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Darfur / Sudan Last Updated     18/11/2009    21:18:00
2010 WC: Antar Yahia sends Algeria to the World Cup
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Antar Yahia's 40th minute volley was all that Algeria n eeded to reach the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa as they edged out their closest rivals Egypt 1-0 in the play off in Khartoum, Sudan, on Wednesday.    18/11/2009   full text...
Sudanese women seek int'l support over repressive laws against them
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Sudanese women Tuesday called on the African human right s system to assist them reform the repressive laws back home in Sudan.    17/11/2009   full text...
UN envoy visits Sudan to assess status of child soldiers
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - UN Special Envoy for Children and Armed Conflict, Radhi ka Coomaraswamy, has embarked on a week-long visit to Sudan, on the invitation o f the government, to assess the status of children, including those serving as ch i ld soldiers.    16/11/2009   full text...
BADEA DG arrives Congo
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Deve lopment in Africa (BADEA), Mr. Abdelaziz Khelef, Tuesday arrived in Brazzaville, capital of the Re public of Congo, on the invitation of the Government of Congo.    10/11/2009   full text...
UNAMID worried over harassment of peacekeepers in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNA MID) on Monday called on the Sudan Liberation Movement/Abdul Wahid (SLA/AW) to d e sist from impeding the work of UNAMID in Darfur.    09/11/2009   full text...
2010 WC/CAN: Benin names 18-man squad against Sudan
Cotonou, Benin (PANA) - Coach of Benin's national football squad Michel Dussuyer , Thursday named an 18-man squad to play against Sudan, as part of the last roun d of the combined 2010 African Cup of Nations (CAN) and World Cup qualifiers.    06/11/2009   full text...
BADEA DG visits Burundi
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Director-General of the Arab Bank for Economic Deve lopment in Africa (BADEA), Mr. Abdelaziz Khelef, was due in Bujumbura Wednesday to attend the Great Lakes S ummit being hosted by Burundi 4-5 Nov.    04/11/2009   full text...
Kenya wants Sudan Peace Agreement implemented
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The full implementation of the South Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will greatly boost efforts aimed at resolving the Darfur p eace process, Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Thursday told a special AU Peace and S ecurity Council Summit, in Abuja, Nigeria.    29/10/2009   full text...
Nigeria gets apology for diplomatic snub
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The United Nations, the African Union and the Sudanese g overnment have apologised to Nigeria over last Sundayâ?s incident, in which an a ircraft conveying Senate President David Mark to Sudan was prevented from landin g .    28/10/2009   full text...
Kibaki, Kiir hold talks ahead of AU Summit
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, at his Harambee House offi ce here, on Tuesday held a consultative meeting with the First Vice President of Sudan and President of Southern Sudan, Salva Kiir.    27/10/2009   full text...
BADEA approves US$61m to finance new projects
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the Arab Bank for Economic De velopment in Africa (BADEA) has approved the financing of a new batch of projects and technical assi stance operations for the benefit of several African countries, for a total amou n t of US$61.320 million.    26/10/2009   full text...
Yar'Adua asked to order Al-Bashir's arrest or.....
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Four civil society organizations on Saturday asked Nige rian President Umaru Yarâ?Adua to use his â?position and leadership to ensure t he immediate arrest of President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan", who is expected to at t end the forthcoming African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council meeting on Dar f ur in Abuja, starting 29 October.    25/10/2009   full text...
UN report says Chad, Sudan tensions affect regional peace
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said that the continuation of tensions between Chad and Sudan has stalled regional peace efforts.    20/10/2009   full text...
US welcomes Chad-Sudan talks
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The US has welcomed the steps being taken by the gove rnments of Chad and Sudan to fully restore their bilateral relations, after a recent visit to Chad b y a Sudanese government delegation.    19/10/2009   full text...
Kenyan military denies 16 soldiers killed in cross-border incursion
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Kenya Army has denied reports that 16 of its troops guarding the border with Southern Sudan were killed on Saturday following an incursion carried out by the ethnic Toposas from Southern Sudan.    17/10/2009   full text...
ICC to begin Darfur war crimes trials
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) is expected to be gin the trial of a Darfur rebel leader, accused of war crimes, in what is expect e d to be the first such trial, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement here F riday.    16/10/2009   full text...
High-level SA delegation visits Al Bashir
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South African Minister of International Relatio ns and Cooperation, Maite Nkoana Mashabane, and Minister in the Presidency Collins Chabane were due to pay a courtesy call o n Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir at the Republican Palace in Khartoum Tuesday.    15/09/2009   full text...
UNAMID in fresh bid to tackle root-causes of Darfur conflict
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union/United Nations Hybrid force for Darf ur (UNAMID) officials have embarked on a comprehensive plan to boost efforts aimed at resolving the conflic t in Darfur, by talking to local civil rights organisations to spread the message of peace among the civilians in the vast reg ion, officials said Monday.    14/09/2009   full text...
UN worried about increasing LRA attacks in Southern Sudan
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary Ge neral and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Ameerah Haq, has expr e ssed grave concern about the increasing number of deaths due to the escalating a t tacks by rebels of the Lordâ?s Resistance Army (LRA) against civilians - mostly women and children - in Southern Sudanâ?s Western and Central Equatoria States.    12/09/2009   full text...
Ghana beats Sudan 2-0 in 2010 World Cup qualifier
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana defeated Sudan 2-0 Sunday in a gr...    06/09/2009   full text...
Rwandan Army General takes over command of Darfur force
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The new Force Commander of the African Union - United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Lieutenant-General Patrick Nyamvumba of Rwan d a, assumed duty on Tuesday.    01/09/2009   full text...
Two UNAMID officials kidnapped in Darfur
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Two officials of the joint UN-African Union peacekeepin g mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were kidnapped on Saturday in the City of Zalingei, according to a UNAMID communiquĂ© here.    30/08/2009   full text...
Two international peacekeepers kidnapped in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two international peacekeepers with the African Union/U nited Nations Hybrid Operations in Darfur (UNAMID) were kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region early Saturday, according to UN AMID spokesman Kemal Saiki.    29/08/2009   full text...
Gaddafi dreams of common â?spaceâ? for Libya, Chad and Sudan
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan leader Mouammar Kadhafi says it is his wish t o see Chad, Libya and Sudan have a common â?spaceâ? of freedom of movement for their people as well as trade and fraternity.    25/08/2009   full text...
Kadhafi sues for peace in Darfur
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader and current chairman of the African Union (AU), Mouammar Kadhafi, has said that Darfur had become a "place of war, insecur i ty, looting and piracy with the attendant refugees and displaced persons." Speaking in Tripoli recently in a meeting with members of the Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), Kadhafi said the problem in Darfur was one of the issu e s, among the many conflicts in Africa, discussed at the special AU summit which w as held in Libya on Monday.    25/08/2009   full text...
196 Gambian soldiers leave for Darfur
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - About 196 officers of the Gambian Armed Forces, led by C ol. Serign Modou Njie, left here on Thursday for a peacekeeping mission in the S u danese region of Darfur.    13/08/2009   full text...
Egypt shows support for Sudan’s Bashir
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has affirmed its support of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Secretary General of the ruling National Democratic Party Safwat Al S h arif told the party’s youth.    02/08/2009   full text...
UN chief frowns at Sudanese indecency trial
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A member of staff of the United Nations (UN) facing 40 l ashes of the cane for “indecent dressing” has received the backing of UN Secreta r y-General Ban Ki-Moon, who has vowed to protect the rights of all UN staff membe r s.    01/08/2009   full text...
UN chief wants Chad, Sudan to foster regional stability
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called on Chad and Sudan to work together to bring stability to the region.    21/07/2009   full text...
Chad denies bombing Sudan
N'Djaména, Chad (PANA) - The Chadian authorities Saturday denied dropping air ra ids on Sudan, PANA reported from here.    18/07/2009   full text...
EU, AU urged to mediate in Chad-Sudan crisis
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) – The Monitoring Committee for Peace and Reconciliation i n Chad has recommended that the European Union and African Union should carry ou t high level mediation talks on the crisis between Chad and Sudan, according to a memorandum made public in the Chadian capital, N'Djamena, on Friday.    18/07/2009   full text...
Senior UN official discusses arms smuggling with Darfur governors
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - UN peacekeeping chief Alain Le Roy met with senior pol iticians and state governors in Sudan's Darfur region Tuesday, where he expresse d convern over the continued arms smuggling.    14/07/2009   full text...
South African govt urged to take stand on Al-Bashir
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa's official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) Tuesday challenged the Minister of International Relations, Maite N koana-Mashabane, to state unequivocally whether or not South Africa will arrest S udanese President Omar Al-Bashir should he visit South Africa.    14/07/2009   full text...
Darfur peacekeeping force expands in strength
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations/African Union joint peacekeeping for ce in Darfur (UNAMID) has reached 69 per cent of its required strength but needs more efforts to complete the deployment of its air personnel, including helicopt e rs and local staff, officials said Sunday.    13/07/2009   full text...
UN envoy pledges to ensure free elections in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations is committed to the delivery of free and fair elections in the Sudan, which would prepare the country for the eventu a l return to democracy after years of civil war in the South.    02/07/2009   full text...
BADEA approves US$55m for new development projects
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the Arab Bank for Economic De velopment in Africa (BADEA) has approved financing totalling US$55.295 million f o r new development projects, the bank said in a statement made available to PANA h ere Monday Out of the total amount, US$53.60 million will be for project loans while US$1.6 95 million was earmarked for technical assistance operations, it said.    29/06/2009   full text...
2010 WC/CAN: Ghana beat Sudan 2-0
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana on Saturday beat Sudan 2-0 in their World Cup/Africa n Cup of Nations Group D qualifying match played in Omdurman, Sudan, to tighten t heir grip at the top of the table.    21/06/2009   full text...
Southern Sudan: Attack on food barges disrupts operations
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - An attack on river barges, carrying World Food Programme (WFP) food in southern Sudan, has caused a serious setback to food distribution to displaced people in the region.    15/06/2009   full text...
Darfur rebel leader pledges ceasefire
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Darfur’s main rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim has pledged to end hostilities in the region, and sign the cessation of hostilities agreemen t with the Sudanese government after nearly six years of fighting in the western r egion.    11/06/2009   full text...
BADEA gives DR Congo US$6m loan for school project
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA ) has given a US$6 million loan to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to hel p finance the rehabilitation of a primary school project in the country, a BADEA s tatement said Tuesday.    09/06/2009   full text...
Qatari mediator says Darfur fighting cripples Doha talks
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The continuing hostilities between the Sudanese army and the rebel movements fighting in Darfur and the mistrust between them is slowing down the peace negotiations underway in Doha, Qatar, chief mediator said on Thur s day.    04/06/2009   full text...
Gaddafi declares commitment to settle Chad-Sudan conflict
Sabrata, Libya (PANA - The Libyan revolutionary leader and incumbent chairman of the Community for the Sahelo-Saharan States (CEN-SAD), Mouammar Gaddafi, has committed himself to finding a lasting solution to the problem between Chad and S udan, the Chadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mahamat Fakki, said on Friday.    30/05/2009   full text...
Tunisia thrashes Sudan 4-0 in soccer friendly
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia's national soccer team thrashed the Sudan 4-0 in a friendly played Thursday in Rades, near Tunis, as part of preparations for th e forth-coming round of matches in the joint 2010 CAN/World Cup qualifiers.    29/05/2009   full text...
Darfur remains volatile after Sudan army base attacks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Darfur peacekeepers reported that relative calm returne d to the northern Darfur town of Umm Baru, where some 65 people were killed in v i cious fighting between the Sudanese soldiers and armed Darfur rebels on Monday.    28/05/2009   full text...
Omar el-Bashir: CICC renews call for justice in Africa
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Some 2,500 civil society groups, under the banner of the ‘Coalition for the International Criminal Court’ (CICC), on Sunday called on Af r ican states “to renew their long-standing commitment to justice” by honoring th e arrest warrant issued against the Sudanese President, Omar el-Bashir, the coali t ion said in a communiqué, received by PANA here.    25/05/2009   full text...
Darfur peacekeepers urge ceasefire over Chad-Sudan fighting
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The fighting near the Chadian-Sudanese border must urg ently stop and the two countries must adhere to an accord they signed recently t o end hostilities against each other, the joint United Nations, African Union chi e f, Rodolphe Adada said here.    21/05/2009   full text...
CAN/WC 2010: Tunisia-Sudan friendly tie postponed
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) -The friendly football tie between Sudan and Tunisia sched uled for 27 May, as part of both teams' preparations for the last round of the j o int 2010 CAN/World Cup qualifiers, has been postponed till 28 May.    19/05/2009   full text...
Chad destroys 7 rebel bases inside Sudan
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Chad's Acting Defence Minister, Adoum Younousmi, on Mon day declared that the Chadian army had destroyed seven rebel bases located some 3 0-40 kilometres inside Sudan, noting that the operation was conducted pursuant t o his country's right to chase rebels.    18/05/2009   full text...
UN peacekeepers condemn rebel attacks against Sudanese forces in Darfur
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union/United Nations Mission in Darfur (UN AMID) Sunday condemned an attack by armed elements against a Sudanese military position in North Darfur .    17/05/2009   full text...
Sudanese President puts death toll from Darfur crisis at 10,000
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has put the total deat h toll from six years of fighting in his country's western Darfur region at far b elow 10,000, as against the over 200,000 figure of those believed to have died i n the crisis.    14/05/2009   full text...
Chad opts for UN mediation to resolve crisis with Sudan
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby has opted for the mediati on of the UN, instead of the African Union (AU), to resolve the crisis between t h e country and Sudan.    14/05/2009   full text...
UN worried over inter-ethnic clashes in Southern Sudan
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations (UN) on Wednesday expressed concern ove r the killing of more than 60 women, children and men in recent clashes between t wo ethnic groups in southern Sudan.    13/05/2009   full text...
HRW challenges AU on ICC warrant against Omar al-Bashir
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Human Rights Watch (HRW) Tuesday urged UN Security Counc il “to challenge those in the African Union who claim that peace efforts in Suda n are being undermined by the ICC warrant to arrest President Omar al-Bashir,” th e rights body said in a communique.    12/05/2009   full text...
Chad threatens to cut relations with Sudan
N'Djamena, Chad (PANA) - Chadian President Idriss Deby has threatened to severe diplomatic relations with Sudan, accusing Khartoum of supporting the attacks in the eastern part of h is country this weekend.    10/05/2009   full text...
UN Security Council condemns renewed military incursion in Chad
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council Friday adopted a presidential stat ement condemning the renewed military incursions in eastern Chad, which it said w as ``coming from outside.    09/05/2009   full text...
UN chief hails Chad-Sudan talks
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcome the peace tal ks between Chad and Sudan aimed at normalising their bilateral relations and urged both countries to make every effort to ease tensions.    04/05/2009   full text...
US calls on Sudan, Chad to stop aiding violence in Darfur
Washington DC, US (PANA) - The US has called on the governments of Sudan and Cha d to join peace talks and to stop all support for cross-border violence in Sudan ' s western Darfur region.    01/05/2009   full text...
Al-Bashir arrives in Addis Ababa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, (PANA) - Despite an arrest warrant issued by the Internat ional Criminal Court (ICC) against him, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has ar r ived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the head of a Sudanese delegation to discuss joint cooperation with high level Ethiopian officials.    21/04/2009   full text...
Rights groups urge Africa to cooperate with ICC over Darfur
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Rights groups, numbering 2,500 from some 150 countries a cross the globe and under the banner of ‘the Coalition for the International Cri m inal Court (CICC)’, have solicited support from African states as the Internatio n al Criminal Court (ICC) seeks to obtain justice for the victims of Darfur crisis , ” the coalition said in a statement received by PANA Wednesday.    25/03/2009   full text...
Sudan President to visit Egypt despite arrest warrant
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Despite an arrest warrant issued against him earlier this month by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague, Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir was scheduled to make a trip to Egypt on Wednesday.    25/03/2009   full text...
Nigerian paper urges Sudanese leader to appear before ICC
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A leading Nigerian newspaper has urged Sudanese Presiden t Omar al-Bashir to appear before the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the H ague to defend himself against charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity.    18/03/2009   full text...
