Yesterday [May 16], the Sudanese government reiterated its threats to the Sudanese Revolutionary Front Coalition against attacking the capital, Khartoum, adding that any attempt to topple the government by force will cause bloodshed in the streets to no avail. This statement came in the wake of spreading information about the rebels’ advancement into the capital. [...]
A senior official from Sudan’s Darfur region has said only five people died in the collapse of an unlicensed gold mine last week, disputing estimates that dozens perished. But a colleague of the miners, who earlier gave AFP figures for the number believed trapped, dismissed the official’s comment as a fabrication. Al-Fatih Abdel Aziz, acting [...]
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called for calm following the killing of a top chief in Sudan. Source: AAP TENSION and anger gripped the Abyei region disputed by Sudan and South Sudan after the killing of a tribal chief and a peacekeeper, residents said, as the UN boosted security. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon [...]
5 May 2013 Last updated at 05:37 The disputed border region is being administered by an interim UN security force A prominent tribal leader in the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei has been shot dead in an incident involving a rival Arab militia. Kual Deng Majok, the chief of the Dinka ethnic group, was killed [...]
(AFP) – 16 hours ago ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The first peace talks in almost two years between Khartoum and rebels from South Kordofan state have stalled over the issue of humanitarian access, both sides said on Saturday. “We want to create humanitarian access with the SPLM-North, but they are unwilling to work with us [...]
Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir arrived in South Sudan Friday for the first time since his 2011 visit for the country’s independence celebrations, an AFP reporter said. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, Bashir‘s former civil war foe and an ex-rebel commander, welcomed his counterpart at Juba airport. They agreed in March to resume cross-border oil flows [...]
Egypt‘s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit Follow us: <!– PRIMARY NAVIGATION –> Enlarge Egypt‘s President Mohamed Morsi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Morsi’s election. The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first [...]
KHARTOUM: Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Mursi’s election. The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first to Sudan, which Egypt jointly ruled with Britain until 1956. He embraced [...]
Egypt‘s Morsi in Khartoum on ‘historic’ visit Follow us: <!– PRIMARY NAVIGATION –> Enlarge Egypt‘s President Mohamed Morsi arrived in neighbouring Sudan on Thursday to push economic and other ties on a visit Khartoum calls “historic” but which comes nearly a year after Morsi’s election. The two-day trip is the former Muslim Brotherhood leader’s first [...]
KHARTOUM: Almost 1,000 South Sudanese left their squalid Khartoum camp to return home by convoy on Tuesday but there is little immediate hope for tens of thousands who remain, officials say. South Sudan‘s embassy and the Africa Inland Church arranged the journey to Malakal, in South Sudan‘s Upper Nile state, after Sudanese authorities asked them [...]
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