There were 1.1 million new refugees around the world in 2012, the highest rise in new refugee numbers since 1999, statistics published by the United Nations on Wednesday show. The annual UNHCR global trends in displacement report highlights that last year 7.6 million people were newly displaced due...

21 June 2013 – While welcoming overall positive human rights developments in Sudan, an independent United Nations expert today expressed concerns about specific situations in Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan states, which have been plagued by ongoing clashes and hostilities.

20 June 2013 – Aid agencies in South Sudan will need $485 million until the end of this year to help 3 million people to survive and to rebuild their lives, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said today. “While the needs of many vulnerable communities in ...

14 June 2013 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned in the strongest terms the shelling on a United Nations logistics base in Sudan’s South Kordofan State which killed at least one UN peacekeeper and wounded two others. “I urge the Government of Sudan and the SPLM-North [Sudan People’s Lib...

The governments of Sudan and South Sudan have agreed to refrain from backing proxy rebels to allow the continued export of South's crude through Sudan, giving a potential lifeline to their respective economies, officials said Tuesday. At the end of two days of talks in Khartoum, the Sudanese capita...

In its latest report, Sudan’s Spreading Conflict (II): War in Blue Nile, the International Crisis Group examines the war in Blue Nile, which was renewed in 2011 when South Sudan became independent and Sudan’s ruling party, the National Congress Party, became less disposed than ever to decentralising...

June 5, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Some 19,000 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) have returned to their areas of origin in South Kordofan, two months after being forced to flee their town and villages when the Sudanese rebels captured it last April. Citing the government controlled South Kordofan Volunt...

Refugee women and girls are at high risk of sexual harassment when living in refugee camps. In South Sudan the Danish Refugee Council is raising awareness and fighting the problem through large scale campaigns, delivering training to refugees and other NGOs and providing assistance for the victims.

July 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) has proposed to involve the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) in a vaccination campaign for children in the rebel controlled areas. Since last April UN children (UNICEF) and health (WHO) agencies seek to rea...

July 12, 2013, (KHARTOUM) -The Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir has endorsed the final status of the three Kordofan states following reinstating West Kordofan state and issued decrees appointing new governors to them. National Congress Party candidate for governor, Ahmed Haroun, speaks to t...