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In almost every bed in Ward Two of Nasir hospital in South Sudan, there lies a patient with a bullet wound.
“I was hit in my leg, when the soldiers started...
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Corline Timon shrugged her AK-47 off her shoulder and held it out in...
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President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, said Wednesday that the Sudanese government is no longer engaging in a...
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Fighting between rival Arab tribes in western Sudan’s oil-rich Kordofan region killed almost 250 people over two days earlier this week, including 75 policemen,...
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Delivering a blow to hopes that he would soon reverse the expulsion of humanitarian aid agencies from Darfur, the Sudanese President Omar al Bashir has renewed his...
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The U.N. Security Council is warning that the 2005 peace agreement that ended two decades of fighting between Sudan’s north and south is at “a critical...
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The war in Darfur is now a “a low-intensity conflict” with 150 deaths a month, down from the intense fighting that killed tens of thousands when it began,...
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AP, Paris
French and British negotiators failed at talks this week to persuade Sudan to allow expelled aid groups back into Darfur, officials said Thursday.
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AP, Richmond
Nearly nine years after 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist attack on the USS Cole, some relatives of the victims are set to receive at least $200,000 each from...
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AP, United Nations
The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that Sudan’s expulsion of 16 aid groups from Darfur has put the lives of more than 1 million people at risk and increased...
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Sudan’s president made his sixth foreign trip since his indictment on charges of war crimes in Darfur, traveling Tuesday to Ethiopia despite the international...
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AP, Addis Ababa
An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide.
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AP, Khartoum
U.S. Senator John Kerry says Sudan has agreed to allow some aid back into Darfur after the Sudanese president expelled more than a dozen aid groups from the region last...
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AP, Khartoum
A Sudanese anti-terrorism court on Wednesday convicted 10 alleged Darfur rebels of waging war and sentenced them to death for their role in last year’s deadly...
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AP, Riyadh
The Sudanese president has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Muslim pilgrimage that will take him to Islam’s holy city of Mecca.
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AP, Washington
The new U.S. special envoy to Sudan is a retired Air Force major-general and an old friend of President Barack Obama.
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Sudan’s president tells supporters in Darfur that no international court nor the U.N. Security Council can touch even “an eyelash” on him in defiance...
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The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the successful handover of peacekeeping duties in Chad and the Central African Republic from the European Union to the...
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A senior administration official says President Barack Obama has chosen retired Air Force Gen. J. Scott Gration to be a special envoy to war-wracked Sudan.
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The outspoken U.N. General Assembly president on Tuesday accused the United States of demonizing Iran’s president and criticized the International Criminal Court...
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