Two French aid workers abducted in the Central African Republic and held for four months were on Sunday freed in Darfur, the Sudanese region gripped by civil war and a wave of kidnappings. Olivier Denis and Olivier Frappe were working for a French charity, Triangle Generation Humanitaire, when they were kidnapped in November 2009 in the Central African Republic, across ...

Overshadowed by unrest in the south and war in Darfur, Sudan's neglected and impoverished east rumbles with discontent ahead of next month's multiparty polls, the country's first since 1986. In Kassala, a town wallowing at the base of the granite Taka mountains which jut out from sun-baked plains, unemployed men passed the time of day in the ...

Two French aid workers were freed in Darfur on Sunday after being held hostage for nearly four months, France's government said. The two were working for a French charity, Triangle Generation Humanitaire, when they were kidnapped in November 2009 in the Central African Republic, across the border from Sudan's war-torn Darfur region. French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said ...

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Lam Akol, the sole challenger to south Sudan's incumbent president Salva Kiir, launched his campaign in the region's capital Saturday, promising an end to corruption if he wins April's election. "The (southern) government has failed," said Akol speaking in a local Arabic dialect in the south's capital Juba. "Corruption has defeated people in ...