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AllAfrica News: Sudan
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North and South Reach Peace Deal On Oil-Rich Region
North and Southern Sudan have reached a tentative agreement on Abyei, ending a new round of fighting over the area in the recent past. It includes an immediate ceasefire and the removal of armed groups from Abyei town.
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Agreement Reached Ending Clashes in Disputed Town
The top United Nations official in Sudan today welcomed the agreement to end the deadly fighting between Government forces and the former southern rebels in the disputed Abyei area, which has forced thousands of civilians to flee this week.
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Faultline Town Deserted After Clashes
Thousands of people have fled Abyei town after two days of clashes between Sudanese government troops and the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A).
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Sudan Will Play Usual Game - Mazda
Sudan national football team coach Mohammed Abdullah a.k.a Mazda has admitted that his side will approach tomorrow's game with Rwanda at Nyamirambo stadium.
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Fighting Forces UN Mission to Evacuate Staff
The United Nations has evacuated most of its staff from the Sudanese town of Abyei, located in a disputed oil-rich area, amid continued shooting between Government forces and the former southern rebels with whom they reached a peace deal in January 2005.
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Fresh Questions As Kony Remains Elusive
The failure of Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony to meet a team of elders has created a stalemate that raises fresh questions over the viability of talks between his group and the Ugandan government, a regional analyst said.
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Rebel Leader A No Show At Key Meeting
LRA leader Joseph Kony kept chief mediator and South Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar, religious and cultural leaders from northern Uganda waiting for five days at Nabanga at the Congo-Sudan border but failed to show up.
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UN Humanitarian Airlift Gets Temporary Reprieve
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced today that an ongoing humanitarian airlift for Sudan, which has been threatened with closure for lack of funds, has been given a temporary reprieve by new donations.
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Darfur May Enter New Cycle of Violence, Says UN Official
The Darfur conflict could lapse soon into another major cycle of violence and large-scale human displacement unless the parties retreat from their recent state of confrontation, the top United Nations peacekeeping official told the Security Council today.
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Ethiopia Dismisses New Border Deal With Sudan
Ethiopia says a border demarcation with neighboring Sudan is underway although an agreement has not yet been reached.
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Security Council Deplores Attacks By Rebel Group
The Security Council today deplored the weekend attacks by a Darfurian rebel group against the Sudanese Government on the outskirts of the country's capital, Khartoum, but urged restraint from all sides and warned that no retaliatory action should be taken against civilians.
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Ban Ki-moon 'Deeply Disappointed' At Continuing Violence in Darfur
Ongoing military activities by Darfur's rebel groups as well as reprisal actions by the Sudanese Government and its allied militia are costing lives and limiting humanitarian operations in the strife-torn region, the United Nations Secretary-General says today.
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Attack on Capital Changes Darfur Conflict
It was a gem of a plan.
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Crooked Ntaganda Out of Sudan Clash
Defender Elias Ntaganda has been ruled out of Amavubi Star's African Nations Championship return leg clash against Sudan this Saturday at Nyamirambo stadium.
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Watermelons, Conflict and Climate Change
Several hundred kilometres from the simmering conflicts between pastoralists and farmers [over natural resources] in Sudan's Darfur region, the two communities in the village of Gereigikh in North Kordofan State have learnt to cool the tension with watermelons.
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Mass Arrests After Rebel Attack Raise Concern
Mass arrests in Khartoum of perceived supporters of a Darfur rebel group and other political opponents raise fears of mistreatment, Human Rights Watch said today.
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Chad Denies Involvement in Khartoum Attack
Chad's government has denied allegations made by neighbouring Sudan that it backed rebels who raided the Sudanese capital Khartoum on 10 May.
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Desert Hawks Arrive Today
Sudan national football team arrives in the country today ahead of the second leg of the Africa Nations Championship against Rwanda on Saturday at Nyamirambo stadium.
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AfDB Predicts Accelerated Economy for Country
A report entitled "2007/2008 African Economic Outlook" jointly published by the African Development Bank (AfDB), the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) has predicted acceleration in Nigeria's economy.
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Govt Cracks Down After Daring Attack
The Sudanese government has arrested the Islamist leader, Hassan Abdallah al-Turabi, and top members of his political party in the wake of an unprecedented attack by Darfur rebels in the vicinity of the capital, Khartoum.
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