Six people have died in the capital of Khartoum, the seventh in Darfur, during protests in Sudan..

The main Darfur rebel group has confirmed that its leader, Khalil Ibrahim, has been killed.

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

The Sudanese army attacked a village in South Darfur for a second consecutive day in violence that has left one person dead and driven at least 250 civilians from their homes, the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission said.

The Sudanese army says it has clashed with Darfur rebels over the past few days, killing and capturing hundreds.

UP TO 12,000 refugees from Sudan’s Darfur region have fled across the border to neighbouring Chad after the latest air strikes by the Sudanese military and thousands more may be on their way, the UN refugee agency said yesterday.

CHAD’S Prime Minister Nourredine Delwa Kassire Coumakoye yesterday rejected a ceasefire with rebels who fought their way into the capital and blamed neighbouring Sudan for the insurgency.

The Sudanese army shot at a "clearly marked" UN convoy in war-torn Darfur, critically wounding a driver, the United Nations said.

The Sudanese army shot at a “clearly marked” UN convoy in war-torn Darfur, critically wounding a driver, the United Nations said today.

A Darfur town has been razed to the ground since it came under the control of Sudanese troops this week, the United Nations says.

The Sudanese army and government-backed militias are committing acts of “inexplicable terror” against civilians, including children, in Darfur, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official says.

Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur.

The Republic of Chad has accused Sudan of bombing four towns along its eastern border, close to the volatile Darfur region where thousands have been displaced by violence.

The top UN official in Sudan, who accused the army of mobilising Arab militias, has been ordered to leave the country within three days.

The Sudanese government today gave the chief UN envoy three days to leave the country, the country’s official news agency reported.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held a congratulatory round of meetings with officials of the new unified Sudanese government today, but expressed outrage that Sudanese security forces manhandled aides and reporters accompanying her.

CHAOS is looming in Sudan’s western Darfur region as violence increases, order collapses, and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in a report to the United Nations Security Council.

THE Sudanese army and police have surrounded refugee camps in the war- torn region of Darfur and denied access to humanitarian groups, the UN said yesterday.

The Sudanese army and police have surrounded several refugee camps in the war-torn region of Darfur and denied access to humanitarian groups, the UN said today.

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FOR the people of Sudan it remains to be seen whether the visit of British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the last-minute commitments by the government of Sudan to allow access by international organisations and recent steps to arrest some members of the Janjaweed will translate into real action to end the cycle of violence, rape and killing.

THE UN refugee agency is facing a race against time to help more than 100,000 impoverished Sudanese refugees who have spilled across the border into Chad to escape increasing violence in their homeland.

The Sudanese army said today it has captured a major airport in the south of the country used by rebels to attack oil fields.