Recent News Headlines : Sudan
US LIFTS 20-YEAR ECONOMIC EMBARGO ON SUDAN
Trade and financial sanctions to end after Sudanese government makes efforts to improve regional security... READ MORE›
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO LIFT SOME SANCTIONS AGAINST SUDAN
The United States has extremely limited diplomatic contact with Sudan, although in 2005, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited and met with Bashir in the capital Khartoum... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN REJECTS 4,000 ADDITIONAL UN PEACEKEEPERS
South Sudan has announced it will no longer accept the deployment of an additional 4,000 United Nations peacekeepers, saying the security situation in the county has improved... READ MORE›
"THE OTHER", BY IBN TAYMIYAH
The Wahhabi revived the ideas of Ibn Taymiyah, which allowed an individual or group to ex-communicate anyone who did not follow Islamic law... READ MORE›
IVF HOPED TO SAVE NORTHERN WHITE RHINO FROM EXTINCTION
The world's three last rhinos live in Kenya's Ol Pejeta conservancy and just one of them, ageing Sudan, is male... READ MORE›
HUGGING GURU AMMA 'SHOULD JOIN BONO, MICHAEL D HIGGINS IN A PEACE TASKFORCE'
It could be controversial but he's already won the Nobel peace prize, maybe he could start earning it... READ MORE›
HUGGING GURU AMMA 'SHOULD JOIN BONO AND MICHAEL D HIGGINS IN A PEACE TASKFORCE'
The suggestion of creating a rapid response, diplomatic mission was first mooted by Concern during the World Humanitarian Summit last May... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS OF SOUTH SUDANESE FLEE WAR TO BOOMING UGANDA REFUGEE CAMPS
BIDI BIDI CAMP, UGANDA - I don't want to go back, James Issac declared, just minutes after becoming a refugee... READ MORE›
REPORT: U.N. GAVE ARMS TO SOUTH SUDAN REBELS LATER IMPLICATED IN MASSACRE
The United Nations established a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan in 2011 that has grown to more than 13,000 soldiers and police officers... READ MORE›
OBAMA JUST SAID THE SLAUGHTER IN SOUTH SUDAN IS NOT BEING REPORTED ON. HE'S WRONG.
President Obama said no one is reporting on South Sudan. But that's just not true... READ MORE›
THE WOODEN BRIDGE BETWEEN DEATH AND SAFETY
Nelson Ladu Thomas has twice walked over the small wooden bridge dividing South Sudan and Uganda at an unofficial border crossing known as Busia... READ MORE›
STRIKE OVER FUEL SUBSIDIES QUIETENS KHARTOUM STREETS
Sudanese opposition calls for nationwide strike against fuel subsidy cuts prompt mixed response in the capital... READ MORE›
AIR RALLY FEATURING VINTAGE PLANES REACHES KENYAN CAPITAL
The Vintage Air Rally bills itself as a flying rally across Africa, from Crete to Cape Town, for planes built in the early 20th century... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN ACCEPTS UN PEACEKEEPERS WITH NO CONDITIONS
JUBA, South Sudan AP -- South Sudan's government has accepted with no conditions increase the peacekeeping force in the country as mandated by the U.N... READ MORE›
BRITISH PILOT REPORTED SAFE AFTER DISAPPEARING FROM TRANS-AFRICA VINTAGE PLANE RALLY
All participants in the Vintage Air Rally, including the hitherto missing Maurice Kirk, are currently in Ethiopia's Gambela region... READ MORE›
BRITISH PILOT MISSING ON ETHIOPIA AIR RALLY FLIGHT FOUND SAFE AND WELL
The Vintage Air Rally billed itself as a flying rally across Africa, from Crete to Cape Town, for biplanes built in the early 20th century... READ MORE›
