News on Khartoum

Mideast Sudan Arab Summit

2010-12-20T07:00:53Z

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 file photo, Sudanese policemen guard a warehouse where referendum materials procured by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems ...

CORRECTION South Sudan Whispers of War

2010-12-14T10:03:52Z

In this photo taken Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, a soldier from the Sudan People's Liberation Army, a former rebel movement that fought for more than two decades against the Khartoum government in order to gain increased rights and respect for the south, stands on the southern side of the Kiir Adem bridge, which the northern army has bombed repeatedly in the pas...

Mideast Sudan Referendum

2010-10-28T12:03:28Z

A southern Sudanese man carries his suitcase as he makes his way to a bus headed to southern Sudan, at a staging area 20 miles south of Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2010. Hundreds of southern Sudanese began heading south from the capital Khartoum Thursday, ahead of a key referendum over the future of the country in January. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)

Mideast Sudan UN Council Trip

2010-10-09T13:31:55Z

A southern Sudanese pro-secession demonstrator is held by security forces at a rally in Khartoum, Sudan Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010. Sudan's foreign minister assured visiting U.N. Security Council members Saturday that the government is committed to holding a referendum on southern independence on time, while clashes er...

Mideast Southern Sudan Referendum

2010-10-05T10:45:32Z

Sudanese children and school students pray for peace and unity during a government organised event at Al-Khalifa square in Omdurman, near Khartoum, in Sudan Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. A top official on the commission charged with carrying out Southern Sudan's upcoming independence referendum says he is o...