There have been “major and frequent” violations of the U.N. Security Council arms embargo imposed against Sudan in 2005, and 
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice condemned the council’s inaction in the face of continued gender-based violence and military offensives. Rice called on the council to find a consensus to better enforce the sanctions to promote peace and stability in Sudan.
“We know that weapons continue to flow into Darfur, acts of sexual and More … »
NAIROBI, Kenya — Southern Sudan’s leader said Tuesday that a 2011 referendum on his oil-rich region’s independence is more
Sudan's second Vice President Ali Osman Taha, left, and Southern Sudan's leader Salva Kiir right
important to his people than Sudan’s upcoming national election.
The southern Sudanese consider the referendum a major political achievement in a 2005 peace deal that ended a 20-year north-south war and will defend it at any cost, said Salva Kiir, the president of Southern Sudan. More … »
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan’s army on Monday accused Darfur rebels of ambushing U.N.-African Union peacekeepers and said it had taken control of a central rebel stronghold in the restive west of Africa’s largest country.
A force of around 60 joint U.N.-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeepers was ambushed on Friday and held for 24 hours by unidentified armed men in Jabel Marra, which for years has been a rebel- More … »
KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Direct peace talks between Darfur’s main insurgent group and Khartoum will begin in Qatar on March 10 after months of clashes and potracted negotiations, the rebel Justice and Equality Movement said.
But the JEM said April’s legislative and presidential elections should be postponed so the group and the millions suffering in Darfur from a seven-year rebellion could participate.
“If the political will and decision is there we More … »
WASHINGTON—The US Treasury Department on Monday eased sanctions on Cuba, Iran and Sudan to give citizens of those countries 
access to email, instant messaging, social networks and other Internet-based services.
“Today’s action will enable Iranian, Sudanese and Cuban citizens to exercise their most basic rights,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin said.
Lifting the ban on exports of software and services “will More … »
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan said on Monday its army had taken control of the strategic Jebel Marra plateau in the war-torn western
Fighting had been reported between the army and rebels Abdelwahid Nur's Sudan Liberation Army
region of Darfur after fresh fighting between government forces and rebels.
“The Sudanese armed forces are currently in control of all of the Jebel Marra,” military spokesman Sawarmi Khaled Saad told a news conference in Khartoum.
“There are still occasional clashes, which is normal, but they have no More … »
Definitions of genocide are difficult but one thing is clear: the US Congress has no business ruling on the Armenian claim
Marcel Berlins
So the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives has passed a resolution (by 23 votes to 22) that the Turkish killings of Armenians in 1915 amounted to genocide. What business is it of theirs? More … »
KHARTOUM — Clashes between rival Arab tribes in the Darfur region of western Sudan have killed at least 21 people since March 3, a
Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) militants in Jebel Marra in 2005
local official said on Sunday.
Eleven people died in fighting between the Misseriya and Nuwayba tribes that broke out on Wednesday and 10 others were killed in renewed clashes on Saturday, said West Darfur province’s governor, Abu al-Qassim Amam al-Hajj. More … »
KHARTOUM, March 7 (Reuters) – Darfuris helped two U.N.-African Union peacekeepers who had been missing following an ambush 
return safely to their base after almost two days lost in the Sudanese desert, the mission said on Sunday.
A 60-man peacekeeping patrol was ambushed on Friday in the mountainous Jabel Marra area, which the Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Army loyal to Abdel Wahed Mohamed el-Nur says it controls. The group denied any involvement in the attack. More … »
Very sad news from Sudan, as another unfortunate on-field incident leads to the death of a player.
Endurance Idahor - Nigerian Striker Passed Away
By Wael Jabir
Mar 6, 2010 3:55:00 PMDuring today’s Sudanese Premier League match-up between El-Merriekh and Al-Amal, Nigerian-born forward Endurance Idahor was rushed to hospital after a challenge from a fellow player left him on his back, unable to breathe.
Despite the teams’ best efforts to More … »
