The head of the joint African Union – United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan’s Darfur said Friday that resurgent violence was hampering his forces’ ability to monitor the troubled region.
Rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim (pictured) of the Justice and Equality Movement, one of Darfur's two main militant groups, was killed by the Sudanese army in west Wadbanda in North Kordofan, Sudan's official news agency said on Sunday.
The International Criminal Court's prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Friday requested a warrant to arrest Sudan's defence minister for crimes committed in Darfur. The UN says 300,000 people have died since the conflict began.
Three international peacekeepers were killed and six wounded late on Monday when their patrol came under attack in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region. The joint UN-African UNAMID patrol was guarding a camp for displaced people.
INTERNATIONAL PAPERS, Thurs., 21/4/2011: The Times' reporting from Misrata is extraordinary this morning. James Hider describes the bloody battle in the Libyan port city and the death of two photojournalists, Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. Hider witnessed Hetherington's death, making his report particularly moving.
Three Bulgarian air crew members contracted by the UN's World Food Program in Sudan were kidnapped at an air strip in West Darfur, officials said Thursday. The incident comes as the number of kidnappings of foreign aid workers is on the rise.
Ahead of a referendum which will allow the people of southern Sudan to vote on whether they want independence from the north, Marc Perelman talks to Ibrahim Gambari, joint African Union-UN special representative for Darfur.
Rioters and troops have clashed in Haiti amid accusations that Nepalese soldiers working for the UN mission there are responsible for the recent cholera outbreak. In this interview with Marc Perelman, Alain Le Roy, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations at the United Nations, strenuously rejects allegations that UN troops brought the killer-disease to the country.
At least 11 of the 35 passengers aboard a Sudanese plane that crashed while landing Thursday in the country's western Darfur region have survived, according to an official with the UN and African Union peacekeeping mission in the area.
The US has offered to remove Sudan early from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The proposal, relayed by Senator John Kerry over the weekend, is part of an effort to push Sudan to resolve internal disputes ahead of a January referendum.
