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Around two thirds of African countries have improved ...

(AFP) — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:57:00 GMT

(AFP) - Around two thirds of African countries have improved in the field of governance over the past year, according to the latest index released by a London-based foundation dedicated to the issue. Photo:Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (L) and his Ghanaian ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:36:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (L) and his Ghanaian counterpart John Kufuor attend the opening of the 6th African, Caribbean, Pacific (ACP) summit at the Accra international conference centre October 2, 2008. Sudan's president, accused of genocide in Darfur by the West, said rich countries were bullying the planet's poorest states into accepting bad terms of trade and warned of a 'looming Cold War'. REUTERS/Yaw Bibini (GHANA)

Outgoing ACP chairman and Sudanese President ...

(AFP) — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - Outgoing ACP chairman and Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is seen here in Khartoum, in September. Leaders of African, Caribbean and Pacific countries meet Thursday in Ghana at a biennial summit likely to be dominated by the impact of financial market turmoil in developed countries on some of the world's poorest nations. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court ...

(AFP) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:20:00 GMT

(AFP) - Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have sought to persuade a panel of judges to grant their request for a genocide arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

A Sudanese woman sits inside her tent in the ...

(AFP) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:20:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Sudanese woman sits inside her tent in the Kalma displaced people camp on the outskirts of the southern Darfur town of Nyala. Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have sought to persuade a panel of judges to grant their request for a genocide arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir. Photo:Jose Cendon/AFP

European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) welcomes ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:03:00 GMT

(Reuters) - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) welcomes African Union Commission chairman Jean Ping at the European Commission headquarters in Brussels October 1, 2008. REUTERS/Thierry Roge (BELGIUM)

In this Dec. 21, 2005 file picture a mother gently places her ...

(The Canadian Press) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:18:00 GMT

(The Canadian Press) - In this Dec. 21, 2005 file picture a mother gently places her son in a basket, as she takes him to a Medecins Sans Frontieres clinic, in Lankien, Southern Sudan after he contracted malaria. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Karel Prinsloo, File

One of the five Germans and a Romanian woman ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - One of the five Germans and a Romanian woman who spent 10 days as hostages makes her way from an airplane upon arrival at Berlin's Tegel Airport. Europeans held captive by bandits for 10 days along with other hostages have returned to their native countries amid conflicting accounts of their liberation. Photo:Axel Schmidt/AFP

A European tourist -- who was taken hostage by ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:34:00 GMT

(AFP) - A European tourist -- who was taken hostage by bandits in the Egyptian desert on September 19 -- waves to reporters after arriving at an airbase in Cairo. Europeans held captive by bandits for 10 days along with other hostages returned home from Egypt amid conflicting accounts of their liberation. Photo:Cris Bouroncle/AFP

Lord's Resistance Army soldiers arrive at a neutral ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:33:00 GMT

(AFP) - Lord's Resistance Army soldiers arrive at a neutral camp in south Sudan in 2006. Ugandan minister Tarsis Kabwegyere has told AFP that the LRA should be starved into accepting peace negotiations. Kabwegyere has accused some aid groups of sending the rebel group food aid. Photo:Peter Martell/AFP

A Rwandan soldier serving with the United Nations-African ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Rwandan soldier serving with the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) stands next to a UN helicopter in northern Darfur. Rebels in Sudan's war-torn Darfur region have rejected claims they shot down a helicopter contracted to the UN-peacekeeping force in an incident that killed all four crew members. Photo:Stuart Price/AFP

Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) troops patrol El-Fasher ...

(AFP) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:30:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) troops patrol El-Fasher -- the administrative capital of north Darfur -- on September 19. The SLA rebels have denied that they shot down a helicopter contracted to the UN-peacekeeping force in an incident that killed all four crew members. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

A Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) fighter stands ...

(AFP) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:23:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) fighter stands guard as a UN helicopter carrying the the UN-AU Special Envoys for Darfur lands in northern Darfur. A helicopter contracted to UN-led peacekeepers has crashed in Sudan's Darfur region, killing all four crew members, after being fired at, the Sudanese police have said. Photo:Stuart Price/AFP

A tourist in the Egyptian desert of Gilf al-Kabir ...

