Sudanese security forces arrested Sudan’s top Islamist opposition leader after he called for a Tunisia-style uprising in the country, his family says.
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/ 13 December 2010
Sudan’s judiciary opened an investigation into a video of a woman being flogged that has been widely circulated on the internet.
A Sudanese anti-terrorist court has convicted and sentenced to death two senior members of a Darfur rebel group and six others.
The death toll from serious flooding in Sudan has risen to 87 people, government officials said on Monday, as the European Commission announced it had distributed €2-million to those affected by the disaster. News of rising casualties came as heavy rains continued to fall on the capital, Khartoum.
Sudan on Friday dismissed as unjustifiable the threat of slapping new sanctions because of the Darfur conflict, vowing to do everything it can to protect what it sees as its national security. Britain and the United States said this week they would propose new sanctions while Russia, China and South Africa are opposed to any such sanctions.
Sudan said on Monday it will introduce a new currency this week, replacing the dinar with a new Sudanese pound as part of a peace deal signed two years ago. The change official will occur on Wednesday, but Sudanese will have a transitional period until July 1, when dinars will no longer be accepted.
Sudan said on Wednesday it would allow United Nations Undersecretary Jan Egeland to visit Darfur, three days after it barred his flight to the conflict-ridden region of the country. ”We reiterate our commitment to receive concerned officials from the UN and all other of those who are engaged in extending humanitarian aid and assistance,” Sudan’s state minister for foreign affairs said in a press statement.
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/ 15 September 2005
Sudan welcomed plans by the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to build luxury accommodation in Khartoum — and hoped the rooms would be filled with foreigners looking for investment opportunities now that decades of war are finally over.
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/ 1 February 2005
Unidentified gunmen shot at African Union observers while they were investigating reports that the Sudanese air force had bombed villages in the country’s volatile Darfur region, an official said on Tuesday. The attacks were the latest in a spate of incidents in South Darfur state as violence continues unabated in the vast western region of the country.
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/ 2 December 2004
Sudan has told the local director of the British aid group Oxfam that while his expulsion has been postponed, he must leave the country to fulfill the requirements of his exit visa. This week, the government gave the directors of Oxfam and Save the Children in the UK 48 hours to leave Sudan, accusing them of issuing statements that sent ”signals of support” to rebels in Darfur.