Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- UN Secretary General Kofi Annan Wednesday reiterated calls for a speedy solution to fighting in western Sudan region of Darfur, saying it impacts negatively on recent efforts to achieve lasting peace in the vast African nation. Full text...

New York- UN (PANA) -- The UN Security Council has called for "sustained pressure" on the Sudanese Government to find a solution to the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region, saying it reserved the right to take tougher actions if Khartoum fails to renege on commitments to end the human rights abuses and restrictions on aid workers in the area. Full text...

Cotonou- Benin (PANA) -- A Chadian resistance movement, the Freedom and Renewal Front (FLR) has called for an international and independent inquiry into the crisis in the western Sudanese region of Darfur bordering Chad. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The fifth ordinary session of the African Union's Executive Council, which ended here on Monday, expressed concerns about the risk of regional destabilisation likely to be prompted by the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (Ethiopia) -- The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Alpha Konare is insisting on the need for political negotiations to solve the crisis in Darfur, where a communal animosity has complicated an uprising between the Sudanese government and two rebel movements. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- There is no genocide, famine or epidemics in Darfur in western Sudan as reported by the international media, according to Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman attending a meeting here. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Extreme violence and brutality in the Darfur region of western Sudan where two rebel movements revolted last year against alleged insensitivity of the government have left about half million children traumatised, UNICEF laments in a fresh report. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- The EU humanitarian agency ECHO has provided aid worth 3. Full text...

Abuja- Nigeria (PANA) -- Former force commander of the ECOWAS Mission in Liberia (ECOMIL), Festus Okonkwo of Nigeria has assumed duty as Chief Military Observer of the African Union (AU) Observer Mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, Nigerian military sources confirmed here. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A significant number of children displaced by the conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur have either been direct victims of violence or have witnessed violent acts, UNICEF affirmed Friday. Full text...

Ouagadougou- Burkina Faso (PANA) -- The Inter-African Human Rights Union (UIDH) has denounced what it said were "massive human rights violations perpetrated by the Sudanese government on the populations of the Darfur region". Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- The Secretary of the Libyan General People's Committee for Foreign Relations and International Cooperation (Foreign Minister), Abderrahman Chalgham, on Wednesday announced that Libya was ready to serve as transit point for sending humanitarian aid to refugees and war victims in Sudan's Darfur region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Wednesday started an airlift of enriched food from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to Sudan's troubled North Darfur and South Darfur states to feed the most vulnerable among some one million people uprooted from their homes by conflict. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The fifth ordinary session of the executive council of the African Union (AU) started Wednesday in Addis Ababa, with the AU Commission chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare declaring that the continental body would support all the efforts made by the Sudanese government to resolve the conflict currently raging in its western region of Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashir Tuesday affirmed his commitment to a full implementation of the peace agreement signed recently in Kenya between Khartoum and the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M), as well as a ceasefire with rebel movements in the restive western region of Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- US Secretary of State Colin Powell is due here Tuesday to appraise the humanitarian situation in Darfur, but more especially to push for Khartoum to check pro- government Arab militia reportedly on the rampage in the troubled region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohammed Taha charged here Sunday that the US and the European Union were fussing unduly over the troubles in Darfur and playing up the conflict ostensibly "to detract from historic moves to achieve final peace in southern Sudan". Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- As the international community steps up pressure on Khartoum over the crisis in Darfur, UN secretary general Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State Colin Powell are due here separately next Tuesday for a firsthand appraisal of the humanitarian in the restive region. Full text...

Nairobi- Kenya (PANA) -- President Mwai Kibaki Friday said that his Government was prepared to use all resources at its disposal to ensure a speedy conclusion to the Sudan peace process. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A contingent of five Kenyan military personnel left Khartoum this week after a three-day briefing for the western Sudan frontier town of El Fasher to be part of an African Union (AU) monitoring team already on the ground in the troubled region of Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Three days after the government of Sudan demanded all outlawed groups in Darfur to disarm, authorities in Khartoum have vowed to dismantle the notorious Janjaweed militias, accused of committing atrocities in Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Authorities in Khartoum have strongly rejected plans by the European Union (EU) to send a team to monitor the truce between the government and two rebel movements in Sudan's war-ravaged western Darfur region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare left Addis Ababa Sunday for a two-day tour of the strife-torn region of Darfur in western Sudan. Full text...

