KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has rejected three presidential candidates, including the only woman, for its first democratic elections in 24 years. The ruling has raised further doubts about the presidential and legislative elections after opposition accusations of fraud during registration and of intimidation and vote buying by the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). President Omar Hassan al-Bashir's NCP denies fraud ...

No date has yet been set for direct talks between the Sudanese government and rebels after a day of consultations between different delegations in Doha, a Qatari official said on Sunday. "The date to launch negotiations has not been fixed," Ahmed ben Abdallah al-Mahmud, Qatari minister of state for foreign affairs, told reporters. "We will only be able to fix ...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's former southern rebels said on Saturday they would boycott elections in a key oil-producing state over concerns about fraud, ratcheting up the pressure less than three months ahead of voting. The former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) planned to boycott "all elections" in the central state of Southern Kordofan, the party's candidate for ...

The thaw in relations between Khartoum and N'Djamena could tighten the net around Chadian rebels based in the conflict-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur, analysts said on Friday. For the last five years, Chad has accused Sudan of supporting rebels seeking to oust the government, while Khartoum has charged Ndjamena with backing ethnic minority rebels in Darfur. But last ...