1 killed in ambush of 6 Darfur peacekeepers
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Armed gunmen in Sudan’s Darfur region have attacked sold iers of the United Nations/African Union’s Joint Peacekeeping force (UNAMID), killing one peacekeeper, the mission said in a statement.    18/03/2009   full text...
Egypt shows more support for el-Bashir
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak continued his campaign of support for his embattled Sudanese counterpart Omar el-Bashir over the weekend, sending a message of solidarity to the Sudanese leader, the official MENA news agency reported.    15/03/2009   full text...
Sudanese diplomat denounces Western powers over al-Bashir
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Ambassador of Sudan in Dakar, Khalid Mohamed Farah F riday accused Western powers of being behind the decision of the International C r iminal Court (ICC) to issue a warrant of arrest against Sudanese President Omar a l-Bashir.    06/03/2009   full text...
Egypt calls for delay in al-Bashir's arrest
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt is leading a campaign to suspend the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.    06/03/2009   full text...
Mauritanian NGO hails indictment of Sudan's president al-bashir
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - A Mauritanian NGO, Resistance Initiative of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA), on Thursday hailed the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.    06/03/2009   full text...
Sudanese embassy denounces el-Bashir arrest warrant
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Sudanese embassy in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday den ounced the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) again s t Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir, saying the decision was "unfai r and undermined Sudan's sovereignty".    05/03/2009   full text...
Sudanese embassy in Dakar denounces arrest warrant against el-Bashir
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Sudanese embassy in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday den ounced the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) again s t Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir, saying the decision was "unfai r and undermined Sudan's sovereignty".    05/03/2009   full text...
US supports al-Bashir's indictment
New York, US (PANA) - The United States has expressed its support for the decisi on of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague to indict President Omar al-Bashir and issue a warrant for his arrest over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan's western Darfur region.    05/03/2009   full text...
Sudan pledges to safeguard UN peacekeepers after ICC warrant
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Efforts to end the conflict in Sudan’s western region of Darfur will continue despite the issuance of an arrest warrant against Sudanese leader Omar el-Bashir, the African Union/United Nations Mediator, Djibril Bassol e , said.    04/03/2009   full text...
Massive Sudanese support for President al-Bashir despite ICC decision
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was cheered on by peo ple who lined the streets of the country's largest city of Omdurman Wednesday, s h ortly after the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague t o issue a warrant for his arrest over charges of war crimes and crimes against h u manity.    04/03/2009   full text...
ICC to formally request for el-Bashir's arrest, surrender
New York, US (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon transmit to the government of Sudan a request for the arrest and surrender of Sudanese Pr e sident Omar el-Bashir.    04/03/2009   full text...
Sudanese demonstrate against al-Bashir's arrest warrant
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - A massive demonstration has broken out in Khartoum, Suda n, against Wednesday's decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague to issue an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.    04/03/2009   full text...
BREAKING NEWS: ICC issues arrest warrant for Sudanese President
New York, US (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague Wednes day issued a warrant of arrest for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who has bee n indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity over the long- drawn war in t he country's Western Darfur region.    04/03/2009   full text...
Senegalese troops bolster Darfur peacekeeping force
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An additional 150 Senegalese peacekeepers arrived Wednesday in El Fasher, North Darfur, to bring the total number of members in the Senegalese infantry battalion in the troubled region to 834, force commanders said.    25/02/2009   full text...
Sudanese President seeks Egypt’s help
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is looking to Egypt for help in delaying the plan to issue an arrest warrant for him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over his government's actions in the troubled Darfur region.    24/02/2009   full text...
Int'l Court to decide on Sudan's el-Bashir next week
New York, US (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) says it will issue a decision on Sudan's President Omar el-Bashir on Wednesday next week.    23/02/2009   full text...
UN happy with peace moves in Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed an agreement signed on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM).    18/02/2009   full text...
UN happy with peace moves in Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed an agreement signed on Tuesday in Doha, Qatar, between the Sudanese government and the Justi c e and Equality Movement (JEM).    18/02/2009   full text...
Champions League: Atraco fc 0, El Merreikh 0
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's football club Atraco was eliminated from the CAF Champions League on Sunday, after it played goalless in Kigali with Sudanese club El Merreikh, in the second leg tie of the competition's preliminary round.    16/02/2009   full text...
UN tasks member states on UN/AU Darfur mission
New York, US (PANA) - The UN has again called on member states to provide the `` critical logistical equipment'' needed to empower the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (U N AMID).    12/02/2009   full text...
2 Sudanese migrants shot by Egyptian border guards
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Two Sudanese migrants were shot by border police and a thi rd was detained after they were spotted along the border with Israel, an Egyptia n security source in Sinai Peninsula told PANA.    12/02/2009   full text...
2 Sudanese migrants shot by Egyptian border guards
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Two Sudanese migrants were shot by border police and a thi rd was detained after they were spotted along the border with Israel, an Egyptia n security source in Sinai Peninsula told PANA.    12/02/2009   full text...
Darfur rebels attack UN helicopter on relief mission
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Joint Peacekeeping Mission in Darfur said its helicopter came under fire on Monday as it distributed food aid in Dar f ur days after fierce fighting in South Darfur showed signs of easing.    09/02/2009   full text...
Sudan warns ICC on el-Bashir arrest warrant
New York, US (PANA) - Sudan has warned that it will use ``all options'' availabl e if the International Criminal Court (ICC) were to issue an arrest warrant for P resident Omar el-Bashir.    06/02/2009   full text...
Crisis in southern Darfur is threatening civilians - UN official
New York, US (PANA) - The recent deterioration of security in the Darfur region of Sudan is increasingly threatening civilian safety, a top United Nations offic i al has said.    04/02/2009   full text...
African leaders drop bid to block Bashir's ICC arrest (RECALLED, PLEASE IGNORE)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African leaders Wednesday made an about-turn in their attempt to rescue Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir from an impending arrest by the International Criminal Court (ICC), after they agreed to withdraw a plan to seek a delay of the arrest warrant.    04/02/2009   full text...
UN chief mediator seeks joint peace front in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Darfur rebels should form a united front in their negotiations with the Sudanese government for a political agreement to end the conflict in western Sudan, chief UN mediator Djibril Bassole said here Tuesday.    03/02/2009   full text...
UN chief insists Sudanese leader must face war crime charges
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has asked the Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir to cooperate fully with the Internat i onal Criminal Court (ICC) decision on the war crimes charges on Darfur and urged him to immediately guarantee civilian protection in Darfur..    02/02/2009   full text...
Sudan backs AU draft resolution on Darfur war crime trials
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sudan will support a draft resolution currently before African heads of state for the suspension of the arrest warrant against President Omar el-Bashir in favour of an African Union-led justice system.    01/02/2009   full text...
Sudan scoffs at ICC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A Sudanese envoy, Mr Akuei Malwal, said here on Sunday that his government would ratify and implement all African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) resolutions to end the crisis in the country's Western Darfur region, but will defy current attempts by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to arrest President Omar el-Bashir.    01/02/2009   full text...
Sudan reaffirms commitment for continental government
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir on Friday reasserted the commitment of his country to the immediate setting up of an African federal government.    30/01/2009   full text...
AU Commission top official supports negotiated peace in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) will press for a negotiated peace settlement in the troubled Darfur region in western Sudan, rather than back the warrants of arrest slapped on the Sudanese President Hassan el-Bashir and others accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC), the AU Commission (AUC) Deputy Chairperson, Mr Erastus Mwencha, said in an exclusive interview with PANA here Friday.    30/01/2009   full text...
Fresh fighting erupts in Darfur, situation remains tense
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Fresh fighting erupted in Darfur early Monday with repo rts of heavy fighting near the United Nations Joint Peacekeeping Force for Darfu r (UNAMID), which confirmed reports of heavy shelling, mortar fire and sounds of j et fighters around the region.    26/01/2009   full text...
African states bolster Darfur peacekeeping force
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - African states will contribute additional troops to the United Nations, African Union Hybrid force in Darfur (UNAMID) in the coming mon t hs, with an advance party expected from Tanzania, the force said Wednesday.    21/01/2009   full text...
Darfur lawmakers demonstrate outside UNAMID against ICC verdict
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The State Legislative Council in South Darfur held a pe aceful demonstration Tuesday outside UNAMID's sector headquarters in Nyala, the s tate capital, against a possible International Criminal Court's (ICC) indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir.    20/01/2009   full text...
Malian footballer Lanssané Fané signed on by El-Merrieck of Sudan
Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian footballer Lanssana Fané has signed a four-year con tract to play for Sudanese club of El-Merrieck, PANA learnt from official sports sources.    19/01/2009   full text...
3rd telephone operator launches service in Senegal
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The third telecommunications operator in Senegal, the Sudanese company SUDATEL, has launched its activities in the West African nation under the Expresso brand name.    13/01/2009   full text...
UN-AU peacekeepers in Darfur now number 12,374 -- UN
New York, US (PANA) - The UN announced that 12,374 peacekeepers had so far been deployed to the UN-AU hybrid force in Sudan's Darfur region.    01/01/2009   full text...
Darfur peacekeeping operations running at 60 per cent - UN
New York, US (PANA) - The arrival of a new unit of soldiers deployed to support UN-AU peacekeeping operations in the Darfur region of Sudan has put the operatio n running at 60 per cent capacity, according to the United Nations.    25/12/2008   full text...
'Brace up for the ICC decision on al-Bashir'
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has issued a warning to the world to prepare itself, "sooner rather than later", for the decision of the ICC Judges on the indictment of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan.    04/12/2008   full text...
Sudan's Janjaweed militia rampage in Darfur's IDP camp
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's notorious militia group, the Janjaweed, have ra ided a camp for the internally displaced persons (IDP) in Darfur to protest over the arrest of a militiaman, accused of murdering a fellow combatant, UN forces s a id.    03/12/2008   full text...
AU chief lauds Sudan's preparations for post-war polls
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union (AU) said Thursday it was delig hted at the formulation of an independent National Electoral Commission (NEC) to oversee Sudan's first major elections in several decades due in 2009.    20/11/2008   full text...
Al-Bashir declares Darfur ceasefire
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashirn Wednesday announced an immediate ceasefire in the country's western Darfur region, where five years of fighting between government and rebel forces have left 300,000 dead and forced over 2.5 million others out of their homes, according to the Sudanese news agency.    12/11/2008   full text...
23 Darfuris sent back to Sudan by Egypt
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - A Darfur human rights organisation said Egyptian authoriti es deported 23 Sudanese from the troubled Darfur region back to their home count r y after they were arrested in the Sinai Peninsula.    09/11/2008   full text...
UN official expresses concern over Sudan peace deal
New York, US (PANA) - UN Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations , Edmund Mulet, has expressed concern over the stalled progress of implementing t he comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan.    07/11/2008   full text...
Egypt sends aid to Sudanese military
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – The Egyptian government has donated two electricity generators, 50 tons of tents and kitchen equipment to Sudan's Joint Integrated Units (JIUs), as part of efforts by Cairo to support the Sudanese military, Egyptian officials said.    31/10/2008   full text...
'Sudan plots to derail ICC indictments on Darfur war crimes'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Sudanese government is attempting to undermine the International Criminal Court (ICC) efforts to prosecute senior government officials and rebel leaders suspected of crimes against humanity in Darfur, a rights body said here.    22/10/2008   full text...
Sudan risks new Darfur-style conflict in South over border row
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan faces a possible outbreak of a new crisis similar to the war in its western Darfur region, as a result of the ongoing ethnic division in its oil-rich Southern Sudan state of Kordofan, where a group of nine Chinese oil workers were kidnapped last week.    22/10/2008   full text...
US concerned about abduction of workers in Sudan
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - The United States on Tuesday expressed deep concern for the well-being of nine Chinese and Sudanese workers reportedly kidnapped on 18 October in South Kordofan State and demanded their immediate freedom and without harm.    22/10/2008   full text...
A contingent of 45 Burundian police officers for Darfur
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - A small contingent of 45 Burundian police officers l eft Bujumbura, Sunday, for Darfur, in Sudan, for peacekeeping mission under the b anner of the UN, PANA learnt from sources close to Burundi government circles he r e.    20/10/2008   full text...
US assists Sudan in mine clearance
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (PM/WRA) has awarded a US$200,200 grant to the Sudanese Integrated Mine Action Service (SIMAS) for humanitarian mine action and explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) training in Southern Sudan, the department said in a statement obtained by PANA here Wednesday.    15/10/2008   full text...
BADEA board approves 6 new projects for African countries
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Board of Directors of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) has approved financing for six new development projects and technical assistance operations for the benefit of several African countries, to the tune of US$38.29 million.    08/10/2008   full text...
Sudan's Bashir in Ghana for ACP summit
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir arrived in Accra on Wednesday to join other leaders and heads of governments attending the 6th biennial summit of Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) states, the Ghana News Agency reported.    02/10/2008   full text...
Egypt makes contact with kidnappers
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Egyptian government said it had made contact with the masked kidnappers who abducted 19 people, including 11 European tourists, on 19 September.    24/09/2008   full text...
Sudan to cease attacks against ex-rebel faction
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese officials have agreed on a military ceasefire with members of a former rebel group led by Minni Minawi ending a series of atta c ks targeting the bases of troops loyal to the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) le a der.    19/09/2008   full text...
South Africa, Sudan sign cooperation agreement
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa and Sudan have signed a cooperatio n agreement aimed at the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CP A ) on Sudan.    19/09/2008   full text...
UNHCR resettles 300,000 former refugees in South Sudan
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - More than half of around 500,000 Sudanese who ha d taken refuge in seven neighbouring countries for two decades have returned to their homeland, thanks to the Compreh ensive Peace Agreement signed in January 2005 between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).    19/09/2008   full text...
Sudan calls for sanctions against Darfur rebels
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese authorities Friday expressed disappointment ove r the Darfur rebel's refusal to join the latest Arab League initiative to broker a political settlement for the war-scarred region and called for international c o ndemnation.    12/09/2008   full text...
Kagame threatens to withdraw Rwandan troops from Darfur
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan President Paul Kagame declared that he did not r ule out the possibility of withdrawing his country's 3,000 men contingent in Dar f ur, western Sudan, if legal proceedings are instituted against Rwandan General E m manuel Karenzi Karake.    02/09/2008   full text...
Darfur chief mediator sets priority, begins work
New York, US (PANA) - Djibril Bassole, the UN-AU joint chief mediator for war-to rn Darfur region of Sudan, says his top priority is holding discussions with all parties involved in the conflict.    31/08/2008   full text...
Passengers on hijacked Sudanese plane freed
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - All the passengers in the hijacked Sudanese plane have b een freed unharmed in Libya, PANA reported Wednesday quoting the Libyan News Agency (JANA).    27/08/2008   full text...
UNAMID condemns use of force in Darfur IDP camp attack
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations/African Union Hybrid Peacekeeping fo rce for Darfur (UNAMID) has condemned what it considered as excessive use of for c e by the Sudanese military during an armed attack at a camp for internally displ a ced people, which killed 64 people.    26/08/2008   full text...
Hijacked Sudanese plane lands in Libya
Koufra, Libya (PANA) - A Sudanese plane, hijacked during a flight from Nyala, in Darfur, to Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, landed Tuesday at the Koufra airport , south-east of Libya, aviation officials told PANA.    26/08/2008   full text...
Sudan peace envoy settles to work on Darfur crisis
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union's (AU) special envoy for Sudan, Djibr il Bassole, has embarked on his diplomatic mission as the head of the joint miss i on to broker a political and military settlement to the Darfur crisis.    26/08/2008   full text...
Sudanese military raid victims shun airlift to safety
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Victims of Sudanese military police raids in a displace d persons camp in Darfur have resisted efforts to airlift them to safety because they are afraid of being arrested, a day after government forces raided Kalma ca m p, killing about 49 people.    26/08/2008   full text...
Sudan court sentences 8 more Darfur rebels to death
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's special counter-terrorism court has sentenced to death eight more Darfur rebels, including a senior confidant of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim, over the attack on Omdurman in May this year.    18/08/2008   full text...
Sudanese shot dead at Israeli/Gaza border
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egyptian security forces along the lengthy Sinai border wi th Israel and Gaza shot dead a Sudanese trying to illegally cross into the Jewis h state.    08/08/2008   full text...
