The aid worker who was freed after being held by Sudanese rebels for more than three months said she does not regret her criticism of the charity she was working for at the time.

Darfurian rebels have partially destroyed an oil field in a rare eastward extension of their campaign toward central Sudan, the rebels and government said.

Darfur rebels have attacked an oil field in Southern Kordofan, making a rare extension of their campaign eastwards toward Khartoum, the rebels and government said today.

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

The Sudanese government significantly raised the stakes in Khartoum’s stand-off with the international community, calling yesterday for the AU to withdraw its troops from all of Darfur.