KHARTOUM, Sudan, April 21 (UPI) -- The United Nations and the African Union have been meeting with Sudanese government officials and rebel leaders in an effort to forge a peace deal.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Muslim clerics Friday chastised Danish newspapers for reprinting cartoons of Mohammed and criticized teenagers for rioting in reaction to the cartoons.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Top U.N. and African Union officials met with commanders of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army seeking to end the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region.

KHARTOUM, Sudan, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The Sudanese government ordered the recent attack on an African Union peacekeeper camp that left 10 people dead, a top Darfur rebel chief alleged this week.

SIRTE, Libya, Sept. 9 (UPI) -- Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi is ready to help end the war in Sudan's violent Darfur province, says the head of the United Nations.

BAGHDAD, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- While Iraq's politicians and bureaucrats pass blame over the inability to provide the country with enough electricity, angry citizens just find ways to cope.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- Iraq’s Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is now “hunkered down with a small group of sycophantic cronies, increasingly detached from the business of running a government.” Speaking not for attribution, this was the message conveyed by a former ranking Iraqi government official in London over the weekend. The current drift at the top, he added, could only be reversed by “a strongman at the top.”

KHARTOUM, Sudan, July 14 (UPI) -- Sudan's government has resumed bombing in the troubled country's Darfur region, a U.S. special envoy says.

BAGHDAD, June 20 (UPI) -- At least 61 people died when a suicide bomber exploded a truck as worshippers finished midday prayers at a large Shiite mosque in Iraq.