Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur has expressed concern over the recent clashes between two Darfurian tribes that left dozens dead, with tension still running high in East Darfur state, near the borders with South Sudan and Central African Republic. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nine civilians were killed in Darfur’s region in the last two days in separate clashes between Arab and Fur tribes, in yet the most fresh inter-tribal fighting in the region, and two weeks after the federal government brokered an agreement between two ethnic groups in fighting that left dozens dead. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has unanimously extended the operations of the UN peacekeeping operations in Cote d’Ivoire and in Sudan's Darfur region.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint Special Representative of the UN/AU Mission in Darfur, Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has strongly condemned ''the senseless and unprovoked attack'' by unidentified gunmen on the African Union/UN Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeepers Saturday in which seven Tanzanian peacekeepers were killed and 17 others wounded. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations office in Sudan on Sunday expressed sadness over the killing of two local staff members of an international non-governmental organization, World Vision International, in clashes in Darfur region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda has stressed the need for the UN Security Council to take a decisive action against those responsible for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region, saying the plight of the victims has Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Under Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ms. Valerie Amos, on Wednesday said the international community must do more to ensure the people of Sudan's Darfur region can better provide for themselves. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union (AU) on Monday described the killing of two former rebel leaders, who had joined the peace process in Darfur, as a “cowardly act” that seeks to dissuade other movements from joining the peace process.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The peace keeping mission in Darfur on Monday denounced the killing Sunday of two former rebel leaders, who had signed the Doha Peace document in April this year, while on their way in a convoy from Chad to Sudan.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Qatar has pledged to provide US$ 500 million for the rehabilitation of War-fatigued region of Darfur of western Sudan, out of the total sum of US$ 7.5 billion estimated to bring the area out of its current state of misery. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has complained that verification teams it dispatched to probe how over 30 Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs) were abducted last week, have been frustrated by local authorities. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The UN has commended recent reconciliatory moves between two sub-tribal groups fighting over traditional gold mining rights, creating a peaceful atmosphere for the delivery of much needed humanitarian assistance to the needy in Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday said it had transported medical supplies to thousands of persons affected by recent tribal conflicts in Darfur region, Western Sudan. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese government has given the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) 800 million Sudanese pounds (about US$ 130 million) as its commitment to efforts to remove the obstacles militating against the implementation of an agreement reached between it and groups of Darfur Rebel movement. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Twenty-eight people have either been killed and wounded in renewed tribal clashes between the Rizaigat Abbalah and Bene Hussein, both Arab tribes, in Sudan's Central Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said it has sent a medical team to help evacuate and treat victims of tribal clashes in Sudan's western Darfur region, where dozens are reported killed or injured. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is undertaking a series of inter-community dialogues aimed at mitigating tension and deadly clashes between farmers and herders in North Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it has facilitated the return of three members of the Sudanese Armed Forces, who were released by the Darfur rebel Sudan Liberation Army, headed by former Presidential Assistant Minni Arku Minawi (SLA-MM). Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Although protracted civil war and other violent activities have led to the proliferation of hundreds of thousands of light weapons in the hands of civilians, mostly herders, nomads and farmers, in Darfur, recent government efforts to mop up those weapons have started paying off. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The death toll from the Yellow fever outbreak in Sudan's western Darfur region has gone up to 107 from the 358 cases reported, khartoum local media reported, quoting the Health Under-Secretary, Dr. Isam Mohamed Abdulla. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) are mobilizing 2.4 million doses of Yellow Fever vaccines, provided by the International Coordinating Group on Vaccine (ICG), to enable them conduct an emergency response vaccination campaign in Darfur, a press release by the WHO indicated Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A verification team of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has found a village in north Darfur, Sudan, completely deserted and houses destroyed and burnt, apparently as a result of a recently reported violence, UNAMID said in a statement obtained by PANA here Thursday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Red Crescent Society on Tuesday said it dispatched a medical team to help fight yellow fever, which reports say claimed the lives of dozens of people in the Central Darfur state, one of five states in the war-fatigued Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan (OCHA) has said that an outbreak of yellow fever in a number of localities in Darfur has killed at least 32 persons and affected dozens others.