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The joint African Union-United Nations mission assisting in restoring peace and stability in Darfur has called on one of the major rebel groups in the Sudanese region to stop impeding its work, while deploring the harassment and detention of its personnel.
Designer rag dolls, the concept couldn't sound more frivolous. But dolls made by top fashion designers such as Armani and Prada are helping to fund a vaccination programme in war-torn Darfur.
Hundreds of cases of kala azar (also known as visceral leishmaniasis), a parasitic disease transmitted by the sand fly, have been reported in Southern Sudan in the past month, aid workers and doctors have said.
THE growing disenchantment with the implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) portends grave danger for the unity of Sudan, unless the situation is quickly redressed.
The long-held policy of one united Sudan seems to be crumbling.
The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) calls on the Sudan Liberation Movement/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) to desist from impeding the work of UNAMID in Darfur.
The Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have renewed their offensive against residents in Moyo District.
Human Rights First urges the Obama Administration to take immediate and firm action in response to a new investigative report issued by experts monitoring the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan. The report, released late yesterday, reveals ongoing and systematic abuses against civilians in Darfur and provides detailed evidence of violations of the embargo and related Security Council resolutions ...
Turkey should not allow President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, an accused war criminal, to attend a conference in Istanbul, and should arrest him if he sets foot in Turkey, Human Rights Watch said today.
A report released on November 5, 2009 by the United Nations Panel of Experts on Sudan reveals continuing human rights violations in Darfur and underscores the urgent need to reform Sudan's repressive national security law, Human Rights Watch said today.
Sudan has started registering voters for presidential, legislative and regional elections, but officials in the south and international observers say the process has begun on a flawed note.
The United Nations today hailed the rescue of 28 children who had been abducted in southern Sudan's Jonglei state, and urged that all those still being held be released immediately.
Since its establishment in 2002 to prosecute suspects of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and the crime of aggression, the International Criminal Court has indicted about 14 people.
Ugandan traders are set to hold a peaceful demonstration to rebuke the recurrent cases of harassment in South Sudan.
The government of South Sudan has threatened to boycott next year's presidential elections over rigging claims by the North.
The United Nations has begun to parachute food aid into isolated areas of conflict-ridden southern Sudan with the aim of reaching more than 155,000 people cut off from road access by heavy rainfall, the World Food Programme (WFP) announced today.
The top United Nations envoy to Sudan has praised the disarming, demobilization and reintegration so far this year of over 15,000 former combatants from the African nation's north-south civil war.
SECURITY was yesterday beefed up in Koboko town as tension increased among the Sudanese community following an inter-tribal clash that started on Monday night.
Below is one in a series of postings and updates by U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration on happenings in U.S.-Sudan Policy.
In a statement released today, The Carter Center noted continued progress in Sudan's electoral process, including voter registration, which began Nov. 1, but expressed concerns about the obstacles facing election observers, including delays in finalizing their accreditation procedures and delays in election preparations, as well as continued reports of harassment of political party and civil ...
Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home Office late yesterday states as follows:
National Association of Seadogs (NAS) aka Pirates Confraternity, Cross River State chapter has called on the African Union (AU) to hand-over Al-Bashir of Sudan to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), in The Hague, Switzerland, for trial over his war-crime records and murderous disposition to the helpless people of Darfur.
The Government of Southern Sudan yesterday intensified calls for seccession, warning that the unity achieved through the signing of Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the North had failed.
Tensions are rising in Sudan as the country prepares for elections in 2010 and a subsequent referendum over whether the people of South Sudan want to break away and become an independent state.
The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has participated in a reconciliation ceremony in the north of the region that is aimed at halting a spate of recent inter-tribal clashes that have killed at least two dozen people.
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