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Sudan’s President Bashir meets South Sudan’s Kiir

YoopyaApr 12, 20130

President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan is visiting South Sudan for the first time since it became independent in 2011. Mr Bashir and his southern counterpart,

South Sudan pulls first troops from border with Sudan

YoopyaMar 18, 20130

(Reuters) – South Sudan began pulling its army out of a buffer zone with its old civil war foe Sudan on Sunday and thousands of

Sudan’s Bashir says ready to meet Kiir to try to get oil flowing

YoopyaDec 27, 20120

(Reuters) – Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Wednesday he was ready to meet his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir to try to move

Sudan, South Sudan to discuss rebel support next month

YoopyaDec 20, 20120

(Reuters) – Sudan and South Sudan will tackle the sensitive issue of support for rebel groups for the first time when they resume security talks

Sudan arrests ex-spy chief after foiled plot

YoopyaNov 23, 20120

(Reuters) – Sudan arrested its former spy chief and other senior military and security officers on Thursday after foiling what officials said was a plot

Special Report: South Sudan’s Chinese oil puzzle

YoopyaNov 14, 20120

(Reuters) – A few months before South Sudan seceded last year, Henry Odwar drove to a Juba hotel to confront the men who would be

U.S. renews sanctions, Sudan criticizes decision

YoopyaNov 3, 20120

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama renewed U.S. sanctions on Sudan on Friday, acknowledging Khartoum had resolved disputes with South Sudan but warning that Darfur and other conflicts

Sudan police fire teargas to disperse farm region protest

YoopyaNov 1, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese police fired teargas to disperse hundreds of protesters in a farming region south of the capital on Wednesday, witnesses said. The demonstrators,

Sudan rebels say shelling resumes around oil state capital

YoopyaOct 23, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese rebels said they had shelled the main city in the oil-producing South Kordofan state near the border with South Sudan after coming

Fighting in Sudan border states kills 600: minister

YoopyaOct 17, 20120

KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 600 people have been killed in insurgencies that erupted in two Sudanese states bordering South Sudan last year, Sudan’s interior