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The Plank (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eric Reeves, a professor of English Language and Literature at Smith College, who also runs sudanreeves.org , reports here on the latest tragic development in Darfur. On May 10, one of Darfur's key rebel factions, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), struck military targets within Omdurman, the twin city of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Although rumored for days, the long-distance rebel...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Darfur disaster threatens to become even more of a regional catastrophe PICKING through the knotted bundle of clothes in a police station in Omdurman, close to Sudan's capital, Khartoum, the security man emerges with a ragged cap in his hand. ?Chad', he says triumphantly, pointing to the flag emblazoned on its front. More rummaging produces a handful of identification cards, clearly recognisable...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | yesterday
Egypt has expelled several Cairo-based Darfur rebel leaders after their group carried out an attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman last Saturday.
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The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement raided Khartoum's twin city, Omdurman, Saturday coming as close to the Sudanese capital than it......
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Sudanese officials said Wednesday they want to see the Darfur rebel group that attacked last weekend near Khartoum listed as a terrorist group.Fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement raided Khartoum's twin city, Omdurman, Saturday coming as close to the Sudanese capital than it has in five years of conflict.Sudanese officials blamed neighboring Chad for backing the group and severed...
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Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Saturday's rebel attack on the Sudanese city of Omdurman left over 200 people dead, the Sudanese News Agency, SUNA, quoted the country's Defence Minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Hussein as telling parliament Tuesday.
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IndyBlogs (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
By Steve Bloomfield Chad has responded angrily after Sudan accused its neighbour of involvement in Saturday's rebel attack on Khartoum and Omdurman. Not content with closing the border and banning all financial transactions between the two countries, Chad has decided...
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News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The wife of a leader of Sudan's opposition says her husband was arrested in the aftermath of a raid by rebel guerrillas from Darfur.Hassan al-Turabi was being held Monday on charges he was connected to the rebels who struck over the weekend in Omdurman, which is just across the Nile from the capital Khartoum, his wife told the BBC.They had three cars full of soldiers and munitions and arms and...
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International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The Darfur rebel leader Khalil Ibrahim said after a weekend attack on the Omdurman area of Khartoum that it was the beginning of a process to bring about the fall of the government.
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Biodun Iginla's Weblog (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
There was heavy fighting in Khartoum's twin city, Omdurman Shooting has been heard in two separate parts of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, following a raid by Darfur rebels. Details are sketchy - in one incident a lot of shooting was heard and roads closed after security forces pursued a small group of suspected rebels. There was also [...]
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Source: Reuters KHARTOUM, May 12 (Reuters) - Sudan has reimposed an indefinite curfew on the western suburb of Omdurman two days after Darfur rebels attacked the capital, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. " ...
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CICR (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Geneva/Khartoum (ICRC) – In response to fighting over the past two days in Omdurman, part of greater Khartoum, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delivered medical supplies to the main hospital there on Sunday.
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The last of the Darfur rebel forces left Sudan's capital yesterday after unprecedented battles in the Khartoum suburb of Omdurman, a government official and a security source said.''All rebel forces have now left the capital,'' Mutrif Siddig, the undersecretary at Sudan's Foreign Ministry, said.
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Democratic Underground (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Source: [b]BBC[/b] Sudan says rebels from Darfur have now retreated from Omdurman, the capital Khartoum's twin city across the Nile, which came under attack on Saturday. ... A rebel commander said the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) fighters was ready to strike again. Sudan's government ha...