(AFP) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:36:00 GMT

(AFP) - A tourist in the Egyptian desert of Gilf al-Kabir near the borders of Libya and Sudan. Sudanese forces have surrounded bandits and their 19 captives - including European tourists -- snatched in the Egyptian desert five days ago, but Khartoum says its forces have 'no intention of storming the area'. Photo:Wael Abed/AFP

This picture from the United Nations Mission ...

(AFP) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:45:00 GMT

(AFP) - This picture from the United Nations Mission In Sudan shows Sudan People's Liberation Army troops as they disembark from a UN plane in the southern Sudanese city of Wau in June 2008. The European Union condemned on Tuesday the Sudanese military's use of white aircraft in strife-torn Darfur, calling it a deliberate attempt to create confusion with UN planes. Photo:Tim Mckulka/AFP

Transparency International (TI) says stopping ...

(AFP) — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:45:00 GMT

(AFP) - Transparency International (TI) says stopping bent practices such as cronyism and embezzlement can save lives in poor countries. The graft watchdog said Somalia, Iraq and Myanmar again came bottom in its global corruption rankings. Photo:Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP

Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete address a news conference ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:49:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete address a news conference in Khartoum, September 8, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallh

John Granville (C) poses in this undated photo from the U.S. ...

(Reuters) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:24:00 GMT

(Reuters) - John Granville (C) poses in this undated photo from the U.S. Agency for International Development, released August 8, 2008. REUTERS/USAID/Handout

A teenage fighter with the Lord's Resistance ...

(AFP) — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:20:00 GMT

(AFP) - A teenage fighter with the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) patrols the jungle regions that straddle Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) has urged the immediate release of 90 children kidnapped in the DRC by the LRA. Photo:Stuart Price/AFP

U.S. diplomat John Granville (C) poses in this undated photo ...

(Reuters) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 17:09:00 GMT

(Reuters) - U.S. diplomat John Granville (C) poses in this undated photo from the U.S. Agency for International Development, released August 8, 2008. REUTERS/USAID/Handout

Sudanese Islamists accused of killing a US diplomat ...

(AFP) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese Islamists accused of killing a US diplomat and his driver attend their trial in the Sudanese capital Khartoum in August 2008. The group admitted in filmed confessions their role in the New Year's Day murder in the Sudanese capital, a court heard on Sunday. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Sudanese riot police stand guard outside the ...

(AFP) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:42:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese riot police stand guard outside the courthouse in Khartoum in August 2008 before the trial of five Sudanese Islamists. The group admitted in filmed confessions their role in murdering a US diplomat and his driver in the Sudanese capital on New Year's Day, a court heard on Sunday. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Sudanese Islamists (back right) accused of killing ...

(AFP) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 15:00:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese Islamists (back right) accused of killing a US diplomat and his driver attend their trial in the Sudanese capital Khartoum, 11 September. Five Sudanese Islamists admitted in filmed statements their role in murdering a US diplomat and his driver in the Sudanese capital on New Year's Day, a court has heard. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army, loyal to ...

(AFP) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:37:00 GMT

(AFP) - Rebels of the Sudan Liberation Army, loyal to leader Minni Minawi, ride in a pick-up truck in El-Fasher, the administrative capital of north Darfur. Thousands of vulnerable civilians are feared to have been displaced by a recent upsurge of fighting in north Darfur, the United Nations head of humanitarian affairs for Sudan warned on Friday. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Lord's Resistance Army soldiers arrive at a neutral ...

(AFP) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:09:00 GMT

(AFP) - Lord's Resistance Army soldiers arrive at a neutral camp in south Sudan in 2006. Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army on Friday rejected claims it had launched deadly attacks in southern Sudan, as attempts to secure a peace deal looked increasingly shaky. Photo:Peter Martell/AFP

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir meets his South African ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:56:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir meets his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki at Khartoum airport September 15, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

A Sudanese woman and her son arrive at the Kalma ...

