South Sudan was born as an independent nation on July 9, 2011, with good will and a bounty. Three hundred and fifty thousand barrels of oil per day provided the government with $1,000 per year for each of its 8 million citizens. But the only pipeline to market runs through northern Sudan, giving the government in Khartoum control over South Sudan's...
PARIS -- The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court put new pressure on the government of Sudan on Friday by seeking an arrest warrant for the country's defense minister on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The minister, Abdel Rahim Muhammad Hussein, is a close ally of Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who has...
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) -- A Kenyan court on Monday ordered the government to arrest President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on genocide charges, should he ever return to Kenya. The ruling prompted Sudan to order the expulsion of Kenya's ambassador and summon its own envoy from Nairobi. Kenya was...