Hassan al-Turabi, the leader of the Islamist Popular National Congress Party (PNC) and a former ally of Omar al-Bashir, is now the Sudanese president’s main opponent.
The International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday that a French employee had been kidnapped in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur. Sudanese officials say the abducted worker is in "good health".
The US has unveiled a plan to ensure, amongst other things, that the 2005 peace deal with Sudan is fully implemented. "Backsliding by any party will be met with credible pressure," said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Two female aid workers arrived in Khartoum on Monday exhausted and eager to go home after surviving nightmare experiences such as mock executions during 107 days of grueling captivity in Darfur.
Two members of Irish aid agency GOAL who had been kidnapped in Darfur in July were freed Sunday "in good health," according to a Sudanese minister, who added that "no ransom was paid."
Armed men have ambushed a convoy of police and international peacekeepers escorting civilian workers in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, killing one peacekeeper and wounding another two.
Armed raiders have kidnapped two foreign members of the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur in a town in Sudan's restive western region, a spokesperson for the UNAMID mission said.
Departing UN-African Union joint force commander Martin Luther Agawi told correspondents that "there is no war as of now in Darfur", insisting that his force had succeeded in ending ethnic massacres in the region.
President Idriss Deby of Chad lashes out at his Sudanese counterpart, accusing him of plotting to overthrow his regime. And he says he backs the warrant arrest against Bashir by the ICC for crimes against humanity.
