The African Union has mounted pressure on oil-producing Sudan and South Sudan as it seeks to bring the two back to the negotiating table amid hostilities along their oil-rich border.

Former South African President and African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki traveled to the South Sudanese capital, Juba, on Sunday for crunch talks with President Salva Kiir as he pushes for the"...

Sudan’s central bank has received “a large amount” of hard currency from abroad and plans to use it to stabilise the pound following the local currency’s effective devaluation, the deputy central bank governor said in remarks published yesterday.

Deputy governor Badr el-Din Mahmoud told Al-Sudani newspaper the central bank had received the foreign currency from “friend­ly” countries. “It arrived in the treasury of the central bank in the past few days,” he said, without"...

Sudan will allow foreign exchange bureaus to trade dollars at a rate of 5.2 Sudanese pounds, with a rate of 4.9 for banks, effectively devaluing the pound, Reuters reported Friday.

Abdel-Moneim Nur al-Din, deputy head of Sudan's association of foreign exchange bureaus, said the move is expected to encourage Sudanese workers abroad to send money through official organizations"...

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The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Forum 2012 concludes today in Geneva, Switzerland on a high note for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) delegation that partook in the five-day international event. The UAE demonstrated its commitment to the objectives of the WSIS by participating for a second consecutive year as the strategic partner at the event.

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Sudan is ready to discuss with Ukraine a possibility of buying the new An-148/158 regional jet aircraft and the An-74 transport aircraft.

The press service of the Antonov state-run enterprise told Interfax-Ukraine that the Sudanese side said it was interested in cooperation following a visit to Antonov enterprise and Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company during a two-day visit to Ukraine by Transport Minister of Sudan Faisal Hammad Abdullah.

During the visit, the minister inspected the An-148/158 regional jet aircraft, and visited the final assembly workshop of Antonov enterprise,...

At least 1,890 South Sudanese, who were initially stranded in Kosti, a way station located 300km south of Khartoum have been successfully airlifted to South Sudan, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has announced.

The airlift, which began five days ago with two flights a day, is now up to four flights a day, each reportedly carrying about 150 passengers. However, IOM says it plans to increase the number of flights to six per day to complete the movement in the next few weeks.

On arrival at the airport in Juba, the South Sudan capital, the returnees are received by a...

South Sudan received a US$38 million World Bank grant today to help rehabilitate feeder roads and increase access to rural communities in high agricultural potential areas.

The grant will also help improve food security and local service delivery efforts in the vast country. The South Sudan Rural Roads Project grant was signed today by the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Hon. Kosti Manibe Ngai, and Laura Kullenberg, Country Manager for the World Bank in South Sudan.


South Sudan only has a road network of about 17,000 km, of which only about 4,000 km are all weather...

Sudan will allow foreign exchange bureaux and banks to trade dollars at a level close to the black market rate, effectively devaluing the pound, a senior banking official said on Friday.

Sudan's economy has been battered since the country lost three-quarters of its oil production to South Sudan when the latter became independent in July. Even though the pipelines are in Sudan, the two have been unable to agree on how much the South should pay to transport its oil.

South Sudan shut down its output of 350,000 barrels a day in January after Sudan started seizing oil for what the latter...