Sudanese shot dead at Israeli/Gaza border
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egyptian security forces along the lengthy Sinai border wi th Israel and Gaza shot dead a Sudanese trying to illegally cross into the Jewis h state.    08/08/2008   full text...
UN wants death sentences against 30 Darfur rebels reversed
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN has formally rejected Sudan's anti-terrorism cour t's sentencing of 30 suspected members of the rebel group, the Justice and Equal i ty Movement (JEM), saying the judicial process failed international standards.    07/08/2008   full text...
Egypt restates support for embattled Sudanese president
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt Tuesday once more stated its support for a political settlement between the Sudanese government and rebels in Darfur.    06/08/2008   full text...
Sudan sentences 20 Darfur rebels to death by hanging
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Twelve Darfur rebels have been sentenced to death by ha nging, a day after eight others were ordered to face the gallows over an armed a t tack in a Khartoum suburb, which diluted the government's aura of invincibility.    31/07/2008   full text...
El-Bashir accuses ICC of plotting regime change in Sudan
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir has pledged to offer state protection to the joint UN peacekeeping force in Darfur and scoffed at ef f orts to slap him with charges of crimes against humanity as an attempted regime c hange.    24/07/2008   full text...
South Sudanese President wants El-Bashir's indictment delayed
Entebbe, Uganda (PANA) - South Sudanese President Salva Kiir is pleading with th e International Criminal Court (ICC) to delay the indictment of Sudanese Preside n t Omar El-Bashir until the Comprehensive Peace Agreement with the country’s sout h he leads has been implemented and a peaceful settlement in Darfur reached.    23/07/2008   full text...
Security situation calm in Darfur after recent attacks - UN
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The security situation in Darfur was relatively calm aga in over the weekend, the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNAMID) to the strife-torn Sudanese region has said.    22/07/2008   full text...
Moussa, Adada discuss Sudan peace process after ICC indictment
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa has said the Arab League needs to work closely with the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN) to protect the fragile peace process in the Sudan.    22/07/2008   full text...
Nigerian experts disagree on charges against El-Bashir
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian foreign affairs and legal analysts have expressed different views on the war crime charges against President Omar El-Bashir of Sudan by the International Criminal Court (ICC), over his role in the killings in Darfur in Sudan's western region.    17/07/2008   full text...
South Sudan seeks 'understanding' with ICC, opposes El-Bashir's indictment
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir has called for an urgent peace road map for Darfur in the wake of the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment against President Omar El-Bashir and called for an understanding with the world court.    17/07/2008   full text...
AU widens Sudan's chances against ICC indictment
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) has offered Sudan a survival chan ce against the issuance of an arrest warrant by recommending that states caught u p in such circumstances are better off lobbying diplomatically, PANA reports.    16/07/2008   full text...
Pretoria concerned over charges against El-Bashir
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has said an international arrest warrant sought against Sudan's President Omar El-Bashir over allegations he masterminded genocide in Darfur can never be implemented.    16/07/2008   full text...
Kenyans back El-Bashir's indictment
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir should appear the International Criminal Court (ICC) to state his role in the killing of thousands of innocent civilians in the volatile Darfur region, according to Kenyans interviewed by PANA on the indictment.    16/07/2008   full text...
El-Bashir's indictment 'puts political process in Darfur at risk'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan's Ambassador to Kenya Majok Guandong said the indictment of Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) had put the political process in Darfur at risk and would worsen military crisis as rebels were likely to gain more courage.    16/07/2008   full text...
Egypt warns international community over Sudan genocide charges
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has warned against dealing irresponsibly with the Sudanese government following the International Criminal Court's charges of genocide against Sudan's President Omar Al-Bashir.    16/07/2008   full text...
Sudanese migrants in Egypt hail ICC charges against their President
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) – Sudanese refugees and migrants in Egypt have welcomed The Hague's decision to issue a warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, PANA reports, quoting Sudanese community leader Tawer Ali here.    16/07/2008   full text...
Sudan united against ICC indictment, warns of regional instability
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese authorities are strongly united against the International Criminal Court (ICC) indictment of its leader, President Omar el Bashir, but have warned that the latest development risked regional peace and stability.    15/07/2008   full text...
Al-Bashir's prosecution, bold step for justice, peace in Sudan, says
Africa Action Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - Africa Action, a Washington-based organisation, Tuesday applauded the International Criminal Court’s call to prosecute Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir for crimes against humanity and genocide against civilians in Darfur, saying the pending issuance of an ICC warrant for Bashir could provide the UN Security Council with vital leverage on Khartoum.    15/07/2008   full text...
Darfur: ICC prosecutor presents case against Sudanese President
New York, US (PANA) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Monday filed genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, accusing him of masterminding attempts to wipe out three tribes in Darfur.    14/07/2008   full text...
Sudanese envoy says International Court ``playing with fire''
New York, US (PANA) - Sudan's UN Ambassador, Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem, said Frid ay here that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis More n o-Ocampo was ``playing with fire'' in his intention to seek genocide charges aga i nst the Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir.    11/07/2008   full text...
CEN-SAD condemns attack against UNAMID
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The secretariat of the Community of the Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) has condemned the 8 July attack against a patrol team of the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which left seven soldiers dead and 22 others wounded.    11/07/2008   full text...
Darfur rebels kill seven UN peacekeepers in heavy gunfire
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Wednesday condemned the attack on its peacekeeping troops returning from an investigation mission in Sudan's volatile region of Darfur that claimed several lives.    09/07/2008   full text...
Darfur rebels kill seven UN peacekeepers in heavy gunfire
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Wednesday condemned the attack on its peacekeeping troops returning from an investigation mission in Sudan's volatile region of Darfur that claimed several lives.    09/07/2008   full text...
US assures new joint mediator for Darfur of support
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United States has assured of its support for the new Joint United Nations/African Union Chief Mediator for Darfur, Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrill Yipene Bassole ``We are fully committed to the success of the mediator and will continue to provide support to the Darfur political process to achieve an inclusive peace agreement,'' according to a statement from the US State Department, made available to PANA here.    02/07/2008   full text...
Sudan's Bashir sacks aviation chief after series of air disasters
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir Monday sacked the Dir ector General of the Civil Aviation Authority, Major Abu-Bakr Jaafar Ahmed, foll o wing the spate of air accidents, the third of which killed four people, 72 hours after a Saturday crash that also killed nine people.    30/06/2008   full text...
Sudan sends joint battalion to oil-rich Abyei region
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese authorities have sent a joint battalion of 600 soldiers to the oil-rich Abyei region in compliance with last month's peace accord, which ended nearly nine months of hostilities between Khartoum and its southern peace partners.    20/06/2008   full text...
AU hails Sudanese deal on disputed Abyei
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Commission of the African Union (AU) Wednesday welcomed the signing of a deal between the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to enable displaced persons in the disputed oil-rich Abyei area to return to their homes.    11/06/2008   full text...
AU hails Sudanese deal on disputed Abyei
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Commission of the African Union (AU) Wednesday welcomed the signing of a deal between the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to enable displaced persons in the disputed oil-rich Abyei area to return to their homes.    11/06/2008   full text...
BREAKING NEWS: 100 feared dead in Sudan's air crash
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - At least 100 passengers were feared dead after a Sudan A irways Airbus plane crashed and burst into flames while landing during a bad wea t her at the airport in the capital city of Khartoum Tuesday, airport officials sa i d.    10/06/2008   full text...
WFP to cut air service for aid workers in Sudan
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN World Food Programme said on Tuesday that the ability of 14,000 aid workers to travel to Darfur and other parts of Sudan will be reduced with immediate effect, due to a lack of funding for the Humanitarian Air Service.    10/06/2008   full text...
Sudanese celebrate landmark accord on contested oil-rich region
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan's political leaders have welcomed a landmark accord aimed at ending growing military tension in the oil-rich region of Abyei, after three years of wrangling over the administration and the sharing of oil drilled from the region.    09/06/2008   full text...
Egypt expels Darfur leaders from Cairo
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Egypt has expelled several Cairo-based Darfur rebel leaders after their group carried out an attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman last Saturday.    15/05/2008   full text...
`Over 200 die in attack on Omdurman'
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Saturday's rebel attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman left over 200 people dead, the Sudanese News Agency, SUNA, quoted the country's Defence Minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Hussein as telling parliament Tuesday.    14/05/2008   full text...
Sudan detains 100 suspected rebels
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA)- The Sudanese government has arrested more than 100 suspected supporters of a Darfur rebel group which attacked capital, Khartoum and its suburbs on Saturday, the Human Rights Watch (HWR) said in a report Tuesday.    13/05/2008   full text...
Sudan to continue crackdown on rebels
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The Sudanese government will continue its crackdown against suspected rebels who staged attacks around the capital, Khartoum, in a bid to oust the government of President Omar Bashir, a senior presidential aide told PANA Tuesday.    13/05/2008   full text...
Arab League seeks joint action with AU on Darfur
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Ministerial Council of the Arab League has called on the League's Secretary-General to immediately contact the AU Commission Chairperson in an effort to launch a joint Arab League-AU action to help advance the Darfur peace process and stability in the region.    12/05/2008   full text...
Sudan rebel attack: Security Council holds emergency
meeting Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - An emergency meeting of Sudan National Security Council, chaired by President Omar Al-Bashir, with First Vice - President Salva Kiir in attendance, Sunday noon directed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to adopt the required measures regarding "the terrorist sabotage attempt." The meeting also instructed the ministries of interior and justice to "pursue the rebel leaders who participated in the latest incidents inside Sudan and internationally." Meanwhile, the Sudan Armed Forces Sunday killed Jamal Hassan Jala-Eddin, the commander of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan National News Agency (SUNA) said, quoting an authorised source of the Sudan Armed Forces.    11/05/2008   full text...
Sudan Armed Forces kill rebel commander, 45 others
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan Armed Forces Sunday killed Jamal Hassan Jala-Eddin, commander of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement, Sudan National News Agency (SUNA) said, quoting an authorised source of the Sudan Armed Forces.    11/05/2008   full text...
U.S. condemns attack on Omdurman
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The United States has condemned the recent attack by Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces in the area of Omdurman, near Khartoum.    11/05/2008   full text...
UNAMID evacuates victims of bombardments of north Darfur village
El Fasher, North Darfur (PANA) - UN/AU peacekeeping forces (UNAMID) on Friday ai rlifted wounded civilians, following Sudan Air Force (SAF) attacks on Umm Sidir i n North Darfur.    02/05/2008   full text...
BADEA signs 4 loan agreements
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA ) Monday in Cairo, capital of Egypt, signed four loan agreements with Burkina Fa s o, Burundi, Kenya and Mali, totalling US$ 30.9 million to finance development pr o jects in those countries.    29/04/2008   full text...
UNAMID condemns killing of WFP driver in Darfur
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - UNAMID Sunday reacted to the murder of Mohammed Makki El Rasheed, a truck driver working for United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) , stating that it was "deeply shocked and profoundly disturbed" by the "cold-bloo d ed murder." Makki's killers also injured a security guard accompanying him after he had retu rned to repair his vehicle that had broken down between North and South Darfur w h ile on a police-escorted WFP convoy carrying food relief on 21 April.    27/04/2008   full text...
Rights groups launch "Justice for Darfur" campaign
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Rights groups numbering more than 2,000 and under the ba nner "Global NGO Coalition on International Criminal Court (CICC)" Friday launch e d a campaign dubbed "Justice For Darfur", and called for the immediate arrest an d trial of two Sudanese government officials for crimes committed in the region.    26/04/2008   full text...
Adada, Minnawi hold fruitful Darfur talks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Minni Minnawi, Senior Assistant to the Sudanese Preside nt and SLM/A leader, and Rodolphe Adada, Joint Special Representative of the UN/ A U Mission in Darfur on Tuesday discussed the UN mission's role in the implementa t ion of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA).    08/04/2008   full text...
UN and AU to discuss African issues in New York
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - UN Security Council and the AU Peace and Security Counc il on Africa will on 17 April 2008 hold a joint meeting in New York to discuss a number of African issues, including Darfur.    08/04/2008   full text...
UNAMID intensifies political dialogue with Sudan government
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Joint Special Representative of the UN/AU Mission i n Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, has held a series of high-level talks with Sudanese of f icials during the last two days to coordinate activities and maintain the moment u m of processes that aim at creating a stable atmosphere conducive of meaningful p eace talks and better security on the ground.    08/04/2008   full text...
School enrolment soars in southern Sudan
Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Some 1.3 million children in southern Sudan are expected t o start classes this year, compared to just 340,000 in 2005, thanks to an initia t ive supported by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to boost school enr o lment and strengthen the education system.    03/04/2008   full text...
Sudan blames rebel disunity for slow political process in Darfur
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The two main rebel factions in Darfur are the obstacles to peace in the war-ravaged region, especially after the deployment of the hybri d peace-keeping force to help restore order there, a Sudanese spokesman said here Thursday.    13/03/2008   full text...
Rights' NGOs seek end to impunity in Darfur
Dakar, Senegal, (PANA) - A group of civil society NGOs, meeting in Dakar ahead of the 11th summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), has urged the Pan-Islamic organisation to "recognise the sub-regional character of the Darfur conflict" and to end the impunity and lawlessness in Sudan's western province.    11/03/2008   full text...
Government of Sudan, UNAMID sign Status of Forces Agreement
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan and the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on Saturday signed the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) in Khartoum which, among other things, provides the legal framework within which UNAMID will operate.    10/02/2008   full text...
Adada discusses deployment of UNAMID with Netherlands Minister
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations (UN)-African Union (AU) Joint Speci al Representative (JSR) for Darfur, Mr. Rodolphe Adada, has expressed his apprec i ation to the Netherlands government for its political, financial and material su p port to the joint UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).    07/02/2008   full text...
SOS for late John Garang's alma mater in Southern Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The First Vice President of Sudan, Salva Kiir, has said government will rehabilitate Busere Secondary school in Western Bahr-el Ghazal (South Sudan), where he and John Garang graduated 35 years ago.    18/01/2008   full text...
SPLM must lead in demanding CPA's full implementation, says Kiir
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The First Vice President of Sudan, Salva Kiir, has underscored the necessity for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) to demand the "full implementation" of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), signed 9 January 2005 in Sudan, according to the Juba-based Citizen newspaper.    18/01/2008   full text...
Sudan decides five-day working week
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Workers in Sudan will work five days a week from 26 January, according to a government decision that declared every Saturday work free along with Friday, which is strictly observed as a work-free day in the Islamic Republic of Sudan.    18/01/2008   full text...
Government of Sudan releases 8 JEM detainees following UNAMID mediation
Al Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The Government of Sudan on Thursday released eight Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) detainees in El Fasher.    17/01/2008   full text...
Sudan gives thumbs up to implementation of protocols in Eastern Sudan accord
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Implementation of the security protocol in Eastern Sudan Peace Agreement (ESPA) with the Government of Sudan (GoS) is "most successful", a top government official said on Thursday.    17/01/2008   full text...
National commission hastens review of Sudan's interim constitution
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The National Constitutional Review Commission is moving with speed to review Sudan's interim national constitution approved under the protocols of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), according to Magid Yousif, secretary-general to the commission.    17/01/2008   full text...
Sudan celebrates peace agreement on 3rd anniversary
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan is celebrating the third anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) Monday (today) in Wau, Southern Sudan, against the background of the difficulties encountered in the process of achieving peace between Khartoum and Southern Sudanese.    14/01/2008   full text...
'Hidden complexities hamper implementation of Sudan's CPA'
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese Cleric has implored Sudanese authorities to pray for wisdom in order to overcome challenges in implementing their Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which he said has three "hidden complexities".    14/01/2008   full text...
Grim realities in southern Sudan after three years of peace
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Grim realities have begun to emerge three years after the Comprehensive Peace Agreement CPA that ended hostilities between authorities in Khartoum and residents of Southern Sudan.    13/01/2008   full text...
Salva Kiir vows no return to war in southern Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The First Vice president of Sudan and president of the government in Southern Sudan (GOSS) has vowed never to return South Sudan to war.    12/01/2008   full text...
SPLA general confirms total withdrawal of troops from oil-rich areas in
southern Sudan Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The people of Southern Sudan have expressed satisfaction over the total withdrawal of Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) from oil-rich areas in the south in fulfilment of a demand issued last October by southern ministers before they rejoined the government of National unity (GoNU) in Khartoum.    12/01/2008   full text...
Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt commends peace efforts in Darfur
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt, Abdel Moneim Mabrouk, Th ursday commended Cairo's efforts to bring peace and stability in Darfur, PANA re p orts Friday, quoting the semi-official MENA news agency.    12/01/2008   full text...
Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt commends peace efforts in Darfur
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - The Sudanese Ambassador to Egypt, Abdel Moneim Mabrouk, Th ursday commended Cairo's efforts to bring peace and stability in Darfur, PANA re p orts Friday, quoting the semi-official MENA news agency.    12/01/2008   full text...
Sudan marks 3rd anniversary of Comprehensive Agreement
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Though the people of Sudan this week celebrated the third anniversary of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the North and South without public fanfare, English language dailies in Khartoum have played up the importance of the agreement in their editorials.    11/01/2008   full text...
UNAMID convoy ambushed in West Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA)- A UNAMID supplies convoy was attacked Monday night, on its way from Um Baru to Tine in Western Darfur, according to a statement issued here Tuesday by the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).    08/01/2008   full text...
Four FBI officers arrive Sudan over killing of US diplomat
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The American government has sent four Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) personnel to Khartoum, Sudan, to unravel the circumstanc e s and unmask the killers of its diplomat and his Sudanese driver.    06/01/2008   full text...
Twenty dead as fighting resumes in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Resumed fighting between Mesairiah Arabian tribe and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) near Abyie area In Sudan, Frida y led to the death of twenty people, the PANA reports.    06/01/2008   full text...
USAID confirms killing of US diplomat, one other in Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has confirmed that two members of its team were shot to death here Friday morni n g.    04/01/2008   full text...
US Embassy in Sudan remains open despite diplomat's murder
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The US Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, has remained open and functioning normally despite the killing of two officials of the Embassy by yet unknown gunmen Tuesday, US officials said.    03/01/2008   full text...
Sudanese firm acquires majority stake in Nigeria's Intercellular
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Sudan's state-run telecommunications company Sudatel has bought 70% stake, amounting to 68.75 billion naira, in one of Nigeria's private telephone operators (PTO), Intercellular, according to the private BusinessDay Newspaper (118 naira=US$1).    03/01/2008   full text...
Sudan pledges to bring killers of US diplomat to justice
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has condemned Tuesday's murder of a US diplomat, John Granville in Khartoum and pledged to bring the killers to justice.    02/01/2008   full text...
Bashir grants amnesty to alleged coup plotters to mark independence
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar el-Bashir has granted amnesty to a number of civilians and military officers arrested in May last year for planning a military coup against his government.    01/01/2008   full text...
UNAMID takes over from AMIS in Darfur
Alfashir, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Monday, 31 December, 2007, formally took over from the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) in a brief but colourful ceremony held here.    31/12/2007   full text...
Sudan vice president Kiir Mayardit orders end to fighting
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan's first vice president Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered a halt to military activities at the border between South Kordofan and Northern Bahr Al-Ghazal.    30/12/2007   full text...
African Union Mission to transfer authority to UNAMID on Monday
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The United Nations/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) will formally take over from the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) on Monday, at a ceremony at the new mission's headquarters in El Fasher.    30/12/2007   full text...
Sudan claims Darfur attack by Chad
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese authorities have announced an attack by the Chadian Air Force in the south of Alginena, capital of Western Darfur.    29/12/2007   full text...
JEM says it has shot down government plane but Sudanese army dismisses claim
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) of Darfur said on Friday that its forces had shot down a military aircraft over Darfur belonging to the Sudanese army but Sudanese military officials have dismissed the claim describing it as "lies".    28/12/2007   full text...
Police prosecute Egyptian who claims he is like Prophet Mohammed
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese police are prosecuting an Egyptian man who claims he is like Prophet Mohammed.    28/12/2007   full text...
Ex-SPLM member calls for reopening of investigations into Garang helicopter
crash Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A former member of the Sudan People's Movement (SPLM), Aleu Ayieny Aleu, has called for the reopening of investigations into circumstances of the helicopter crash that killed their leader, Dr John Garang in July 2005.    27/12/2007   full text...
Pagan Amum elevated as SPLM rejoins government
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Pagan Amum, General Secretary of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), has been appointed Cabinet Affairs Minister while Foreign Minister Dr Lam Akul has been dropped in the new cabinet ministers sworn in on Thursday as the SPLM ended a two-month boycott of the government.    27/12/2007   full text...
SPLA maltreats journalists in Southern Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) of Southern Sudan has maltreated a team of journalists who arrived in the south to cover the visit of some officials of the ruling National Congress Party to the area, the journalists union said on Wednesday.    26/12/2007   full text...
SPLM ministers expected to rejoin government on Thursday
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - All ministers of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) are expected to rejoin the Sudanese federal government on Thursday after resolution of differences between them and the government.    26/12/2007   full text...
SPLA attacks tribesmen, killing 16
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's Mesairiah Tribesmen – from the biggest Arabian Tribe in the west of Sudan – have been attacked by military forces of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ), killing 16 persons and wounding 20 others, sources close to the tribe told PANA Tuesday.    25/12/2007   full text...
Konare visits Darfur to thank AU forces
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The AU Commission chairperson Alpha Omar Konare is in Darfur, Sudan, to thank the African Union forces who had been involved in peace-keeping operation in that region.    25/12/2007   full text...
Saudi, Egyptian planes crash at Khartoum airport
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two aircraft, one belonging to Egypt and the other t o Saudi Arabia, were involved in an accident on the grounds of the Khartoum inte r national airport Sunday.    25/12/2007   full text...
UN approves 1.2 billion dollars for Darfur peacekeeping
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN has approved a budget of 1.2 billion Dollars for preparations for the peacekeeping force in Darfur for 2008.    25/12/2007   full text...
US President's special envoy for Sudan resigns
Khartoun, Sudan (PANA) - US President George Bush's Special Envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios, has resigned his post, PANA learnt here at the weekend.    23/12/2007   full text...
AMIS transition to UNAMID reviewed
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The AU-UN Joint Special Representative and AMIS Head of Mission, Mr.Rodolphe Adada and the Assistant to Sudanese President on Darfur, D r . Nafie Ali Nafie, Monday reviewed the preparations for the transition of author i ty from the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to UNAMID.    17/12/2007   full text...
Two Egyptians arrested at Sudan book fair
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Two Egyptians have been arrested in Sudan for their partic ipation at the Sudan book fair, the PANA quoted the Arabic Network for Human Rig h ts Information (HRinfo) as reporting.    17/12/2007   full text...
Two Sudanese prisoners freed from Guantanamo jail
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two Sudanese detainees at the Guantanamo jail in Cuba returned here Thursday after a five-year ordeal.    15/12/2007   full text...
Rift valley fever may stop Sudanese muslims from enjoying festival
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The rampaging rift valley fever affecting animals in the Sudan is discouraging muslims in that country from slaughtering animals duri n g next week's festival of Eid-el-Kabir.    15/12/2007   full text...
UNHCR resumes repatriation of Sudanese from Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A group of 613 Sudanese refugees will be on their way back home Saturday when the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) resumes the repatriation exercise from Ethiopia.    14/12/2007   full text...
SPLM to end boycott of government
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has decided to end its boycott of the government in Khartoum after a marathon meeting in Khartoum on Tuesday night.    12/12/2007   full text...
Retired Sudanese army officers stage unprecedented demonstration
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Hundreds of retired military officers of the Sudanese armed forces on Monday staged an unprecedented demonstration on the main road leading to the headquarters of Sudanese Armed Forces to demand promised loans for Eid-ul-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice.    11/12/2007   full text...
France threatens to deport Darfur rebel leader
Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - The French government has threatened to deport Liberation Movement of Darfur rebel leader Abdul-wahid Nour if he failed to enter into negotiations for the resolution of the Darfur crisis.    11/12/2007   full text...
France threatens to deport Darfur rebel leader if...
Lisbon, Portugal (PANA) - The French government has threatened to deport Liberation Movement of Darfur rebel leader Abdul-wahid Nour if he failed to enter into negotiations for the resolution of the Darfur crisis.    11/12/2007   full text...
Sudan: We're not delaying deployment of Darfur force
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has denied that it is delaying the deployment of the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur.    10/12/2007   full text...
Sudan prepares for polls
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese authorities have dispatched 36 electoral o fficers to the 12 southern states to organise elections there, PANA reports from here Monday.    10/12/2007   full text...
President El-Bashir vows not to meet any UN rep outside Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir will never meet wit h any representative of the UN outside Sudan, his private secretary, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, told the press Saturday.    09/12/2007   full text...
Abulgait: Egyptian force ready for Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The foreign minister of Egypt, Ahmed Abulgait has said his country is ready to send a military force to keep the peace in Darfur, Sudan, as requested by the United Nations.    06/12/2007   full text...
Sudanese government snubs Rice
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) has snubbed US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, turning down a proposal for a meeting in Addis Ababa where she had discussions with leaders of Great Lakes Region and other African officials to resolve issues about trouble spots on the continent.    06/12/2007   full text...
Arab League donates US$ 1 million to AMIS
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The League of Arab States has donated US$ 1 million to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to settle the arrears owed to the Sudanese representatives on the AU Cease-Fire Commission (CFC).    06/12/2007   full text...
Al-Bashir and Salva Kiir agree to settle Abyei problem
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese Presidency has decided to settle the row over the oil rich region of Abyei while the other pending issues stalling the implementation of the 2005 peace agreement are referred to other committees.    05/12/2007   full text...
UN Envoy meets African leaders in Egypt over Darfur peace deal
Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - In a renewed effort to push for a peace deal in Darfur, the UN envoy to the Western Sudan region, Jan Eliasson, has met with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt, Chad, Eritrea and Libya in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh.    05/12/2007   full text...
Burkinabe soldier dies in Darfur
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - A Burkinabe Army Captain, sent to Sudan as p art of the UN/AU peace-keeping mission in that country, has died, official sources told PANA here.    05/12/2007   full text...
Teddy bear row school closed for security reasons
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Unity Girls High School in Khartoum, which was thrust onto the world media limelight following the arrest and sentencing of a British school teacher, for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear after Muhammad, has been closed down for security reasons.    04/12/2007   full text...
Kiir sacks two senior SPLM leaders
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese First Vice President and Chairman of Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Salva Kiir, has removed two officials of the Movement from their positions in the Federal government at Khartoum.    04/12/2007   full text...
Condemned Mauritanian freed in Sudan after presidential visit
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mohamed Ould Abdallahi, a Mauritanian whose death sentence has been commuted to life imprisonment, was released from a Khartoum jail at the request of the Mauritanian President, who Monday rounded off a three-day visit to Sudan, an official source told PANA here Tuesday.    04/12/2007   full text...
Sudan opposition leader Al-mahdi released from jail
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudanese opposition leader Mubarak Al-fadil Al-mahdi. Chairman of Omma Federal Party, who was arrested last June by security services for allegedly planning a coup was freed on Sunday.    03/12/2007   full text...
Row over British Teddy bear teacher ends as Al-Bashir pardons her
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) The row over the jailing of a British school teacher in Sudan because her class named a teddy bear Muhammad ended on Monday with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir pardoning her.    03/12/2007   full text...
Two British Islamic Council officials visit Gillian in jail
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Two British moslems, Lord Nazir Ahmed of the British Lo rds Council (Labour Party) and Paron Saieeda Warsi of the Conservative Party, ar r ived here Saturday to discuss with Sudanese authorities the case of the British t eacher (Miss Gillian Gibbons), jailed for 'insulting' Prophet Mohammed.    03/12/2007   full text...
AU/UN Joint Special Rep, Sudanese Govt meet on hybrid force
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Rodolphe Adada, AU/UN Joint Special Representative (JS R) and head of the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS), Sunday met with the Chairman of the Sudanese government's technical committee for the implementation of the UN/AU Hybrid Operation, Dr. Mutrif Sidiq, to review outstanding issues concerning the smooth operation of UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).    03/12/2007   full text...
Sudanese govt suspicious of SPLM role in Darfur crisis
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has expressed doubts about t he impartiality of the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) in mediating w ith the Darfurian rebels.    03/12/2007   full text...
UN threatens to cut aid to Darfur over restrictions on relief agencies
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - United Nations Humanitarian Chief John Holmes Sunday expressed fears that restrictions against relief agencies operating in Darfur may cause the UN to bloc assistance to a handful of aid agencies operating in the Sudanese region.    02/12/2007   full text...
SPLM leader identifies roadblocks to peace
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A senior official of the Sudan People's Liberation Move ment (SPLM) has once again reiterated the movement's demands to push forward the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) which formally ended the bloody civil war in the country.    02/12/2007   full text...
SPLM leader identifies roadblocks to peace
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – A senior official of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) has once again reiterated their demands to push forward the Comprehensive Peace Agreement which formally ended the bloody civil war in the country.    01/12/2007   full text...
Sudanese protestors say Gibbons should be "shot"
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Thousands of Muslims have marched through the main streets of Khartoum after Friday prayers to demand stiffer punishment for a British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, who has been jailed 15 days for insulting Islam.    01/12/2007   full text...
Obstacles in implementing Sudan's CPA worry PSC
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Failure to address outstanding issues in the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) could jeopardize the significant progress achieved so far, the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has warned.    30/11/2007   full text...
Refugees in southern Darfur reject Chinese and Bangladeshi peacekeepers
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Refugees in Kalma camp, the biggest in south Darfur, on Thursday went on a demonstration against the arrival of military engineers from China and Bangladesh as part of the UN hybrid force Sources said hundreds of refugees who went on the march were supporting a rebel leader, Abdulwahid Nour, who is in exile in France. Nour talked to his people from a cell phone through the loudspeakers at the camp.    29/11/2007   full text...
Britain recalls Ambassador to Sudan over teacher's crisis
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The British government has recalled its Ambassador to S udan over the crisis brewing between both countries following Miss Gillian Gibbo n s' reported insult on Prophet Mohammed in a classroom here.    29/11/2007   full text...
British teacher questioned for 'insulting' Prophet Mohammed
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The British female teacher, Gillian Gibbons, who 'ins ulted' Prophet Mohammed and was sacked from her job as a result of the incident has b een questioned by the Sudanese Prosecutor-General's office, according to officia l sources here Wednesday.    29/11/2007   full text...
Bashir and Kiir to meet on Saturday
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir will on Saturday meet his First Vice Presidnet Selva Kiir as efforts continue to put the tottering peace process back on track, sources said in Khartoum on Wednesday.    28/11/2007   full text...
US condemns threats against Chinese Engineers in Darfur
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The US has condemned recent threats of violence by some Darfur rebel leaders against Chinese engineers in Sudan, who are serving as part of the United Nations-African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).    28/11/2007   full text...
British female teacher sacked for 'insulting' Prophet Mohammed
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A British female teacher, Gillian Gibbons, was Tuesday sacked by Sudanese authorities for insulting Prophet Mohammed, PANA reported, qu o ting the school authorities here.    28/11/2007   full text...
CIA ''bugged'' Sudanese Ministers' phones
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) bugged t he telephone discussions of Ministers in Sudan at the height of the Darfur crisi s in 2004, according to a Sudanese newspaper, Tribune.    28/11/2007   full text...
UNAMID boss, South Darfur State Gov meet on security at IDP camp
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The AU/UN Joint Special Representative and Head of the UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), Mr. Rodolphe Adada, Sunday met with the Governor of South Darfur state, Mr. Ali Mahmoud in Nyala, to review the secu r ity situation at the Kalma camp for Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).    26/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese opposition leader to return home from exile
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - One of Sudan's main opposition leaders, Mohammed Osman Al-Merghani, announced on Thursday that he would end his 17-year exile and return home next January.    23/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese politicians disagree on composition of Darfur UN hybrid force
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudanese politicians continue to be deeply divided over the composition of the United Nations hybrid force approved by the wrld body more than one year ago.    19/11/2007   full text...
South African to head police component of Darfur hybrid force
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - An assistant police commissioner from South Africa has been appointed to head the police component of the hybrid United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation (UNAMID), soon to be deployed to Sudan's western Darfur region.    19/11/2007   full text...
Mediators struggle to bring rebel groups to Libya talks
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – Mediators in the Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya, hav e continued to struggle to bring on board the two rebel groups shunning the talk s , which opened 27 October, PANA reported.    18/11/2007   full text...
