Sudan News Archives

The Unity State Community in Juba urged the President of southern Sudan to remove the state Governor saying he failed to wine the confidence of the post-war citizens of the State despite the Governor's several years as a governor." Over three hundred people from Unity State met on Saturday October 24, 2009 at Juba Bridge Hotel to discuss social, ...

" The head of a Sudanese police station in the twin capital city of Omdurman was killed after a gun battle erupted with an armed militia originally from South of the country according to news reports.

Darfur hybrid peacekeeping force urged the Sudanese government to increase its efforts to secure a save release of two civilians staffers abducted since August and other aid workers.

The Sudanese government said on Tuesday the U.S. Envoy to Sudan Scott Gration would never meet the Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir, either in his forthcoming visit to the country Saturday or in the future.

Trapped in Sudan: 11 airmen in an HC-130 'taxi' run. 150 Sudanese soldiers with weapons.

At least 10 people have been killed in a new round of inter-tribal clashes in Darfur, the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force to the war-scarred region of western Sudan reported today.

Sudan's long and bloody civil war, which pitted the government in the north against rebels in the south, could flare up again, warned Bishop Macram Gassis of El Obeid.

Southern Sudan may secede from the Muslim-dominated north of the country in an upcoming referendum because unity has become "unattractive," the south's leader said Monday.

October 21, 2009 - " In the Juba Post newspaper issue number 56, volume 5 of June 13 - 16, 2009 a news article challenging an opinion attributed to me caught me off guard.

" The First Vice President of Sudan and the president of South Sudan Salva Kiir will start on Sunday a two day visit to Egypt, state agency reported.

South Africaa s Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says SA supports prosecution of perpetrators of human rights violations in war torn Darfur including Sudan's President Omar Al Bashir.

" After seven months of vigorous political wrangling, the US administration rolled out its comprehensive policy review of Sudan yet withheld specifics on the carrots and sticks portion of it.

The Sudan People's Liberation Army official spokesman Major General Kuol Deim Kuol, said five people were killed during an attack by Ugandan rebels on a village in Western Bahr-El-Ghazal State.

THE International Committee of the Red Cross says a French employee has been kidnapped in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, near the border with Chad.

" A group of Lord Resistance Army rebels raided two villages in Western Equatoria State, at the village of Kidi at Gangura Payam, killing 2 men, abducting 2 young boys and looting food items and livestock.

A freed Irish aid worker held captive for three months in Darfur said Monday that her captors terrorized her and a Ugandan friend by repeatedly staging their mock executions using live gunfire.

The Government of Japan has decided to grant financial support of $ 10 million to support the organization of general election in Sudan in April next year.

The Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir today issued a decree removing director of the country's National Electricity Corporation Sudan National Electricity Corporation logo Sudan's state media carried a statement by the presidency saying that NEC's chief Makawi Mohamed Awad has been relieved from his duties on orders from Bashir.

" Paulino Matip, in a written statement, alleged that the attack against his guards in Bentiu this month was coordinated at the highest level of the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

Efforts to identify a haemorrhagic disease that has killed four people in a remote corner of Southern Sudan have been thwarted by bad roads made impassable by heavy rainfall, according to officials.

" Students of Juba University, located in Khartoum, clashed with each other Saturday over a political rally.

Juba, Sudan - Sixteen people were killed and several wounded in clashes in south Sudan between forces loyal to an ex-warlord and an oil-rich state governor's guards, military sources said on Saturday.

THE International Criminal Court arrest warrant against the Sudanese leader, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, is a big obstacle to the realisation of peace in Sudan, the country's ambassador to Uganda, Hussein Awad Ali, has said.

South Sudan's president has blamed the military in the north for a major escalation in violence in his semi-autonomous region emerging from decades of civil war, a southern official said on Monday.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi once again reassures his government's full commitment to extend support to ensure lasting peace and security in Sudan.

The threat to boycott Sudan's first elections in two decades was issued in Juba, capital of Southern Sudan, by some 20 political parties, which demanded changes to laws relating to civil liberties, such as press freedom, and democracy JUBA/NAIROBI, 2 October 2009 - A new boycott threat by several political parties in Sudan illustrates how next ...

The White House is pushing back against a profile in the Washington Post of the Obama Administration's Special Envoy for Sudan, Air Force Major General Scott Gration .