New York, US (PANA) - As it continues its investigations into the mass rape of 200 women and Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN Security Council has expressed concern over allegations of Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Sudan has criticised UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon for questioning an initial UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) report that there was no evidence of mass rape, allegedly committed by Sudanese soldiers, in a remote Darfurian village.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said he is deeply troubled about persistent allegations of mass rape in Tabit, North Darfur, and urged Sudanese government Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - After being granted access on Sunday to investigate allegations of the mass rape of 200 women and girls in a town in North Darfur, Sudan, the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has said that its team found no evidence confirming the claims and received no information regarding the purported acts. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The European Union (EU) says following its field visit to Darfur, it has come to a conclusion that no military solution will work in Darfur. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has expressed its "deep Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) Thursday expressed Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - African Union-UN Special Representative for Darfur (UNAMID), Mr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, says although fighting between Sudanese government forces and armed movements ebbed considerably during the past months, inter-communal violence and acts of banditry continue to be a challenge for the people of Darfur.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) has rated the performance of the UN African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) as poor.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday scheduled the opening of the trial of Mr. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain on 18 November 2014, for three charges of war crimes allegedly committed in Darfur, Sudan.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Darfur Internal Dialogue and Consultation (DIDC) Implementation Committee was launched on Monday at a ceremony hosted by the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) in Al-Fashir, North Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed the arrival of a ship carrying 47,250 metric tons of sorghum - enough food to feed 1.7 million people for three months in Sudan's Darfur region - donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the UN agency said in a statement received by PANA in Khartoum Tuesday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Under Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous has called for more international support for the Darfur peace process, following stepped-up rebel attacks, clashes fuelled by local political rivalries and mass displacement sparked by the abuses of a pro-government militia. Full text...

New York,US (PANA) - The Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Wednesday decided to vacate the date of 5 May 2014, initially scheduled for the opening of the trial in the case The Prosecutor v. Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain, on alleged war crimes committed in Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese army said Tuesday that 75 rebel soldiers and four government troops were killed in recent fighting in the country's North Darfur state. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – Sudan on Wednesday called on the US Administration to reverse its position regarding the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), which calls for an alternative forum for peace in Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum,Sudan (PANA ) - The Sudanese government has accused unnamed Western powers of backing rebel movements in Darfur and urged those powers to be fair and denounce recent extensive attacks by rebels on villages in parts of Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Chairman of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA), Dr. Tigani Sese, has called for a rapid intervention by the authorities to check current wide scale attacks in which scores of villages have been burnt in Darfur. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on Monday said it is deeply Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - A continued commitment to the implementation of the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), particularly the Final Security Arrangement, was the focus of the Third Meeting of the DDPD Joint Commission Tuesday in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Dozens of newly-recruited Prison workers in Darfur region have started a training session here, designed to equip them with the capacity to reform offenders in their care, according to a press statement issued by the African Union (AU) and received by PANA here Tuesday. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN/AU envoy in Darfur, Mr. Mohammed Iban Chambas, has stressed that it is only through dialogue and negotiation that the crisis in the Sudanese region can be resolved. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned a "cowardly" attack on a convoy of the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which left two peacekeepers dead, a UN statement said on Monday. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Wednesday said five persons released by a Darfuri rebel movement have been transported to the Sudanese government, bringing to 10 the number of such operations this year.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has said that reconstruction and development of 315 projects, in line with the Darfur Development Strategy, have commenced in Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Nine persons have been killed and four others injured in an attack by unknown armed men in Central Darfur State, according to Saturday's edition of the Al Rai Al Aam (public opinion) daily newspaper. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) – The Chief Prosecutor of the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC), Ms. Fatou Bensouda, has urged the UN Security Council to take firm action to bring those indicted for war crimes in Sudan's Darfur region to justice. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The African Union-United Nations Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has strongly urged the Darfur non-signatory movements to explore ways to move the peace process forward. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN Humanitarian office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) on Monday said that the humanitarian community in West Darfur has established a telephone hotline in an attempt to improve communications and to allow nearly 354,000 displaced people across 38 camps to share their needs and concerns.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Launching its campaign to crush rebel movements in Darfur, South Kordufan and Blue Nile state this year, the Sudanese government forces reported that they killed 36 rebels of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) in fighting in eastern Jebel Marrah area in west Sudan’s Darfur region, near the borderline with Chad.Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations/African Union Hybrid operation in Darfur (UNAMID) has tasked traditionally male-dominated communities to involve women in local administration, saying less than 1 percent of women are involved in such processes. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) – The Sudanese government has said it will do everything humanly possible end the rebellion in west Sudan’s Darfur region by the end of this year, the official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported Monday, quoting the country's Interior Minister, Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said they have killed tens of rebels and captured nine others, while three SAF soldiers have been killed in clashes with rebel movements in South Darfur State. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN/AU Joint Special Representative in Darfur, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, has said the situation in Sudan’s Darfur region is marked by limited progress in the peace process, a troubling security situation and the continued need for substantial humanitarian assistance. Full text...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Some 40 women representatives of civil society organizations from North Darfur have met in Fashir where they discussed ways of realizing peace and implementing the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), signed in the Qatari capital of Doha on 14 July, 2010.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The Trial Chamber IV of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Friday terminated its case against Saleh Mohammed Jerbo, a Sudanese, who was facing charges of alleged war crimes committed in Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Mohamed Ibn Chambas, the UN/AU Joint Representative in Darfur has warned that the deteriorating security situation in the Sudanese region could undermine the peace process and development programmes. Full text...

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...