Sudan gives militia leader government post
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Sudan has appointed Musa Hilal, a man Washington accuses of coordinating Darfur's marauding militias, to a central government position, a move which could undermine peace efforts and anger the international community.
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The Sudanese government and an alliance of opposition groups on Sunday reached a tentative agreement on Sudan's political future that builds on a peace accord already signed with southern rebels.
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The only rebel leader to have signed onto a peace deal for Darfur was sworn in Monday as a senior aide to the Sudanese president as international aid groups said the fighting in the war-torn region has intensified.
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EL FASHER, Sudan -- The African Union transferred authority Monday to a new joint peacekeeping force with the United Nations in Darfur that the international community hopes will stem the violence in Sudan's war-torn western region.
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Since April, Sudan&#39;s government has been saying that it will disarm the Janjaweed militias that have been killing, raping and terrorizing civilians in the country&#39;s Darfur region.
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Sudan is allowing its proxy militia to keep at least 16 camps in its strife-torn western region of Darfur, Human Rights Watch said, days before a UN deadline for Khartoum to stop the violence.
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Egyptâs President Hosni Mubarak in talks last week with his Sudanese counterpart, Omar Bashir, on the Darfur issue. The chief AU mediator in the peace talks has said that Khartoum agreed to âstop its current military attackâ in the province.
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Sudan's president swore in a new unity cabinet on Thursday, officially ending a three-month-old opposition walkout and political crisis that had threatened to re-ignite Sudan's north-south civil war.
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Sudan has appointed Musa Hilal, a man Washington accuses of coordinating Darfur's marauding militias, to a central government position, a move condemned by international human rights campaigners.
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Tribal sheikh described as 'poster child for Janjaweed atrocities in Darfur' given senior advisory role
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KHARTOUM, August 21 (IslamOnline.net &amp; News Agencies) - Eight days before the expiry of the UN Security Council deadline on Darfur, Sudan said it would disarm militias in the troubled area gradually, and signed a deal with the United Nations saying it
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MOGADISHU -- Leaders of the Islamic militia controlling much of Somalia ordered the handover of all unauthorized weapons yesterday but did not say how it would enforce the directive in a heavily armed country amid fears of a regional war. The directive, issued by senior Islamic leader Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed and announced on local radio stations, applies to all ...
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Leaders of the ex-rebel Eastern Front arrived in the Sudanese capital on Monday to take up positions in central government as agreed in a 2006 peace deal.
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Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian militia leader, last night blew apart well-laid plans for a smooth political succession following the death of Yassir Arafat by announcing
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A Shi'ite militia was waiting on Monday  for the order from its leader Moqtada al-Sadr to start turning  over its weapons to Iraqi police, a militia source said.
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A Sudanese official affirmed here Thursday that the security protocol between the Sudanese government and the Darfur rebels stipulates that the African Union (AU) would have the final say to settle any dispute over the
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Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir said he was ready to sign a peace deal with southern rebels and that he did not want to govern the country alone.