KHARTOUM :Clashes between tribes in Sudan's Darfur region over land producing the gum arabic stabiliser used in soft drinks have killed more than 60 people and displaced 6,500 other, police and the United Nations said. The fluid gum cut from the acacia trees that have grown on the land for years is ...

KHARTOUM Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday.“Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them yesterday (Thursday),” ...

KHARTOUM More than 60 people were killed when a desert gold mine collapsed in an area of Sudan’s Darfur where hundreds died in fighting over the precious commodity in January-February, the district chief said Thursday.It was not known how many people may still be missing after Monday’s ...

THE HAGUEDarfur rebel leader Saleh Jerbo, charged with war crimes by the International Criminal Court, has been killed in the western Sudanese region, his defence team said."The defence of Mr Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus hereby notifies the trial chamber, with great sadness... that Mr Jerbo died in ...

KHARTOUM : A peacekeeper was shot dead Friday in an attack on an African Union-UN base in Sudan’s Darfur, the mission said, two days after the government announced it regained control of the area from rebels.“In the early morning hours of 19 April, one peacekeeper of the African ...

DOHA  - A Darfur donor conference has raised $3.6 billion in pledges to finance the development of war-ravaged Darfur in west Sudan, mostly from Khartoum itself, host country Qatar which contributed $500 million announced Monday."These pledges cover more than the $177 million needed for ...

DOHA (AFP) - Representatives of donor countries and aid groups began meeting on Sunday to endorse a strategy to rebuild Sudan's Darfur region, where a decade-long conflict shocked the world with atrocities against civilians."Peace time has begun in Darfur. A peace that will be protected by ...

DOHA  - Representatives of donor countries and aid groups met on Sunday to endorse a strategy to rebuild Sudan’s Darfur region, where a decade-long conflict shocked the world with atrocities against civilians. “Peace time has begun in Darfur. A peace that will be protected by ...

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Rebels in Sudan's Darfur claim to have seized a district capital just days after saying they took control of a major town. The Sudan Liberation Army's (SLA's) Abdelwahid Nur faction said late on Friday it had captured the govt office and army base in Guldo district near Central ...

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudanese rebels have seized an army compound in the Darfur region, the insurgents said on Saturday, as the Red Cross reported the release of three soldiers captured by rebels.The pre-dawn attack came on Friday about five kilometres (three miles) northeast of Kebkabiya in North ...

Militia in Sudan's North Darfur state attacked a village and killed 13 people, a local source said on Saturday, adding to an upsurge of deadly violence in the area.The attack on Friday targeted Sigili village, about 30 kilometres (19 miles) southeast of the state capital El Fasher, said the source, ...

KHARTOUM  - Fresh fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region has killed 12 government soldiers, according to a rebel statement received on Friday, but an official said 10 civilians were the victims. The Sudan Liberation Army faction of Minni Minawi said it attacked a government position at ...

RAWALPINDI  - A Pakistan Army contingent left for United Nations mission at Darfur, Sudan on Friday. According to the ISPR statement, the contingent comprises 22 officers, nine junior commissioned officers and 214 soldiers. At present, a contingent comprising 500 troops of Pakistan Army ...

UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council on Thursday evening voted to extend by one year the mandate of the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping operation in Darfur (UNAMID), while acknowledging worries about a possible war crimes indictment of Sudan's president. Of the 15-member council, 14 voted in ...

TRIPOLI (AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Sunday sent an envoy to seek Libyan leader Moamer Gaddafi's support against legal moves over the conflict in Darfur, the state news agency JANA reported. Vice-President Ali Usman Muhammad Taha briefed Gaddafi on the legal action undertaken by ...

UNITED NATIIONS: - The U.N. has launched an initial enquiry into Tuesday's attack on its joint peacekeeping force with the African Union (AU) in the war-torn region of Darfur, which resulted in the deaths of 7 blue helmets, while Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Sudanese Government to ...

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan on Sunday severed diplomatic ties with Chad, accusing Ndjamena of backing a first Darfur rebel assault on Khartoum, and slapped a multi-million dollar price on the head of the alleged mastermind. The government said it had repulsed the assault by the Justice and Equality ...

KHARTOUM - Darfur rebels said they were advancing on Khartoum on Saturday amid clashes with Sudanese forces just north of the capital, where the army announced a curfew. The army said in a statement read out on state television that its troops were under rebel attack in Omdurman, the capital's ...