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Khartoum - Rebel shelling killed two children in the capital of Sudan's South Kordofan state on Tuesday, the army said, in what insurgents called retaliation for government air raids on villages. The attack, confirmed by witnesses, was the second this month by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) against the capital Kadugli. On 8 October seven women and children were
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Khartoum - Clashes erupted between Sudan's army and rebels in the oil-producing state of South Kordofan, both sides said on Monday, a week after the insurgents shelled the state capital near the border with South Sudan. The fighting, which has been rumbling since June last year, has forced more than half a million people to flee and stoked tensions between
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Recent thaw in relations between Khartoum and South Sudan could be reversed without rapid territorial solution for contested region. Despite the landmark agreements which Sudan and South Sudan reached late last month, experts are warning that failure to quickly resolve a lingering dispute over the oil-rich border region of Abyei could still bring the two countries to the brink of
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Khartoum — Mortar shelling in Kadugli, capital of Sudan's South Kordofan State, on 8 October left at least six dead and several injured; the attacks coincided with an ongoing peace forum in the city intended to bring together rival political parties. The shelling saw Kadugli's largest market shut down and halted movement around the town. Damian Rance, public information officer
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Khartoum - Shooting and shelling broke out in the main city of Sudan's oil-producing South Kordofan state near the border with South Sudan on Monday, witnesses said. Sudan's army has been battling rebels in the state for over a year, but the capital Kadugli has been mostly isolated from the fighting. "There was shelling in Kadugli today. It started at
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Khartoum — Sudanese and South Sudanese presidents ended Sunday evening a first round of talks without announcing a deal as they are expected to meet again on Monday for further discussions mainly on disputed areas including Abyei and security arrangements Presidents Omer Al-Bashir and Salva Kiir held Sunday a first meeting late during the evening after reports saying the discussions
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Khartoum - Sudanese security forces fired teargas to disperse about 10 000 protesters who marched on the US embassy in the capital on Friday after attacking the British and German missions, an AFP correspondent said. Clashes erupted after a large number of security forces blocked off roads leading to the embassy as stone-throwing demonstrators protesting over a film deemed offensive
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Khartoum — The leadership of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement- North (SPLM-N) left the Ethiopian capital heading to Washington for talks with U.S. officials over the peace talks with Sudanese government. Malik Agar, Abdel Aziz Al-Hilu and Yasir Arman discussed with the mediation humanitarian and political issues. They further accused Khartoum of not willing to resolve the conflict, after
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Authorities in Sudan's troubled Darfur region have imposed a curfew and placed two districts under military rule after a month of unrest, official media said on Thursday. The crackdown in the country's far west follows an attack on Tuesday against the top official of Kutum town, northwest of the North Darfur state capital El Fasher. Osman Yousif Kibir, the state
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About 80 percent of the residents of a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in North Darfur, Sudan, have returned to the camp, in the aftermath of the recent violence which displaced 25,000 IDPs, the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, known by the acronym UNAMID, reported today. "[UN] humanitarian agencies and non-governmental partner organizations have been able to
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Khartoum - Russian experts will examine the "black box" which could hold clues as to why an Antonov aircraft crashed in Sudan killing all 32 politicians, generals and others aboard, a civil aviation official said on Monday. "We are preparing to send the black box," to Russia, Abdelhafiz Abdelrahim, spokesperson for the Sudan Civil Aviation Authority, told AFP. Local investigators
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Khartoum - More than four years after an African Union-UN peacekeeping force costing billions of dollars arrived in Sudan's restive western region of Darfur, peace remains elusive and some question the mission's value. Critics say the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (Unamid), the world's largest peacekeeping operation, is too close to the Sudanese government and not aggressive enough in
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Khartoum - Sudan is "very optimistic" it can reach a border security agreement with South Sudan that would allow a resumption of oil exports from the South, a senior official of the Khartoum government said. Sudan's Second Vice President al-Haj Adam Youssef said both sides did not need to solve all outstanding conflicts to reach such an agreement. "We are
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At least 1,000 families have been affected by flooding in impoverished eastern Sudan, where some communities have been cut off by rising waters, the United Nations said on Saturday. Almost 500 families lost their homes in one part of Kassala state, while more than 500 others are believed to have escaped the flooding and sought safety at a camp known
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Sudan and South Sudan have hammered out a deal on how to share their oil wealth, one of a series of disputes that brought the rivals to the brink of all-out war earlier this year. "The parties have agreed on all of the financial arrangements regarding oil, so that's done," African Union mediator Thabo Mbeki said early Saturday after talks
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Khartoum — Sudanese foreign minister, Ali Ahmed Karti, admitted little progress had been made in the talks of outstanding issues while the African mediation rejected a demand by Sudanese rebels to include issues no related to South Kordofan and Blue Nile. The deadline fixed by the African Union peace roadmap and the UN resolution ended on 2 August, as the
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Khartoum — At least eight people, most of them are young students, have been killed and more than 50 others injured during confrontations between police firing live bullets and peaceful anti-government protesters in Sudan's western region of Darfur, multiple sources confirmed on Tuesday. Eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune that the events in Nyala, the provincial capital of South Darfur State,
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Sudanese authorities closed schools in Darfur's largest city on Wednesday after at least eight people, many reportedly teenagers, were killed in the worst violence since Arab Spring-style demonstrations began. Local radio in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur state, broadcast an announcement that the schools were shut, a resident said. Police were deployed throughout the city, he added, but there
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Khartoum/Juba — Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir declined to meet his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir in a last chance summit to overcome divergences over outstanding issues before the 2 August deadline. The long-time announced second summit was considered by the mediation to narrow the gaps between the two parties over oil and security issues. But the divergences between the two
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Sudanese troops on Thursday chased rebels in the country's troubled Darfur region, the army said, in renewed fighting that adds to a surge in violence outlined by the region's top peacekeeper. The latest unrest in southeastern Darfur is an offshoot of battles between the army and Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels earlier in the week, just across the border
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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on Monday said they seized a government military compound just across the Darfur state border in South Kordofan. The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said it took control of the base near the Abu Jabar oil field but its spokesman, Gibril Adam Bilal, had no information on rebel or government casualties. "Now there is fighting
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Top negotiators from Sudan and rival South Sudan have met in the latest round of African Union mediated talks to resolve bitter dispute, officials said Monday. "Yesterday we had a meeting, and we tabled our positions," said Atif Kiir, a spokesman for Juba's delegation. The latest round of talks comes a week after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and his South
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Khartoum - Sudan on Saturday denied launching an air strike against South Sudan during fragile peace talks, saying it had only targeted Darfuri rebels inside northern territory. "What happened is the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) rebels tried to attack Sudan by coming through South Sudanese territory and SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces) responded to them, but inside Sudan," the official
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Nearly 60 people have been killed this week in fighting between Arab tribes in Sudan's conflict-plagued Darfur region, the official SUNA news agency said on Thursday. Fierce clashes along the border between East Darfur state and South Kordofan killed 35 Misseriya tribesmen and 23 from the rival Rezeigat tribe, South Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun was quoted as saying by SUNA,
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The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan, whose countries have been on the brink of full-scale war, met here Saturday for their first private talks since the fighting, an AFP reporter said. Sudan's Omar al-Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir met late Saturday night at a luxury hotel and shook hands as they left the room. A member
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