Al-Bashir to meet Kiir to put peace process back on track
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omer Al-Bashir is to meet the first vice president Selva Kiir in Khartoum on Saturday to resolve issues threatening to derail the peace process.    17/11/2007   full text...
AU special envoy goads Darfur parties toward peace
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - African Union (AU) Special Envoy to Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim, has urged all parties to the Darfur crisis to come on board f o r peace talks to succeed, saying there is also need for a greater coalition of r e bel movements so they can present a strong position to the Sudanese government.    16/11/2007   full text...
Rift Valley Fever outbreak in Sudan kills 85
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – An outbreak of Rift Valley Fever in Sudan has killed 85 people, health officials said in Khartoum on Wednesday.    14/11/2007   full text...
AU/UN special envoys to meet regional partners in Asmara on Darfur
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - African Union and United Nations Special Envoys for Darfur, Salim Ahmed Salim and Jan Eliasson, will meet representatives of regional partners of the Darfur peace process in Asmara, Eritrea, on Wednesday to take stock of the on-going process and discuss the way forward, a press communiqué from the Joint AU-UN Mediation Support Team said.    13/11/2007   full text...
UN, AU officials seek consensus among rebel groups before next round
of Darfur talks Darfur, Sudan (PANA) – United Nations and African Union officials have been meeting various rebel groups in Darfur throughout November to build consensus ahead of the third round of peace talks taking place in the Libyan city of Sirte, the African Union Mission in the Sudan (AMIS) information office in Darfur said on Monday It said UN and AU officials had been holding consultations and workshops with and among rebel groups before the third round of talks in which "full talks" were scheduled to take place early December.    12/11/2007   full text...
Saudi Arabia stops importation of Livestock from Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Following the discovery of a strange disease affecting animals in the Sudan, Saudi Arabia has stopped the importation of livestock from that country.    12/11/2007   full text...
Ten sentenced to death for killing journalist
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Ten Darfuris accused of kidnapping and beheading Sudane se Islamist journalist, Mohamed Taha, were Saturday sentenced to death by firing squad, their defense counsel told journalists here.    11/11/2007   full text...
Sudan defends expulsion of UN official
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Government said here Saturday the UN Human itarian Director, Mr. Wael Al-haj Ibrahim, was ordered to leave Darfur because he was discouraging civilians displaced from the region from returning to thei r villages.    10/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese President Bashir to visit Cairo
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omer Bashir is expected in the Egyptian capital, Egypt, on Sunday for talks with Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak.    09/11/2007   full text...
Four killed as cargo plane crash-lands at Khartoum Airport
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Four were killed on Friday when a cargo plane crash-landed and burst into flames after take-off at the Khartoum Airport.    09/11/2007   full text...
Strange disease kills at least 70 in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – At least 70 people have died from a strange disease that has struck the middle of Sudan in the past two weeks, health officials confirmed to PANA on Wednesday.    07/11/2007   full text...
Sudan sets up committee on release of Guantanamo Bay detainees
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan has set up a committee made up of representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and allied organs to complete a number of technical processes with the US Administration prior to a final agreement for the release of Sudanese detainees in Guantanamo.    06/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese official describes Zoe's Ark blunder as "organised and complicated
crime" Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan's Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Mr Hasabo Ahmed Abdulla has described the Zoe's Ark blunder, in which several Europeans have been detained in Chad for attempting to kidnap more than 100 children to Europe, as "organised and complicated crime".    06/11/2007   full text...
Sudan affirms commitment to peace
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) -The Sudanese government on Tuesday affirmed its commitment to the pursuit of peace in the former rebel Southern region and Darfur saying it was the only opportunity to replace war with economic prosperity.    06/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese cabinet briefed on Darfur peace talks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan's chief delegate to the Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya, Dr. Nafie Ali Nafie, has briefed the Sudanese Council of Ministers on the progress at the talks, which opened 27 October.    05/11/2007   full text...
Mbeki to hold talks with El Bashir in Cape Town
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - Presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Omar El Bashir of Sudan will from Tuesday hold discussions on the peace efforts in the Sudan and bilateral political, economic and trade issues between the two countries at Tuynhuys in Cape Town.    05/11/2007   full text...
Sudan's El Bashir visits northern Burundi
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El Bashir was due to visit the country's industrial and agricultural stronghold in the north of the country on the second day of his working visit Sunday, an official source reported here.    04/11/2007   full text...
Sudanese president El Béchir arrives in Bujumbura
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Sudanese head of state, Omar El Béchir, arrived in Bujumbura on Saturday to a warm welcome at the start of a three-day working visit to Burundi.    03/11/2007   full text...
Arab League to assist Darfur people
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Arab League rose from their meeting here Tuesday and declared they will assist the people of Darfur, in cash and kind, to cushion their sufferings in that war-torn region.    31/10/2007   full text...
Second phase of negotiations on Darfur peace talks held behind closed doors
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - The second phase of negotiations for peace in Darfur started on Monday in Sirte with the envoys of the United Nations (UN) and the African Union (AU) to Sudan, Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim respectively, meeting behind closed doors with with the Sudanese delegation led by Deputy Sudanese President, Nafie Ali Nafie.    29/10/2007   full text...
UN awards contracts for UNAMID camps
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN has awarded a multi-million-dollar contract for t he construction of camps and other facilities in the region to facilitate the qu i ck deployment of the 26,000-strong UNAMID, the AU/UN hybrid peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western Darfur region, according to a UN official.    29/10/2007   full text...
West threatens sanctions against Darfur rebel movements
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - The Western representatives at the peace conference on Darfur which began Saturday in Sirte, Libya, have threatened to impose sanctions against any rebel leader who might hinder current efforts at restoring peace in the Sudanese region.    28/10/2007   full text...
Ban stresses dialogue for Darfur peace
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says only political dialogue and inclusive consultations would ensure "a viable, sustainable and comprehensive solution to the crisis in Darfur".    27/10/2007   full text...
Khartoum declares unilateral ceasefire in Darfur
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - The Sudanese government on Saturday unilaterally declared a ceasefire in Darfur as peace talks, backed by the United Nations and African Union to end the bloody fighting in the province, got underway in Sirte, central Libya.    27/10/2007   full text...
AU, UN envoys say rebel unity critical to Darfur peace talks
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA)-The African Union and the United Nations peace envoys to the Darfur peace talks which kicked off in Sirte, Libya, Saturday, have expressed optimism a political solution to the conflict was within reach and called for unity among the rebels.    27/10/2007   full text...
Darfur peace talks open in Libya
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Talks aimed at ending the lingering crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region were billed to open here Saturday between the Sudanese government and the rebel movements who were not signatories to the Abuja peace accord.    27/10/2007   full text...
US President's special envoy in Tripoli
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US President's special envoy in the Sudan, Andrew Natsios, arrived here late Thursday to attend the peace talks on the Sudanese Western region of Darfur which begins Saturday in Sirte, Central Libya.    26/10/2007   full text...
Sudan's Salih Mahamoud Osman wins Sakharov Prize
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Sudanese lawyer and human rights activist Salih Mahmoud Osman, has been named winner of the 2007 Andrei Sakharav Prize for freedom of expression and thought during Thursday's European Parliament plenary sitting in Strasbourg, France.    25/10/2007   full text...
Kadhafi confers with Sudanese President El-Bechir
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader Colonel Mouammar Kadhafi, current chair of the Sahel-Saharan States Community (CEN-SAD), on Thursday received Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bechir, who is in Sirte, central Libya, to attend Saturday's talks on the Darfur crisis.    25/10/2007   full text...
NGO wants US to protect Darfur citizens
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - An International Non-Governmental Organisation, Africa Action, Thursday called on the United States of America to "redouble its diplomatic efforts to secure the immediate deployment of a UN-led peace-keeping force to protect the people of Darfur".    25/10/2007   full text...
'Sudan's cooperation vital for speedy UNAMID deployment'
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The cooperation of the Sudanese authorities is vital for a speedy and effective deployment of the AU/UN Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), according to the mission's chief of operation, Gen. Henry Anyidoho.    24/10/2007   full text...
France urged to convince Nour to attend Sudan peace talks
Paris, France (PANA) – An African labour leader in France, Sidi Tidiane Gučye on Tuesday urged Paris to put step up pressure on Abdul Wahid Mohammed Nour, leader of Sudanese rebel group, to attend the inter-Sudanese talks scheduled for 27 October in Tripoli.    23/10/2007   full text...
Rwanda deploys fresh troops to Darfur
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) – Some 200 Rwandan troops have been deployed to Sudan’s we stern Darfur region, at the start of a process to replace a battalion serving un d er the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), military sources told PANA here.    23/10/2007   full text...
French Secretary of State Yade expected in Khartoum on Sunday
Paris, France (PANA) - French Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Human Rights, Rama Yade would pay a three-day visit to Sudan from 21-23 October to discuss with Sudanese officials the situation in Darfur and the implementation of the North/South peace accord, official sources told PANA on Saturday.    21/10/2007   full text...
Kenyan envoy seeks sustained dialogue on Sudan's political impasse
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's ex-President Daniel Moi Wednesday appealed to rival factions in Sudan to dialogue and treat each other with respect to avert a looming political crisis, after the withdrawal of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) from the Khartoum government.    17/10/2007   full text...
'Ex-rebels violating Sudanese peace accord'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir has accused the former rebel Sudan Peoples Liberation Army (SPLA) of violating a peace accord which ended the protracted civil war in the South, saying its sustained military spending was worrying.    16/10/2007   full text...
'No evidence of copter gunship usage in Darfur attacks'
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The African Union (AU) ceasefire monitoring team in Darfur has confirmed no helicopter gunship was used in recent violence in the volatile region, but warned against attacks against civilians.    15/10/2007   full text...
Libya sends relief items to Darfur
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has sent a plane-load of relief items to Sudan's flood-hit western Darfur region.    15/10/2007   full text...
'Situation in Darfur exaggerated'
Paris, France (PANA) - The chairman of the Federation of African Workers in France (FEATF), Sidi Gučye, has said the portrayal of the humanitarian situation in the Sudan's western Darfur region "did not match the realities (on the ground)".    12/10/2007   full text...
Nigeria begins troops deployment to Darfur
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigerian has begun the rotation of its three battalions in Sudan's western Darfur region and the deployment of an additional battalion in the trouble spot, according to Nigerian Army Spokesman, Col. Solomon Giwa-Amu.    09/10/2007   full text...
CAF Confederation Cup: Dolphins 3, Al Merreikh 0
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Dolphins FC of Nigeria Sunday defeated visiting Al Merreikh of Sudan 3-0 in their final group B match in the CAF Confederation Cup in Nigeria's southern city of Calabar.    07/10/2007   full text...
Nigeria to increase number of troops in Darfur
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - In spite of losing seven soldiers in a recent rebel attack in Sudan's western Darfur region, Nigeria plans to raise the strength of its troops in the region from three to four battalions, Nigerian Army Spokesman, Col. Solomon Giwa-Amu, said here.    07/10/2007   full text...
Nigeria to send fresh troops to Darfur
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria will replace its entire three battalions of troops deployed to Sudan's western Darfur region under the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission, between now and December, according to Nigerian Army Spokesman, Col. Solomon Giwa-Amu.    05/10/2007   full text...
Nigerian Senate summons Sudanese envoy over Darfur killings
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Angered at the death of seven Nigerian soldiers serving in the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) at the weekend, Nigeria's upper Senate has summoned the Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria to explain the circumstances leading to the death of the African peace keepers.    03/10/2007   full text...
Nigeria's President 'shocked, pained" at Darfur attack deaths
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Umaru Yar'Adua has described as "shocking, sad and unacceptable" the deaths at the weekend of seven Nigerian troops serving under the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS), according to a presidency statement in the capital city of Abuja Tuesday.    02/10/2007   full text...
Wade threatens to pull Senegalese troops out of Darfur
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade on Monday threatened to withdraw his country's contingent serving with the peacekeeping mission of the African Union in Darfur (AMIS), north-west of Sudan, following the death of a Senegalese in a rebel attack at the weekend.    02/10/2007   full text...
UN condemns attack on AU troops in Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned "in the strongest possible terms'' a deadly weekend attack on African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Darfur.    01/10/2007   full text...
Sudan, DR Congo border closed on Ebola fears
Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - Sudan has closed its border with the Eastern Province of DR Congo on fears that the Ebola virus would spread to their country following the reported outbreak of the disease in the region.    01/10/2007   full text...
'Disarmament only solution to Darfur crisis'
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Force Commander of the UN-AU Hybrid Force in Sudan, Nigerian General Martin Luther Agwai, has said the only way out of the Darfur crisis will be the eventual disarmament of the warring factions.    23/09/2007   full text...
UN chief tags Darfur a ``complex issue''
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has described the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region as ``a case study in complexity''.    23/09/2007   full text...
Darfur talks end in disagreement
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN and Sudan have deadlocked on whether there are enough qualified African troops to deploy as peace keepers in the troubled Darfur region.    22/09/2007   full text...
Ban set up trust fund for Darfur peace talks
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has set up a trust fund to support next month's Darfur peace talks in Tripoli, Libya.    22/09/2007   full text...
Darfur talks end in disagreement
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN and Sudan have deadlocked on whether there are enough qualified African troops to deploy as peace keepers in the troubled Darfur region.    22/09/2007   full text...
South Sudan's ex-rebels to lay down weapons
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - South Sudan's liberation army has started collecting weapons and disarming its former rebels and child soldiers with the support of the United Nations as part the UN's security strategy for a more peaceful Sudan, the UN said here Monday.    17/09/2007   full text...
Kenya to end asylum for Sudanese refugees
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese refugees in Kenya will have restricted access to educational facilities in the various refugee camps in Kenya ahead of the expiry of their asylum status within the next two years, a joint team of experts said here.    12/09/2007   full text...
Darfur lawyer, Osman, nominated for Andrei Sakharov Prize
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - A lawyer from Sudan's Western Darfur region, Safif Ma hmoud Osman, has been nominated for the Andrei Sakharov Prize for freedom of tho u ght, due to be awarded by the European Parliament in October, an official source has disclosed here.    12/09/2007   full text...
China says Khartoum vital to Darfur peace
New York, UN (PANA) - China has said resolving the Darfur conflict will need the cooperation and support of the Sudanese government.    12/09/2007   full text...
Ban says Kadhafi ready to help end Darfur war
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said here at the weekend that Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi is ready to help end the war in Sudan's western Darfur region.    09/09/2007   full text...
Kenyan envoy appeals for UN help in Sudan peace pact
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA0 - Kenya's Special envoy to Sudan peace process Daniel arap Moi Friday appealed to the United Nations to help bolster the implementation of the landmark peace accord, which ended the 21-year war in the Southern part of the country.    07/09/2007   full text...
Darfur peace talks to restart in Libya 27 Oct.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Peace negotiations for the restive Darfur region of western Sudan will start once again 27 Oct. 2007 in Libya under the leadership of the special envoys of the African Union (AU) and the UN, it was officially announced here Friday.    07/09/2007   full text...
Pakistani named UN envoy to Sudan
New York, UN (PANA) - A Pakistani diplomat, Ashraf Qazi, has been appointed the Special Representative of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to Sudan's western Darfur region, UN spokesperson Michele Montas said here.    05/09/2007   full text...
Moroccan plans emergency aid for flood victims in Sudan
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Morocco has decided to send emergency aid to Sudan following devastating floods that hit several parts of the country in the past weeks, a government source affirmed here Thursday.    30/08/2007   full text...
UN chief visits Sudan September over Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he will travel to Sudan early September as part of efforts to bring peace and security to the country's troubled western Darfur region.    29/08/2007   full text...
UN seeks relief assistance for Sudan, Somalia
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN on Tuesday appealed for funds to help victims of flood disaster in Sudan and to boost food aid in Somalia where there poor harvest is widespread.    28/08/2007   full text...
UN condemns expulsion of CARE director from Sudan
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has expressed dissatisfaction with Sudan over the expulsion of the Country Director of American-based aid group CARE, Paul Barker.    27/08/2007   full text...
Libya sends relief items to Sudan's flood victims
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - For the second time in two months, Libya has sent relief materials to Sudan for the victims of the country's devastating flood.    27/08/2007   full text...
