Southern Sudan

A South African court today issued a temporary ban on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at a summit in Johannesburg.

More than 2,600 migrants were rescued by the Italian navy this weekend, authorities said Monday, as police searched for new arrivals who landed by night on Sicily's southern coast.

Congratulating the people of Southern Sudan for a successful and inspiring referendum in which an overwhelming majority of them chose independence, US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to formally recognize it as a sovereign and an independent state."We will work with the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to ensure a smooth a...

Polls closed in the Southern Sudan capital of Juba on Sunday, on the first day of voting in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world's newest nation, about five years after the end of a brutal civil war there.The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest countr...

Philip Geng Nyuol started fighting for independence with his hands.He eventually graduated to a machete, then Molotov cocktails, then a gun."I crossed rivers full of crocodiles," he said. "And slept in camps in Congo. And ate wild fruits in the bush."That was nearly 50 years ago -- Mr. Nyuol was on the ground floor of southern Sudan's independence ...

Sudan's Foreign Minister assured the UN Security Council on Saturday that the government is committed to holding a referendum on southern independence that is expected to split the country in two.Addressing Security Council members wrapping up a fact-finding trip to Sudan and Uganda, Ali Karti said the government's sole condition was no outside int...

At least 140 people have been killed and 90 wounded in the remote troubled Wunchuei region in southern Sudan over the past week, a senior UN official said.

A South African court today issued a temporary ban on Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir leaving the country after the International Criminal Court called for him to be arrested at a summit in Johannesburg.

More than 2,600 migrants were rescued by the Italian navy this weekend, authorities said Monday, as police searched for new arrivals who landed by night on Sicily's southern coast.

Congratulating the people of Southern Sudan for a successful and inspiring referendum in which an overwhelming majority of them chose independence, US President Barack Obama has announced his intention to formally recognize it as a sovereign and an independent state."We will work with the governments of Sudan and Southern Sudan to ensure a smooth a...

Polls closed in the Southern Sudan capital of Juba on Sunday, on the first day of voting in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world's newest nation, about five years after the end of a brutal civil war there.The mainly Christian south is widely expected to secede from the mainly Muslim north, splitting Africa's largest countr...

Philip Geng Nyuol started fighting for independence with his hands.He eventually graduated to a machete, then Molotov cocktails, then a gun."I crossed rivers full of crocodiles," he said. "And slept in camps in Congo. And ate wild fruits in the bush."That was nearly 50 years ago -- Mr. Nyuol was on the ground floor of southern Sudan's independence ...

Sudan's Foreign Minister assured the UN Security Council on Saturday that the government is committed to holding a referendum on southern independence that is expected to split the country in two.Addressing Security Council members wrapping up a fact-finding trip to Sudan and Uganda, Ali Karti said the government's sole condition was no outside int...

At least 140 people have been killed and 90 wounded in the remote troubled Wunchuei region in southern Sudan over the past week, a senior UN official said.