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Deby calls on Darfur rebels to cease hostilities, urges Chadian opposition to negotiate

Chad’s Deby in Sudan supporting normalization process

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Chad’s President Idriss Deby arrived today to Khartoum for the first time in more than six years, reaffirming his readiness to work together with his Sudanese counterpart to improve bilateral ties. Chad's President Idriss Deby (L) walks next to his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) at Khartoum airport Feb 8, 2010 (Reuters) Five prior mediations and four agreements had failed since 2006 to normalize relations and bring Deby to Khartoum, but last week unilaterally he announced his decision to visit Khartoum to reassure Sudan and prove his (...)

Tuesday 9 February 2010

UNAMID chief holds talks with Sudanese delegation to Darfur process

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Ibrahim Gambari, head of the hybrid peacekeeping mission in Darfur UNAMID, held talks on the peace process on Monday evening with Sudanese government delegation in (...)

NEC announces candidates’ names in Rumbek

By Manyang Mayom February 8, 2010 (RUMBEK) — The National Elections Commission in Rumbek has announced its preliminary list of candidates from Lakes state contesting in the elections at state, (...)

Former US President Carter arrives in Sudan

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The former US president, Jimmy Carter, arrived in Khartoum on Monday on a four-day visit to Sudan, heading a delegation of the Carter Center, which is monitoring the (...)

Mbeki in Kenya for talks on Sudan’s peace process

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) –The former South African president Thabo Mbeki and the head of the African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD) met today with senior Kenyan officials to brief them on the (...)

Chad’s Deby in Sudan supporting normalization process

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Chad’s President Idriss Deby arrived today to Khartoum for the first time in more than six years, reaffirming his readiness to work together with his Sudanese (...)

Two more candidates admitted into Sudan presidential race, Bashir’s challenge rejected

February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) –The Sudanese highest court today rules today that two nominees were wrongly excluded by the National elections Committee (NEC) allowing them to rejoin the race for (...)

Darfur rebel leader cleared of war crimes charges

February 8, 2010 (WASHINGTON) – The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) today ruled that there is not sufficient evidence to send a Darfur rebel leader to trial on charges that he (...)

Independent candidate in NBGS downplays SPLM appeal to step down

By Ngor Arol Garang February 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – An Independent candidate for northern Bahr el Ghazal State who is also a member of the southern Sudan ruling party, SPLM, has downplayed appeal (...)

Ethiopia’s new dam tunnel collapses, says waters NGO

By Tesfa Alem Tekle February 8, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — A water passage tunnel in Ethiopia’s recently inaugurated 420 MW hydropower plant has reportedly collapsed, an NGO, International Rivers said. (...)

South Sudan upgrades teachers training institutions to diploma level

February 8, 2010 (JUBA) — The government of South Sudan has confirmed upgrading teachers training institution across the region saying it means to facilitate diploma training for teachers with (...)

Monday 8 February 2010

Sudanese opposition agree to coordinate in April elections

February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese opposition parties have agreed on a joint plan to coordinate among their bases in the upcoming elections to defeat the candidates of the ruling National (...)

Abdelshafi of SLM appoints advisor for foreign relations

February 07, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The chairman and commander-in-chief of one of the Darfur splinter groups of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army, Ahmed Abdelshafi Toba, has named Mayik Ayii Deng as (...)

Egypt’s Mubarak appears resigned to South Sudan independence

February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Egypt’s top official for the first time appeared to acknowledge that South Sudanese will likely choose to secede in the self determination referendum scheduled for (...)

UNAMID head travels to Doha for talks on peace in Darfur

February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Joint Special Representative (JSR) of the African Union and the United Nations, Ibrahim Gambari will travel to Doha on Monday for talks with the chief mediator of (...)

Outgoing UN envoy cites political progress in Sudan

February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The departing UN envoy to Sudan, Ashraf Qazi, in a final press conference today described political accomplishments in Sudan made in recent years with regard to the (...)

France thanks Sudan’s Bashir for release of Red Cross worker

February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – France has thanked Sudan’s efforts to release a French aid worker from the Red Cross who had been abducted for more than three months in eastern Chad near Sudanese (...)

Ethiopia crashed plane’s black box retrieved

February 7, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — The Ethiopian airlines said on Sunday that the flight recorder from its crashed passenger plane is recovered from near crash site. Boeing 737-800 flight ET-409, (...)

Residents flee a Unity state area fearing retaliatory attack

By Ngor Arol Garang February 7, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Hundreds of residents of Biemnhom County, in the southern Sudan state of Unity, have started fleeing the area as speculations of possible clashes (...)

Sunday 7 February 2010

French aid worker released after three months in captivity

February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – A French aid worker who is part of the Red Cross was arrived in the Sudanese capital almost three months after being taken at gunpoint in Eastern Chad area close to (...)

Darfur talks in Doha enter critical stage as mediation receive parties responses

February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Darfur mediation team will determine within the coming weeks the fate of the stalled negotiations between Khartoum and the rebel groups gathered in the Arab Gulf (...)

Arab League slams ICC decision on to review Sudan’s genocide charges

February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — The Arab League slammed on Saturday the International Criminal Court's (ICC) decision to reconsider genocide charge against Sudanese President Omer al- Bashir terming (...)

Independent candidates pledges to remain members of the SPLM

February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Independent candidates contesting in the upcoming general elections scheduled to take place next April have pledged to remain members of the SPLM in the event they (...)

Sudan says assassination of NCP nominee not politically motivated

February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government today denied that the killing of a National Congress Party (NCP) nominee in the parliamentary elections next April was politically motivated. (...)

SPLM-DC says ready to work with independent candidates

February 5, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The SPLM Democratic Change, a splinter movement form the ruling southern Sudan party, said today ready to work with independent candidates to rule the South. SPLM-DC (...)

Egypt hosts Darfur reconstruction conference next March

February 6, 2010 (CAIRO) – The Egyptian foreign ministry announced today that Cairo will host a conference on the rehabilitation and reconstruction of the war ravaged region of Darfur next March. (...)

UDSF candidate for NBGS president slams SPLM electoral propaganda

By Ngor Arol Garang February 6, 2010 (KHARTOUM) — Southern Sudan’s United Democratic Salvation Front (UDSF), candidate for Governor of Northern Bahr el Ghazal president dismissed allegations that (...)

Ethiopian ship escapes Somali pirates

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle February 6, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — An Ethiopian ship operated by Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL), foiled a pirate attempt this week in the Gulf of Aden, the multi-national (...)

Local communities in Malakal rehabilitate their own road

By Richard Ruati February 6, 2010 (MALAKAL) — The road connecting the estates of Dengreshofu and Hai Malakia in Malakal, Upper Nile State used to be one of the worst in town. Today, five years (...)