Sudan Election 2010: parlement approves referendum law
22 Dec 2009: Sudan's parliament has approved a controversial bill paving the way for a referendum on possible independence for the country's oil-producing south. MPs passed the bill on Tuesday, despite opposition from southern Sudanese legislators over a clause thatSudan political parties agree on referendum
14 Dec 2009: The two main political parties in Sudan's north and south have agreed to hold a key referendum promised over four years ago. The deal on Sunday resolves issues that had threatened to undermine the 2005 peace accord - signed after decades of civil war andElection: Sudan lifts media censorship
28 Sep 2009: Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's president, has ordered an immediate end to state censorship of the media ahead of the country's first elections in almost 25 years. In a decree carried by the official Suna news agency on Sunday, al-Bashir put an end toSudan "trouser" woman freed after one day in jail
08 Sep 2009: A Sudanese woman jailed for wearing trousers deemed indecent in a landmark court case was freed on Tuesday after the country's journalist union paid a $209 fine on her behalf, the head of the media body said. Lubna Hussein was convicted on indecencyIDP says better north if conditions remain the same in south Sudan
07 Sep 2009: Awut Deng Baak, a southern Sudanese leaving in Jebel Auliya, Khartoum State, says better to remain in northern Sudan if conditions remain the same in the South. Since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in 2009, only some 90,516 returned fromOver 160 killed in South Sudan tribal raid
04 Aug 2009: JUBA: More than 160 people were killed when heavily armed South Sudan tribal fighters launched a dawn raid on a rival group, officials said on Monday, the latest in a series of bloody ethnic clashes. Most of the victims were women and children when men‘Jeans journalist’ appears in court
30 Jul 2009: KHARTOUM: Sudanese woman journalist facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public made her first appearance in a court packed with supporters on Wednesday, in what her lawyer described as a test case in Sudan’s decency laws. There were chaotic scenesCourt Rules on Abyei, Sudan Rivals Content
22 Jul 2009: THE HAGUE — The International Court of Arbitration redrew on Wednesday, July 22, the borders of Sudan's disputed Abyei region, a ruling welcomed by Khartoum and the semiautonomous south government. "The tribunal urges the parties…to begin immediateMounting Ethnic Tensions in the South
27 Jun 2009: Nasir — Leaders from northern and southern Sudan are currently meeting in Washington against the backdrop of a series of bloody clashes between rival ethnic groups in the south in recent months. On 12 June, fighting broke out close to Nasir in UpperSouth Sudan hit by ethnic clashes
21 Apr 2009: More than 170 people have been killed in clashes between different ethnic groups in south Sudan, according to government officials. Officials from the UN and the South Sudanese government, sent to investigate the clashes, were prevented from getting toIsrael Fingered in Sudan Convoy Strike
26 Mar 2009: Israel is largely being fingered for mysterious deadly airstrikes that targeted a convoy in Sudan in late January and killed an unspecified number of people. "CBS News national security correspondent David Martin has been told that Israeli aircraftWarrant a Western ploy: Bashir
06 Mar 2009: KHARTOUM: Sudan’s president told thousands of cheering supporters yesterday that an international call for his arrest on war crimes charges was a ploy by Western nations set on grabbing the country’s oil. Omar Bashir, the first sitting president to beICC Issues Arrest for Sudan's Bashir
04 Mar 2009: THE HAGUE — In an unprecedented ruling expected to have far-reaching repercussions, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued on Wednesday, March 4, an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and crimes againstFrance denies financial support to Al-Nur
20 Feb 2009: Responding to statements made Tuesday by Sudan’s representative to the UN, who criticized France for safeguarding Darfur rebel leader Abdel-Wahid Al-Nur, the spokesperson of the French Foreign Ministry voiced support for the Doha peace process andRivals sign Darfur pact
17 Feb 2009: Representatives of Sudan's government and the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), the most influential rebel group in the country's western Darfur region, have signed a joint declaration of good intentions. Qatar, which has been hosting peace talksslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
