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South Sudan's political party say wants full independence for the region

2009-03-26 14:11
JUBA - The United Democratic Front (UDF) has announced in Juba that its main goal is to achieve independence for southern Sudan. A senior UDF official Philip Bakhiet told Miraya FM that all political parties have the responsibility to seriously prepare for the upcoming general elections in...

Israeli Airforce carries out strikes inside Sudan, US network CBS claims

2009-03-26 13:53
The Israel Air Force carried out an attack last January against a convoy of trucks in Sudan carrying arms for Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to the American network CBS. According to the report, 39 people riding in 17 trucks were killed, while civilians in the area suffered injuries....

Sudanese president defies ICC again and travels to Libya, is also scheduled to visit Ethiopia

2009-03-26 13:48
KHARTOUM - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in Libya Thursday for a foreign visit in a show of defiance to an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court on charges of Darfur war crimes, Arab media reported. A Sudanese presidential palace source and a...

US government says not obliged to enforce ICC warrants

2009-03-25 15:45
KHARTOUM - The US had announced on tuesday it has no legal obligation to execute ICC decision issued to indict Sudanese president Omar Al-Bashir , noting that the US is itself not a signatory to the ICC and therefore not obliged to act on its behave, but noted that Al-Bashir would not be welcomed...

Sudanese journalists released after being charged with defamation

2009-03-25 12:52
KHARTOUM - Two Sudanese journalists who were detained last week, on charges of defaming former Foreign Minister Dr. Lam Akol Ajawin, have been released from prison. The two journalists had implied that Lam Akol and Tilar Deng were stooges of the Government of National Unity. Akol and Deng, both...

Sudan leader deserves arrest warrant - Al Qaeda says

2009-03-25 12:47
CAIRO —  The Sudanese president's problems with the West are retribution for his expulsion of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden more then ten years ago, al-Qaida's No. 2 said in a message issued Tuesday. Ayman al-Zawahri said even though President Omar al-Bashir tried to appease Western...

Darfur Refugee camp burned down and two killed in attack by unidentified armed men

2009-03-25 12:44
KHARTOUM - Armed raiders set fire to a refugee camp in Sudan's Darfur region, killing at least two people, peacekeepers said on Wednesday. The attack on Abu Zor camp, close to regional capital El Geneina, came at a time of heightened tension in Darfur, after the International Criminal Court issued...

OXFARM asks Sudan's government to give NGOs a second chance

2009-03-25 12:38
JUBA - OXFAM international organization, operating in the fields of health and famine in Sudan, has said that it formally addressed the government to reconsider its decision of expelling NGOs from the country. Speaking from the organization's regional headquarters in Nairobi, the information...

Darfur Aid worker shot dead over telephone

2009-03-24 15:20
CAIRO - A Sudanese aid worker for a Canadian charity was killed yesterday in the western region of Darfur by unidentified gunmen who demanded his satellite phone, his employer said. “They shot him in front of his family,” Mark Simmons, the Sudan director for Fellowship for African Relief, said in...

Al-Qaeda leader calls on Sudanese to repent and prepare for a guerilla war against crusaders

2009-03-24 14:14
  Al-Qaeda number two calls on Sudanese people to prepare for guerilla war against crusaders. DUBAI - Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Zawahiri urged the people of Sudan to prepare for guerrilla war and for President Omar al-Beshir to "repent," in an Internet video message released on...