Sudan

Sudanese police used teargas and batons to disperse a crowd of students who had gathered in late December to protest in support of villagers displaced by the Merowe Dam project on the... 2011-12-30

The leader of the National Consensus Forces, a grouping of the main Sudanese opposition parties, has warned that Sudan could be the next Arab country to see a popular uprising. Farouk... 2011-11-17

President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has said that his government will go ahead with plans to adopt a new constitution based on Islamic law. Sudan's population is almost entirely Muslim... 2011-10-21

Fighting has resumed in the state of South Kordofan which lies on the border separating Sudan and newly formed South Sudan, between armed opposition groups and the Sudanese army. The... 2011-09-26

Sudan has become one of the first sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries to recognise the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC) of Libya as the legitimate government of that country.... 2011-08-26

The United Nations Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights, Kyung-wha Kang has said that thorough investigations were needed into the violence that has raged in Abeyi and Southern Kordofan... 2011-06-24

South Sudanese president Salva Kiir said in late May that a northern Sudanese incursion into the disputed Abeyi region would not lead to a return to conflict nor would it derail the... 2011-05-26