Khartoum :: Sudan
| 3 months ago
The head of the UN mission in Sudan on Thursday urged rival troops from north and south to withdraw fully from a flashpoint oil region where fighting recently threatened to reignite civil war. Clashes in Abyei last May between ex-foes, the armed forces...
Tags: Sudan, peace process, Abyei
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 3 months ago
Williamson reports, has called the violence in Darfur "genocide." Noureddine Mezni said 8,192 soldiers and 1,723 police were on the ground in Darfur -- an increase on recent months but still far below even half the projected total of 19,500 soldiers and...
Tags: sudan, US & Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces, UN-African Union, UNAMID, darfur rebels, Abyei, Richard Williamson, U.S, Khartoum, Agwai
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 3 months ago
Established in 1998, the court prosecutes only those accused of the gravest crimes, according to its mandate under a treaty joined by 106 countries. Last month, for example, the court's chief prosecutor sought an arrest warrant against Sudanese President...
Tags: sudan, Sudanese Islamic Movement, Darfur, Omar al-Bashir ICC, Khartoum, islamization movement, Abyei, West Africa, Chad
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 4 months ago
More than a month after the signing after the signing of a roadmap to end dispute over Abyei and the return of the displaced, tens of thousands of civilians are still unable to return to their home, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
Tags: human rights, Abyei
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 4 months ago
2 Juba, Sudan: South Sudan's army said on Saturday it had finished pulling out of the oil-rich Abyei area where southern troops clashed with Khartoum's forces in May, but accused the northern army of foot-dragging. "We have pulled out.
Tags: troops, South Sudan, Abyei
Khartoum :: Sudan
| 4 months ago
Soldiers from the Sudan People's Liberation Army today shot and wounded a U.N. military observer and a northern Sudanese army monitor at Agor area, southern of Abyei...The SAF spokesperson, Osman Mohamed Al-Aghbash, said the observer who is from Benin...
Tags: Abyei, Sudan, U.N.
Jūbā :: Sudan
| 4 months ago
Rival troops from north and south Sudan are withdrawing from the contested trouble-spot of Abyei but traded barbs on Friday over the departure required under a blueprint to restore peace. Major General Daniel Parnyang told reporters on Thursday, accusing...
Tags: Abyei, Sudan
Jūbā :: Sudan
| 5 months ago
Sudan's north and south armies have begun to withdraw their forces from the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, officials said on Friday, after missing an end-June deadline agreed to by the former foes. A 2005 north-south landmark peace deal ended Africa's...
Tags: South Sudan, Abyei
Umm Durmān :: Sudan
| 5 months ago
Security Council asked the United Nations on Tuesday to investigate the actions of U.N. peacekeepers during recent deadly clashes in a disputed oil-rich region of southern Sudan...U.N. force, whose job it is to ensure that the north and south are complying...
Tags: UN Security Council, Sudan, Abyei, U.N., UN WFP, council asked
Jūbā :: Sudan
| 5 months ago
The dispute concerns the ownership of the oil-rich Abyei area. The government in Khartoum and officials in the south both claim it as their own. Heavy fighting there last month left nearly 90 people dead and forced some 50,000 people to flee their homes.
Tags: Southern Sudan, Sudan Armed Forces, international court, Salva Kiir Mayadrit, rich abyei, The Hague, Juba, vice president, Abyei, Salva Kiir Mayardit
