Africa News Update
Sudan: 20.000 flee Blue Nile clashes
Khartoum (Sudan)- Armed conflict and air raids, blocked humanitarian aid and potential food shortages: conditions for civilians in two states on the border with South Sudan are giving increasing cause for concern. Read >
Tuesday, 06 September 2011
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
Sudan: Watchdogs blast ethnic cleansing in South Kordofan
Washington DC (USA) – On June 19, Angelo al-Sir, a subsistence farmer from a small village east of Kadugli, capital of the oil-rich South Kordofan state in Northern Sudan, saw his pregnant wife, two of his 10 children, his nephew and another relative killed in an airstrike in broad daylight. Read >
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Inter Press Service (IPS)
Sudan: African Union seeks end to Abyei hostilities
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) — The chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Jean Ping, on Tuesday ended his two-day working visit to Sudan, on a mission to persuade north and south Sudan to end their hostilities through dialogue, said the AU in a statement issued today in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Read >
Thursday, 09 June 2011
Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
Sudan: South must not swallow Khartoum’s bait (editorial)
Nairobi (Kenya) - Just over two weeks ago, invaders that have since been identified as being Sudan government troops and allied militias swooped down on Abyei, pillaging the borderline state whose true ownership is still in dispute. Read >
Monday, 30 May 2011
The East African (Kenya)
Sudan: Why Kenya and Uganda should shiver over the Abyei crisis (analysis)
Nairobi (Kenya) - When North Sudan forces seized and ransacked the disputed border town of Abyei a week ago, it seemed like the country would return to the bloody 25-year war that ended in 2005 with the Nairobi Peace Agreement. Read >
Monday, 30 May 2011
The East African (Kenya), by Charles Onyango-Obbo
Sudan: Why the Abyei battle is raging (opinion)
Kampala (Uganda) - After violating the Sudanese peace agreement and occupying Abyei early in the week, Khartoum came out strongly maintaining that they were just responding to constant aggression from their partners in the south. Read >
Friday, 27 May 2011
The Monitor (Uganda), by Fred Oluoch
Sudan: South calls for Abyei referendum
Nairobi (Kenya) — The South Sudan government insists that the Abyei region must be allowed to go to a referendum to break the ongoing impasse that continues to displace residents. Read >
Friday, 27 May 2011
The Nation (Kenya)
Sudan: Chief peace negotiator calls for independent state in Abyei
Juba (Sudan) — The chief mediator of the Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), General Lazarus Sumbeiywo, has proposed the need to create an independent state of Abyei as a solution to the current stalemate between North and South Sudan over ownership of the region in a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday. Read >
Friday, 27 May 2011
Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
Sudan: Abyei "ablaze" after capture by North
Doha, Qatar — Sudan's disputed border town of Abyei is ablaze, with gunmen looting properties days after troops from the government in Khartoum entered the area, U.N. peacekeepers say. Read >
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Inter Press Service (IPS)