly six years and left hundreds of thousands of people dead - but it offered a glimmer of hope, analysts said.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the Sudanese Government's declaration today of an immediate ceasefire between its forces and the rebel movements in Darfur and also Khartoum's stated plan to disarm allied militias operating in the war-torn region.
More than 160 Egyptian personnel arrived in Darfur today as part of a large battalion that will boost the strength of the joint United Nations-African Union force deployed earlier this year in an attempt to quell the fighting and humanitarian suffering in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
President Isaias Afwerki, who is in Sudan on a two-day official working visit, held talks last night with Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Beshir. In the meeting, the two sides agreed to take serious steps aimed at further enhancing Eritrean-Sudanese cooperation and speed up the implementation of previously concluded accords.
President Isaias Afwerki, who left for Sudan in the morning hours today on a two-day working visit at the invitation of the Government of Sudan, participated in the closing session of the "Conference of the Sudanese People's Initiative towards Peaceful Resolution of the Darfur Issue."
THE Government of South Sudan (GOSS) will attack the Lord's Resistance Army rebels if Joseph Kony does not sign the final peace agreement by the end of this month.
Unknown armed men have ambushed a peacekeeping patrol with the hybrid United Nations-African Union mission in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan, injuring one of the blue helmets and stealing a vehicle.
With China's 'rise' prompting new questions around the country's strategy and the motivations behind how it conducts its international affairs and foreign policy, Stephen Marks considers the direction the country may take in light of new developments. Dispelling simplistic interpretations of Chinese indifference to human rights and environmental concerns in countries like Sudan and Zimbabwe, the ...
WORKS and transport minister Eng. John Nasasira has launched a sh50b project to upgrade and tarmac the Soroti-Lira road.
Almost unnoticed by the international community, a heavy massacre of innocent civilians is being carried out in Sudan's Western Equatoria state on the DR Congo boarder by the Ugandan Lord Resistance Rebels (LRA), a bishop says.
An African Union fact-finding mission to Darfur, aiming to mend the increasingly fraught relationship between Chad and Sudan, visited the hybrid United Nations-AU operation in the war-torn region today.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission set up to help implement the peace accord that ended the long-running north-south civil war in Sudan has organized conflict management training for joint police units and military battalions in an area beset by conflict earlier this year.
The senior United Nations-African Union envoy Henry Anyidoho met today with an AU fact-finding team that is visiting Darfur as part of a bid to defuse escalating tensions between Sudan and neighbouring Chad.
The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur has received its latest batch of vital equipment and supplies after a convoy made the journey from a logistics base in central Sudan, a UN spokesperson said today.
The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) said in a statement on 5 November 2008 that journalists in Sudan have organized a sit-in and went on a hunger strike from the morning of 4 November until ten o'clock (local time) on 5 November in protest against the censorship of press proofs imposed by intelligence officers in charge of checking newspapers and excluding topics banned by the ...
A delegation from Southern Sudan visited Namibia as part of its Southern African Development Community (SADC) tour to sensitise the region about Southern Sudan's 2011 referendum and Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
