Khartoum — A joint meeting that took place yesterday in Khartoum between military intelligence teams from north and south Sudan has failed to reach an agreement on the thorny issue of harboring and supporting rebel groups in both countries. Last March, Khartoum and Juba agreed to form a joint committee mandated with addressing concerns and [...]
Khartoum — Sudan said today that rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) will face “disastrous consequences” if they dared to launch an attack on the capital city of Khartoum. Undated photo released by the SPLM-N showing commanders from the Sudan People Liberation Movement-North at an undisclosed location “[They] won’t be able to attack Khartoum, [...]
May 14, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – A joint meeting that took place yesterday in Khartoum between military intelligence teams from north and south Sudan has failed to reach an agreement on the thorny issue of harboring and supporting rebel groups in both countries. Sudanese Defence Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein (L) talks to his South Sudan counterpart [...]
Khartoum – One Ethiopian peacekeeper was killed and two others wounded when a United Nations convoy was caught up in a tribal clash in the Abyei border region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan, the United Nations said on Sunday. A tribal leader was shot dead in the same incident, while in separate violence [...]
The attack marks the biggest push by a rebel alliance that is seeking to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Fighting had hitherto been limited mainly to remote regions of Darfur and South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, which border South Sudan. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), which launched an unprecedented assault on Khartoum in [...]
Rebels from the embattled Darfur region assaulted the city of Um Rawaba on Saturday, moving to within 500 kilometers (300 miles) of Khartoum. Fighting had been previously restricted to the remote regions of Darfur and the South Kordofan and Blue Nile States. Fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) arrived in 20 trucks, according [...]
By CHARLTON DOKIAssociated Press JUBA, South Sudan (AP) – A theft of 750 cattle sparked a manhunt by security forces that devolved into an attack by those forces on a medical facility, where four medical staff and a patient were killed, officials said Thursday. More than 20 people died in total. The feud began last [...]
Khartoum — The Sudanese minister of defense Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein accused rebel movements of seeking to destabilize Darfur and undermine the International Donor Conference for Reconstruction and Development in Darfur (IDCRDD) that concluded this week in Doha, Qatar. The minister, who spoke at a hearing before members of the national assembly today, pledged to restore [...]
KHARTOUM, March 16 — The joint political and security committee between Sudan and South Sudan is to resume its meetings on Sunday in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Khartoum’s Al Ray Al Am daily reported Saturday. The preparatory panel of the joint committee has started arrangements for resuming the committee’s meetings with the participation of [...]
KHARTOUM, March 10 — Sudan and South Sudan are set to start Sunday withdrawing forces from the joint border, as a first step to implement the agreement signed by the two sides. “Sudan and South Sudan will today (Sunday) begin immediate withdrawal of their forces from the joint border to make it a safe demilitarized [...]
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