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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Darfur rebels accuse Sudan of daily bombing

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SAF searching for rebels who took Kornoi, N. Darfur at weekend. Some tweets by Rob Crilly: First impressions of N'djamena: blimey it...
Friday, May 22, 2009

US envoy Scott Gration to visit China, Qatar, Britain and France on Darfur peace

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US envoy to visit China, other nations on Darfur peace From AFP, Friday, 22 May 2009 (WASHINGTON) - excerpt: US special envoy Scott Gration ...
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Is the Darfur bloodshed genocide? Opinions differ (Edmund Sanders)

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The genocide label may have prolonged the Darfur conflict by raising the stakes and complicating peace talks, experts and diplomats say. Pho...

ICC Haskanita: Send a message to these killer thugs

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Here is an opinion piece from The Age by Rebecca Hamilton (who is in Australia, writing a book on Darfur, I think) May 23, 2009. Pity it w...

Chinese firm signs deal to explore gold in Gibait, Red Sea State, Sudan

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From TradeInvest Africa (Cape Town) 22 May 2009 - via AllAfrica: Sudan: Chinese Firm Signs Deal to Explore Gold Chinese company Poly Technol...

AU AL OIC Bashir meeting: OIC to construct 120 Darfur villages at US $485 million

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This sounds interesting but does not explain when or where in Darfur the 120 villages will be constructed. From Daily Trust by Uthman Abub...

Chadian gov't should start negotiations with Chadian rebels - Libya hopes to restore confidence between Sudan and Chad

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"The Chadian government should start negotiations with the Chadian rebels, that should happen," the UN deputy secretary general Ha...

France says Sudan was backing the Chadian rebels

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Yesterday, according to Sudan Tribune report here below, France's foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner told the French parliament that Sud...
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Population of South Sudan: 8.26 million?

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Sudan's census figures showed a total population of 39.15 million, with 30.89 million or 79 percent living in the mainly Muslim north, a...

A Sudanese rebel leader manipulates the ICC - URF's Abu Garda could be hiding a political ambition to "outdo his opponents"

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In an interview with Sudan Radio Service on Wednesday, Bahar Idris Abu Garda claimed that he has no connection with the Haskanita attack in ...

Southern Sudanese urged to go to work and to stop lounging around in the shade

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From Sudan Radio Service Thursday, 21 May 2009 (Jonglei): The director of a construction company is urging southern Sudanese to forget thei...

Japan is to build 17 bridges in Juba, S. Sudan

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Japan has pledged to undertake a major engineering project in Juba. From Sudan Radio Service Wednesday, 20 May 2009 (Khartoum): In an inter...

Sudan accuses France of being behind the recent Chadian attacks inside Sudan’s territory

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The Minister of Information in GONU, Dr. Rabie Abdulaati told Sudan Radio Service that ”The Chadian government is being supported by certain...

Gambian ICC Prosecutor tells African Commission "nobody cares for the Darfurians, they have no oil"

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One wonders if there is something in the water at the ICC. If the following article quoting Deputy ICC Prosecutor Fatoumatta Bensouda is ac...

Mia Farrow's fast prompts Black Caucus to give up food "in solidarity with Darfur's people"

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Imagine what the rebels think when they hear news that Mia Farrow's fast has prompted US Congressman Donald Payne to announce plans for ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Sudan accuses Chad of sending troops to aid rebels - JEM has taken Sudan army base at Kornoi

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Andrew Heavens , the author of the following two reports, tweeted on Monday, May 18, that he is "back from a four-hour trip to Darfur -...

More than 90 now face death penalty over raid on Khartoum

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Sudan court sentences nine to death over rebel attack Wednesday May 20, 2009 7:03am EDT * More than 90 now face death penalty over raid on ...

Sudan Chad rebels: Leave your RPGs in the Shanghai car park please

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It's good to know that when I stop off for lunch at my favourite Chadian Chinese restaurant, the Shanghai in Abeche, our armed friends a...

Chadian gov't launched air attacks inside Sudan - Sudan threatens to destroy Chad troops

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Reports from Chad claim that rebel forces are using anti-aircraft guns. The Chadian government admits launching air attacks inside Sudan in...

Sudanese and Chadian civilians getting away with murder and war crimes against peacekeepers

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The truth is stranger than fiction. In my neighbourhood here in England I have a civilian neighbour who has spent the past five years swanni...