Sudan Vote

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was re-elected today with more than 94 per cent of the vote in polls in which he he had faced no serious challenger, organisers said.

Polling stations closed across most of Sudan on Thursday after nationwide elections that President Omar al-Bashir is widely expected to win were extended by one day.

Sudan heads to the polls next week in elections widely expected to extend President Omar al-Bashir's quarter-century of rule, despite continued unrest and a faltering economy.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is pressing for a United Nations vote creating an arms embargo on South Sudan in an effort to end the civil war there, a US official has said.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to change the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan to focus on the protection of civilians instead of nation building.

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...

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...

With Sudan  barely 100 days away from a referendum that is likely to split the country and that could even reignite a war, the Obama administration has begun a multifront diplomatic offensive built around incentives to keep Sudan from obstructing the vote.On Sunday, the administration's special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, met ...

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was re-elected today with more than 94 per cent of the vote in polls in which he he had faced no serious challenger, organisers said.

Polling stations closed across most of Sudan on Thursday after nationwide elections that President Omar al-Bashir is widely expected to win were extended by one day.

Sudan heads to the polls next week in elections widely expected to extend President Omar al-Bashir's quarter-century of rule, despite continued unrest and a faltering economy.

US Secretary of State John Kerry is pressing for a United Nations vote creating an arms embargo on South Sudan in an effort to end the civil war there, a US official has said.

The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to change the mandate of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan to focus on the protection of civilians instead of nation building.

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...

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...

With Sudan  barely 100 days away from a referendum that is likely to split the country and that could even reignite a war, the Obama administration has begun a multifront diplomatic offensive built around incentives to keep Sudan from obstructing the vote.On Sunday, the administration's special envoy to Sudan, Major General Scott Gration, met ...