Govt of Southern Sudan may open diplomatic mission in Nigeria
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - The Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) may soon open diplomatic missions in Nigeria and some other West African countries, according to a member of the Sudan Sensitization Programme, Peter Adwok Nyaba.    27/08/2007   full text...
Chinguitel receives 8,000 subscribes on first day
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mobile telephone operator, "Chinguitel" recorded 8,000 subscribers and 15,000 min calls a few hours following the official launch of its activities on Thursday in Mauritania, its director general, Khaled Hassen Ibrahim, announced here Friday.    24/08/2007   full text...
AI accuses Sudan of violating arms embargo
New York, UN (PANA) - Amnesty International (AI) claims the Sudanese government is sending weapons to Darfur region in defiance of a UN arms embargo.    24/08/2007   full text...
Brussels-based Rwandan group faults senior UN-AU peacekeeper
New York, UN (PANA) - An expatriate Rwandan group has accused a senior peacekeeper in the UN-AU hybrid force in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region of being over war crimes committed in Rwanda in 1994.    22/08/2007   full text...
UN gives $8.7 million for Sudan flood victims
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN has allocated $8.7 million from its Central Emergency Fund (CERF) to alleviate the sufferings of more than 1.5 million Sudanese ravaged by floods.    21/08/2007   full text...
800 Malawi troops for UN/AU peacekeeping in Darfur
Blantyre, Malawi (PANA) - Malawi will contribute troops to the proposed 26,000-strong joint United Nations-African Union force in the troubled Sudanese western region of Darfur, Defence Minister Bob Khamisa disclosed here Friday.    10/08/2007   full text...
SA welcomes developments in Darfur peace talks
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government is impressed by the developments in the Darfur Peace Talks convened by the United Nations and African Union (AU) in Arusha, Tanzania, 3-6 August.    08/08/2007   full text...
ASEC of Abijan beat Al Hilal 1-0 in Africa Champs tie
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (PANA) - The Ivorian side ASEC of Abidjan has repositioned itself in Group B of the African Champions' League after beating Sudan's Al Hilal 1-0 in a round four match played here on Sunday.    06/08/2007   full text...
Rights groups want human rights enforced in Darfur
Paris, France (PANA) – The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (IFHR) and its affiliated organisation, Sudan Organisation Against Torture (SOAT), called Thursday for the implantation of a major human rights component within the United Nations/African Union hybrid force set for deployment soon in Darfur.    02/08/2007   full text...
Kiir declares victory over militia groups in South Sudan
Juba, Sudan (PANA) - Southern Sudan has declared a major victory in its efforts to neutralize the influence of armed militia groups operating in the semi-autonomous region, including an offshoot of the dreaded Janjaweed blamed for atrocities in Darfur.    02/08/2007   full text...
Southern Sudan sets national day for war heroes
Juba, Sudan (PANA) - Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayadirt has declared 30 July a national day of mourning war heroes in the semi-autonomous region of Sudan.    01/08/2007   full text...
Southern Sudan sets 30 July as "Martyrs Day"
Juba, Sudan (PANA) - Southern Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayadirt has declared 30 July as a national day for the remembrance of war heroes in the semi-autonomous region of Sudan, as part of activities commemorating the tragic death of founding leader John Garang.    01/08/2007   full text...
Sudan welcomes Moi as new peace mediator
Juba, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has welcomed the appointment of former Kenyan President Daniel Moi as a regional peace envoy, saying his latest roadmap to end the deadlock in the implementation of the north-south peace accord would succeed.    01/08/2007   full text...
US cautions Sudan over troops standoff, oil fields row
Juba, Sudan (PANA) - The United States has called for the urgent withdrawal of Sudanese troops from Southern Sudan and urged Khartoum to speedily address a looming stand off over the demarcation of oil producing fields in the South.    01/08/2007   full text...
Mauritanian President meets Sudanese envoy
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian President Sidi Mohamed Ould Cheikh Abdallahi has met with Sudanese international cooperation minister Tidjany Saleh Fadil, who came here Monday as a special envoy of President Omar El Bachir, the Mauritanian News Agency reported Tuesday.    31/07/2007   full text...
Special envoy of Sudanese president visits Burkina Faso
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) – Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore has received a special message from his Sudanese counterpart, President, Omar El Bechir, focusing bilateral issues and on the Darfur crisis.    28/07/2007   full text...
Sudan seeks Nigeria's assistance over Darfur
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Sudan has said it will require the assistance of Nigeria as soon as the UN Security Council adopts the resolution on the funding of the hybrid peacekeeping force to be deployed in Sudan's western Darfur region.    27/07/2007   full text...
Moi becomes special envoy on Southern Sudan peace process
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki Wednesday appointed former President Daniel Arap Moi as Special Envoy of Peace and Kenya's Goodwill Ambassador to Sudan, ending his five-year retirement as a senior private citizen.    25/07/2007   full text...
Britain, France withdraw threat against Sudan over Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - Britain and France have withdrawn the threat of more sanctions against Khartoum if it obstructs peace efforts in Sudan's Western Darfur region, PANA has learnt.    25/07/2007   full text...
Kenya props capacity building in Southern Sudan
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya on Tuesday extended US$3.5 million grant to the Government of Southern Sudan to support the administration in training and capacity building of staff.    24/07/2007   full text...
UN labels outcome of Darfur meeting "constructive"
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has welcomed the "constructive outcome" of a well-attended international meeting on the situation in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.    20/07/2007   full text...
Libyan secretary lauds outcome of Darfur conference
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan secretary for the African Union (AU) Affairs, Ali Triki, has hailed the outcome of the second international conference on Darfur, hosted by Libya, saying the meeting led to clear decisions on the lingering Darfur crisis.    17/07/2007   full text...
UNEP warns expansive environmental degradation in Sudan
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) is vouching for investments in management and rehabilitation of natural resources programme for Sudan as a way to Conflict Resolution and Peace Building in the country.    02/07/2007   full text...
Sarkozy warns Sudanese govt, rebels
Paris, France (PANA) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy, has warned that the international community will insist on the cooperation of the Sudanese government and the rebel groups, in the settlement of crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur.    25/06/2007   full text...
France pledges 10 million-Euro support for AMIS
Paris, France (PANA) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy, announced here Monday that Paris would support the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) with 10 million Euros, toward ending the war in that country's western region of Darfur.    25/06/2007   full text...
European MPs to visit Sudan, Chad
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - A delegation of European MPs is to visit Sudan and Chad, 30 June-6 July, the EU said in a statement here Friday.    22/06/2007   full text...
Kenya to train Southern Sudan prisons staff
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya Prisons Service has agreed to train some 800 prisons staff for the Southern Sudan government, Vice President Moody Awori announced here Thursday after signing a memorandum of understanding to that effect with Southern Sudanese Minister for Home Affairs, Paul Mayom.    22/06/2007   full text...
Sudan accepts UN-AU force "unconditionally" - UN team
New York, UN (PANA) - The Sudanese government has agreed "unconditionally" to the deployment of a 23,000-strong hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping force in the country's war-torn western region of Darfur, UN emissaries said here Monday.    18/06/2007   full text...
Let AU-UN hybrid operation breed peace in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Darfurians are, at long last, getting some indication of a likely end to the bloody crisis that has riddled their native region in western Sudan for nearly four years.    13/06/2007   full text...
Sudan, AU, UN agree on Hybrid Operation in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - After painstaking tripartite negotiations, the United Nations, the African Union and the Government of Sudan Tuesday reached a mutual understanding on having a Hybrid Peacekeeping Operation in the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan.    12/06/2007   full text...
ICC orders arrest of 2 Darfur war suspects
New York, UN (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) Thursday called on Sudan to arrest its two citizens indicted over the war in in the country's western region of Darfur.    07/06/2007   full text...
Desmond Tutu for meeting on Darfur in Brussels
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - Anglican Archbishop and Nobel laureate, His Grace Desmond Tutu is expected Tuesday in Brussels to participate in discussions over the bloody conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.    05/06/2007   full text...
Over 100 Gambian peacekeepers leave for Darfur
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) – A contingent of over 100 personnel of Gambia Police Force (GPF) Friday left Banjul for troubled Sudanese region of Darfur on a peacekeeping mission, Police spokesperson, Famara Jobarteh said.    02/06/2007   full text...
Sudan envoy blasts U.S. over sanctions
New York, US (PANA) - Sudan's ambassador to the U.S., John Ukec on Thursday said that new sanctions imposed by the Bush administration on his country would "only cause more troubles and complicate issues".    01/06/2007   full text...
Bush slaps Sudan with new sanctions
New York, US (PANA) - U.S. President George Bush Tuesday imposed new economic sanctions against Sudan and called on the UN to also take further steps to end violence in crisis prone Darfur.    29/05/2007   full text...
Bush to announce sanctions on Sudan
New York, US (PANA) - US President George Bush is expected Tuesday to announce "stiff" economic sanctions against Sudan, according to the New York Times.    29/05/2007   full text...
CAR accuses Sudan of backing rebellion against President Bozize
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) - Central African Republic's Foreign Affairs Minister, Come Zoumara, late Friday here summoned the Sudanese ambassador, Hassane Sayed Souleymane, to express to him Bangui's "dissatisfaction and strongest protest" about Khartoum's role the country's woes.    26/05/2007   full text...
Security Council approves 23,000-force for Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN Security Council has approved the deployment of more than 23,000 peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur under a joint UN-AU command.    26/05/2007   full text...
French, African artistes sing for Darfur
Paris, France (PANA) – Several international artistes including France's Francis Lalanne and Congo's Sinda Makelele and Mimi Mavitiku have jointly produced a three-minute pop video in which they urge the UN to protect the people Sudan's western region of Darfur.    25/05/2007   full text...
UN, AU finalise report on hybrid Darfur force
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN and the African Union (AU) have submitted a joint report to the UN Security Council on the hybrid peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur.    25/05/2007   full text...
Burundi army gets Sudanese donation
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) – The Burundian army, Thursday, took delivery of medical supplies, hospital equipment and computer items donated by Sudan, military sources said here.    24/05/2007   full text...
Konare appoints new AMIS Force Commander
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare has appointed Nigerian General Martin Luther Agwai as new Force Commander of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS), the Commission announced here Thursday.    24/05/2007   full text...
Sudan's Al-Bechir makes private visit to Morocco
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Moroccan Prime Minister Driss Jettou welcomed Sudanese President, Omar Hassan Al-Bechir, upon arrival at Mohamed V international airport Wednesday in Casablanca for a one-week private visit to Morocco, government sources said here.    16/05/2007   full text...
Hollywood stars assist Darfur war victims with US$1 million
New York, UN (PANA) - Hollywood stars, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have donated US$1 million for humanitarian assistance to war victims in Sudan's western region of Darfur, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR said in a statement here Friday.    11/05/2007   full text...
PAP urges support for non-signatories to Darfur truce accord
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - The Pan African Parliament has called for the support of the revitalisation of the Ceasefire Joint Commission on Darfur so that non-signatories who were expelled by UNMIS can be part of the mechanism.    10/05/2007   full text...
UN warns Khartoum to stop Darfur bombings
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has called on the government in Sudan to stop aerial bombardments in Darfur, saying "it is causing death and destruction in the troubled region in the past three weeks".    10/05/2007   full text...
Mubarak hails Tripoli summit on Darfur
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Egyptian President, Hosni Moubarak has commended the tripartite summit on Darfur sponsored Tuesday in Tripoli by Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Kadhafi.    09/05/2007   full text...
AU, UN name chief of peacekeeping mission in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission and the UN Secretary-General have appointed Congolese diplomat Rodolphe Adada as Special Representative of the two organizations for the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan.    09/05/2007   full text...
Libya, Chad, Egypt seek regional solution to Darfur crisis
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The tripartite summit here Tuesday on the situation in Sudan's Darfur, which brought together Libyan revolutionary leader Moammar Kadhafi, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Déby, underscored the need to manage crisis at a regional level.    08/05/2007   full text...
Congolese named joint AU/UN Darfur representative
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN and the African Union (AU) Tuesday appointed Rodolphe Adada of the Republic of Congo as Joint Special Representative for Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur.    08/05/2007   full text...
UN welcomes Sudan-Chad peace pact
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the peace agreement signed by Sudanese President Omar El-Beshir and his Chadian counterpart Idriss Deby, 3 May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.    07/05/2007   full text...
Sarkozy calls for trial of people behind Darfur crisis
Paris, France (PANA) – Union for the Majority (UMP) candidate in the French presidential race slated for Sunday, Nicolas Sarkozy, late Wednesday here said Sudanese leaders indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) must be tried for their alleged role in the Darfur region crisis.    04/05/2007   full text...
France's future president to address Darfur crisis
Paris, France (PANA) - France's future president due to be elected Sunday at the end of the run-off pitting Socialist candidate Segolčne Royal and the Union for the Majority (UMP) leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, will address the crisis in the Sudan's western region of Darfur, which is facing a serious security and humanitarian crisis, a source in Paris told PANA Wednesday.    02/05/2007   full text...
ICC issues arrest warrants for Darfur suspects
New York, UN (PANA) - The Hague (Netherlands)-based International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued their first arrest warrants for suspects implicated in war crimes in Sudan's restive Darfur region.    02/05/2007   full text...
UN extends missions in Sudan, SADR
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Security Council Monday extended the mandates of its peacekeeping missions in Sudan and Western Sahara for another six months, each.    30/04/2007   full text...
Kadhafi impressed by "international interest" in Darfur
Sirte, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Colonel Moammar Kadhafi, has hailed the interest shown by the international community in the Darfur, Sudan, issue, noting the concern was a sign of the world's interest in peace in the African continent.    30/04/2007   full text...
Darfur Day protestors seek UN intervention in Darfur
Paris, France (PANA) – Some 500,000 protesters in Paris on Saturday urged the UN to promptly sent an intervention force to Darfur, Sudan's western region that is facing a serious military and humanitarian crisis.    29/04/2007   full text...
AI says ethnic cleansing “underway” in Sudan's Darfur
Port,Louis Mauritius (PANA) – The Mauritian section of human rights lobby Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday intensified its campaign on Sudan's Darfur province after it issued an alert saying "ethnic cleansing is underway" in the restive region.    25/04/2007   full text...
UN to spend US$300 million on Darfur support package
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN Heavy Support Package to help end the war in Sudan's western region of Darfur will cost the world body more than US$300 million in the first six months, UN spokesperson Michele Montas said here Thursday.    19/04/2007   full text...
UN expresses concern on Sudan's arms build-up
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN today voiced its concern over the flying of arms and other military equipment into war-ravaged Darfur region.    18/04/2007   full text...
Sudanese armed groups still recruiting children - report
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The recruitment of child soldiers by armed groups in Sudan is continuing on a large-scale, according to the latest report by Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict released here Wednesday.    18/04/2007   full text...
AU spends US$25 million monthly on Darfur mission - Official
New York, UN (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is spending about US$25 million monthly on its peacekeeping mission in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur, according to the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Said Djinnit.    18/04/2007   full text...
UN welcomes new moves by Khartoum over Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday welcomed Sudan's acceptance of the UN heavy support package for African Union (AU) peacekeepers in war-ravished Darfur.    16/04/2007   full text...
UN condemns killing of AU peacekeeper in Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - The United Nations on Monday condemned the killing of an officer with the African Union (AU) peacekeepers in war-torn Darfur region.    16/04/2007   full text...
Sudan accepts UN heavy support package
New York, UN (PANA) - Ahead of Monday's crucial meeting between the African Union (AU) and United Nations in New York, the Sudanese government has accepted the UN heavy support package for AU peacekeepers in war-ravished Darfur.    16/04/2007   full text...
Konare deplores violence between Sudan and Chad
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - AU Commission President Alpha Oumar Konare has expressed "serious concern" over border clashes between government forces of Sudan and Chad on 11 April in the Khour Baranga area of western Darfur in Sudan, that left several casualties on both sides.    13/04/2007   full text...
Mbeki meets Sudanese President and First Vice President
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) - South African President Thabo Mbeki will begin a two-day working visit Tuesday to Khartoum and Juba in Sudan to hold discussions with President Omar el-Bashir and First Vice President Salva Kirr.    10/04/2007   full text...
Sudan promises to probe rape cases in Darfur
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan is ready to investigate and prosecute cases of sexual violence in the war-ravaged region of Darfur, Sudanese Justice Minister Ali al-Mardhi affirmed here Saturday.    07/04/2007   full text...
