A Darfur rebel group threatened on Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan, amid fears that the region’s peace process was unravelling. The threat from the Sudan Liberation Movement’s Unity faction came weeks after Darfur insurgents the Justice and Equality Movement raided Sudan’s capital.
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.