Sudan has arrested foreigners in the disputed region of Heglig, its defense ministry said Saturday, the latest in the spiraling conflict between the Sudans.
The newly independent Republic of South Sudan has announced the death of a prominent renegade rebel leader.
The only hospital on the border between Sudan and South Sudan is running short of supplies as rebels menace oil fields in the region, a photographer who visited the isolated area told CNN.
The United Nations is urging an investigation into alleged serious atrocities that it says could amount to crimes against humanity or war crimes in Sudan's Southern Kordofan state.
Jane Ferguson reports on families in disarray as a result from the latest fighting in a disputed Sudanese border region.
The U.N. Security Council on Friday condemned the violence in the disputed Sudanese region of Abyei and called on the government in the north to pull out its troops.
Sudan's military has taken control of the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei, the country's foreign ministry said Sunday.
A U.N. Security Council delegation arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, on Saturday to discuss with government officials the ongoing peace process in the country following a referendum in January that split the north from the south.
Fifty-seven "militiamen," including several high-ranking officers loyal to militia leader Gabriel Tang, were killed when Tang's forces attacked the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Southern Sudan, officials said Sunday.
More than 65 people have been killed in two days of clashes between rebel groups and soldiers in Southern Sudan's Upper Nile state, an army spokesman said.
More than 40 people have been killed in clashes between soldiers and a rebel militia in Southern Sudan, an official there said Monday, disputing rebel claims they have killed many more government troops.
The number of dead in clashes in Southern Sudan has more than doubled, an official said.
More than 100 people were killed and scores of others injured in clashes between the Southern Sudan government and forces loyal to a militia leader last week, a Southern Sudan official said.
For former child soldier and Sudanese hip-hop star Emmanuel Jal, Hong Kong's five-star Mira Hotel is just a bit too comfortable.
George Clooney and activist John Prendergast discuss the mood ahead of a referendum that could form a new nation.
In a dusty square flanked by two churches, Southern Sudanese lined up before dawn -- many in their Sunday best -- to vote in a historic referendum that they say is a vote for their freedom.
CNN's Ben Wedeman speaks with northern Sudanese who fear the impending break-up of their country.
Many Southern Sudanese on Saturday were jubilantly counting the moments to Sunday's historic referendum, a vote many hope will bring independence to their region, now a part of the nation of Sudan.
CNN's David McKenzie reports residents of Southern Sudan have high hopes for Sunday's referendum on independence.
South Sudanese forces raided a village in a disputed area on the Ugandan border and abducted a family of 11, Uganda's minister of information said Thursday.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday condemned an attack Sunday in southern Sudan that killed 161 people.
The hijacking drama may come to an end but the controversial booty may violate an agreement that ended the Sudanese civil war. Where will it end up?
(CNN) -- Fighting resumed Tuesday in a disputed oil-rich town in Sudan, threatening to reignite a calamitous civil war which ended three years ago.
A former African child soldier is raising money to build schools in Africa. CNN's Jill Dougherty reports.
When he was a little boy in Sudan, singer Emmanuel Jal's mother was killed. Soldiers raped his sister. At the age of 9, filled with longings for revenge, he became a child soldier.
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