Bhel commissions Sudan's largest power project

Last Updated: Wednesday, July 1, 2015, 13:37

State-owned power equipment maker Bhel today said it has commissioned Sudan's largest power plant.

Schlumberger fined $232.7mn for breaking Iran, Sudan sanctions

Last Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015, 02:37

French-US oil services giant Schlumberger Ltd. was fined $232.7 million by the Justice Department Wednesday for violating sanctions on Iran and Sudan.

Bodies litter looted South Sudan town

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 23:41

All that remains of Bor, a small market town that has changed hands four times in the latest South Sudan conflict, is an overwhelming smell of putrefying bodies and scattered trash that successive waves of looters ignored.

Khartoum suspends Red Cross activities in Sudan

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 01:24

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been notified by the Sudanese authorities for suspending its activities in Sudan, a source said.

Red Cross says ordered to suspend Sudan work

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 21:26

Sudanese authorities have ordered the Red Cross to suspend its activities, the organisation said Saturday, in the latest restriction to be placed on foreign aid workers in the country.

UN mission applauds Indian doctors helping civilians in South Sudan

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 13:04

The UN mission in South Sudan has voiced appreciation for the critical work done at military field hospitals in the troubled nation by Indian doctors who have treated hundreds of patients during the fighting between the government and rebel forces.

740,000 displaced inside South Sudan: UN

Last Updated: Saturday, February 1, 2014, 05:17

An estimated 740,000 people are displaced inside South Sudan with the largest increase in Unity State, a UN humanitarian agency said.

South Sudan atrocities need full investigation: Rights Group

Last Updated: Thursday, January 30, 2014, 19:46

Human Rights Watch demanded Thursday a full investigation into atrocities committed in war-torn South Sudan, reporting that in one town alone scores of both unburied bodies and fresh graves.

Attacker in Sudan stabs Russian consul, wife

Last Updated: Wednesday, January 29, 2014, 03:40

Sudan`s Interior Ministry says a disgruntled man in Khartoum has stabbed the Russian consul and his wife.

UN aid chief in South Sudan amid fighting despite ceasefire

Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 21:48

UN aid chief Valerie Amos toured war-torn South Sudan Monday amid a growing humanitarian crisis, with rebels and government accusing each other of breaking a ceasefire aimed at ending the conflict.

South Sudan ceasefire `shaky`: Norwegian FM

Last Updated: Monday, January 27, 2014, 03:13

A two-day-old ceasefire in South Sudan is still not firmly in place, the foreign minister of Norway, part of the so-called Troika with Britain and the United States, has said.

South Sudan govt, rebels say each other violating ceasefire

Last Updated: Sunday, January 26, 2014, 02:24

The government and rebels in South Sudan traded accusations on Saturday of breaking a ceasefire deal supposed to calm violence that has driven half a million people from their homes.