Sudan re-states opposition to UN peacekeepers in Darfur
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudanese justice minister Ali al-Mardhi said here Saturday that his country was ready to accept financial help for an African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, but would not admit "foreign forces" under the UN-AU hybrid mission.    07/04/2007   full text...
UN rights chief demands probe on Darfur sex violence
New York, UN (PANA) - UN human rights chief Louise Arbour Friday called for investigations into widespread sexual violence in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.    06/04/2007   full text...
UN, AU, Sudan to discuss Darfur peace mission
New York, UN (PANA) - The UN, the African Union (AU) and the Sudanese government are to meet in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Monday, to finalise a UN "heavy support package" to boost the AU mission in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said.    06/04/2007   full text...
AU mulls over AMIS beef-up to resist insurgency in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Though cash-strapped to keep up peacekeeping operations in Africa's trouble spots, the African Union (AU) Thursday said there was need to beef up its force in the restive Darfur region of western Sudan to six battalions.    05/04/2007   full text...
4 Senegalese peacekeepers died in Darfur attack
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Four Senegalese peacekeepers were killed and another one seriously wounded Sunday in Darfur in an attack perpetrated by elements of the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA), the Army Public Relations Division (Dirpa) said.    02/04/2007   full text...
Sudanese plane hijacking attempt foiled
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - An attempt to hijack a Sudanese plane that had left Tripoli, Libya, for Khartoum Friday morning failed after the aircraft landed safely in the Sudanese capital, according to Sudan's satellite TV channel.    30/03/2007   full text...
Kadhafi defends Sudan over Darfur
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan leader, Col. Moammar Kadhafi of Libya has reiterated Tripoli's position on Darfur, calling it an internal affair of Sudan.    28/03/2007   full text...
Letter from Sudanese president annoys UN Secretary-General
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed displeasure with the contents of a letter from Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir's concerning the crisis in Sudan's western Darfur region.    16/03/2007   full text...
Chissano brings in neighbours to save Uganda's peace talks
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - UN special envoy to northern Uganda, Joachim Chissano has called in South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Mozambthe to join peace talks between the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) and Kampala's peace negotiating Team.    14/03/2007   full text...
Rwandan threatens troop pullout from Darfur
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - President Paul Kagame of Rwanda on Wednesday threatened to withdraw Rwandan troops serving in the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan's western region of Darfur should the international community continue to remain passive over the crisis there.    14/03/2007   full text...
South Sudan President accuses Khartoum of reneging on 2005 CPA
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has accused the President Omar El-Bashir led Khartoum government of slowing down the implementation of the 9 January 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), by reneging on the protocols on sharing of oil revenue and the drawing of a common border.    13/03/2007   full text...
Ban weighs invitation by President Bashir to visit Sudan
New York, UN (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has invited UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in a telephone discussion, to visit Sudan which is shaken by armed crisis in its western Darfur region.    13/03/2007   full text...
El-Bashir challenges UN-AU troop plan for Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir has challenged the plan by the UN to deploy a hybrid force in Darfur, calling for more negotiations despite an earlier agreement in principle.    11/03/2007   full text...
UNHCR opens more exits for Sudanese returnees from Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency in Ethiopia Saturday opened two additional repatriation corridors enabling 828 Sudanese refugees to return to their home country voluntarily the same day.    10/03/2007   full text...
US envoy in Tripoli for talks on Darfur
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The US president's special envoy for Sudan, Andrew Natsios and his delegation arrived in Tripoli late Thursday for talks on the prevailing situation in Sudan's western region of Darfur, according to the local media Friday.    09/03/2007   full text...
BADEA chief on a visit to Niger Friday
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) director-general, Abdelaziz Khelef, arrives in Niamey, Niger, Friday, as part of a regional visit during which he will hold co-operation talks with top government officials.    08/03/2007   full text...
Morocco, Sudan sign judicial pact
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Morocco and Sudan on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on judicial cooperation, an official Moroccan source said here on Wednesday.    07/03/2007   full text...
Sudan's poverty programme gets AfDB support
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The African Development Fund (ADF), the confessional window of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group will support a capacity building and poverty reduction programme in Sudan with a grant of 9.62 million Units of Account (UA), equivalent to US$14.5 million, approved by the Fund's Board of Directors Wednesday in Tunis.    07/03/2007   full text...
New UN humanitarian chief to visit Sudan
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, John Holmes, said late Monday he will be visiting Sudan war-torn Darfur region, Chad and Central African Republic (CAR) "very soon".    06/03/2007   full text...
Kenya, Sudan and UNHCR discuss welfare of Sudanese refugees
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - A special Commission formed by Kenya, Sudan and the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, to oversee the return of thousands of Sudanese refugees, Thursday expressed fears over the fresh influx of asylum seekers from Southern Sudan.    01/03/2007   full text...
ICC to name Darfur war crime suspects
New York, US (PANA) - The UN-backed International Criminal Court (ICC) said it would next week name the first set of suspects of war crimes in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur.    23/02/2007   full text...
UN-AU envoys meet El-Bashir on Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - UN and AU envoys, ended their six-day special mission to Sudan at the weekend after talks with President Omar El-Bashir, UN spokesperson Michele Montas has said.    19/02/2007   full text...
Ban critical of Sudan's visa refusal to rights mission
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed sharp disappointment with Sudanese authorities for refusing to issue visa to the UN human rights mission to visit the war prone country.    16/02/2007   full text...
CAR, Sudan, Chad sign peace pact in France
Cannes, France (PANA) – Chad, the Central African Republic and Sudan, signed a peace accord late Thursday in Cannes, providing for the deployment of an international force along their common borders, African Union (AU) chairman, Ghanaian President John Kufuor announced here.    16/02/2007   full text...
Mauritania, Sudan sign investment pact
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Mauritanian Economic and Development Affairs Minister, Mohamed Ould Abed and Sudanese state Minister for Investment, Samih Sadigh Samih, have signed an agreement on fostering and mutually protecting investment, according to a government statement issued here late Friday.    10/02/2007   full text...
Sudanese president arrives in Nouakchott
Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) - Sudanese president, Omar Hassan Ahmed El Bechir, arrived Wednesday in Nouakchott for a two-day working and friendly visit in Mauritania.    07/02/2007   full text...
Paris confab on child soldiers chide Sudan over Darfur
Paris, France (PANA) - A conference on child soldiers, which began here last Monday late Tuesday repeatedly censured Sudan over the crisis in its western region of Darfur, currently facing a serious humanitarian crisis.    07/02/2007   full text...
UN mission in CAR to assess border with Sudan
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) – A 15-member UN mission arrived early Tuesday in Bangui to assess conditions for the deployment of a UN peacekeeping force along the border with Sudan.    30/01/2007   full text...
Opposition urges South Africa to deny Sudan AU chair
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), Monday urged Pretoria to ensure that Sudan did not assume the Chairmanship of the African Union (AU) at the 29-30 January summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.    22/01/2007   full text...
Sudan backs UN-AU hybrid force in Darfur, says Ban
New York, UN (PANA) - The Sudanese government is committed to the deployment of a hybrid UN-AU peacekeeping force in the country's troubled western region of Darfur, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has assured.    13/01/2007   full text...
Ban tasks Security Council on Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday urged the Security Council to step up efforts toward the resolution of the crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur.    08/01/2007   full text...
Darfur, Iraq, Middle East top on Ban's agenda
New York, UN (PANA) - UN new Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, assumed office Tuesday, promising to make the conflicts in Sudan's western region of Darfur, as well as Iraq and the Middle East, his top priorities.    02/01/2007   full text...
Sudan accepts deployment of UN-AU hybrid force in Darfur - Annan
New York, UN (PANA) - Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says Sudan has accepted a three-phased plan for the deployment of a hybrid UN-AU force in the country's strife-torn western region of Darfur.    28/12/2006   full text...
Darfur: UN moves to deploy police, military advisers
New York, UN (PANA) - The first set of United Nations police and military officers will be deployed to Sudan's war-torn Darfur region "in the next few days," according to a UN statement.    27/12/2006   full text...
Annan optimistic of Sudan's assent to hybrid force in Darfur
New York, UN (PANA) - Outgoing UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has said he was hopeful Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir would agree to the deployment of a UN-AU hybrid peace force in the troubled Darfur region of western Sudan.    23/12/2006   full text...
UN envoy, Al-Bashir hold 'good meeting' on Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - UN special envoy on Darfur, Ahmedou Ould- Abdallah has held "a good meeting" with Sudanese President Omar Al- Bashir in Khartoum, according to a UN official.    22/12/2006   full text...
Hollywood star Clooney calls for UN peacekeepers in Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - Hollywood star George Clooney has stressed the urgent need for a larger UN peacekeeping force for Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.    16/12/2006   full text...
Sudanese trek home from refugee camps in Ethiopia
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A group of 500 Sudanese, more than half of whom were born in exile, have started trekking to their home country from Ethiopia under a voluntary repatriation programme, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said here Thursday.    14/12/2006   full text...
UN human rights body to send mission to Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Human Rights Council Wednesday resolved to dispatch a five-member high-level mission to assess the situation in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur.    13/12/2006   full text...
Int'l Court could start Darfur trial February
New York, US (PANA) - The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) plans to commence trial of suspects indicted for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region by February next year, according to an official source.    13/12/2006   full text...
Bandits kidnap AMIS personnel in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Unidentified bandits have raided and hijacked two military personnel of the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS), the Force Command in El Fasher town of the war-ravaged Darfur region has said.    12/12/2006   full text...
Nigerian soldier said abducted in Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - Nigerian army Lieutenant Colonel RAK Adeniyi has been reported abducted in Sudan's war-torn western region of Darfur, a source close to the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS) said Monday.    11/12/2006   full text...
International Court to brief UN Security Council on Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - Individuals allegedly indicted in war crimes in Sudan's Darfur by the Hague (Netherlands)-based International Criminal Court (ICC) will soon face the music, as the court prepares to commence legal action, according to official sources.    09/12/2006   full text...
Sudanese refugees to get highest humanitarian aid
New York, US (PANA) - Victims of Sudan's war-torn Darfur region will receive 1.2 billion dollars worth of humanitarian assistance in 2007, UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland disclosed Friday in New York.    01/12/2006   full text...
AI appeals for protection of civilians in Darfur
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Concerned by the consistent failure of Sudanese authorities to protect civilians in the war-wracked Darfur region, Amnesty International (AI) Wednesday urged the African Union to ensure that the effective protection and human rights of the civilian population are at the centre of any peacekeeping operation in the region.    29/11/2006   full text...
Annan expects Khartoum's response Wednesday on UN-AU force plan
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday, he expected Sudan to respond by Wednesday to the proposed deployment of a UN-African Union force in the country's troubled western region of Darfur.    28/11/2006   full text...
Deployment of UN/AU force: Annan still awaits Bashir's reply
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said here Monday he was still waiting for a positive response from Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir, on the proposed deployment of a UN-African Union hybrid force in the country's strife-torn western region of Darfur.    27/11/2006   full text...
UN condemns rebel attacks in Chad
New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has condemned the military activities of Chadian rebels, who are reported to be advancing toward N'djamena, the nation's capital.    26/11/2006   full text...
UN awaits Sudan's response on hybrid force
New York, US (PANA) - The United Nations is still waiting for a response from the Sudanese government on the agreement reached last week for a hybrid UN-African Union (AU) force in the country's troubled western Darfur region.    23/11/2006   full text...
Paris to host forum on business prospects in Sudan
Paris, France (PANA) - A workshop on business opportunities in Sudan will take place 29 November in the Paris Trade and Industry Chamber, organisers said here Saturday.    18/11/2006   full text...
Sudan rejects planned UN-AU "hybrid force" in Darfur
New York, US (PANA) - On the eve of a crucial meeting in Addis Ababa on the escalating Darfur crisis, the Sudanese government has rejected a plan to deploy a joint UN-African Union (AU) force in country's troubled western region, a senior UN official has said here.    15/11/2006   full text...
UN, AU officials to meet on Darfur in Addis Ababa
New York, US (PANA) - UN and African Union (AU) officials are to hold a crucial meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, on the crisis in Sudan's western region of Darfur, a UN official has said here.    14/11/2006   full text...
Concerned CAR citizens denounce rebel activities
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) - Scores of Central Africans, including cabinet ministers and MPs, on Wednesday demonstrated in Bangui against rebels of the Union for Rally and Democracy for occupying the city of Birao, in the northeast of the country, since 30 October 2006.    09/11/2006   full text...
UN supports AU mission in Sudan
New York, US (PANA) - The UN is to despatch military equipment and personnel as well as police advisers to assist the African Union (AU) Mission in Sudan (AMIS), as part of efforts to ensure peace and security in the country's troubled western region of Darfur, a UN official has said.    08/11/2006   full text...
Sudan's wetlands listed in the Ramsar Convention list
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) – Conservation efforts aimed at preserving some of Africa's most important wetlands has received a major boost following the inclusion of the Sudd region, in southern Sudan, in the Ramsar Convention List of Wetlands of International Importance.    06/11/2006   full text...
CAR govt condemns attack from Sudan
Bangui, Central African Republic (PANA) - Authorities in the Central African Republic have condemned an "attack" by unidentified assailants on the city of Birao on late Saturday that left several victims, including soldiers.    31/10/2006   full text...
Ethiopian Airlines to launch Southern Sudan flights
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Ethiopian Airlines announced Friday it would launch direct flights to Southern Sudan capital Juba, from 16 November following increased demand for its services in that country.    27/10/2006   full text...
Wade briefs Kadhafi on Darfur efforts
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Senegalese president Abdoulaye Wade Tuesday briefed Libyan leader Moammar Kadhafi on contacts made with the stakeholders in the Darfur (western Sudan) crisis under the aegis of the initiative of senior African leaders committee to resolve the Darfur issue.    24/10/2006   full text...
EU rallies Arab League for AU military mission in Sudan
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - European Union Development and Humanitarian Aid Commissioner, Louis Michel plans to visit Tunis next Tuesday to meet Amr Moussa, secretary general of the Arab League, to seek financial support of member countries for the African Union's Military Mission in Sudan (AMIS).    24/10/2006   full text...
South Sudan probes killing of 38 civilians near River Nile
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Southern Sudan government officials said Friday investigations were ongoing on the death of some 38 civilians killed during attacks by unknown gunmen near Juba on Wednesday.    20/10/2006   full text...
Tripartite body probes Uganda ceasefire violation
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – A tripartite probe team has commenced inquiries into complaints by both the Ugandan army and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) of ceasefire violations filed to peace process mediator, Southern Sudan vice president, Reik Machar.    18/10/2006   full text...
Museveni to boost Uganda-LRA peace talks in Juba
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni is expected to fly to South Sudan's capital Juba Saturday to reassure the leadership of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) holding peace talks with the Kampala government, Ugandan State Minister for International Affairs, Henry Okello Oryem, said here Tuesday.    17/10/2006   full text...
Sanctions loom to pressure Sudan to accept UN peacekeepers
New York, US (PANA) - With the Sudanese government continuing to reject the deployment of UN peacekeepers to war-ravaged Darfur region, an international think tank has suggested the use of sanctions to increase pressure on Khartoum to accept the UN deployment.    16/10/2006   full text...
UN condemns upsurge in rape in Darfur
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Violence against women and children by warring groups is reaching alarming levels in Sudan's western region of Darfur, according to UN agencies.    10/10/2006   full text...
Tunisia beat Sudan 1-0 in Rades
Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian national football team on Saturday defeated Sudan in Rades, near Tunis, by one goal to nil, in the second round of the CAN qualifiers, whose finals will be hosted by Ghana in 2008.    08/10/2006   full text...
Sudan accepts UN help for African peacekeeping force
New York, UN (PANA) - The government of Sudan has accepted the United Nations' offer to support the African Union peacekeeping mission (AMIS) in the country's western region of Darfur, the UN announced on Friday.    07/10/2006   full text...
EC provides additional aid for war-ravaged Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Commission (EC) has freshly donated 26 million euros to efforts of the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan's crisis-ravaged western Darfur region.    05/10/2006   full text...
Ethiopia, Southern Sudanese officials discuss border peace
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Southern Sudanese Government representatives and their Ethiopian counterparts have concluded a one-day meeting to advance a peace process aimed at ending a 14-year conflict between the Lou and Jikany Nuer ethnic border communities.    04/10/2006   full text...