47 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION NOW USE THE INTERNET, STUDY SAYS
Eighty-one percent of the population in developed nations were Internet users, versus just 15.2 percent of the population of the least-developed countries... READ MORE›
U.S. SEEKS SANCTIONS ON SOUTH SUDAN REBEL LEADER, ARMY CHIEF
The Security Council has already imposed sanctions on six South Sudanese commanders three from the government and three from the opposition... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN: US SEEKS ARMS EMBARGO VIA SECURITY COUNCIL
Against this backdrop, the Security Council is starting to discuss this latest proposal for sanctions on South Sudan, she said... READ MORE›
U.S. PROPOSES U.N. ARMS EMBARGO AND SANCTIONS ON SOUTH SUDAN
The United States circulated on Thursday to the 15-member United Nations Security Council a draft resolution to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan and f... READ MORE›
AFRICAN EXODUS FROM ICC MUST BE STOPPED, SAYS KOFI ANNAN
African exodus from ICC must be stopped, says Kofi Annan... READ MORE›
WAVE OF ETHNIC KILLINGS IN SOUTH SUDAN TOWN 'COULD EVOLVE INTO GENOCIDE,' UN WARNS
In this photo taken Monday, Nov. 14, 2016, women stand outside a UN Refugee Agency site distributing soap, blankets, and other items in Yei, in southern South Sudan... READ MORE›
FINDING A TOILET IN CITIES AROUND THE WORLD IS NO EASY TASK
India has the highest number of urban dwellers who do not have access to safe and private toilets - 157 million people... READ MORE›
U.S., IN SHIFT, BACKS ARMS EMBARGO FOR SOUTH SUDAN AS GENOCIDE RISK RISES
The United States helped South Sudan gain independence from Sudan in 2011, after decades of war... READ MORE›
AFTER RUSSIA, WILL PHILIPPINES BE NEXT TO DUMP 'USELESS' INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT?
Russia signed the Rome Statute, the founding treaty of the International Criminal Court ICC, but never ratified it... READ MORE›
ARMS-FLUSH SOUTH SUDAN FACES 'MASS ATROCITIES' RISK PEACEKEEPERS CAN'T PREVENT
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is warning of a very real risk of mass atrocities in South Sudan and that peacekeepers deployed in the war-torn countr... READ MORE›
EGYPT'S MORSI HAS DEATH SENTENCE OVERTURNED
Egypt's court of cassation has overturned the death sentence against the country's deposed president Mohamed Morsi, according to Reuters news agency... READ MORE›
ARAB SPRING COST MORE THAN $600 BILLION WORTH OF GROWTH, U.N. REPORT SAYS
Egyptians wave the national flag and hold up pictures of then-Defense Minister Abdel Fattah al-Sissi at the edges of Cairo's Tahrir square in January 2014... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 17 KILLED IN PROTESTS OVER PRESIDENT IN DR CONGO'S CAPITAL
But the teenage goalkeeper of Gambia's national women's football team never made it to Italy as she planned... READ MORE›
FEARS AFTER KENYA DEPORTS SOUTH SUDAN REBEL SPOKESMAN
South Sudan's Information Minister Michael Makuei said he had no knowledge of the whereabouts of Machar's spokesman... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Sudan
SOUTH AFRICA'S LONG WALK TO DECLINE
Omar al-Bashir who has tormented Sudan for 26 years was an honoured guest of Mr Zuma at an African Union summit in Johannesburg... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA ATTACK: 200 PEOPLE DEAD, 100 CHILDREN MISSING
South Sudanese officials were not immediately available for comment... READ MORE›
'HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN AUSTRALIA?'
