Sudanese authorities have released prominent Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi after two months behind bars, his family said on Monday.
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/ 20 January 2009
A detained Sudanese opposition leader could be tried over accusations of supporting a Darfur rebel movement, state media reported on Monday.
Sudan on Wednesday urged the international community to list the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) as a terrorist group, after its lightning weekend assault on the capital. The assault was only halted at the bridge leading to central Khartoum, army headquarters and the presidential palace.
Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Monday he would launch more attacks on Sudan’s capital Khartoum until the government fell. ”This is just the start of a process and the end is the termination of this regime,” said Ibrahim, whose Justice and Equality Movement attacked Khartoum at the weekend.
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/ 18 November 2007
Sudan’s president said on Saturday he would not budge ”an inch” on the contested borders of the oil-rich Abyei region. Khartoum and former southern rebels the Southern People’s Revolutionary Movement (SPLM) are divided over the demarcation of Abyei, the source of much of Sudan’s energy reserves.