Sudan

Before that, he had been a relatively unknown teacher, educated in Sudan and Libya, the grandson of a famous cleric.

South Sudan has restarted oil production, more than a year after it was halted by disputes with its neighbour Sudan.

But the elections, now due to take place in April this year, were supposed to be a "transformative moment" in Sudan's history.

But a company executive, who asked not to be named, said the scholars were entitled to their opinion about Sudan.

You will tell them that you have left behind your wife in Sudan, and that her life is now in danger and you want her to come as well.

He said Darfur in western Sudan is still reeling from a devastating war exacerbated by a shortage of water and fertile land.

The decision came as military officials said soldiers were trying to hunt down rebels before they returned to their bases in Sudan.

Fighting has broken out on the border between Sudan and South Sudan, shortly after the South pulled out of a disputed border town.

China is ready to assist South Sudan in its development and improve people's living standards.

Sudan, perhaps more than any other country in this region, seems to have a destructive capacity to sink back to the worst days of its past.

Obama will face criticism that his approach to Sudan is not markedly different from that of the Bush administration.

The fundamental incongruities that led the old Sudan to fall apart seem to have been passed down directly to its offspring.

Yet in the cases of Sudan and Libya, principle seems to be divorced from practice in the application of Chinese foreign policy.

Among the least peaceful states clustered at the bottom of the list are Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan.

For now, the world's diplomats will have to get used to shaking hands with a wanted war criminal when they deal with the president of Sudan.

China is defending its stance on Sudan, arguing that it has taken a constructive role in trying to settle the conflict in war-torn Darfur.

If Mr Bashir gets his way at the vote, he may be more inclined to let the south leave Sudan peacefully.

It would not be allowed to leave, he said, until South Sudan paid customs fees.

A few countries, like Sudan, however, have never agreed to the release of any of the I. M. F. annual reports on their economic policies.

It was his first public announcement since voting ended in a week-long referendum on whether southern Sudan should become a separate state.

He said Sudan would have to lower imports to reduce pressure on the Sudanese pound, which has tumbled against the dollar.

It was a breezy, sunny day in midtown Manhattan, and the wind caught the South Sudan flag as it unfurled in front of the United Nations.

For some time, the question of Darfur, Sudan has been a focus of attention of the international community.

Girard says the agency expects, that of those returning to South Sudan, up to 100, 000 could need emergency assistance.

This grim record makes it near-impossible for outsiders to take seriously Sudan's claims that it is trying to minimise the violence.

The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN's World Food Programme says.

He made his first visit to Sudan in 1998 as a volunteer for a construction project managed by a Christian ministry.

Most visceral leishmaniasis cases are concentrated in poor populations in just a few countries: India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan and Brazil.

He said the partition of Sudan would change the map of that country, but other African countries would change, too.

He said the United Nations would continue its peacekeeping and humanitarian operations in Sudan despite recent developments.

At the edge of the park, with London at his feet, he set fire to all the documents that he had brought with him from Sudan.

Mr. Carson said the seizure of Abyei could threaten what he called a road map for normal relations between the United States and Sudan.

Above all, Sudan resents the fact that it has not been rewarded for its recent steps towards modernisation .

South Sudan is ready to maintain friendly relations with Sudan to settle outstanding issues between both sides.

The preliminary results came as tallies from last week referendum began to be posted outside polling stations in southern Sudan.

Think Sudan. People forget that extreme poverty as a result of desertification explains much of that country's travails.

The plane then landed in southeastern Libya, near the border with Sudan, after the pilot said the craft was running low on fuel.

The long marriage between Sudan's Arab-and-Muslim north and its black, animist and Christian south was always unequal and unhappy.

Attempts to send peacekeepers to Sudan, or to impose sanctions on Iran, may be frustrated by Chinese opposition.

THE secession of South Sudan from the rest of the country was always going to be a messy divorce.

Genetic analysis of the virus suggests it had been imported from Sudan.