Dakar- Senegal (PANA) -- The Dakar-based African Assembly for Human Rights Advancement (RADDHO) on Wednesday accused African leaders and the international community of being indifferent to the carnage in Sudan's western Darfur region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy stressed the need Tuesday to step up the delivery of health and education services in Sudan's restive regions, particularly Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A rebel group in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur has abducted at least 12 persons, the government in Khartoum charged Monday, saying this was in violation of a ceasefire agreement signed last 8 April. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- Libyan deputy Secretary for external relations and international cooperation, Mohamed Siala, and USAID programme officer for disaster assistance, Richard Owener, on Sunday examined ways to open a corridor to deliver humanitarian aid to refugees of the western Sudanese region of Darfur. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- An ambitious plan to vaccinate millions of children against measles is underway in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, UNICEF and the World Health Organisation disclosed Monday. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- One of the two rebel movements in Sudan's western region of Darfur Sunday threatened to resume fighting against government troops if the recent peace agreement between Khartoum and the south Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) is not extended to Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- At least 16 people working with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) were abducted Saturday by the rebels of Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) in the troubled western region of Darfur, according to official sources in Khartoum. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- The Sudanese government and its main opposition in the western Darfur region Friday signed an agreement on setting up a ceasefire commission and promptly began talks here on how it will operate in the war-ravaged region. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- A consultative meeting on the current crisis in the Darfur Region of western Sudan opened late Thursday at the Commission of the African Union. Full text...

Brussels- Belgium (PANA) -- Belgian deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Louis Michel on Monday expressed serious concern about the "unacceptable developments" in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, roundly condemning the atrocities perpetrated there. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Khartoum, citing complaints from local officials in Darfur saying she was "not cooperative," Saturday ordered the UN representative for humanitarian assistance in restive Darfur, Helen Kitrbak to leave Sudan within 72 hours. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- A donor conference on the humanitarian situation and flow of aid to war victims in Sudan's troubled western region of Darfur has been announced for early June in Geneva. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese President Omar Hassan el-Bashir has categorically refuted allegations of ethnic cleansing and other atrocities in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur, while stressing that his government was fully committed to ensuring security and stability in the area. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Authorities here Wednesday disclosed President Omar Hassan el-Bashir would pay a two-day visit to the war-ravished western Darfur region to assess security and humanitarian conditions. Full text...

Tripoli- Libya (PANA) -- UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan has commended Libyan leader, Col. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) said urged the UN Monday to threaten military intervention in the troubled Sudanese region of Western Darfur if government forces continue to target civilians in defiance of international humanitarian law. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Khartoum accused the two rebel movements in the troubled region of Western Darfur Sunday, of intensifying attacks against government forces as they sought to capture new areas before an African Union (AU) delegation arrived to assess a cease-fire the belligerents signed recently in N'djamena, Chad. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Khartoum-based Advisory Council for Human Rights has lamented what it claimed were subjective reports by some international organizations concerning the human rights situation Sudan's troubled region of Western Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Delegations from African Union (AU) and Arab league have ended inquiries into developments in Sudan's war-ravaged western region of Darfur region, according to official sources in the area. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- After expressing concern about the escalating humanitarian situation in Sudan's western Darfur region, authorities in Khartoum are appealing to the international community to provide "urgent and necessary relief supplies" to the region. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Against the backdrop of increasing international pressure, President Omar Hassan el Bashir announced the setting up Saturday of a human rights panel to probe allegations of human rights violations in the restive Sudanese region of Western Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Sudanese authorities have declined to comment on the intensification of fighting between government troops and two rebel movements in the western Darfur region in violation of a cease-fire they signed recently in N'djamena, the Chadian capital. Full text...

Addis Ababa- Ethiopia (PANA) -- Nearly four weeks since Africa's Peace and Security Council decided on early deployment of a cease-fire monitoring group in Darfur region, a reconnaissance mission left here Friday for the new conflict spot in western Sudan. Full text...

Brazzaville- Congo (PANA) -- Touched by continued reports of deteriorating humanitarian situation in Darfur, Congolese president, Denis Sassou Nguesso urged the international community to intensify involvement in the crisis to stop it from destabilise neighbouring countries. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail affirmed here Monday that the security and humanitarian situation in Sudan's strife-torn western Darfur region was improving steadily. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- Authorities in Khartoum on Monday appealed for urgent relief action under the partnership between Sudan and the UN to meet the humanitarian needs of people in its war-ravaged western region of Darfur. Full text...

Khartoum- Sudan (PANA) -- The Sudanese government and the UN have agreed to set up a panel that would meet weekly to discuss relief and other humanitarian operations in the troubled western region of Darfur, according to an official source. Full text...