Growing opposition voiced about Security Council role in ICC warrant against al-Bashir By Von Ronda Hauben (netizen2)   The recent action of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in issuing a warrant for the arrest of the head of state of Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir, has created a...

By Thalif Deen; Inter Press Service: The ongoing political crisis in Sudan is expected to worsen in the face of a rash of threats and warnings following the indictment last week of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The beleaguered Sudanese...

By John Prendergast and Omer Ismail : For the first time in a quarter-century, Sudan has a chance for peace throughout the entire country. On the face of it, this assertion seems counterintuitive – even preposterous. Darfur is burning, and the historic 2005 agreement that brought peace between...

By Andrew Heavens and Skye Wheeler: KHARTOUM/JUBA - A series of political squalls on the horizon in Sudan this year threaten to build into a perfect storm with the power to wreck a peace deal between north and south. While much attention has focused on the conflict in the western Darfur region...

By Stephanie McCrummen and Colum Lynch - Washington Post Foreign Service.  Obama Team Seen As Tough on Darfur NAIROBI - If the election of Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different. In the Sudanese...

By Peter Eichstaedt, IWPR Africa editor, in Juba. After announcing that he would sign a peace deal with the Ugandan government on Saturday, November 29, Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony again drew a crowd to the jungle camp of Nabanga on the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of...