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/ 27 September 2007
Relief agency World Vision has scaled back its operations in South Darfur after its staff suffered three attacks within a week, an agency official said on Thursday. ”World Vision has not suspended operations — we have scaled down,” Michael Arunga, communications manager for World Vision, told Reuters. ”There have been three attacks in one week.”
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/ 25 September 2007
Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said on Tuesday he will carry on fighting during upcoming peace talks until a final settlement is reached to end the conflict in western Sudan. Ibrahim also said he is dismissing his deputy, accusing him of secret meetings with the government to undermine the movement.
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/ 24 September 2007
Only -million out of a -million appeal has come in to help growing numbers of victims of Sudan’s worst floods in living memory, the United Nations said on Monday. Throughout Sudan, heavy rains have sparked flash floods and rivers have burst their banks, sweeping away tens of thousands of homes.
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/ 24 September 2007
Oxfam could withdraw from Sudan’s violent Darfur region if security worsens, with attacks on its staff there hindering one of the aid agency’s largest operations, its country director said on Monday. Caroline Nursey, who has worked in Sudan for four years, also said the crisis in Darfur had drained donor money from other areas of Sudan
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/ 20 September 2007
A rebel leader from Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region said his fighters defeated a government battalion on Wednesday in a three-hour battle that killed 45 people. Sudan Liberation Army faction chairperson Ahmed Abdel Shafie said one of his units attacked government soldiers stationed in the village of Dobow in the central Jabel Marra region.
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/ 17 September 2007
Violence is increasing in camps for displaced people in Darfur, where nearly a quarter million people have been displaced so far this year, a United Nations report said on Monday. The United Nations said rising violence in the overcrowded camps of the remote region of western Sudan was making it harder to carry out humanitarian aid work.
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/ 12 September 2007
A senior Darfur rebel leader accused the Sudanese government on Wednesday of trying to grab land ahead of October peace talks, and threatened to pull out of the talks unless attacks stopped. Justice and Equality Movement leader Khalil Ibrahim said the violence in the remote west would make it impossible for him to travel to negotiations with Khartoum.
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/ 10 September 2007
Sudanese government aircraft bombed a rebel-held town in Darfur on Monday, insurgent groups said, hours after the government said it was investigating a rebel raid on one of its bases last month. Reports of the attack came seven weeks before rebel groups and the Khartoum government are set to meet for peace talks.
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/ 6 September 2007
Sudan and Darfur rebels will hold talks on October 27 in Libya to push for peace ahead of the expected deployment of a 26 000-strong peace force in Darfur, a United Nations-Sudanese government statement said on Thursday. The statement said the UN ”expresses the hope that parties will cooperate fully” with UN and African Union mediators.
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/ 6 September 2007
Sudan has developed unmanned surveillance planes, is developing missiles, and is now ”self-sufficient” in conventional weapons, a Sudanese state news agency reported. The rare public announcement on Sudan’s military capability gave no details on how far missile development had progressed or where the surveillance drones might be used.
The leaders of France and Britain on Friday revived the spectre of sanctions against Khartoum if progress is not made on a Darfur ceasefire and upcoming political talks. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a joint editorial in the Times in London that sanctions could be used to bring peace to Darfur.
Darfur rebels accused the government of bombing South Darfur on Thursday, the latest attack in an aerial campaign that has driven thousands of people from their homes over the past month. ”There is aerial bombardment on a daily basis — bombing by MiG 29 and by Antonov,” Justice and Equality Movement commander Abel Aziz el-Nur Ashr Ashr said.
Former rebels from eastern Sudan were on Tuesday sworn in to their new roles in the central government in Khartoum as part of a peace deal that ended a decade of fighting. Eastern Front chairperson Mussa Mohammed Ahmed was sworn in as presidential assistant.
Sudan has expelled the top official in Sudan of United States-based aid group Care, the director said on Monday. Country director Paul Barker told Reuters the Sudanese government’s Humanitarian Aid Commission had given him 72 hours to leave the country without giving reasons for the decision.
Eighty-nine people have died in flooding in Sudan as heavy rains that washed away homes and spread water-borne disease continue to batter the country, a government official said on Wednesday. Sudanese officials have described this year’s floods as the worst in living memory with unexpectedly early rains destroying more than 70Â 000 homes.