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan ( PANA) - Ambassadors of seven European countries have paid a visit to the Darfur region where they met with internally-displaced persons (IDP), representatives of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and Sudanese government officials, the European Union (EU) said in a statement Monday. Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - An African Union/UN Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) peacekeeper has been killed during a firefight and three others wounded while returning from a verification mission, the force said Wednesday.Full text...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - A ceasefire monitoring panel set up under the Doha peace accord has decried the lack of meaningful progress in disarming the Sudanese rebel groups that signed up to the deal. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Regional authorities on Tuesday said they freed five local government officials in Darfur, ending more than 65 days of captivity at the hands of a Darfur rebel faction, the Sudan Liberation Movement, who they accused of abusing and maltreating them. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - At least eight civilians were killed and hundreds of others displaced when heavy rains and flash floods ravaged the war-affected Darfur region of western Sudan, the United Nations said in a weekly news bulletin Monday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Tuesday warned that time was running out for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar Hassan El-Bashir and proposed that an arrest warrant against the Sudanese leader be enforced by regional organizations. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Four peacekeepers from the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were shot and injured while on patrol in Darfur, UNAMID said in a statement issued on Saturday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Joint Special Representative for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and Joint Chief Mediator, Ibrahim Gambari, on Friday expressed serious concern over developments in the Southern Darfur, following attacks by armed movements on three towns earlier this week. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - An innovative pump, in which water is drawn when children play on a merry-go-round, has recently been installed by UNAMID in Abu Shouk village, near Al Fasher, North Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Hundreds of women, men and children, including internally-displaced persons, took part in festivities, jointly sponsored by the Governor of North Darfur state, the United Nations (UN) Country Team, and the African Union/United Nations Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID), the peace keeping body said in a statement Thursday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Officials of the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) led by Mr Stephen O'Brien, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development, has visited Darfur to gain first-hand assessment of the humanitarian situation, a UNAMID press release said in Khartoum on Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Darfurian rebels have freed 55 international peacekeepers after holding them for two days, the UN/African Union Peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said Tuesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said Wednesday's inauguration of the Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) marked an important milestone in the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD) and a significant step forward in the pursuit of permanent peace in the area. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has strongly condemned Saturday's attack on a UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which resulted in one death, and called on the Sudanese government to bring the perpetrators to justice. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The UN/African Union peace mediator in Darfur, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, said Wednesday that the parties to the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region were inching closer to a comprehensive peace agreement. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, Herve Ladsous, on Wednesday said initial steps by the Sudanese government and one of the rebel movements in Darfur to implement the peace document signed in Qatar last year have been promising, and urged the international community to support their efforts. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday in New York renewed his call for the arrest and transfer of those alleged to have committed genocide and crimes against humanity in Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The head of the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, has urged the United Kingdom to support the Darfur peace deal signed in Doha, Qatar, which the envoy said was on the cusp of making real progress, a press release issued by the hybrid organization in London and received by PANA here, said Friday. Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - International envoys drawn from the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) joined a worldwide final push for Darfur’s rebel movements to unconditionally end fighting and sign the Doha Peace Accord, negotiated with the Sudanese government. Full text...

Paris, France (PANA) - France has condemned Monday's attack on the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) patrol, where three of its members were killed, the spokesman of the French Foreign Affairs ministry, Bernard Valero, declared Wednesday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The leading rebel movement in Darfur has consented to prohibit the recruitment of children by any armed group in the trouble-ridden region, turned to a theatre of conflict since 2003. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The joint UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said on Thursday that it was using puppets to raise awareness among local school children on the dangers of interacting with unexploded ordnance (UXO).Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A Pakistani team within the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has conducted one-day free medical service to the public at the Nahada Hospital in Nyala, South Darfur, the mission said in a press statement Wednesday. Full text...