New York- US (PANA) -- The UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) is training the police in southern Sudan to enable them provide security for the upcoming referenda on the self-determination in the Sudanese region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omer El-Bashir said his government w ould ensure that the 9 January, 2011, vote to determine whether South Sudan woul d declare independence is conducted on time. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government has denied reports that Preside nt Omer El-Bashir was planning to postpone the 2011 referendum on the independen c e of the oil-rich Southern Sudan region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government has denied reports that Preside nt Omer El-Bashir was planning to postpone the 2011 referendum on the independen c e of the oil-rich Southern Sudan region. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- Haile Menkerios, the UN Secretary-General's Special Representative in Sudan, has welcomed the appointment of an independent body to oversee preparations for a referendum on whether southern Sudan should secede from the rest of the country. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- With more than 80 ethnic communities, the referendum on the autonomy of South Sudan is seen in certain circles as the impetus the fractious region needs to relapse into conflict, but this time round it will be a civil war without the direct participation of the North,reports published here said. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omer al Bashir has agreed to form a national referendum commission to organize a landmark vote that could see the semi-independent Southern Sudan vote to secede, state media reported on Sunday. Full text...

Banjul- Gambia (PANA) -- The Executive Director of Africa Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS), Ousman Hummaida, has said the recent elections in Sudan w e re included in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) as a mechanism to address key causes of conflict in the country, PANA reported from here Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Sudanâ?s National Elections Commission (NEC) s hould thoroughly review the results of the recent general election and as quickl y and widely as possible publish the results of individual polling stations in or d er to provide greater transparency and build public confidence, a top monitoring group of the polls has said. Full text...

Paris- France (PANA) -- France has taken note of the result of the Sudanese gener al elections in which incumbent President Omar al-Bashir was declared winner by t he Electoral Commission with nearly 68% of the votes cast, according to a statem e nt issued by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and copied to PANA Tuesday i n Paris. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Journalist Lubna Hussein elicited unprecedented interna tional attention when she allegedly challenged traditional African and Islamic religious edicts on womenâ?s dressing, painting her society as conservative, unprogressive and unresponsive to individual liberties and rights. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The International Criminal Court (ICC) may have inadver tently played a critical role in the widely expected re-election of Sudanese Pre s ident Omar Hassan Ahmed el-Bashir in the country's recently concluded elections t hat also attracted 11 other contestants. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Two organisations, the African Union and the Intergover nmental Authority on Development (IGAD), on Sunday hailed Sudan for a peaceful p o lling and vote counting. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's opposition leader, Dr Elsadiq Elshadi el-Mahdi, who contested last week's presidential election on the ticket of the Umma party , has said he is ready to join a national unity government with the ruling Nationa l Congress Party (NCP), which is expected to win by a landslide. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The European Union and the Carter Centre said they would back the Sudanese polls despite the significant deficiencies detected in the organisationa and polling process. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan, (PANA) -- President Omar Hassan el-Bashir got off to a promising start as the presidential polls count began, posting margins of between 85 and 95 per cent in election centres in and around the capital Khartoum. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Parliamentary Speaker, Atem Garang, is among t he 27 parliamentarians elected by acclamation after a record five days of voting in Sudanâ?s historic presidential, parliamentary and state governorship election s. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan, (PANA) -- President Omar Hassan el-Bashir got off to a promising start as the counting of the presidential poll count began, posting margins of b etween 85 and 95 per cent in election centres in and around the capital Khartoum . Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Network for Democratic Elections (SuNDE) on Fr iday condemned the ejection of its observers by security personnel from polling s tations in South Sudan. Full text...

