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Sudan rejects US request to send Marines to guard embassy

| September 16, 2012 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM | Sat Sep 15, 2012 4:47pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan has rejected a U.S. request to send a platoon of Marines to bolster security at the U.S. embassy outside Khartoum, the state news agency SUNA said on Saturday. On Friday, around 5,000 people protested against a film that insults the Prophet Mohammad, storming [...]

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Darfur rebels kill 11 civilians, Sudan says

| September 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM | Tue Sep 11, 2012 8:06pm BST KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Rebels killed 11 civilians during an attack on a market and a mine in Sudan‘s Darfur region, state news agency SUNA said on Tuesday, the latest violence in the troubled western region. Darfur, a vast arid region, has been plagued by violence since rebels [...]

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Khartoum in Double Seizure of Libyan, South Sudanese Arms

| September 12, 2012 | 0 Comments

Khartoum — Libyan government forces acting in collaboration with their Sudanese counterparts have laid hands on a stash of materiel buried in the desert borderlands between the two countries, officials from both sides confirmed on Monday. Sudanese military sources told Sudan Tribune that the joint forces found great amounts of arms, M-21OF Grad missiles and [...]

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Khartoum in double seizure of Libyan, South Sudanese arms

| September 11, 2012 | 0 Comments

September 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Libyan government forces acting in collaboration with their Sudanese counterparts have laid hands on a stash of materiel buried in the desert borderlands between the two countries, officials from both sides confirmed on Monday. Sudanese military sources told Sudan Tribune that the joint forces found great amounts of arms, M-21OF [...]

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Sudan says repulses rebel attack in border area – Al

| September 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

Sudan’s army repulsed a rebel attack in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday, in clashes just days before Sudan and South Sudan are set to resume talks on securing their disputed border. South Sudan split away from Sudan last year under a 2005 peace deal that ended [...]

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Sudan says repulses rebel attack in border area

| September 2, 2012 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM | Sat Sep 1, 2012 6:31pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudan‘s army repulsed a rebel attack in the oil-producing border state of South Kordofan, state news agency SUNA said on Saturday, in clashes just days before Sudan and South Sudan are set to resume talks on securing their disputed border. South Sudan split away [...]

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Sudan says freed all journalists as reporter details torture in detention

| August 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

August 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the government-controlled Union of Sudanese journalists (USJ), Mohi Al-Din Titawi, announced on Monday that all journalists arrested during a crackdown on weeks of protests in the country have been released. Photo of Sudanese journalist Anwar Awad who was arrested and allegedly tortured following his attempts to cover [...]

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Sudan minister among 32 dead in Eid plane crash

| August 21, 2012 | 0 Comments

By Abdelmoneim Abu Edris Ali (AFP) – 2 days ago  KHARTOUM — A cabinet minister was among 32 politicians, generals and others killed on Sunday when a plane crashed on its way to Sudan‘s war-torn South Kordofan state for the start of Muslim holidays, state media and an aviation official said. “All people on board [...]

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Sudan plane crash kills a minister, others

| August 20, 2012 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan‘s state news agency says a plane carrying government officials has crashed in the country’s south, killing the minister of endowment and several other people on board. SUNA says the plane crashed “due to harsh weather conditions” on Sunday and that the minister of endowment, Ghazi al-Sadeq, was among those killed. He [...]

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Six killed and 12 injured in unrest in Sudan’s Darfur

| August 17, 2012 | 0 Comments

KHARTOUM | Thu Aug 16, 2012 6:13pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Six people were killed and 12 injured in fresh unrest in Sudan‘s troubled western Darfur region, state news agency SUNA said on Thursday. The six died during three days of clashes between residents of the town of Mellit in North Darfur. The police and [...]

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