'How could this happen in Australia?' Cairns cafe worker responds to customer's racial slur... READ MORE›
THE AMERICAN BOY ARRESTED FOR MAKING A CLOCK MEETS SUDAN'S PRESIDENT, AN ACCUSED WAR CRIMINAL
To make it even more remarkable, Ahmed's father, Mohamed El Hassan Mohamed, has campaigned against Bashir in not one but two presidential elections... READ MORE›
AS SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS WORSENS THERE IS NO MORE COUNTRY
MALAKAL South Sudan In places where the fighting is fiercest no one is even attempting to count the dead... READ MORE›
SUDAN'S PRESIDENT CLAIMS CIA AND MOSSAD 'STAND BEHIND' ISIS AND BOKO HARAM
Please read our Sudan's President has claimed the CIA, America's intelligence agency, and Israel's Mossad are behind the Islamist militant groups Boko Haram and Isis... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICA TO QUIT INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
The document was dated October 19, and signed by Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, South Africa's minister of international relations and cooperation... READ MORE›
THREE MONTHS AGO IT WAS A TINY UGANDAN VILLAGE NOW ITS THE WORLDS FOURTH-LARGEST REFUGEE CAMP
South Sudanese refugees walk through Bidi Bidi Reception Center, northern Uganda, where new arrivals are temporarily hosted before being given plots of land close by... READ MORE›
DROUGHT TAKES TERRIBLE TOLL IN ETHIOPIA
The Ethiopian government has set aside nearly ?130m to deal with the crisis but the UN says a further ?330m is needed... READ MORE›
KENYA WITHDRAWS TROOPS FROM UN MISSION IN SOUTH SUDAN
Continued deployment of Kenyan troops in South Sudan is no longer tenable, the ministry said, saying Kenya would withdraw, immediately its forces there... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN SPENDS BUDGET ON FIGHTING AS PEOPLE STARVE
South Sudan spends budget on fighting as people starve... READ MORE›
U.S. TROOPS HAVE TURNED TO SOME UNSAVORY PARTNERS TO HELP FIND WARLORD JOSEPH KONY
Military camps are located in the Central African Republic, which is still embroiled in the sectarian civil war sparked by the Seleka rebels... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICAN COURT SAID TO BLOCK SUDAN LEADERS DEPARTURE
The International Criminal Court in The Hague had called on South Africa to arrest Mr... READ MORE›
US AIRSTRIKES ON ISIS CAMP IN LIBYA KILL AT LEAST 41
For weeks, America and allied Western officials have mulled a possible air campaign against the Islamic State in Libya, particularly around the town of Surt... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICA 'TO WITHDRAW FROM WAR CRIMES COURT'
South Africa has formally begun the process of withdrawing from the International Criminal Court ICC, accusing it of bias against Africa, media say... READ MORE›
OBAMA IN ETHIOPIA PLANS TO ADDRESS SOUTH SUDAN CONFLICT
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia For President Obama the birth of South Sudan four years ago was the capstone of his Africa policy... READ MORE›
SOUTH AFRICA HIGH COURT SAYS ALLOWING BASHIR TO LEAVE VIOLATED CONSTITUTION
Bashir, who had been in South Africa to attend an African Union meeting with other African leaders, was already halfway to Khartoum, Sudan's capital... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN PLANE CRASH KILLS DOZENS; BABY AMONG SURVIVORS
Ateny Wek Ateny, a press secretary in the South Sudan President's office, said 18 people were aboard the flight 12 South Sudanese passengers and six crew members... READ MORE›
'HUNDREDS' OF S SUDAN BOYS SEIZED
South Sudan strife Hundreds of boys in South Sudan have been kidnapped and forced to become child soldiers, the United Nations children's agency says... READ MORE›
WHAT'S THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE CITY?