Frattini referred to an operation to secure the tourists' release, with the cooperation of Sudan and Egypt, but declined to offer details.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo , Ethiopia , Libya, Sri_ Lanka, Sudan and Vietnam .

These sorts of tribal fights over access to the best grazing lands have been at the heart of many of Sudan's bloody wars.

Clinton said the Obama administration will name a U. S. special envoy for Sudan in a matter of days.

Sudan's government argues predictably that the West is again trying to impose its will in Africa.

A year ago Israeli aircraft destroyed a convoy in eastern Sudan that it said was carrying Iranian arms to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Kiir said he welcomes Yang as the first foreign minister from a permanent member country of the UN Security Council to visit South Sudan.

China is ready to work with Sudan to push for comprehensive, in-depth development of bilateral cooperation in all areas.

But China's interests in Sudan and Burma go beyond that of an interested Security Council member.

He made roads in Sudan, too, when he was exiled there in the 1990s, including a new highway from Khartoum to Port Sudan.

Former commission members that did not seek election to the new group included Congo, Ethiopia , Libya, Sudan and Vietnam.

I am in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and heading for a remote bit of Nuerland, hard up against the bandit border with Ethiopia.

South Sudan will start out as one of the poorest nations on the planet, where one in seven children dies before the age of five.

The UN says four of its peacekeepers in Sudan have been wounded in a tense border region between the north and the south of the country.

A spokesman for Sudan's Foreign Ministry said the flight was diverted for technical reasons, delaying Mr. Bashir's arrival.

Iraq moved up two places this year and is now ranked fourth from the bottom, along with Sudan.

She said Washington is working with others to try to reverse what she called Sudan's " reckless decision. "

South Sudan occupies one of the least developed and most remote parts of Africa.

South Kordofan is in north Sudan but is close to the border with the south, which becomes independent in two weeks' time.

She was born two months ago on the dusty floor of a mud hut in remote South Sudan, far from medical help.

Yi Tenuo tell the truth, he said that the separation of southern Sudan is a "dangerous precedent. "

I felt there was a huge difference between the Sudan I was in and that I used to learn from the media.

From Congo and Sudan to Pakistan, many "states" are likely to see a move towards a hybrid public-private system of governance.

With a few hours to go before south Sudan becomes an independent state, final preparations are underway in the capital Juba.

A certain Sudan oilfield is a heavy oil region with a high crude density, a high content of wax and a high pour point.

Sudan has been listed as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1993 due to its links with international terrorist organizations.

Bin Laden was forced to leave any cash he had when he in effect fled Saudi Arabia in 1991 for Pakistan and then Sudan.

Nearer to the close of polls the Republican also saw Iraq, Namibia, Congo, Sudan, Algeria and a few other countries offer him support.

Reports from southern Sudan say up to 50 people have been killed during three days of internal fighting among troops of the national army.

Speaking after the poll result was announced, Mr Bashir said: "The referendum in South Sudan will take place on schedule. "

Khartoum denies it is behind that rebellion and says Sudan is ready to fight rebels it says are backed by Chad.

And its own industry depends on a steady supply of iron ore from South Africa, copper from Zambia, and oil from Nigeria, Angola and Sudan.

But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish area and many other regions.

Yet the fighting between northern and southern Sudan is only one part of it.

Among Mr Bush's first orders to his National Security Council in January 2001 was the drawing up of a new policy on Sudan.

Late Tuesday, U. S. President Barack Obama urged extreme caution on both sides, in an attempt to push Sudan back from the brink of war.

The timing of the mounting attacks on Coptic Christians in Egypt and the build-up to the referendum in South Sudan are no coincidence.

Sudan is among the least developed countries declared by the United Nations.

International observers have said the south Sudan referendum was free, fair and credible.

He said South Sudan has a vast territory, brilliant civilizations, industrious and brave people.

AFTER a week's voting in a long-anticipated referendum, the secession of South Sudan looks ever more likely.

South Sudan prepared to celebrate its secession from Sudan following decades of political infighting and civil war.

Yet Sudan is by no means the only country where China has had to become involved in domestic politics.

