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.

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.

Ugandan traders are set to hold a peaceful demonstration to rebuke the recurrent cases of harassment in South Sudan.

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

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.

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.

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.

On 31 October 2009, the UNAMID Rule of Law Prisons Advisory Unit in Collaboration with the GoS Prisons Service organized a visit to the prison institutions in Kabkabbya and Kutum. The purpose of the visit was to conduct technical assessment

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

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

Kenya has taken a step to secure her borders, three weeks after a security threat on the Sudan border led to an exchange of fire with militiamen.

Our focus is on reducing the ongoing dire human consequences of genocide by addressing the ... suffering in the refugee camps, protecting civilians from continuing violence, helping displaced persons return to their homes, ensuring that the militias are disarmed and

Close to 200 Rwanda Defence Forces (RDF) troops from the 49th battalion will be airlifted to Darfur commencing the routine rotation exercise of Rwandan peacekeepers to the conflict-torn Sudanese region.

People living with HIV in Mauritania are voicing their concerns about the suspension of HIV/AIDS funding by the World Bank and the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. They feel powerless in the face of the decisions, of

At the health centre in Dar Naim, a working class neighbourhood of Nouakchott, the building for malnourished children is always full: in rural areas the seasons and crops affect malnutrition levels whereas in the capital this phenomenon remains constant throughout