See No Evil, Speak No Evil: U.N. Covers Up Sudan's Bad Behavior in Darfur

Late last month, a senior U.N. investigator scolded officials with the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, UNAMID, for repeatedly withholding evidence of alleged Sudanese government crimes against civilians and peacekeepers.

Clearly, UNAMID didn't get the memo.

Sudan, South Sudan keeping troops near border in violation of agreements, report says

A new report based on satellite imagery says Sudan and South Sudan are keeping troops in at least 14 locations within their contested border zone in violation of security agreements.

The actor George Clooney, a co-founder of the satellite project, said the imagery proves that both Sudan and South Sudan have troops “where they should not be.”

Mali only waited months, why has Darfur suffered for a decade?

Hussain Begira

Editor's note: Hussain Begira was born in Darfur and lived there for most of his life. He is a human rights activist and campaigner against the genocide in Darfur. Since 2011 he has been Chairman for Darfur Union in the UK & Ireland.

South Sudan proposes binding international arbitration to resolve border disputes with Sudan

A South Sudan official says the country’s president is going to propose the use of binding international arbitration to resolve a border dispute with Sudan.

Associated Press - President Salva Kiir, right, of South Sudan arrives at the National Palace with Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, left, of Ethiopia during talks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Friday Jan. 4, 2013.The presidents of Sudan and South Sudan are meeting to try to break through stalled oil agreements.

Leaders from Sudan and South Sudan arrived in Ethiopia on Friday to revive stalled deals signed in September. The deals paved the way for South Sudan to restart oil exports through Sudan’s pipelines, but so far exports have not resumed.

Sudan, South Sudan to resume flights between capitals

Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to resume direct flights between their capital cities nearly five months after they were halted during a dispute over the status of South Sudanese living in the north, both sides said yesterday.

The two countries have been at loggerheads over a variety of issues since South Sudan split away from Sudan a year ago under a 2005 peace deal that ended decades of civil war.

Hundreds of thousands of southerners still live in Sudan, where many have faced an uncertain legal status since an April deadline passed for them to get work and residency documents or be treated like foreigners.

Sudan halted flights between Juba and Khartoum after the deadline because they were no longer domestic and therefore required an international agreement, said Rahamatalla Mohamed Osman, Sudan's undersecretary of foreign affairs.