By VOA News Johannesburg 06 November 2007 Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir and South African President Thabo Mbeki have been holding talks in Capetown to discuss the deteriorating situation in Darfur and the deployment of additional peacekeeping troo...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 05 September 2007 Israel is opening its doors to some refugees from war-torn Sudan. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the issue poses a moral dilemma to the Jewish state. A Sudanese refugee family in fro...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 23 August 2007 Envoys from the AU and the United Nations have been working for weeks to prepare for peace talks between the government and rebels in Sudan's Darfur region. Yet one of the rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Move...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 21 August 2007 The United Nations is accusing armed groups backed by the Sudanese government of systematic rapes and other forms of sexual abuse in South Darfur.In its report, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Right...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 19 August 2007 Uganda The UN refugee agency says more Sudanese refugees in Uganda are voluntarily returning to their homes in South Sudan following the withdrawal of the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, from the...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 08 August 2007 The U.N. envoy to Darfur, Jan Eliasson, says he fears the start of what he calls a new and dangerous phase in the four-year-old conflict in western Sudan unless all warring parties take part in a United Nations-Af...
By Katy Migiro Nairobi 11 June 2007 Sudananese officials are discussing the deployment of a peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region with United Nations and African Union representatives in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Katy Migiro repo...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 April 2007 SAF President Thabo Mbeki (File) The South African president is preparing to meet his Sudanese counterpart for two days of talks in Sudan. Discussions are expected to focus on developments in the volatile Darfu...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 10 April 2007 The U.N. refugee agency says as many as 400 people were killed in southeastern Chad 10 days ago during cross-border attacks by Sudanese Janjaweed militia. The death toll is far higher than previous estimates by Ch...
By Noel King Khartoum 25 March 2007 Eight former Darfur rebels and two Sudanese police officers were killed during clashes on Saturday outside of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Noel King in Khartoum reports that the former rebels of the Sudan Libera...