Sudan News

Juba - Five soldiers died when heavy fighting broke out in the main military barracks in war-torn South Sudan's capital Juba, underscoring serious tensions within the national army as it battles a rebel uprising.Fierce gunfire lasting two hours was heard comi...

Khartoum - Almost 40,000 people may have been displaced by militia arson and looting in Sudan's Darfur region, according to new data obtained by AFP on Tuesday.More than 19,000 arrivals have been recorded at two camps for displaced people near the South Darfur st...

Khartoum - Fighting in South Sudan has cut production from the country's lifeline oilfields by about 29 percent, the press secretary to President Salva Kiir said in Khartoum on Sunday."South Sudan is still getting more than 175,000 barrels a day," said Ateny Wek ...

Khartoum - The Sudanese government and rebels opened peace talks in Ethiopia on Thursday amid UN calls for a ceasefire to end three years of fighting that has affected over one million people.The government said it was committed to ending the gruesome violence at...

Khartoum - A Sudanese newspaper which reported on commodity shortages and alleged corruption has been suspended from publishing, its editor said on Sunday.

Malakal - Battles between government troops and rebels raged on Friday in South Sudan, as the UN said child soldiers had joined the more than month-long conflict with atrocities committed on both sides.

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.