The Latest Breaking News from Khartoum

Sudanese security forces on Sunday fired tear gas at protesters demonstrating against last year's military coup, an AFP correspondent said, as a United Nations human rights expert arrived in the country. Thousands rallied in the capital Khartoum, carrying Sudanese flags and posters of people killed during anti-coup demonstrations in recent…

Attacks on UN facilities, a surge in tribal clashes, lootings, rape, and anti-coup protests -- Sudan's Darfur region is reeling from a widening security gap after last year's coup. Sudan is one of the world's poorest countries but the vast, arid Darfur region has for years suffered more than its…

Since a palace coup last October, the interim military government has indiscriminately arrested dozens of dissidents.

US Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield was in Sudan on Thursday on a two-day visit to discuss with military and civilian leaders efforts to put the country back on the transition track following the army’s coup in October 25. The US State Department said Satterfield aims…

At least one protester was shot dead as security forces confronted crowds marching in Khartoum on Monday demanding the release of prisoners and an end to military rule, medics and a Reuters reporter said. Elsewhere, thousands returned to streets across Sudan, in some of the biggest demonstrations in nearly a…

At least one protester killed, medics say, as thousands rally to demand the release of prisoners, reject military rule.

At least one protester was shot dead as security forces confronted crowds marching in Khartoum on Monday demanding the release of prisoners and an end to military rule, medics and a Reuters reporter said.

A Sudanese political party says authorities have again arrested a former senior government official during a crackdown on anti-coup groups

Sudan’s military authorities have again arrested a former senior government official, his party said, as pro-democracy groups on Monday readied more protests against a military coup that plunged the country into turmoil. The Unionist Alliance party said Mohammed al-Faki Suliman, former member of the ruling Sovereign Council, was detained Sunday…

Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum Yibeltal Aemero Alemu said Sudan and Ethiopia reached an agreement to peacefully resolve the border dispute. Alemu did not specify when bilateral talks on border demarcation would be launched. “There are previous border agreements with Sudan,” he affirmed, adding that officials from both countries will refer…

Scores of activists and pro-democracy protesters are in jail in Sudan for opposing a military takeover in October