A top Sudanese government official on Monday offered a two-month halt in military operations in strife-torn Darfur to allow for rebel groups to join the peace process. ”The government forces will not conduct military operations in Darfur for the next two months,” presidential adviser Majzub al-Khalifa Ahmed said.
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/ 28 February 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad made his first visit to Khartoum on Wednesday for talks with his Sudanese opposite number, Omar al-Bashir, bringing together two leaders who have been increasingly defiant in the face of Western pressure.
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/ 1 February 2007
Sudan accused Washington of seeking to overthrow the regime of President Omar al-Bashir by using rights groups and foreign powers, a top presidential adviser was quoted as saying on Thursday. "The new American strategy for dismantling the Sudanese government from within is based on inciting international pressure on Khartoum," Mustafa Osman Ismail said.
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/ 20 October 2006
The Sudanese military declared United Nations special envoy Jan Pronk persona non grata on Friday, accusing him of ”waging war against the armed forces”, in the latest escalation in a war of words between Khartoum and the international community. A senior general called for the envoy’s swift deportation.
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/ 21 September 2006
The extension of the African Union’s mandate in Sudan’s Darfur was welcomed on Thursday by all sides but tough negotiations on a transition to a United Nations peacekeeping force were set to continue. ”The extension is welcome and would have been much better if it had been extended even longer,” State Foreign Minister al-Sammani al-Wasila al-Sammani said.
Sudan’s ruling party has rejected as unacceptable a draft United Nations resolution on the deployment of UN peacekeepers to the strife-torn region of Darfur and issued a sharp warning to its sponsors, the United States and Britain. ”The draft resolution is worse than previous ones,” National Congress Party chairperson Ghazi Salah Eldin Atabani was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
Rival Somali leaders on Thursday reached an agreement to end fighting in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa country following Arab League sponsored talks in Khartoum, officials said. The agreement was signed after a delegation from the Islamic alliance went into talks with members of the transitional government.
The presidents of Sudan and Eritrea met on Monday for the first time in five years, setting the stage for landmark peace talks aimed at ending the simmering civil conflict in eastern Sudan. Eritrean President Assaias Afeworki and his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir were expected to hold extensive talks in Khartoum.
The Khartoum government and the United Nations were at loggerheads on Tuesday over Darfur after a top UN envoy accused Khartoum of trying to cover-up ongoing violence in the troubled region of western Sudan. The authorities prevented chief humanitarian coordinator Jan Egeland from visiting Darfur.
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/ 2 December 2005
Civilians made homeless by the civil war in Sudan’s western region of Darfur say they remain prey to attack by militiamen because they are unable to survive on the relief supplies provided in their camps. In the al-Sereif and Otach camps, women were among those who said they were forced to leave the protection of their tent cities to find food and firewood.