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The Sudanese government Tuesday arrested the Darfur coordinator for the Dutch branch of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) , the second arrest of an MSF aid worker in two days. Vince Hoedt was detained over a March 2005 report...

The State Crimes Prosecutor for Sudan has ordered the arrest of Paul Foreman, the head of the Dutch wing of Medecins San Frontieres who published a report in March entitled The Crushing Burden of Rape:...

International donors and African countries meet Thursday to discuss increasing their support for the African Union's peacekeeping efforts. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and AU Chairman Alpha Oumar Konaré will host the conference, which will bring together officials from the...

Leading Monday's international brief, the Egyptian Parliament has unanimously approved a decision by Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak to send Egyptian troops to Sudan under the UN peacekeeping mandate in Security Council Resolution 1590...

A senior Sudanese official said Saturday that a tribunal to try people accused of war crimes in Darfur could be announced in 2-3 months. Sudan rejected the UN Security Council's recommendation earlier this year to...

Leading Thursday's international brief, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has refused to sign a controversial bill that would have severely limited the rights of NGOs to act in Zimbabwe , according to newspaper reports. The Non-Governmental Organisations...

Leading Wednesday's international brief, Spain officially ratified the EU Constitution today after the Spanish Senate voted 225 - 6 to approve the document. Spain held a non-binding referendum in...

Recent UN Security Council resolutions setting up sanctions against Sudan and referring criminal actions in Darfur to the International Criminal Court have led to protests and heightened tensions in Darfur, according to UN Assistant Secretary-General...

Musa Hilal, suspected leader of the Janjaweed militia active in the Darfur, said Wednesday that he would stand trial in Sudan rather than face trial outside the country. Hilal, who has consistently denied involvement in...

Talks directed towards the framing of a new constitution for the war-torn country of Sudan began Saturday in Khartoum with the official opening of the National Commission for the Reform of the Constitution, formed last week . The...