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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 9:27 am ET
Three senior leaders of the southern former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement were freed on Monday after being briefly held in a police crackdown against a protest, an AFP reporter said.
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EARTHtimes.org - Sat Dec 5, 11:31 am ET
Nairobi/Khartoum - Three United Nations peacekeepers were killed in an attack by unknown gunmen in Sudan's volatile western Darfur region, a spokesman for the peacekeeping mission said Saturday. Two of the three Rwandan UNAMID soldiers died at the sc...
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The Huffington Post - Mon Dec 7, 1:13 pm ET
Today's vivid protests and arrests of senior SPLM politicians by Khartoum police clearly demonstrate that the U.S. should not be financing Sudan's electoral charade unless...
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Boston Herald - Sat Dec 5, 10:33 am ET
CAIRO - A spokesman for the peacekeeping force in Darfur says gunmen have killed three Rwandan soldiers in an ambush in the western Sudanese region. Kemal Saiki says the...
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KHQ Spokane - Fri Dec 4, 3:59 pm ET
The chief prosecutor of theInternational Criminal Court raised the possibility Friday of charging Sudanese officials who cover up the government's involvement in alleged war crimes in Darfur and said President Omar al-Bashir...
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United Nations - Mon Dec 7, 7:00 pm ET
On 4 December at approximately 4:15 p.m. local time, a military convoy of the UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) escorting a water tanker, was ambushed by unidentified armed assailants at Saraf Umra in North Darfur.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 3:11 pm ET
Two Rwandan peacekeepers were killed and three others wounded in an attack in the Darfur region of western Sudan on Friday, said a senior official of the United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur.
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CNN - Thu Dec 3, 8:17 pm ET
The United States' special envoy to Sudan reluctantly agreed Thursday that he is negotiating with a government that is accused of carrying out genocide in Darfur in western Sudan.
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The Daily Orange - Mon Dec 7, 3:26 am ET
John Dau, a nationally-known speaker, is also known as a "Lost Boy." When the North Sudanese government said it would kill any man from South Sudan, regardless of age, many boys fled their villages to avoid the war. This group of boys received the moniker, "Lost Boys.
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New York Times - Tue Dec 8, 12:34 am ET
The police arrested several top opposition leaders at a protest in the capital, Khartoum, on Monday
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12 News Phoenix - Tue Dec 8, 3:33 pm ET
Election officials from war-ravaged Sudan are on a cross-country voter registration campaign. For the first time in more than two decades, Sudanese refugees will have the chance to vote in a presidential election of their home country.
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Denver Post - Fri Dec 4, 3:34 am ET
A former top United Nations investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a 5-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region. Enrico Carisch, a Swiss national who until October led a U.N. panel looking into violations of the embargo, contrasted the efforts with those of the Bush administration, noting the previous ...
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MSNBC - Sat Dec 5, 12:53 pm ET
Gunmen kill five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission says.
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United Nations - Wed Dec 9, 3:16 am ET
The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The second attack took place at Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur, where the UNAMID troops were providing water to local civilians.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 5:33 pm ET
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan voiced concern on Thursday about rising ethnic violence in its southern region and said Washington would step up efforts to help curb fighting ahead of nationwide elections next year.