Or Paris where hotels restaurants and boutiques cater to almost 50 million tourists a year in the world's most visited city?... READ MORE›
ETHIOPIA DECLARES TWO DAYS OF NATIONAL MOURNING
He also added that Ethiopia's security forces may cross into neighbouring South Sudan to pursue the attackers... READ MORE›
HOTTEST JUNE ON RECORD CONTINUES 14-MONTH GLOBAL HEAT WAVE
Hide Caption 6 of 11 Photos 11 ways climate change affects the world Deforestation - Climate change has not been kind to the world's forests... READ MORE›
QATAR RECALLS ENVOY OVER EGYPT ROW
Qatar had expressed reservations over Egypt's unilateral military action in another Arab League member state and the risk of civilian casualties... READ MORE›
ISIS LEADER IN LIBYA PRESUMED KILLED BY U.S. AIRSTRIKE
The official said the operation began before the Paris attacks and was not related to that event... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN 'BACK TO WAR', SAYS VP RIEK MACHAR'S SPOKESMAN
Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE›
FOUR KILLED TRYING TO STOP ELEPHANT POACHERS IN CONGO
The national park is situated in an unstable region bordering South Sudan and near Uganda, where Uganda's brutal Lord's Resistance Army rebels operate... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN FAMINE WARNING: LIVING ON GRASS AND LEAVES
Four million people in South Sudan are at risk of famine, according to the United Nations... READ MORE›
AS THE WORLD'S NEWEST COUNTRY SLIPPED INTO CHAOS, ITS LEADERS STOLE MILLIONS, REPORT SAYS
The United States is by far and away the largest contributor of foreign aid to the South Sudanese government... READ MORE›
EDITORIAL SOUTH AFRICAS DISGRACEFUL HELP FOR PRESIDENT BASHIR OF SUDAN
Bashir, he apparently felt he could travel safely to Johannesburg to attend an African Union summit meeting because the South African government insisted he had immunity ... READ MORE›
CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD BE TOP FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITY, G7 STUDY SAYS
Climate change should be top foreign policy priority, G7 study says... READ MORE›
Related News Headlines : Sudan
GEORGE CLOONEY-BACKED REPORT: SOUTH SUDAN PRESIDENT PROFITS FROM CIVIL WAR
South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, but plunged into conflict soon after Kiir fired Machar as vice-president in 2013... READ MORE›
US PROPOSES AN EXTRA 4,000 PEACEKEEPERS FOR SOUTH SUDAN
The United States has recommended the United Nations Security Council authorise a force of 4,000 peacekeepers for South Sudan's capital Juba after a recent outbreak of violence... READ MORE›
FOREIGN EVACUEES DESCRIBE VIOLENCE IN SOUTH SUDAN CAPITAL JUBA
Evacuees from South Sudan have been arriving in the Kenyan capital Nairobi following days of violence and tension in Juba... READ MORE›
CEASE-FIRE APPEARS TO HOLD IN SOUTH SUDANS CAPITAL JUBA
JUBA, South Sudan -- After a weekend of sudden bloodshed, an uneasy calm has fallen over South Sudan's capital... READ MORE›
U.N.: 36,000 PEOPLE DISPLACED IN SOUTH SUDAN
UNITED NATIONS AP -- The United Nations says about 36,000 people have been displaced since fighting began in South Sudan last week... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN: IS THE RENEWED VIOLENCE THE RESTART OF CIVIL WAR?
Both Kiir, 64, and Machar, 63, emerged from the 22-year war fought by South Sudan against the government of Sudan in Khartoum... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN CLASHES UPROOT THOUSANDS AS UN CHIEF BAN KI-MOON CALLS FOR ARMS EMBARGO
South Sudan clashes uproot thousands as UN chief Ban Ki-moon calls for arms embargo... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN FEARS RETURN TO CIVIL WAR AS HEAVY FIGHTING ERUPTS ANEW IN JUBA, THOUSANDS FLEE
About 10,000 Juba residents fled neighborhoods where there was fighting, said Jeremiah Young, policy adviser for World Vision in South Sudan... READ MORE›
SOUTH SUDAN CRISIS: RENEWED FIGHTING IN JUBA
INTERACTIVE How far has South Sudan come since independence?... READ MORE›
UN SEEKS END TO SOUTH SUDAN VIOLENCE
Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops supporting President Salva Kiir attacked their positions in the capital, Juba... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS SANCTIONS ON SOUTH SUDAN
The UN Security Council on Tuesday renewed sanctions on South Sudan for another year to support the implementation of a peace agreement in the country... READ MORE›
S SUDAN'S RIEK MACHAR SWORN IN AS FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Swearing ceremony follows Machar's arrival in Juba after UN deal ended his 28-month conflict with President Salva Kiir... READ MORE›