(AFP) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - A Sudanese woman and her son arrive at the Kalma displaced people camp in southern Darfur. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) say Sudanese government aircraft are bombing northern Darfur rebel positions in the latest reported attack in the war-torn region. Photo:Jose Cendon/AFP

Map of Sudan and the Darfur region. The Sudan ...

(AFP) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - Map of Sudan and the Darfur region. The Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) say Sudanese government aircraft are bombing northern Darfur rebel positions in the latest reported attack in the war-torn region. Photo:Ct/Jw/AFP

Sudanese women carry sacks of relief food in ...

(AFP) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese women carry sacks of relief food in Boro Medina. The World Food Programme provides food for 3.3 million people in Darfur. More than 100 vehickes carrying aid from the WFP have been hijacked in Darfur since the start of 2008. Photo:Bosire Bogonko/AFP

South African soldiers from the United Nations-African ...

(AFP) — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:07:00 GMT

(AFP) - South African soldiers from the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) patrol northern Darfur in July 2008. Photo:Stuart Price/AFP

A soldier from the rebel Sudanese Liberation ...

(AFP) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - A soldier from the rebel Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA) checks his rocket propelled grenade RPG7 inside the party's offices in Nyala, in 2007, the capital of Darfur, western Sudan. Darfur rebels on Wednesday accused the Sudanese government of launching heavy attacks in north Darfur, the latest in a series of violence in Sudan's war-torn western region. Photo:Mustafa Ozer/AFP

A fighter of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) ...

(AFP) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:04:00 GMT

(AFP) - A fighter of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) sits on top of a truck armed with rocket propelled grenades at Korma village, about 40 kms southeast of the north Darfur town of Kutum, in 2007. Darfur rebels on Wednesday accused the Sudanese government of launching heavy attacks in north Darfur, the latest in a series of violence in Sudan's war-torn western region. Photo:Stuart Price/AFP

The federal government has broken its promise to help a Sudanese-born ...

(CBC) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:37:15 GMT

(CBC) - The federal government has broken its promise to help a Sudanese-born Canadian detained in his home country to return to Canada, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Sudan's Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun talks ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Sudan's Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun talks during a Reuters interview in Khartoum September 16, 2008. Trying to arrest Sudan's president for war crimes in Darfur could prolong and complicate the conflict, the minister who is accused by international prosecutors of inciting mass killings in the region said on Tuesday. Haroun, who denies the charges against him, told Reuters the International Criminal Court's move to indict President Omar Hassan al-Bashir was part of a Western plot to launch a 'new colonisation' of Africa and said it could spread instability across the whole region. REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)

Sudan's state minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:48:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Sudan's state minister for Humanitarian Affairs Ahmed Haroun talks during a Reuters interview in Khartoum September 16, 2008. Trying to arrest Sudan's president for war crimes in Darfur could prolong and complicate the conflict, Haroun who is accused by international prosecutors of inciting mass killings in the region, said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)

South African President Thabo Mbeki (L) and his ...

(AFP) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - South African President Thabo Mbeki (L) and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir speak during a joint press conference in Khartoum. The leaders have warned that failure to defer war crimes proceedings against the Sudanese president could have 'far-reaching consequences' for the region. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir (R) meets with ...

(AFP) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:22:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir (R) meets with his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki in Khartoum. The leaders of Sudan and South Africa warned on Tuesday that failure to defer war crimes proceedings against the Sudanese president could have 'far-reaching consequences' for the region. Photo:Ashraf Shazly/AFP

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) and his South African ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:19:00 GMT

(Reuters) - Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (R) and his South African counterpart Thabo Mbeki address a news conference in Khartoum September 16, 2008. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah (SUDAN)

Sudanese children drink from a metal bowl at ...

(AFP) — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:54:00 GMT

(AFP) - Sudanese children drink from a metal bowl at a camp near the border with Chad. The UN special rapporteur Sima Samar has warned that the human rights situation in Sudan is getting worse, particularly in the conflict-riven region of Darfur where civilians are coming under increasing air attacks. Photo:Cris Bouroncle/AFP