KHARTOUM, May 4 — The Sudanese armed forces have agreed to a seven-day humanitarian truce – proposed by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) in Eastern Africa – from May 4-11, reported Sputnik, quoting the military on Wednesday.

PUTRAJAYA, May 3 — A Malaysian mother, her two children, and her Sudanese husband who were trapped in the Al Gaza region due to the conflict in Sudan are now on their way to Port Sudan.

ANKARA, May 2 — The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) will convene in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Wednesday to discuss the latest situation in conflict-torn Sudan.

PUTRAJAYA, May 1 — The United States has expressed its appreciation to the Malaysian government for helping to bring out two of its citizens, during the process of evacuating Malaysians from Sudan.

JAKARTA, May 1 — A further 363 Indonesian citizens evacuated from Sudan arrived home on Sunday (April 30) on a second flight by the country's flag carrier Garuda Indonesia, the country's foreign ministry said.

KHARTOUM, May 1 — The Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Sunday announced their commitments to a new 72-hour humanitarian truce, effective as of midnight Sunday (April 30).

PUTRAJAYA, April 27 — The 30 Malaysians who were rescued from the conflict-torn Khartoum, in Sudan, are scheduled to return home tomorrow (April 28), said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir.

GENEVA, April 27 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) expects "many more" deaths in Sudan due to outbreaks of disease and a lack of essential services amid fighting, its director general said on Wednesday.

GENEVA, April 25 — Ongoing violent armed clashes between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan have killed at least 459 people and injured 4,072 others as of April 24, the World Health Organisation's (WHO) representative in Sudan Dr Nima Saeed Abid, said on Tuesday.

PUTRAJAYA, April 25 — All 30 Malaysians stranded in Khartoum, Sudan, successfully arrived at Port Sudan at 2.07pm (8.08pm Malaysia time) on Monday (April 24), after a 30-hour journey covering a distance of 1,233 km.

KHARTOUM, April 25 — Sudan's warring factions agreed to a 72-hour ceasefire starting on Tuesday, while Western, Arab and Asian nations raced to extract their citizens from the country.

KUALA LUMPUR, 24 April — Efforts and actions have been carried out to bring Malaysians out of the conflict areas in Khartoum.

ANKARA, April 23 — The US has evacuated embassy staff and their families from Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where ongoing clashes between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have claimed hundreds of lives.

KHARTOUM, April 23 — A 72-hour truce has fallen through in Sudan as clashes continued between the country's army and a paramilitary group, a local doctors association announced on Saturday (April 22).

GENEVA, April 22 — The World Health Organisation said Friday that 413 people have died in the current Sudan conflict, while the UN children's agency said children are paying a high price, with at least nine reportedly killed in the fighting and more than 50 badly injured.

PUTRAJAYA, April 19 — The process of bringing back 32 Malaysians who are stranded in Sudan will be carried out as soon as the situation permits, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Zambry Abdul Kadir.

KHARTOUM/CAIRO, April 19 — Residents in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past.

NEW YORK, April 18 — At least 185 people have been killed and 1,800 injured in fighting in Sudan, the German United Nations mediator Volker Perthes said via video conference in New York.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 — The government will make every effort to ensure the safety of Malaysians in Sudan and bring them home safely following the conflict in the country.

KHARTOUM, April 17 — Clashes in Sudan's capital Khartoum raged for a third day, raising the death toll to 97, said a Sudanese doctors' union in a statement early Monday, reported Xinhua.