Sudan President Omar al-Bashir said he will close a pipeline that carries oil from South Sudan if Juba continues to support rebels in its soil. There has been heavy fighting between Sudanese troops and rebels in the border area of Southern Kordofan since Sunday. Khartoum says the South Sudanese government is supporting the fighters. South [...]
Omar al-Bashir Arrives For Talks in South Sudan
April 12, 2013 | Posted by
Sudan President Omar al-Bashir is visiting South Sudan today amid tight security . He heads a large delegation including the ministers of defense, interior and foreign affairs, and several high-ranking government officials. His visit is in response to an invitation from South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir who visited Khartoum last October. The two presidents are [...]
Sudan Frees 7 Political Prisoners in First Wave of Amnesty
April 2, 2013 | Posted by
Sudanese authorities have freed the first seven political prisoners under a presidential amnesty, party officials said. The prisoners were freed on Tuesday, a day after President Omar al-Bashir said all political prisoners would be released. The six men and a woman are all members of the country’s opposition political alliance, said Farouk Abu Issa, who [...]
United States, Sudan’s Relations Tell the Tale of Decades of Deception
March 27, 2013 | Posted by
Diplomatic relations between United States and the Sudan were as normal as they could be following Sudan’s independence in 1956. The only time they ties were severed was in 1967 – the result of the war between Egypt and Israel. Relations were once again restored in 1972, but have steadily deteriorated since June 1989. So [...]
Darfur Still a Challenge For UN Peacekeepers 10 Years After Sudan Conflict Began
February 27, 2013 | Posted by
The world may have tired of the civil war in Sudan’s Darfur but for Fatima there is no escape from its painful legacy, a decade after fighting began. “I remember the day my village was burned by Janjaweed and they killed my husband and my eldest son,” says the 47-year-old woman who has spent 10 [...]
New Pyramids Discovered in Egypt and Sudan
February 24, 2013 | Posted by
You’d think archaeologists would have found all the pyramids of Africa by now, but two recent discoveries show there’s a lot more to be uncovered. A team of archaeologists working in Luxor, Egypt, have just announced they’ve discovered the pyramid of Khay, a powerful vizier of the Pharaoh Ramses II (ruled 1279-1212 B.C.). The pyramid [...]
Sudan Signs Ceasefire Pact With Darfur Rebels
February 12, 2013 | Posted by
The government of Sudan and one of the main rebel factions in Darfur have signed a ceasefire agreement, the United Nations-African Union mediator announced today. “This is a major breakthrough in the road towards a comprehensive and lasting peace accord in Darfur,” said Aichatou Mindaoudou, who is also the Acting Joint Special Representative in the [...]
Plans to Topple Sudan Govt Gain Momentum
February 2, 2013 | Posted by
Kampala — Yousef al-Koda, leader of the Islamic Wasat (Central) Party, signed the New Dawn charter in Kampala, joining rebel groups and other political parties who had previously endorsed the document. Malik Agar, head of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) and al-Koda released a joint statement on Thursday confirming the information from Kampala, Uganda’s capital, [...]
Sudan, South Sudan Try to Resolve Conflicts to Get Oil Flowing
January 6, 2013 | Posted by
It appears that Sudan and South Sudan may finally have reached agreement over their border disputes to start oil flowing again in South Sudan. Sudan and South Sudan have been engaged in conflict for so long that after South Sudan was granted its independence in 2011, the two sides seemed unable to resolve the many [...]
Iranian Warships Visit Sudan After Israeli Military Strike
October 30, 2012 | Posted by
Israel’s rocky relationship with Iran took yet another step towards a possible military confrontation on Monday evening with the arrival of two Iranian warships to the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum. The arrival of the Iranian Navy’s helicopter carrier Kharg and its destroyer, Admiral Shahid Naqdi, on Sudan’s Red Sea coast raises questions over strengthening [...]
