A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan's South Kordofan state 11 days ago were released Tuesday and flown to the Chinese embassy in Nairobi, a foreign ministry statement said.
South Sudan accused its northern neighbour Sudan on Monday of arming a militia that killed more than 40 people in a cattle raid in Warrap state, the latest sign of tensions that the UN warns have "reached a critical point".
Ending a 36-year goalless streak in the African Cup of Nations, Sudan rallied to salvage a 2-2 draw against Angola on Thursday, retaining faint hopes of a quarterfinal berth.
South Sudan has said it will shut down oil production within two weeks in a row over sharing oil revenues with its northern neighbour Sudan, which has begun seizing southern oil as compensation for unpaid transit fees.
First, violence rocks Mali, Uganda and South Sudan as rebels, mobs and tribes clash. Next, as candidates in Senegal compete to keep the President from a controversial third term, we look back at Abdoulaye Wade's 11 years in power. Finally, football fever once again hits the continent with the Africa Cup of Nations.
In Tripoli on a two-day visit, Sudan’s president and alleged war criminal Omar al-Bashir called the fall of the Gaddafi regime the "best gift" to his country. Human Rights Watch slammed Libya’s new government for hosting an "international fugitive."
The United Nations launched an urgent humanitarian effort Friday in the violence-torn new nation of South Sudan, where inter-tribal warfare has forced tens of thousands to flee to the countryside and may have killed as many as 3,000 people.
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.
South Sudan's most wanted rebel leader, George Athor, has been killed in a clash with the military, officials from the newly independent country said Tuesday. Athor had formed an anti-government militia after defecting from the army in 2010.
