Full Coverage: Sudan

30.09.2009 Darfuri refugee women and girls face high levels of rape and other violence on a daily basis both inside and outside refugee camps in eastern Chad, despite the presence of UN security forces, a new report reveals.

07.09.2009 Serious questions about whether Sudan's oil revenues are being shared fairly could jeopardise the peace agreement which bought an end to the conflict between one of Africa’s longest-running wars, says a new report.

04.09.2009 As a Sudanese court prepared to resume its trial of journalist Lubna Hussein for wearing trousers, a rights group called on the government to withdraw the charges and repeal the law used to justify the flogging of women for wearing "indecent" clothing.

31.07.2009 The ineffective UN force in Darfur must be strengthened if the international community is to fulfill its obligations, say an influential group of NGOs.

06.05.2009 Following recent outbreaks of violence between rival ethnic groups in Jonglei State, southern Sudan, an international medical charity medical is treating wounded from both sides, assisting those who fled their villages, and treating malnutrition and cholera.

16.04.2009 Oxfam has formally submitted an appeal against its expulsion from northern Sudan and warned that the humanitarian situation in Darfur is worsening following the expulsion of NGOs, with people facing shortages of water and other aid.

14.04.2009 Sudan has executed nine people who may have been innocent, a leading rights group said today in reaction to the killing of nine men convicted of murder after they were tortured to confess.

13.04.2009 The joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur region reported that the security situation is now relatively calm despite continuing banditry and carjacking.

05.03.2009 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to Sudan to urgently reconsider its decision, taken after an international court’s indictment of the country’s president, to expel 13 groups aiding some 4.7 million people in Darfur.
+ MSF Protests Expulsions
+ Oxfam GB pulls back international staff to Khartoum
+ Save the Children UK's statement
+ International Criminal Court 'working to protect African victims'

04.02.2009 The top UN human rights official has voiced her alarm at reports of the worsening conditions for civilians in the south Darfur town of Muhajeria, where fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels has led to at least 30 deaths and uprooted some 30,000 people.

16.01.2009 The incoming Obama administration must act swiftly to help alleviate suffering and end the violence in Darfur, said the Save Darfur organisation as it welcomed Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton's promise to end the conflict.

09.01.2009 Civilians in all regions of Sudan face a serious risk of renewed violence and conflict if the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement fails, says a new report.

22.12.2008 Massive forced civilian displacements, violence, and unmet medical needs in Congo, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Pakistan, along with neglected medical emergencies in Myanmar and Zimbabwe, are some of the worst humanitarian and medical emergencies in the world, according to an international medical humanitarian organisation.

15.12.2008 Uganda, South Sudan and DR Congo yesterday jointly attacked the rebel Uganda movement, the Lord's Resistance Army, in eastern Congo's Garamaba forest.

21.11.2008 The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has presented evidence against three rebel commanders for their role in last year’s deadly attack against peacekeepers in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

20.10.2008 The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan has handed over a satellite imagery system to the team tasked with producing a border map, a key element of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that aims to end the long-running north-south civil war.

01.10.2008 The UN should impose targetted sanctions on Sudan, including travel bans and assets freezes on senior civilian and military officials, in a bid to stop continuing violence in Darfur and the government's failure to comply with humanitarian law obligations.

11.09.2008 Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen - would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, says a leading rights organisation.

26.08.2008 Forty-nine patients suffering from gunshot wounds were transferred to hospital from Kalma Camp in the Sudanese region of Darfur after shooting early in the morning.

23.07.2008 President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, recently accused by an International Criminal Court prosecutor of genocide in Darfur, is on a two-day visit to the province.