New York- US (PANA) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, has welcomed the new dev elopment in Sudan's first national elections in 24 years, which have ended acros s the African country. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Former Ghanaian President John Kufuor has hailed Sudanese elections as “a step forward in democratization,” saying the pols had raised the bar for African countries scheduled to hold elections later in the year. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- President Omar Hassan el-Bashir, who is expected to win the ongoing elections in the Sudan, scoffed here Thursday at calls by the opposition for the dissolution of the current government and instead constitute a government of national unity to oversee fresh polls. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government declared a national holiday Thursday - the last day of voting - to allow increased voter participation in the countryâ?s first democratic elections in almost a quarter century. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan’s governing party, the National Congress Party (NCP), exuded confidence here Wednesday, just a day before the extended period of polling comes to an end. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Observer Mission of the Organization of African Tra de Union Unity (OATUU)Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the f i rst national general election in Sudan in more than a quarter century. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Presidential candidates representing Sudan’s main political parties, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Umma Reform and Renewal Party, have called for the disbandment of the National Electoral Commission. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The US Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, is due to present a report on the presidential elections in Sudan after observing two days of voting, marred by widespread fraud and missing voter registers, a US State Department official said in Washington on Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A presidential candidate in semi-autonomous Southern Su dan, Dr Lam Akol Ajawin, who is pitted against incumbent Salva Kiir Mayardit, Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the country's National Electoral Commission (NEC), accusing it of favouring rivals and failing to act against ele ctoral fraud. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- After voting was extended by two days in Sudan's landma rk election Monday evening, it is now expected that poll results will be delayed for an unknown period, PANA reported Tuesday The National Electoral Commission (NEC) decided to extend voting by two more day s Monday evening, after delays were reported in remote areas in the south and Darfur province. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan's National Electoral Commission (NEC) has extende d by two days the voting period in the current Sudanese general elections. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan’s electoral body said Monday it was studying requests by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) to extend the voting period by a maximum of four days. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A Sudanese political party, the Beja Congress, said Monday its supporters and party agents were kidnapped at gunpoint hours after elections kicked off in Sudan’s presidential, parliamentary and state governorship elections. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The voter-turnout by Sudanese nationals resident in Kenya was a mere 67 per cent on Monday, the second day of a three-day exercise in Sudan’s historic elections. Full text...

Juba- Sudan (PANA) -- Eager voters in Sudanâ?s historic presidential, parliamentary and governorship elections queued to vote on Monday, the second day of a three-day voting period, which has been marred by a shortage of ballots and missing names from the voter register. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- Only 100,000 Sudanese, eligible to participate in their first polls in 25 years, were registered in 18 countries while a record 83% of the target number of 19. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The parliamentary election, part of the three-day genera l elections which began Sunday in Sudan, is the sixth in the nation's history, according to Sudanese political sources. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- The Presidential elections in Sudan should help in opening the democratic space in the vast oil-rich African country and pave the way for the smooth implementation of the landmark Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA),which ended the North-South civil war, UN chief Ban Ki-Moon said. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- In the first elections in the largest country in Africa in decades, Sudanese in Ethiopia have began casting their ballots late Sunday morning. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Voting in Sudan's first polls in 25 years and the six th since independence in 1952 kicked off peacefully here Sunday despite initial fears of potential voter apathy after 13 parties pulled out, alleging massive irregularities. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A member of the Sudanese National Elections Commission, Dr. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudan is ready for the polls, the National Electoral Co mmission (NEC) chairman, Mr. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) Election Observation Mission has withdrawn from Darfur, the western province of Sudan, after "noting the impo s sibility of fulfilling its task in the region," an EU source said. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- The Carter Centre announced Thursday that forme r US President Jimmy Carter and three other eminent persons will lead the Centreâ?s international election observation delegation to observe Sudanâ?s elections this month. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- An election observation mission of the European Parli ament will leave Brussels Wednesday for Sudan where it will oversee the presiden t ial elections scheduled from 11 to 13 April, according to an EU statement issued Tuesday in the Belgian capital. Full text...

Accra- Ghana (PANA) â" Ghana's former President Jo-hn Agyekum Kufuor, who is hea ding the African Union (AU) Observer Mission in Sudan's elections said on Monday that the continental body was neutral in the vote stressing that it did not favo u r any of the contesting political parties. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- All parties in Sudan should work urgently to ensure that the upcoming elections in the country can proceed peacefully and credibly, foreign ministers of the United States, Norway and United Kingdom have said in a joint statement made available to PANA here Friday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- Authorities in Khartoum have rigged the 11-13 A pril elections in the troubled western Sudan region of Darfur to return an indic t ed president and his party to power with catastrophic consequences for Sudan, th e International Crisis Group (ICG) charged Wednesday. Full text...

Dar es Salaam- Tanzania (PANA) -- While much has been achieved in organising the 2010 elections in Sudan, the country’s first competitive elections since 1986, the process remains at risk on multiple fronts, including the ability of candidates to campaign freely and the impact of delayed logistical preparations by the National Elections Commission (NEC), the Carter Centre said Thursday. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The European Union (EU) has set up an election ob server team to witness Sudanâ?s historic presidential elections to be held 11 April. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) diplomats met to discuss an as sessment report for the elections in Sudan, amid fears that insecurity and lack o f proper roads could affect the April polls, a Sudanese envoy said Wednesday. Full text...