Along with its bleak desert conditions, Sudan is one of the worst places on the planet.

Naixi Bhattacharjee said the United Nations requested the Government of Southern Sudan to make this description.

With peace everything is possible, but it must be protected, not just for Sudan but for all peace loving people in the world.

Sudan's government bears principal responsibility for five years of the Darfur crisis, Human Rights Watch said.

Obama said that with its allies and partners, the U. S. is working to end the violence and protect innocent civilians in Sudan.

The announcement by the White House comes as the Obama administration continues to formulate a new strategy for Sudan and the Darfur crisis.

A court in London has jailed a British businessman for breaking an official arms embargo against Sudan.

China should be encouraged to move from hands-off non-interference to engage, as it has done over Iran, North Korea and Sudan.

Sudan signed end-user agreements with both governments guaranteeing that the aircraft would not be used in Darfur.

So she and Mr Brown ventured to the Sudan as directors of Save the Children's emergency programme there.

The U. N. Security Council has renewed the mandate of its joint U. N. -African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, for another year.

In the telephone conversation, Li stressed that the settlement of the Darfur issue in southern Sudan is at a key stage.

The recent flare-up in violence suggests difficult times ahead for what will be Africa's newest country of south Sudan.

Ostensibly orphans from the Darfur region of Sudan, destined for adoption in France, many turned out to be local children, and not orphans.

We believe that there cannot be lasting peace in Darfur, or stability in Sudan, without accountability and justice.

Another round of civil war is the last thing he needs: he is more likely to wait for the new South Sudan to unravel of its own accord.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says he is prepared to assist southern Sudan if the region votes for independence on Sunday as expected.

And how do you view the preliminary result of the Southern Sudan Referendum. Do you think it will affect China's interests in Sudan?

Some news just in, reports from Sudan say an air strike has destroyed a car near the city of Port Sudan.

We are ready to join the international community to play a constructive role in promoting peace, stability and development in Sudan.

Beijing, which has veto power in the U. N. Security Council, has resisted tough Security Council action against Sudan over the conflict.

The events in Sudan and Egypt are linked to one another and are part of the project to balkanize the Arab World and the Middle East.

The existence of oil so near the border might be thought a catastrophe for Sudan.

"Without China's insistence , I fear Sudan will simply 'wait out the clock, '" Spielberg wrote in the letter released by his office.

The United States military is joining efforts to help build the newly independent nation of South Sudan.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has arrived in Chad, his first visit to a country that recognizes the war crimes court seeking his arrest.

This is less than a week since the Sudan, the second such crash occurred.

South Sudan would not be the first African state to fail, but it may do so more spectacularly than most.

Two international organisations monitoring the elections in Sudan say the controversial polls failed to meet full international standards.

He also criticized the US and Britain for their "megaphone diplomacy" in trying to persuade Sudan to accept a UN force in troubled Darfur.

"We are happy that the world is accompanying Southern Sudan today as it is being born, " he said.

We're not trying to deploy Western domination here [in Sudan].

Iraq moved up two places this year and is now ranked 4th from the bottom, along with Sudan.

To help south Sudan prepare for independence, Internet giant Google is training volunteers to help improve maps of the new country.

That could lead to it becoming more involved in places such as Pakistan and Sudan, where its citizens have been caught up in kidnappings .

China has strategic reasons to prop up the regimes in Burma and North Korea, economic ones to keep close to Sudan and Zimbabwe.

Be proud - you and the President of Sudan have something in common. . . I hope you are proud of your legacy.

he is now officially accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in relation to the war in Sudan's western region of Darfur.

The Delegation of the Sudan stated that the patent system was the motor, which pushed development in every state.

Sudan red incident, melamine incident, trench oil . . . Development so far, estimation is not can rest assured that the use of items.

He underscored the fact the ICC has no jurisdiction over Sudan.

South Sudan withdrew from fighting in Heglig once before during the past two weeks, only to return a few days later to retake control.

Similar calls are coming from activists concerned about the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur province, where China has a great deal of influence.

