10 Apr 2013

Five Indian peacekeepers and at least seven United Nations civilian staff were killed yesterday in an ambush in South Sudan, officials said, a day after warnings about spiralling violence.

4:06AM
24 Jan 2013

Rebels on rampage at Syria's religious sites

4:37AM
6 Jan 2013

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed on Saturday, to demilitarise their shared borders and revive a stalled oil exportation deal that has lagged for months over disputes on the...

11:13AM
6 Nov 2012

South Sudan has expelled a UN human rights investigator, accusing her of writing false reports, a move the UN mission said broke the country's legal obligations to the United Nations.

3:27AM
23 Oct 2012

Sudanese rebels killed 10 civilians in shelling the main town in Sudan’s oil-producing South Kordofan state on Tuesday, the army said – the third bout of shelling in the past two weeks.

8:54PM
28 Sep 2012

The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan signed economic and security agreements on Thursday that will allow a resumption of oil exports from South Sudan.

11:41AM

Major drug trafficker taken by police

4:19AM

The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan met late on Sunday as international pressure grew to end long-running disputes that have brought the former civil war foes to the brink of renewed conflict.

2:42PM

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