Sudan News

This month the Obama administration agreed to provide military aid to three nations listed by the U.S. State Department as employing child soldiers after granting waivers to avoid a law prohibiting the aid.

President Omar al-Bashir is seeking a US visa allowing him to enter the country to attend the next United Nations General Assembly. President al-Bashir is being sought by the International Criminal Court.

Gunmen ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team on Saturday in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding 17 in the deadliest single attack on the international force in Sudan. The assailants attacked with machine guns and grenades.

A United Nations peacekeeper from Ethiopia was killed when the UN base he was at in Sudan was hit by two shells. It is not yet clear who was behind the attack.

After several days of negotiations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan have not managed to reach an agreement on security arrangements and oil exports.

The UNAMID peacekeeping force claims that rebels have seized the towns of Golo and Rockero in the Jebel Marra region, as fighting rages in several parts of Darfur.

Experts claim that the outbreak of yellow fever currently affecting Sudan is the worst the world has experienced in the past 20 years.

The Sudanese Defense Minister announced that more troops wouls be sent to Sudan’s South Kordofan state, after rebels from the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) claimed on Friday to have killed 21 government soldiers last week.

Khartoum - Sudanese officials say they have captured an Israeli Mossad spy, a vulture. The vulture ostensibly on an espionage mission was found tagged with electronic equipment that carried an inscription "Israel Nature Service" and "Hebrew University, Jerusalem."

Actor George Clooney and a group of genocide scholars in the U.S. have accused Sudan of committing crimes against humanity in Sudan’s South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.