Iain Duncan Smith’s arrival at Chequers on Sunday in an open-topped Morgan car for a meeting of Brexit’s Praetorian guard seems perfectly symbolic of the fantasies underpinning the entire project.

EXOTIC names of places like Kabul, Kandahar and Khartoum were on the lips of many Irish people not only during the past 20 years but also in the 1870s and 1880s.

An Eritrean man suspected of running a human trafficking network that sent thousands of migrants to Europe, leaving many to die on the way, has been extradited from Sudan to Italy, officials said.

One of the world's most wanted people-smugglers has been arrested.

An American man has told a US court that he was asked by Osama bin Laden in 1995 to kill Egypt’s president by ramming his plane with his own in mid-air.

Alex Perry on how George Clooney and his celebrity friends helped engineer the birth of a new African country and then saw it implode

The Sudanese woman imprisoned for refusing to reject Christianity has said she was resolved to keep her faith even if it meant death.

The Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned but who was detained again this week is now at the US embassy for her own “safety”.

A Sudanese Christian woman whose death sentence for apostasy was overturned is free again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents.

A Christian convert who was trying to fly to the United States with her family after being released from death row has been charged on two criminal counts after trying to leave Sudan, her legal team said.

A Christian woman sentenced to death in Sudan and later freed has been detained at an airport while trying to leave the country, her lawyer said.

A court in Sudan has ordered the release of woman on death row for apostasy, the country’s official news agency said.

A woman was stoned to death by her own family in front of a Pakistani high court yesterday for marrying the man she loved, police and a defence lawyer said.

A heavily pregnant Sudanese woman doctor who married a Christian man has been sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted on charges of apostasy.

Thousands of Sudanese protesters took to the streets of the capital Khartoum, chanting “freedom” and renewing calls for their autocratic president to resign.

Gunmen have ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding another 17 in the deadliest ever single attack on the international force in the country.

Five UN peacekeepers from India and up to seven civilians have been killed by rebels in South Sudan.

International trade in illegal wildlife that has driven creatures like the tiger to near-extinction is also threatening the survival of great apes, according to a new UN report.

A military transport aircraft has crashed near the Sudanese capital Khartoum after a mechanical failure, killing 13 people on board.

The US State Department today ordered the departure of all family members and non-essential US government personnel from its embassies in Sudan and Tunisia and warned US citizens against any travel to the two countries due to security concerns over rising anti-American violence.

Fury over an anti-Islam film spread across the Muslim world, with deadly clashes near Western embassies in Tunisia and Sudan, an American fast-food restaurant set ablaze in Lebanon, and international peacekeepers attacked in the Sinai despite an appeal for calm from Egypt’s president.

Angry demonstrations against an anti-Islam film spread to their widest extent yet today, targeting British and German embassies and clashing with security forces around the Middle East and other Muslim countries.

A Sudanese helicopter carrying a government delegation has crashed in a mountainous southern region, killing all 32 people on board including a Cabinet minister, a former presidential adviser, two generals and a TV crew.

Sudan’s state news agency says a plane carrying government officials has crashed in the country’s south, killing the minister of endowment and several other people on board.

The International Organisation for Migration has said it cannot meet the deadline set by Sudan’s White Nile State to help relocate up to 15,000 South Sudanese.

A Muslim mob set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital, Khartoum, witnesses and media said yesterday.

African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki urged the UN Security Council to take action to stop the fighting between Sudan and South Sudan, warning that both sides are locked in a "logic of war" with hardliners increasingly in control.

Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is in Tripoli on his first visit since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, in a bid to restore relations which soured in the last years of the Libyan dictator.

The leader of the main Darfur rebel group has been killed, the Sudanese army said today.

Carlos the Jackal has been sentenced to life in prison – again – in a Paris trial that ended with him rallying for revolution and weeping for Muammar Gaddafi.

ALL the world’s a stage for Carlos the Jackal, the veteran Marxist militant who since last month has reigned with imperious bluster over his trial in France on terrorism charges.

Dublin ranks higher than Paris, London or New York in a league of the world’s top cities for living standards.

A DEFIANT and smiling Carlos the Jackal, one of the most dreaded terror masterminds of the Cold War, went on trial again yesterday — this time over four deadly attacks in France nearly three decades ago.

A team of British doctors have successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head.

A TEAM of British doctors has successfully separated twin girls who were born joined at the head.

The man alleged to have been the fixer for Qatar 2022’s World Cup bid worked for FIFA for more than six years, it has been revealed.

WITH five years’ involvement in Sudan, George Clooney has begun to define a new role for himself: 21st-century celebrity statesman.

THE dateline here says “Sudan”, but in a few weeks it will likely read “South Sudan” or “Cushitia” or “Azania”.

Women broke out in song and men wrapped themselves in flags as voters in Southern Sudan began casting ballots today in a week-long independence referendum likely to create the world’s newest nation about five years after the end of a brutal civil war.

The United Nations is preparing for the possibility of 2.8 million people being displaced if fighting breaks out over southern Sudan’s independence referendum, according to an internal report.

Voting has kicked off in Sudan’s first competitive elections in nearly a quarter of a century despite repeated opposition calls to delay the vote.

Appeal judges at The International Criminal Court in The Hague today overturned a ruling that Sudan's leader cannot be charged with genocide in Darfur.

Egypt has threatened to withdraw its national team from all football activities if FIFA does not take action against rivals Algeria in the aftermath of their recent World Cup play-off match in Sudan.