Khartoum threatens to close Washington&#39;s embassy, Abuja ...
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Negotiations stopped in Abuja yesterday over Darfur once again when the rebels refused to negotiate directly with the Sudanese government delegation until the meeting of the African Union leaders separately to agree on the agenda.
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The United States pressed Sudan's  government on Monday to stop its latest military action in the  western Darfur region and remove any obstacles preventing full  deployment of U.N.-African Union peacekeepers.
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Nigeria threatened to report to the United Nations an alleged violation by Cameroon of a UN-brokered accord on demilitarization of Bakassi, as it worked to meet a deadline for withdrawing 3,000 Nigerian troops from the oil-rich peninsula this weekend.
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China is threatening to veto a revised US draft resolution that would consider UN sanctions against against Sudan&#39;s oil industry if Khartoum does not rein
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Sudan risks falling into  Somalia-style anarchy if peace talks aimed at ending separate  crises in Darfur and the south fail and embolden more factions  to take up arms, the top U.S. envoy to Sudan said Friday.
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NAIROBI, Kenya Kofi Annan (AN&#39;-nan) has called on the UN Security Council to give &quot;the strongest warning&quot; to forces fighting in Sudan to end its civil wars.
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The United States called the situation in Sudan &quot;troubling&quot; in the wake of Khartoum's vow to ask the African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur to leave while massing its own troops in the region.
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Senior Bush administration officials warned Wednesday that the already dire situation in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region could get worse without a larger presence by African Union monitors.
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Sudan blunted U.S. pressure to accept  U.N. troops in Darfur, sidelining Washington's top diplomat on  Africa on Monday ahead of a critical U.N. Security Council  debate on taming Sudan's violent western region.
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Sudan appears to be balking at  granting a visa to the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan, Andrew  Natsios, and is restricting the movement of all U.S. officials  to Khartoum, the State Department said on Friday.
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Washington's top diplomat for Africa hopes to meet both sides in Kenya's political crisis on Saturday to seek an end to ethnic unrest that has killed more than 300 and shattered the country's peaceful image.
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Sudan accused Washington of seeking to overthrow the regime of President Omar al-Beshir by using rights groups and foreign powers, a top presidential adviser was quoted as saying.
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The United States put forward a new draft UN resolution on Tuesday, threatening to impose sanctions on Sudan&#39;s oil industry if the Sudanese government fails to end the bloodshed in its troubled Darfur region.
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The United States is expected to  distribute on Tuesday a revised version of its U.N. resolution  on Sudan, but retain a threat of sanctions if Khartoum does not  stop atrocities in its Darfur region, diplomats said.
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A U.S. government aid official was critically wounded in a shooting attack on an embassy vehicle in Khartoum on Tuesday and his Sudanese driver was killed, Western diplomatic sources said.
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A renewed US push to end the tragedy in Sudan's Darfur region shows little promise of quick success, with Washington unwilling to put new teeth into its demand that the Khartoum government accept an aggressive UN peacekeeping force to halt the killing.
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UNITED NATIONS The US ambassador to the UN has accused all parties involved in western Sudan&#39;s violence of being responsible for a growing humanitarian disaster.