Washington — The U.S. Treasury Department is permitting technology companies to export online services such as instant messaging, e-mail and Web browsing to Iran, Sudan and Cuba to help people commu...

Campaigning in Sudan Focuses on Unity and Development A South Sudan-based media rights watchdog says journalists there are facing increasing intimidation and harassment before landmark national electi...

CAIRO — Sudan will continue peace talks with the most powerful Darfur rebel group beyond Monday's deadline for an agreement. Sudanese presidential adviser Mustafa Osman Ismail says the gove...

In this edition of UN Plaza, I speak with Erin Weir of Refugees International about her new report on civilian protection in UN Peacekeeping.

How can UN peacekeeping do a better job of protecting civlians in harm's way? Find out in this edition of UN Plaza, in which I speak with Erin Weir of Refugees International about her new report on civilian protection in UN Peacekeeping. Enjoy!

 

AFP - The Sudanese army on Monday denied reports that the feared leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebel group has found refuge in the western region of Darfur.

The U.S. Senate has passed a bill with wide bipartisan support aimed at curbing atrocities in Uganda and Sudan committed by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a vicious rebel group that has terrorized eastern Africa for more than two decades and whose depredations are spreading to Africa's Great Lakes region.

By Peter Fabricius Foreign Editor After a break caused by illness, former president Thabo Mbeki is expected to return on Monday to fraught negotiations to try to ensure that Sudan's first democrat...

The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) on Sunday denied accusations over its involvement in granting contracts for printing some of Sudan's elections ballots inside the country."UNMIS regret...

Released French aid worker Olivier Frappe from Triangle aid organisation smiles after a medical check in Sudan's capital Khartoum, March 14, 2010. Two French aid workers kidnapped in the Central Afric...

AFP - Overshadowed by unrest in the south and war in Darfur, Sudan's neglected and impoverished east rumbles with discontent ahead of next month's multiparty polls, the country's first since 1986.

AFP - Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France's government said.

A handout picture from UNMIS shows internally displaced persons (IDP) waiting for the distribution of aid during a visit by UN humanitarian chief John Holmes in the town of Akobo in southern Sudan, 8 ...

Several political groups, citing unresolved problems, urge postponement of April elections.

(Reuters) - Lam Akol, the sole challenger to south Sudan's incumbent president Salva Kiir, launched his campaign in the region's capital on Saturday, promising an end to corruption if he wins April's ...

Reuters - Lam Akol, the sole challenger to south Sudan's incumbent president Salva Kiir, launched his campaign in the region's capital Saturday, promising an end to corruption if he wins April's election.

From the flat Nour Osman Nour Bush occupies on the 29th floor of 10 Red Road, he has plenty of time to gaze on the sweeping panorama across the rooftops of Glasgow to the Trossachs beyond. Bu...

AP - A South African university is training Southern Sudan government leaders in international law, security and other affairs of state as the region prepares for a 2011 independence referendum, university officials said.

(Reuters) - Sudan on Thursday inaugurated a railway linking the north and south for the first time since decades of civil war ripped Africa's largest country apart.

AFP - The United States on Thursday highlighted flagrant human rights abuses in 2009 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Nigeria and Sudan, three conflict-ridden African countries.

The Enough Project confirms that a contingent of the deadly Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, has taken refuge in areas of south Darfur, Sudan, controlled by the Government of Sudan. The possibility of rekindled collaboration between LRA leader Joseph Kony and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir—both wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court, or ICC—should alarm policymakers and demands urgent international investigation and response.