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- S.Sudan says aims to obtain anti-aircraft missiles
 JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan will soon acquire anti-aircraft missiles to defend its territory against air attacks it says are frequently carried out by warplanes from neighbouring Sudan, the South Sudanese military said on Wednesday. Since South Sudan became the world's newest independent nation in July last year, its government has accused northern neighbour Sudan of continuing aerial bombing raids on South Sudanese territory, a charge routinely denied by Khartoum. ...
- Sudan's Bashir says no S.Sudan oil exports without security
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through its territory unless the two states settle all disputes over border security, President Omar al-Bashir said on Tuesday. Oil, security and frontier disputes ignited border clashes last month and for a while raised fears of full-blown war in one of Africa's most significant oil regions. South Sudan took three quarters of Sudan's oil production when it became independent in July under a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war with Khartoum. ...
- UN warns of South Sudan hunger
More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN warns.
- Sudan's Bashir says no South Sudan oil exports without security
 KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan will not allow South Sudan to export any oil through its territory unless the two states settle all disputes over border security, President Omar al-Bashir said on Tuesday. Oil, security and frontier disputes ignited border clashes last month and for a while raised fears of full-blown war in one of Africa's most significant oil regions. South Sudan took three quarters of Sudan's oil production when it became independent in July under a 2005 peace agreement that ended decades of civil war with Khartoum. ...
- Airlift of South Sudanese from Sudan gets under way
KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - The first group of around 12,000 South Sudanese ordered out of Sudan last month as conflict flared between the two neighbours flew into the southern nation's capital Juba on Monday in an internationally backed humanitarian airlift. They are among hundreds of thousands of Southerners living in Sudan who lost jobs and were left without official residency papers after South Sudan broke away last July to become the world's newest independent state. ...
- South Sudan refugees flown home
The first planeload of refugees stranded for months in a camp in Sudan is flown to South Sudan - among 500,000 who may be forced to leave.
- Two die in mine blast crossing from Egypt to Libya
CAIRO (Reuters) - Two men were killed on Sunday and 29 other people were injured after their convoy that was illegally crossing from Egypt into Libya entered a minefield, a medical source said. Mahmoud Zahran, a Health Ministry official in the northern Egyptian city of Marsa Matrouh, said an Egyptian and a Sudanese man died when their vehicle, which was travelling in a convoy with two others, hit landmines inside Libya. Health officials and Egypt's state news agency said all the injured were Egyptians, except for two Sudanese. Reports had earlier said the two dead were both Egyptian. ...
- VIDEO: UN 'outrage' at Sudan bombing
The United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay says the bombing of territory in South Sudan despite a UN resolution demanding an end to hostilities is an outrage.
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