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AGENCE PRESSE FRANCE: KHARTOUM, Apr 6 - Sudan insisted on Tuesday that presidential, parliamentary and local elections would go ahead as planned on April 11-13, despite a threat by several opposition groups to boycott the vote.

I attended a panel discussion yesterday at Columbia University on peacebuilding in the Congo and Sudan. One of my fellow panelists was Herbert Weiss, Emeritus professor at the City University of…

As Sudan’s key political leaders vowed today to press ahead with the country’s first competitive elections in 24 years, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court reminded the world…

WAU, 22 March 2010 (IRIN) - During wartime, trains heading south to this former garrison town used to deliver violence and terror; now they are bringing lower prices. 

The first two trains in about a decade arrived in the southern city of Wau in March 2010, one with goods and the other with maintenance crews and supplies, Sudan Railways official Al Haji Maktoub told IRIN. 

Something must be done to stop Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The rebel group, run like a super-cult, could not win in Uganda and has since burned trails through Congo, the Central…

posted by Alex de Waal

Abdel Salam Hassan Abdel Salam, who died in London this weekend, was a guiding light of Sudan’s human rights movement. He was one of a remarkable generation of Sudanese intellectuals, who grew up and gained a first-rate education in provincial towns (in his case, Wadi Halfa in Sudan’s far north), and who possessed a vivid curiosity about the complexities and paradoxes of their country. His first job was in the customs office, and one of the many oddities of Sudanese life which he explained was the convergence between poetry and customs officials – both vocations drew disproportionately from the Halfawiin. Abdel Salam remained a poet, but studied law.

The advocacy organization IDP Action (IPD = Internally-Displaced Persons), just released an important report on next month’s election in Sudan, specifying how “Disenfranchisement of IDPs…

If you follow Sudan or American diplomacy you’ve heard about Khartoum’s deal with the Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) signed in Doha. Wow, it sounds terrific,…

With one year to go before a referendum to decide Sudan’s future, campaigners around the world have called on world leaders to take urgen steps to prevent a return to severe and widepsread…

Amnesty International has called on the UN Security Council to ensure that UNAMID and UNMIS fulfil their civilian protection mandate by clearly defining their goals and priorities.

Amnesty International has also called on member states of the UN Security Council to provide the two forces with the equipment and support they need to effectively fulfil their mandates.

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Sudan365 campaign launches with global drumming event. You can get involved - film your own drumbeat and post it alongside drummers from Radiohead, The Police, Pink Floyd, Elbow and Snow Patrol. Go to http://sudan365.org to find out how to get involved.

Powerful slide show with audio from Jeffrey Gettleman at The New York Times on the challenges facing South Sudan a year before the referendum.