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 month.

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 attack on the country’s capital, court officials said.

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 of an international warrant for his arrest.

A spokeswoman for the international peacekeeping force in Darfur says gunmen have fired on a patrol, killing one peacekeeper.

Sudan’s president said Monday he wants all international aid groups to leave the country within a year, leaving humanitarian relief efforts to Sudanese organizations.

Three foreign aid workers abducted in Sudan’s lawless Darfur region were released unharmed on Saturday, three days after their capture at gunpoint led international aid groups to question how they can continue to work in the area.

Three foreign aid workers kidnapped in Sudan’s lawless Darfur region have been freed and arrived at an airport there, said the aid group spokesman and members of the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force.

Officials from the joint U.N.-African Union peackeeping force in Darfur say the kidnapped foreign aid workers have been released.

Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman says three kidnapped foreign aid workers in Darfur have not been released.

The Italian foreign ministry said Friday that three foreign aid workers being held hostage in Darfur had been released but representatives for their aid organization could not confirm that they had been freed.