Evacuation of "Arabs" from Southern Sudan

This photo and caption by Associated Press are confusing because the Islamic regime in Khartoum insists ethnic cleansing could never occur in Darfur as there is no difference between Sudanese Arabs and Sudanese Africans - that they are so interbred there is no such thing as Arab v African conflicts in the Sudan.



AP photo and caption: Arabs from northern Sudan walk in single file to board a Russian-build cargo plane sent by the government to evacuate them from Sudan's southern town of Juba on Friday, Aug. 5, 2005.

Several Arab traders were killed in two days of riots in Juba after officials announced on Monday the death of southern Sudan's political leader and country's Vice President John Garang in a helicopter crash in southern Sudan. Southerners are suspicious the Arab-dominated government had a hand in his death.

More than 130 people were killed in riots in Khartoum, the capital, and Juba and Malakal in the south, according to the Sudanese Red Crescent. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)



AP photo and caption: Arabs from northern Sudan walk to board a Russian-build cargo plane sent by the government to evacuate them from Sudan's southern town of Juba on Friday, Aug. 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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Read eyewitness account by BBC's Jonah Fisher: Khartoum violence.

And BBC report Police patrol after Sudan clashes.
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Sudan's Yamile Aldama competes in world athletics championships



Photo: Yamile Aldama of Sudan competes in the women's triple jump at the world athletics championships in Helsinki August 6, 2005. (Reuters/Ruben Sprich)

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