ARTICLES RELATING TO
OMAR HASSAN AL-BASHIR
South Sudan is not withdrawing troops from the border with Sudan to set up a buffer zone as it pledged it was last month, South Sudan's army says.
Sudan and South Sudan have failed to agree on how to withdraw armies from their disputed border after a round of talks in Ethiopia.
A Sudanese court has charged two men including a US resident of forming a terrorist organisation, in the first trial of people arrested during a spate of anti-government protests.
A date to re-start talks between feuding neighbours Sudan and South Sudan could be agreed this week, but a senior South Sudanese official said he did not believe Khartoum was ready.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir says his "main goal" is to free South Sudan's citizens from the ruling SPLM party following a series of border clashes between the neighbouring countries.
Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir says he is working with Libyan leaders to secure the border between the two countries and prevent the smuggling of weapons to rebel groups in Sudan.
Rights groups have asked Sudan to end the indiscriminate bombing of civilians in South Kordofan and grant access for humanitarian aid.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has offered an amnesty to armed groups fighting his government, and promised to bring peace to troubled border areas.
More than 100 orphans were caught in the middle of gunfire in an attack on the capital of south Sudan's oil-producing Upper Nile state that killed more than 42 combatants.
Former president Thabo Mbeki has paid a glowing tribute to Sudan President Omar Hassan al-Bashir ahead of the country's secession referendum.
African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on suspicion of genocide.
Sudan's government and Darfur's most powerful rebel force have accused each other of breaking a recently-signed ceasefire, undermining already stalled peace talks between both sides.
Sudan's last elected prime minister has says he will run for president in April's elections, promising to settle the Darfur conflict and 'dismantle totalitarianism'.
Sudan will hold elections in April, and already there are complaints about fraud, irregularities and obstacles to opposition parties.
Rebels in Sudan's Darfur region have accused government troops of launching two attacks in a development likely to hinder peace talks which began this month.
