Amavubi Stars skipper, Olivier Karekezi has made a rallying call to his team mates, "we must beat Mauritius at home."

Condemning the National Intelligence and Security Service's closure of the independent daily newspaper "Alwan" on 14 May 2008 for an indefinite period and the charge of "violating state security" brought against its editor, Hussein Khogali, Reporters Without Borders has called

Raga Gibreal Babo still vividly recalls the incident, although he was only six years old. It was May 1983 and a rebellion had just begun in south Sudan. Planes bombed Omdurman, some 20 kilometres from the presidential palace in Khartoum.

Penywol Machok fled inter-communal clashes in Gogrial East County of Southern Sudan's Warrap State in April and arrived in the state capital of Kwajok hoping to stay with relatives.

Renewed hostilities between the Sudanese army and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) in Abyei are likely to worsen the humanitarian needs in the region and could affect aid operations, the UN warned.

Heavy fighting erupted between Sudan's army and the Sudan People's Liberation Army in the disputed oil-rich town of Abyei on Tuesday as military observers predicted further turmoil in the disputed frontier area.