The United States said Friday the Sudanese government's ceasefire with another rebel movement is "a very important step" toward establishing peace in the western Darfur region. The ceasefire signed in Qatar Thursday by the Sudanese government and the Liberation and Justice Movement, an alliance of splinter factions, followed another brokered with the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The latest ...

At least 13 people have been killed in fighting between northern nomads and the southern army, a military spokesman said on Friday. Clashes broke out between troops from the south's Sudan Peoples? Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Misseriya people around midday on Wednesday in the southern state of Unity, said Major General Kuol Diem Kuol. "Two of our SPLA ...

International donors are to gather in Egypt's capital on Sunday with a two-billion-dollar target for the reconstruction of Darfur, Sudan's western region devastated by a seven-year war. The one-day conference has been organised by the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which groups 57 members to form the world's largest Islamic assembly, and is to be co-chaired ...