BBC
What you need to know 4 May 2012 Last updated at 12:47 ET Only 10 months after South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan, the two countries could be on the brink of all-out conflict. The crisis started in April, after months of border skirmishes,...
Mail and Guardian
Sudan and South Sudan said they would cease hostilities to honour a UN deadline that passed Friday after weeks of bitter border clashes that sparked fears of full scale conflict...However, Aguer said Sudanese artillery had bombarded the south's...
BBC
Malawi's new President Joyce Banda has said she does not want Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, accused of war crimes, to attend a summit in July. She says she fears the "economic implications" if Mr Bashir attends the African Union meeting in Malawi.
The Guardian
Children carry their family's belongings as they go to Yida refugee camp in South Kordofan. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters Children face increasing risk of death, injury and recruitment by armed groups in an upsurge of fighting between Sudan and...
Fox News
South Sudan South Sudan's military spokesman says Sudanese aircraft dropped 10 bombs in an oil-rich region near a military base south of the shared border...Philip Aguer said Friday that the bombs were dropped late Thursday afternoon. He said two...
Africa Headlines
Nuba Civilians Suffer Indiscriminate Bombing, Severe Hunger 4 May 2012 press release The Sudanese government forces are conducting indiscriminate bombings and abuses against civilians in the Nuba Mountains area of Southern Kordofan, Human Rights...