Sudanese forces surrounded and attacked Darfur’s most volatile camp on Tuesday to flush out rebels they say are behind recent attacks on police, an army source and camp residents said. The move on Kalma camp, home to 90 000 people, follows two attacks in the past week on police posts in South Darfur.
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.
Sudanese officials met with Western diplomats on Sunday to calm fears following the discovery of large quantities of explosives in a Khartoum suburb earlier in the week, the official Suna news agency reported. Following the seizure, Britain released a statement saying it was temporarily suspending public services at its embassy in Khartoum.
Only 30% of ,6-million requested to help hundreds of thousands of people affected by Sudan’s worst floods in living memory has been received and more heavy rains are expected, aid officials said on Tuesday. Afaf Bukhari from the Sudanese Red Crescent said 72 people have died in the flooding and 73 839 houses have been destroyed.
Sudanese security forces have handed 33 suspects accused of trying to overthrow the government to the Justice Ministry for investigation, state news agency the Sudanese Media Centre said on Friday. Security forces last month arrested former army officers as well as members of two leading opposition political parties, accusing them of trying to overthrow the government.
At least 65 people have been killed in renewed tribal clashes in Sudan’s Darfur, a tribal leader said on Thursday, two days after the United Nations approved a massive peacekeeping force for the war-wracked region. The fighting, in which another 25 people were wounded, took place in Southern Darfur on Tuesday.
Flash floods and rains in Sudan have killed 59 people and damaged 35 000 homes, Awad Widatallah Hussein, spokesperson for the government’s emergency response committee, said on Thursday. Officials described the floods as the worst in memory.
Violence in Darfur has forced 25Â 000 more people from their homes and is straining the capacity of camps swollen with refugees fleeing conflict in western Sudan, the United Nations said on Tuesday. The United Nations said there are more than 200 000 Darfuri refugees in neighbouring Chad and 140 000 Chadians displaced by the Darfur conflict.
A late goal from experienced defender Yusuf Mohamed saw Sudan’s Al-Hilal snatch a second successive African Champions League Group B win, as they beat Asec Abidjan of Côte d’Ivoire 2-1 in Omdurman. The result kept the Sudanese in second place in the standings and well on course for a semifinal berth.
Sudan’s Justice Ministry has banned all media reporting on the case of 17 people accused of trying to overthrow the government, the latest in a string of such restrictions. Local papers on Thursday said the Prosecutor General had issued a decree ”banning all media outlets, written or broadcast, from any reporting or comment on the attempted sabotage”.
More than 50 people were killed and 20 injured in Sudan’s worst floods in living memory which have partially or completely destroyed 18 000 homes. Hamadallah Adam Ali said roads to some parts of the country had been flooded and police helicopters and government planes were flying in emergency aid.
The Sudanese government has resumed bombing civilian targets in the war-ravaged western region of Darfur, the United States special envoy for Darfur said on Friday. ”After a halt in the bombing between the beginning of February and the end of April in 2007, the Sudanese government has resumed bombing in Darfur,” Andrew Natsios said.
African Union peacekeepers in Sudan’s war-torn Darfur region are facing a serious funding crunch that has affected morale ahead of deployment of a planned United Nations-AU force, the head of the joint mission said on Wednesday. Under sustained pressure, Sudan agreed last month to a combined UN-AU peacekeeping force of 20Â 000 troops.
European parliamentarians said on Wednesday that Sudan’s troubled Darfur region had become no safer since a peace treaty was signed a year ago. Insecurity in the remote Western region was preventing any development there, the delegation from the European Parliament’s development committee said.
Darfur rebels on Thursday accused Sudanese government troops of attacking their forces close to the Chadian border, saying three civilians were abducted following the raid. ”Government forces attacked us on Monday evening near Sirba,” local commander from the rebel Justice and Equality Movement Abdel Majid Duda Nur said.
Sudan is ready to attend Darfur peace talks under joint United Nations-African Union mediation to resolve a conflict that has driven 2,5-million people from their homes, its foreign minister said on Monday. The rebels have split into more than a dozen groups since a peace deal last year signed by only one of three rebel negotiating factions.
The British aid group Oxfam said on Sunday it was permanently closing down its operation in Darfur’s largest refugee camp because of insecurity. With about 130Â 000 refugees, the South Darfur camp of Gereida is among the largest in the world.