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April 7 - 2016
KHARTOUM
US ‘concern’ over Sudan’s release of killers’ helper
The US Embassy in Khartoum issued a statement today expressing its ‘concern’ over the release on Tuesday of Qusai Al Jani, an Islamist militant who was serving a 12-year sentence...
April 7 - 2016
KADUGLI
Activists detained in Kadugli, South Kordofan
On Monday, agents of Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) detained three South Kordofan activists and took them into detention in Kadugli.
April 7 - 2016
KHARTOUM
Sudan terrorism court sentences 22 to hang
On Wednesday, the terrorism court in Khartoum sentenced 22 members of the of the Djabo faction, a breakaways from Sudan’s Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) Dabjo faction from...
April 7 - 2016
NEW YORK
Political progress to end Darfur conflict ‘remains elusive’ – UN peacekeeping chief
In a statement today, UN Under-Secretary-General Hervé Ladsous, has confirmed that intensified fighting since January has resulted in a rapidly worsening security situation and...
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Lack of health care: Children, mother die in Darfur’s Jebel Marra
April 7 - 2016
JEBEL MARRA
Three children, who fled Monday’s shelling the Rofta area, died on Wednesday morning after arriving at Soni in eastern Jebel Marra in Darfur. They were suffering from severe diarrhoea and vomiting.
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April 7 - 2016
LONDON
Sudan’s Al Bashir ‘intends to step down in 2020’
“In 2020, there will be a new president and I will be an ex-president, God willing,” President Omar Al Bashir said in an interview with the BBC.
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April 5 - 2016
KADUGLI / NUBA MOUNTAINS
Civilians killed in heavy shelling, bombing in South Kordofan
Four civilians were reportedly killed in an clash between the rebel SPLM-N and the Sudanese Air Force in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan. Sieges between the warring parties...
