Khartoum Politics News

International Indictments Stir Angry Debate Mary Kimani 25 November 2009 analysis In July 2008 Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced his intention to prosecute President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan for human rights violations related...

Juba: First Vice President of the Republic and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit today launched a major clean-up initiative in Juba. Salva Kiir was accompanied by the British Ambassador, Dr Rosalind Marsden, Over 16,000 volunteers...

A Sudanese woman who was punished for breaching decency laws by wearing pants has defied a travel ban by coming to France to publicize her new book. Lubna Hussein was arrested in July and convicted of indecency charges in a...

A few months after she was arrested for wearing pants, Lubna Hussein was lounging around her home in a shady, upper-class neighborhood in this capital along the Nile River. It was a hot afternoon, but the 34-year-old Sudanese journalist was...

The White House announced that a ceremony honoring 13 victims of the shooting witnessed by a Ford Hood (Texas, south) will be held next Tuesday with U.S. President Barack Obama, citing a news report Sunday 8/11/2009. Confusion still surrounds the...

Khartoum: The Southern - Southern Dialogue Conference, which is being attended by the leaders of the southern parties, has denounced the detention of Tong Lual Ayat, the leading figure of the United Democratic Party in Aweil town, North Bahral-Ghazal State,...

A meeting of the Forum of the People of Sudan chaired by the Vice - President of the Republic, Ali Osman Mohamed Taha, Wednesday appreciated the level of implementation of development and services' projects in the three states of Darfur....

Unidentified gunmen killed two police officers while they guarding a UN World Food Programme guesthouse in south Darfur state last Thursday. United Nations peacekeeping police officers pose in their new base in El Fasher, Darfur, Sudan, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008...

Khartoum: Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha has registered his name in the electoral register at Constituency No. 40, Riyadh Quarter in Khartoum.

The African Union (AU) high level panel on Darfur wanted to find away out for Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir from the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment, one of the commission members said today in an interview. This week the...