I hope that this internet service will contribute in a positive way in raising the Chinese public awareness and understanding of Sudan.

The oil field blocks of a Chinese company in Sudan were surrounded by the troops of the south. How is the current situation like?

It was the oldest port in Sudan and one of the oldest cities in the country.

At best, it seems, Britain sees it as a chip to be exchanged for setting south Sudan free and making peace in Darfur.

The head of the American negotiating team on Sudan has hinted at the possibility of the normalisation of relations between Sudan and the US.

The nightmare in Sudan has lasted longer than my life. Yet, isn't Darfur enough to lead to his indictment?

Joseph Kony had been expected to meet with mediators from Southern Sudan's regional government who wants the rebels to lay down their arms.

Various other surveys put the general rate of HIV in South Sudan at just over one percent.

The UN refugee agency says it is running out of money to help Southern Sudan refugees go home.

Finally, we encourage you to issue an overview or white paper on China's policies toward the Sudan over the past decade.

The 17-year-old is one of the top students at Juba Day School in Juba, Southern Sudan, but he is struggling to pay his school fees.

But to China's surprise, its behaviour abroad, particularly in Sudan, has been the focus of Hollywood's ire in the run-up to the Games.

Many governors of South Sudan's 10 states are trying to round up sex workers and deport them.

And in Sudan's Darfur region, Rice said, the world's democracies must "resolve to end the suffering and violence. "

Whatever the truth, the episode is a sign of a wider breakdown of peace across southern Sudan.

Similarly, current deals with pariahs Sudan and Iran represent a sort of diplomatic arbitrage.

But the substance may be little changed: Mr Bolton had been pushing for sensible resolutions on matters including Iran and Sudan.

Later that year, however, he sold most of his stake, a move he attributed to gains in his investments rather than the Sudan allegations.

The deal was imposed on Sudan largely due to the relentless pressure of foreign countries, principally the United States.

The aim of this study was to assess the genotoxic effects of Sudan I in vitro and to elucidate the mechanism of oxidative DNA damage.

It has also let tanks be quietly shipped into South Sudan, in case the north decides to clobber the south, as it has done before.

Sudan's strongman, Omar al-Bashir, blasts the proposed deployment of UN troops in Darfur as the spearhead of a new Western crusade.

Described are the technical performance parameters, structure features, testing of the movable grain hopper car exported to Sudan.

The result of the Referendum should maintain Sudan's overall peace and stability, whatever way it points.

The report does not claim that Chinese arms dealers knew that their ammunition was being sent to the western region of Sudan.

Two House of Representatives committees and one Senate panel are looking at Sudan, as well as U. S. support for international peacekeeping.

Sudan is justified in suspecting foreign troops and accusing the U. S. , Britain, and Israel of eroding the national solidarity of Sudan.

The United States special envoy to Sudan, Princeton Lyman, described the escalation as "extraordinarily dangerous" .

As I stepped off the plane into Sudan, I saw the dusty faces of those who have suffered under the terrible genocide happening in Darfur.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is in Istanbul for a summit meeting on African Turkish economic cooperation.

He worked hard to help push through recent United Nations resolutions on peacekeeping forces in Sudan and Chad.

If it chooses to secede, a new country will emerge with about three-quarters of all the oil presently possessed by Sudan.

For two decades Piye had ruled over his own kingdom in Nubia, a swath of Africa located mostly in present-day Sudan.

"It's no more dangerous to volunteer here than in the Sudan, " he said.

It said that planned projects to tackle high rates of HIV in areas of China and South Sudan might be affected by the funding cut.

As South Sudan's government relies on oil for almost all of its revenue, these comments were bound to provoke.

Less than one percent of those surveyed identified the major African conflict zones of Sudan or Somalia.

The government of Sudan must live up to its international obligations.

To the people of southern Sudan, none of this makes much of a difference.

Sudan's colonial masters, the British, lumped Christian southerners together with Muslim northerners to form Africa's largest country.

The missiles that Israel is said to have destroyed in the January raid were probably shipped into Port Sudan via Yemen from Iran.

