The United Nations said Thursday it had evacuated 250 civilian staff from the town of Abyei following three days of clashes in the oil-rich region between Sudan’s army and former southern rebels.
In a May 11 story about Sudan severing ties with Chad, The Associated Press, relying on a state television report, erroneously reported the dollar value of a reward offered by the government for Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim.
More that 200 people were killed in fighting around Sudan’s capital over the weekend, the defense minister announced Tuesday in the first official comment on casualties during the assault by Darfur rebels.
The Sudanese government has doubled its bounty for the country’s most wanted Darfur rebel leader to nearly $250,000, a government official said Tuesday.
Darfur’s most-wanted rebel leader vowed Monday to keep up his offensive against the Sudanese government, saying he can exhaust the military by fighting it all across Africa’s largest nation.
Sudan severed ties with Chad Sunday, accusing its neighbor of backing a rebel assault on the capital and raising the possibility of new border clashes that could worsen Darfur’s humanitarian crisis.
Sudan severed relations with Chad on Sunday, accusing it of supporting fighters who assaulted the capital the night before and warned that a top Darfur rebel leader was hiding somewhere in the city.
President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.
President Omar al-Bashir announced Sunday he severed relations with neighboring Chad, accusing the government of supporting rebels who attacked the Sudanese capital, according to state media.
A look at the rebels who moved on the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on Saturday, and the underlying conflict in the Darfur region:
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Sudanese opposition leader Hassan Turabi talks during a press conference in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday May 13, 2008. Turabi said that he refused to cooperate with his interrogators when he was detained for more than twelve hours on the background of the...
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