AFP - Senior MPs from north and south Sudan are heading for Canada this weekend to learn from Quebec's independence referendums, officials said Friday, as the African state prepares to vote on southern secession.
Source: United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) El Fasher, 30 July 2010 – Thousands of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have gathered around UNAMID's Community Policing Centre (CPC) outside Kalma IDP camp in South Darfur, following
The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that a Russian helicopter pilot who was missing in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region has been freed. Mi-8 helicopter commander Yevgeny Mostovshchikov was seized by an armed tribal group on Monday. The group
AFP - The UN Security Council on Friday extended by a year the mandate of a joint UN-African Union force in strife-torn Darfur, stressing the need to protect civilians and ensure safe humanitarian access.
AFP - Thousands of southern Sudanese gathered at the grave of their first president John Garang on Friday in memory of those killed in a 22-year war with the north, six months before an independence vote.
[30/يوليو/2010] SANA'A, July 30 (Saba)- The Sudanese Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Kamal al-Deen Ba-Bakr arrived on Friday in Sana'a to participate in the 10th ministerial meeting of the Indian Ocean Rim-Association for Regional Cooperation
Khartoum, July 29 (AFP) The Russian helicopter pilot who went missing while on a mission in Sudan's Darfur region was found and returned to his peacekeepers' base today, a UN official said.
The AU reiterated its call for the prosecution of Sudanese President Omar El Bashir to be deferred, as well as for Article 16 of the Rome Statute to be amended in order to enable other UN bodies to request the suspension of the ICC prosecutions in case
Sudan was looking for investors to pump a total of $20 billion into the industry, which according to its master sugar plan could increase sugar production to between 10-14 million tonnes a year by 2020, said Mulhim Eltayeb, manager of Kenana Sugar
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