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 stage.”

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, the peacekeeping chief in the Sudanese region said Monday.

French and British negotiators failed at talks this week to persuade Sudan to allow expelled aid groups back into Darfur, officials said Thursday.

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 Sudan, a lawyer said Tuesday.

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 the potential for instability in the region.

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 warrant for his arrest.

An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide.

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.

The Sudanese president has arrived in Saudi Arabia for a Muslim pilgrimage that will take him to Islam’s holy city of Mecca.