France Lamy, program director for Google. org, explained the system at a "mapping Sudan" conference in Nairobi.

Last December, the United States supported a military assault on the LRA by the armies of Uganda, Congo Kinshasa, and South Sudan.

The week of voting is the long awaited culmination of a 2005 peace deal between north and south Sudan.

Several Sudanese policemen have been killed in a battle with rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region, the Sudanese government says.

The United Nations says at least 600 people are now known to have died and 1, 000 wounded in ethnic clashes in South Sudan.

in trying to coax the government of Sudan away from a policy of genocide.

South Sudan is going to be having a referendum in 2011 in which it is very likely to vote itself independence.

The dispute over allocation of petroleum interest is a key factor behind the long civil war in Sudan.

Sudan and South Sudan have disagreed over borders, oil and citizenship since the South became an independent nation last July.

On the same tack, Li Ning in September signed up to sponsor Sudan's national track-and-field team.

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has opened the country's first gold refinery, which officials say is one of Africa's largest plants.

Described are the technical performance parameters, structure features and prototype manufacture of meter gauge flat cars exported to Sudan.

Southern Sudan's virtually impenetrable wetlands provided sanctuary for wildlife during 25 years of civil war.

Since then it has significantly diversified its sources, importing large quantities from Sudan, Iran, Russia, Angola and Saudi Arabia.

To be honest, I might have a hard time finding Sudan on a map.

Burma is in chains, Zimbabwe is a human tragedy, in Sudan thousands of people have died unnecessarily for wars that we could prevent.

Professor Pinker had a choice of ongoing conflicts while he worked on his book: in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Sudan.

Bragg added, that if Sudan does not reverse the expulsion order, the number of affected people could reach the millions.

Seventy-five per cent of the oil reserves are in South Sudan, but as it's landlocked, it has to export it via the north.

But recent events have raised concerns about the peace process that ended years of civil war with Sudan's north.

In reality, the balkanization project in Sudan has been going on since the end of British colonial rule in Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

He told an extraordinary cabinet meeting that "if the situation does not evolve positively" relations with Sudan may be ruptured.

' The international community's view on Sudan 's internal strife was: ethnic conflict, opposition between the two races, black and arab.

Egyptian security forces work to interdict arms and explosives on smuggling routes that run across the vast expanse from Sudan to Gaza.

The decision to send officers follows a White House memorandum last week to send weapons and defense aid to South Sudan.

that the amount of credit shall not exceed that part of the Sudan tax which is appropriate to those profits or income or as the case may be.

The north will no doubt hang on to the Republic of Sudan moniker so that's off the cards.

But are exported to the United States, Australia, and South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and other countries, and by the exotic places.

The seasonal migration of animals in southern Sudan is a spectacle to rival the flow of animals across Tanzania's Serengeti Plain.

US-based groups that have been campaigning against the violence in the Sudan expressed mixed feelings about the policy.

Observers from around the world have gathered in Sudan for the voting. Final results are not expected for several weeks.

The Delegation of Sudan stated that for the lack of time it would deposit its intervention in writing to the Secretariat.

IT HAS been only a month since South Sudan split from the north. Already, however, the new neighbours are squabbling.

It was the second-lowest repatriation total in 15 years, reflecting deteriorating security conditions in Afghanistan and Sudan.

They grew up in the Sudan ; hence their interest in Nubian art.

Both sides discussed the security arrangements, border demarcation and is Southern Kordofan in central Sudan, the armed conflict.

Sudan has rejected the charges. China isn't a signatory to the ICC's founding treaty and has criticized the body.

The new state of South Sudan (see picture), which combines oil wealth with instability and underdevelopment, will surely join its ranks.

We start in Sudan. Health officials are launching a campaign to vaccinate eight million children after a case of polio was reported there.

But in the West of Sudan, in Darfur, the situation for millions is still one of urgent crisis.

Olympic sponsors have been put under great pressure from some lobby groups to speak out about human rights in Tibet or Darfur in Sudan.

