KHARTOUM: Sudan’s Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamed has said that the Darfur region is largely calm, despite tribal and other unrest which according to the UN forced almost 90,000 people to flee this month. “The minister has affirmed (the) calmness of conditions in all Darfur states except some looting operations carried out by the rebel [...]
ABYEI-CATECHIST Mar-25-2013 (1,100 words) With photos. xxxi Catechist recalls Abyei violence: ‘We prayed the rosary as we ran’ By Paul JeffreyCatholic News Service ABYEI, Sudan (CNS) — When Bruna Maloal was a child, Abyei was a peaceful place, and every year her tribe, the Dinka Ngok, welcomed the Misseriya nomads who came to the region [...]
ABYEI, Sudan (CNS) — When Bruna Maloal was a child, Abyei was a peaceful place, and every year her tribe, the Dinka Ngok, welcomed the Misseriya nomads who came to the region with their vast herds of cattle. “They came with their cows for the water and grass, and we would eat together. They harvested [...]
(AFP) – 10 hours ago ADDIS ABABA — The African Union Security Council has given Sudan and South Sudan six weeks to reach a deal on the flashpoint state Abyei, officials said on Wednesday. “Council requests the two parties to engage each other… seeking to reach consensus on the final status of the Abyei area [...]
By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM | Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:02am EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Sudanese rebels killed two children and wounded eight other civilians when they shelled the main town in Sudan‘s oil-producing South Kordofan state on Tuesday, the army said – the third bout of shelling in the past two weeks. Sudan‘s army has [...]
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan says that fighting in two states along its disputed border with South Sudan has left over 600 people dead over the past 16 months, releasing rare casualty figures in an ongoing conflict that has inflamed tensions between the two countries. Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud told the Sudanese parliament Tuesday that 662 [...]
KHARTOUM | Fri Oct 19, 2012 3:44pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – More than 900,000 people have been displaced or severely affected by fighting in two Sudanese border states, the United Nations said on Friday, sharply increasing its estimates and urging Sudan and rebels to let in badly needed aid. Fighting between Sudan‘s army and SPLM-North [...]
KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan says that fighting in two states along its disputed border with South Sudan has left over 600 people dead over the past 16 months, releasing rare casualty figures in an ongoing conflict that has inflamed tensions between the two countries. Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud told the Sudanese parliament Tuesday that 662 [...]
By MOHAMED OSMAN, Associated Press – 10 hours ago KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) — Sudan says that fighting in two states along its disputed border with South Sudan has left over 600 people dead over the past 16 months, releasing rare casualty figures in an ongoing conflict that has inflamed tensions between the two countries. Interior [...]
KHARTOUM | Wed Oct 17, 2012 2:30pm EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – One international peacekeeper was killed and three wounded in an ambush in Sudan‘s western Darfur region on Wednesday, the international force UNAMID said, two weeks after four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed, UNAMID, the world’s largest peacekeeping mission, was deployed by the United Nations and [...]
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