IGAD’s 14th Extra Ordinary Summit Meeting held in Nairobi today has resolved to ensure democracy prevails In Sudan ‘s elections and referendum scheduled to take place In April and January 2011 respectively. During The Meeting IGAD members states pressurised Sudanese people to ensure they conduct a free and fair elections during its first democratic polls [...]
Southern Sudan’s economy received a boost on Tuesday as members of the Arab League convened in Juba to explore investment potentials with First Vice President Salva Kiir Mayardit touting to League members Southern Sudan’s attractive investment opportunities. The Arab League Conference on Investment and Development in Southern Sudan began with Amr Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League States, [...]
Naiobi,Kenya 8th feb 2010 – President Mwai Kibaki has today maintained that Kenya is committed to see a peaceful Sudan. The President said this after holding discussions with members of the African Union High Level Implementation Panel on the Darfur led by former Presidents, Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Pierre Buyoya of Burundi. President Kibaki commended the [...]
An appeal chamber on Wednesday said that judges need to review their decision to omit genocide from the war crimes and arrest warrant issued for Sudan’s President Omar El-Bashir, sources say. “The pre-trial chamber is directed to decide a new,” presiding Judge Erkki Kourula said, upholding an appeal by prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. March 2009, the [...]
Kenya is calling on international community to support Sudan and help avert political violence in Sudan in the forthcoming referendum on independence for the Southern Sudan. In a press statement by Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s press unit, The PM warned the United Nations, the African Union and the USA against taking sides in the vote [...]
The number of people in southern Sudan in need of food assistance has more than quadrupled from almost 1 million in 2009 to 4.3 million this year, UN food agencies and the Southern Sudan’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry said on Monday. “This spike in the number of hungry people in southern Sudan comes just [...]
Ousted Sudanese Prime Minister Sadiq Al-Mahdi has declared his interest in the upcoming April polls. Mr. Sadiq Al-Mahdi was elected in 1986 but was later ousted through a coup in 1989. Sadiq will go to the polls against current President Omar El Bashir who is facing criminal charges by the international criminal court for the [...]
Kenyan president has committed to seeing peace and post conflict rehabilitation of Southern Sudan. Kibaki said that Kenya would support capacity building to hasten development of Southern Sudan and attainment of political stability in the country. The Kenyan president said this as he met with Lt. Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit who is Sudan’s first vice [...]
Sudan’s President Omar El Bashir has been nominated to vie for the presidential elections in April, an election that will be the first ever democratic ballot in Africa’s largest country Sudan. A statement from the Sudan Embassy in Nairobi said: “The Head of the National Authority for Election Campaign Abdul Rahman Sowar Al-Dahab said that [...]
Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir bowed out as commander-in-chief of the army ahead of Sudan’s first multi-party elections in 24 years, officials reported on Monday. According to the state owned news agency, SUNA, the president issued a statement on his desire to retire as the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Close observers view this [...]
A warning has been issued by the U.S. embassy in Khartoum, Sudan that terrorists in the East Africa region were planning a deadly attack on Air Uganda flights that ply the routes between southern Sudan and Uganda.Embassy officials in Khartoum did not name the potential attackers but has said in the past that terrorist [...]