The United States says it will normalize diplomatic ties with Sudan once the results of south Sudan's independence referendum are certified.

Development of an alternative crude oil exports infrastructure by South Sudan would take no less than five years.

Abyei, a sparsely populated region that straddles Sudan's north-south border, has long been at the center of a series of violent disputes.

There may be the odd suspicious death in custody, but there have been no mass killings, as in Myanmar or Sudan.

Environment and Tourism Sudan enjoys various tourist resources due to the availability of enormous natural capabilities.

And it is trying to promote peace in Sudan's bloody western region, Darfur.

Diplomats Sunday said the two events might overlap, depending on how long the Sudan talks carry on.

The oil Sudan threatened to block is produced by a Chinese-led consortium and most of it is shipped to China.

It also threatens to transmit shockwaves through a seam of fragile and strife-torn African states from Sudan to the Congo.

I admire Mr. Moreno-Ocampo determination to indict Sudan's president but he should be very careful. His life is certainly in danger.

"It is giving a message to our society that Sudan can do the same, that Sudan can recognize its own diversity, " he said.

There was a wonderful speech from the vice-president of South Sudan, Riek Machar, announcing that his country would work for peace.

The leader of the United Resistance Front joined heads of the Sudan Liberation Army factions for this meeting.

South Sudan has made some progress in education in the six years since the peace deal, a period otherwise squandered.

One tooth returns two teeth In a day of night, the Ha Lin of Sudan is assaulted together by two people, ha Lin is destroyed a front tooth.

An outbreak of tribal violence in south Sudan has left at least 185 people dead, most of them women and children.

Laboratory investigations at the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI), Entebbe, Uganda confirmed Ebola virus (Sudan species).

He is treading softly, knowing that none of the conflicts in Congo, Somalia, Sudan or Zimbabwe has an easy solution.

South Sudan is already a major recipient of aid as it seeks to create the conditions for domestic and foreign industry to flourish.

China's influence is growing and not just in Sudan, as African governments realise just how useful a little competition can be.

Perhaps the most urgent task facing everyone involved in Sudan is to hold the CPA together to ensure that those elections take place.

With rare exceptions like Sudan, those who pillage their countries' wealth are accepted into the top ends of global society.

India is the third-biggest contributor of UN peacekeepers to the continent, helping clamp down on civil wars in Sudan and Congo.

Sudan remains obligated to proactively facilitate the full deployment of UNAMID, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur.

Then on July 2, South Sudan broke away from the Arab-dominated north, taking with it oil wells and substantial oil deposits.

South Sudan's jerry-built towns are dominated by aid agencies, whose people often complain about the lack of a private sector.

Soldiers of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement's northern arm drive through the Nuba mountains of South Kordofan on Wednesday.

The leaders of Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army failed to appear at peace talks on the Sudan-Uganda border, Congo border on Sunday.

A copy of the cargo manifest shows it was commissioned by the semi-autonomous government of south Sudan.

Tension in Sudan was raised over the weekend, with reports of clashes along the north-south border.

Doing business in South Sudan is a formidable challenge at the best of times.

South Sudan has blamed its northern neighbour, the Republic of Sudan, for the aerial bombardment of a refugee camp south of the border.

This, the upstream states hope, leaves the door open for Egypt and Sudan to join them before the one-year signing period closes.

Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir is set to arrive in Istanbul for a summit meeting on African Turkish economic cooperation.

Sudan is committed to implementing the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and holding the referendum in southern Sudan in a free and fair way.

The Sudan Airways plane was landing in Khartoum at the end of a flight from Amman, Jordan.

In April, negotiations between the nine Nile countries broke down after Egypt and Sudan refused to give ground.

It was quick to recognise oil-rich South Sudan when it seceded in July, having sent observers to monitor its referendum on independence.

Total holds the largest, but yet to be explored, single oil exploration block (Block B) southeast of South Sudan.

South Sudan will also be one of the world's least developed nations.

The close bilateral cooperation is mainly driven by oil exports from Sudan, which is among the top oil suppliers for China.