Uganda peace talks to resume after Kirr's intervention
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Ugandan peace talks are expected to resume at the weekend following the intervention of Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir, who has persuaded the leadership of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) to return to the negotiating table after pulling out citing violations of the cessation of hostilities agreement by Kampala.    30/09/2006   full text...
Sudan, World Bank launch micro-finance programme
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Central Bank of Sudan on Tuesday launched a 50 million US dollar micro-finance programme to improve the living standard of the poor but productive population segments living in the periphery of the economy.    27/09/2006   full text...
AI notes Khartoum's reaction to AU mission extension
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - UK-based international human rights group Amnesty International (AI) Thursday described the Khartoum government's agreement to an extension of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission in Sudan, AMIS, as a first step towards the protection of civilians in Darfur but insisted this must be followed by the deployment of UN peacekeepers.    21/09/2006   full text...
Sudan's El Bashir still rejects UN troops in Darfur
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - The Sudanese president, Omar Hassan El Bashir, Thursday in Casablanca reiterated his "categorical rejection" of the United Nations Resolution 1706 providing the deployment of UN troops to Darfur, describing it as "unacceptable, because based on false information and considerations".    21/09/2006   full text...
Nigerian Defence Minister cuts short Darfur trip over air crash
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - In the wake of Sunday's military plane crash that killed 10 army generals and two others in Nigeria, Defence Minister Rabiu Kwankwanso has cut short his trip to Sudan's western Darfur region, sources at the ministry said Monday.    18/09/2006   full text...
Concerned groups protest in Paris over Darfur atrocities
Paris, France (PANA) – A protest meant to denounce violence which has been prevailing since 23 February 2003 in Darfur, will be staged in Paris Saturday, organisers told PANA Friday.    15/09/2006   full text...
Funding shortfall threatens refugees return to South Sudan
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said Friday it urgently needed additional donor support to avoid drastically curtailing its operations in Southern Sudan.    15/09/2006   full text...
Sudan's El Bashir to visit Gambia
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir arrives here Wednesday for a two-day working visit, a statement from President Yahya Jammeh's office disclosed Tuesday.    12/09/2006   full text...
AI says civilians in Darfur are "hostage" to Sudan-UN-AU deadlock
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The people of Darfur "are effectively being held hostage to the deadlock between the UN, the African Union (AU) and the Sudanese government in defiance of international revulsion at the suffering of ordinary Darfuris," Amnesty International (AI) has charged.    12/09/2006   full text...
Limited access leads to starvation in Darfur - WFP
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Hundreds of thousands of people in Darfur have gone hungry for three consecutive months because fighting and banditry have prevented the World Food Programme (WFP) from reaching them, the UN body disclosed here Monday.    11/09/2006   full text...
Rwandan troops soon to leave Darfur
Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The Rwandan contingent of the African Union (AU) peacekeeping mission will shortly leave the Sudanese region of Darfur as a result of the tripartite Rwanda-Sudan-AU discussion, media reports Tuesday quoted a military official as saying here.    05/09/2006   full text...
Opposition wants Pretoria intervene in Sudan
Johannesburg, South Africa (PANA) – Opposition Democratic Alliance has urged the South African government to urgently use its respected position and diplomatic muscle within Africa to prevent "an impending bloodbath" in Sudan's Darfur region.    04/09/2006   full text...
Arab League official chides Kenya, Ethiopia over Somali talks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An official of the Arab League Friday accused Somalia's neighbours of attempting to infiltrate the second round of peace talks between Somalia's transitional government and Islamic Courts slated for Saturday in Khartoum, Sudan.    01/09/2006   full text...
Press freedom groups demand release of US journalist in Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Press freedom groups have urged the Sudanese government to release American journalist, Paul Salopek, charged at the weekend with espionage and other crimes, three weeks after pro-government forces detained him in the war-torn western region of Darfur.    29/08/2006   full text...
Uganda LRA rebels to assemble in south Sudan under ceasefire accord
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leaders have ordered the rebel fighters to assemble in designated areas in southern Sudan, in line with a ceasefire accord reached with the Kampala government towards ending the 20-year-old civil war in northern Uganda.    28/08/2006   full text...
Darfur court tries US journalist for espionage
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese court based in war-torn Darfur region charged American journalist Paul Salopek here Saturday with espionage and two other criminal counts, three weeks after pro-government forces detained him in the region.    27/08/2006   full text...
Libya sends relief aid to flood victims in Sudan
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A cargo plane carrying relief supplies left Tripoli international airport on Friday for Sudan where populations in some regions of the Nile basin are victims of floods, official sources announced here.    25/08/2006   full text...
Sudan, Burundi discuss bilateral cooperation
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza Thursday received Senate Chairman Yahia Abdallah of Sudan with whom he discussed strategies to enhance bilateral cooperation between their countries.    24/08/2006   full text...
Burundi's Nkurunziza receives Sudan's Senate leader
Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza Thursday discussed with Yahia Abdallah, President of the Sudanese Senate, the strengthening of bilateral cooperation between their two countries, official sources said here.    24/08/2006   full text...
Rebel LRA faces military option if peace talks fail - Kiir
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) - Uganda and Southern Sudan plan to launch a joint offensive against the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) if ongoing peace talks fails, Sudanese first Vice President Salva Kiir has disclosed here.    20/08/2006   full text...
ICRC says Darfur situation remains volatile
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Rebels operating in Sudan's western region of Darfur killed eight aid workers employed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and robbed several workers in July, underlining the fragile security situation in the region, the relief agency said Thursday.    17/08/2006   full text...
UN warns of falling food stock in Sudan
New York, UN (PANA) - The World Food Program (WFP) warned Wednesday that the under-funding of its emergency aid requirements might force it to cut food rations in the coming months to six million people in Sudan.    16/08/2006   full text...
Sudan court jails Slovene envoy for espionage
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese court in crisis prone Darfur region has sentenced the special envoy of Slovene president Janez Drnovsek to Khartoum two years in jail for illegal entry and spying, an official source confirmed here Tuesday.    15/08/2006   full text...
Sudan, Mauritania resume full ties after 10-year hiatus
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan and Mauritania have agreed to normalise diplomatic relations after bilateral ties were broken for more than a decade, the state-run Sudan News Agency, SUNA reported here, quoting foreign affairs minister Ali Ahmed Karti, as saying.    15/08/2006   full text...
Uganda peace talks suffer hiccups
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Peace talks between Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are expected to resume Monday after they were adjourned Saturday over consensus on ceasefire, media reports said here Sunday.    13/08/2006   full text...
Southern Sudan prepares for Kenya's expert assistance
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Authorities in Southern Sudan plan to map out areas suspected to contain deadly explosives such as landmines left behind during the 21-year old civil war in the vast region to lessen dangers against foreign experts sent there to work, a senior official said here.    10/08/2006   full text...
Kenya, Southern Sudan sign education cooperation pact
Nairobi Kenya (PANA) , Kenya and Southern Sudan Wednesday signed an education cooperation agreement covering curriculum development and teacher training.    09/08/2006   full text...
Darfur Governor denounces Western colonisation
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - The state governor of Northern Darfur, Mohammad Yusuf Kibir has expressed opposition to any form of intervention by Western forces in Sudan and the transformation of the African Union mission into a UN mission, which according to him, would be a "new colonisation".    08/08/2006   full text...
Wade pledges to increase Senegalese peacekeepers in Darfur
Darfur, Sudan (PANA) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has pledged to increase the number of Senegalese contingent serving with the African Union (AU) Mission in Darfur from 622 to 1,000 troops.    07/08/2006   full text...
Southern Sudanese delegation studies Kenyan education system
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Southern Sudanese officials began a weeklong tour of Kenya Monday to study the country's education system, officials said here.    07/08/2006   full text...
Crisis persists in Darfur despite signed peace pact
El Fasher, Sudan (PANA) - Armed conflict continues to spread distress in the Darfur region (North Sudan) since 2003, leaving thousands dead and over one million displaced, despite a peace agreement signed last May in Abuja, Nigeria.    07/08/2006   full text...
Wade condemns 'tragedy' hitting Palestine, Lebanon
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Visiting President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal Sunday spoke against the "tragedy" being unleashed against the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon, saying it was "planned and executed while the world stands totally indifferent".    07/08/2006   full text...
AU envoy praises Wade's peace moves in Africa
Darfur, Sudan (PANA) - Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe, special representative of the African Union Commission Chairperson in Sudan has praised Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade for his firm commitment to peace and stability in Africa and the world at large.    07/08/2006   full text...
Moderate Darfur rebel leader arrives in Khartoum
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Leader of the former Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Arkua Minnawi has arrived in Khartoum to start practical implementation of the peace deal signed last May meant to end the bloody conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region.    07/08/2006   full text...
Wade impressed by Sudan industrial complex
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Visiting Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, who toured Sudan's GIAD industrial complex in Khartoum Saturday, said he was impressed with what he saw.    06/08/2006   full text...
Bashir names SLM leader Minawi Senior Adviser
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir has appointed Minni Arkua Minawi, leader of a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM), his Senior Assistant in an apparent move to rescue a fragile peace accord to end the civil war in the country's western region of Darfur, official sources said here.    06/08/2006   full text...
Sudan urges Senegal to speedily actualise bilateral accords
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan El- Beshir, Friday in Khartoum, called on his Senegalese counterpart, Abdoulaye Wade to speed up the implementation of the cooperation accords signed in 2003 between Sudan and Senegal as part of their bilateral joint commission.    05/08/2006   full text...
Wade warns against destabilisation of Chad
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Visiting Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, Friday in Khartoum, warned that destabilisation of Chad would have negative and incalculable impact in several Central African countries.    05/08/2006   full text...
Wade on three-day official visit to Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade arrived Friday evening in Khartoum for an official three-day visit at the invitation of his Sudanese counterpart, Omar Hassan El-Beshir.    05/08/2006   full text...
Wade intensifies mediation between Sudan, Chad
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade said upon arrival here Friday that he came to persuade his counterparts in Sudan and Chad to accept international observers along their common border to stem escalating cross-border raids.    05/08/2006   full text...
MSF decries heightened insecurity in Darfur
Paris, France (PANA) - Humanitarian NG0, Doctors Without Borders, with French acronym, MSF, has expressed concern over heightened insecurity in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, saying the situation hindered medical services in the area.    04/08/2006   full text...
Sudanese commemorate John Garang
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - amid renewed calls to uphold the fragile peace deal he brokered, thousands of Sudanese on Sunday marked the first anniversary of former southern rebel leader John Garang's tragic death in a helicopter crash one year ago.    31/07/2006   full text...
Kampala rejects LRA call for dissolution of Uganda national army
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Ugandan government has rejected the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) call for the dissolution of the country's national army at peace talks underway in southern Sudan capital city of Juba.    18/07/2006   full text...
Slow implementation of Sudan's CPA worries Salva Kiir
Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Sudan's First Vice-President Salva Kiir has lamented the lack of progress in the implementation of the 9 January 2004 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed between Northern and the Southern Sudan.    17/07/2006   full text...
Darfur conference for Brussels
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A multiparty conference on the security situation in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur, is to open in the Belgium capital, Brussels, Tuesday, official sources said here Monday.    17/07/2006   full text...
Sudanese delegation to visit N'djamena for talks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Sudanese delegation is to travel "soon" to N'djamena for talks aimed at dousing Sudan-Chad political tension, official sources said here Saturday.    15/07/2006   full text...
Uganda peace talks finally underway
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - After initial delays by both parties the long-awaited peace talks between the Ugandan government and rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are finally underway in the southern Sudan capital city of Juba, aimed at ending a two-decade bloody war.    15/07/2006   full text...
Kampala-rebel peace talks delayed
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – The peace talks between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) failed to start as scheduled Wednesday, with the Kampala government delegation saying it was waiting for go-ahead from the talks host and mediator, the South Sudan government.    12/07/2006   full text...
WFP loses two-thirds of funds for Sudan
Paris, France (PANA) - The WFP has lost in one year two-thirds of the funds for its interventions in Sudan, while it needs about $746 million in 2006 for its emergency operations in the country, an official source lamented here Monday.    10/07/2006   full text...
Uganda extends peace talks deadline with LRA rebels
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Uganda has extended by two months to September the deadline for the conclusion of planned peace talks with the leadership of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an official said here Monday.    10/07/2006   full text...
UN accuses Minnawi faction of rape, murder in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Sunday accused fighters of the former main rebel group in the western Darfur region of raping and murdering civilians in fighting against rebel factions that rejected a recent peace deal.    10/07/2006   full text...
UNHCR notes 'modest landmark' in taking southern Sudanese home
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has said the number of refugees repatriated to southern Sudan under a UN- backed program has passed 10,000, describing it as a "modest landmark" in bringing home some 350,000 refugees from the region.    09/07/2006   full text...
Southern Sudan readies for Kampala, rebels talks
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) is gearing up to host the 12 July controversial negotiations between the Ugandan government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Juba, the capital of southern Sudan.    09/07/2006   full text...
UN to end mission in eastern Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN is to close its mission in eastern Sudan after thousands of former southern rebels have been moved to the southern region following last year's comprehensive peace deal, a UN statement said.    08/07/2006   full text...
Guebuza receives Sudanese envoy
Maputo, Mozambique (PANA) - Mozambican President Armando Guebuza Thursday received a special envoy from Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir, who invited the Mozambican leader to the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACP) group meeting to be held Khartoum in December.    06/07/2006   full text...
Sudan expels Chadian military personnel from Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has ordered Chadian military personnel working with African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the conflict prone western Darfur region to quit the area immediately, clearly sign of unresolved antagonism between both countries.    03/07/2006   full text...
Sudanese parliament ratifies Darfur peace accord
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese National Assembly has ratified the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) between the Khartoum government and the main rebel movement in Darfur to end some three years of fighting the country's western region.    02/07/2006   full text...
Israeli troops kill Sudanese man in border shooting
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Israeli troops on Friday shot dead a Sudanese man who tried to flee an army patrol after illegally crossing the border from Egypt, press reports said on Saturday.    01/07/2006   full text...
Museveni names team for peace talks with rebel LRA in South Sudan
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni has named a government team for peace talks with the leadership of the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), an official statement said here.    29/06/2006   full text...
SLM delegation en route for Libya-brokered meeting
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Senior members of the main group of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) are in Khartoum to strategize how to implement the recently signed Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) that is intended to end what the UN had describes as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.    27/06/2006   full text...
Triki hails disarming of Darfur janjaweeds
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan secretary for African Union Affairs, Dr Ali Triki, has commended Sudanese authorities for the measures taken to disarm Janjaweed militias in conformity with the Darfur peace agreement, signed on 6 May, in Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital, a Libyan official source has revealed.    27/06/2006   full text...
UN envoy to explain Darfur rebel leader's chopper ride
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - United Nations Special Envoy to Khartoum, Jan Pronk, will Monday meet authorities in Khartoum to explain the alleged airlift of a Darfur rebel leader who rejects a recent peace deal brokered by the African Union.    26/06/2006   full text...
Diarrhoea epidemic hits North Sudan
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A total of 2,007 cases of acute watery diarrhoea, including 77 deaths, have been reported in northern Sudan since last April, the country's health ministry reported here Sunday.    25/06/2006   full text...
Sudan suspends UN operations in troubled Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has ordered local authorities in Darfur to suspend UN activities in the region, except humanitarian operations by the World Food Programme and international aid agencies.    25/06/2006   full text...
US, Britain back ICC warrants for LRA leaders
Kampala, Uganda (PANA) – US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Gendayi Frazer, has said the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) question is no longer a Ugandan issue, but an international affair because the LRA killed other nationals and was a threat to peace in the region.    22/06/2006   full text...
Konare, El Bashir discuss peacekeeping in Darfur
Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Despite Sudan's concern regarding peacekeeping by the United Nations in the war-torn Darfur region, authorities in the country were not rejecting the move, Alpha Oumar Konare, Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission said here Thursday.    22/06/2006   full text...
Obasanjo: Nigeria remains engaged in Sudan peace talks
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - President Olusegun Obasanjo says Nigeria will continue to encourage all stakeholders in Darfur to accept the recent peace agreement signed on Sudan's troubled western Darfur region.    22/06/2006   full text...