Gunmen kill Sudan MP in Darfur
AFP - Thu Dec 10, 4:22 pm ETGunmen in the western Sudanese region of Darfur shot and killed an MP from the ruling party on Thursday, a police official told AFP.
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Gunmen in the western Sudanese region of Darfur shot and killed an MP from the ruling party on Thursday, a police official told AFP.
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.
Sudanese police arrested three senior figures from the south's ruling party and dozens of protesters on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a pro-reform protest, witnesses said.
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.
Sudanese police detained three senior figures from the south's ruling party and dozens of protesters on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a pro-reform protest, witnesses said.
Sudanese police detained three senior opposition figures from the south's ruling party on Monday including a state minister in a crackdown against a planned protest, an AFP reporter witnessed.
KHARTOUM (AFP)--Sudanese police detained three senior opposition figures from the south's ruling party Monday, including a state minister, in a crackdown against a planned protest.
Dec. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Sudanese police arrested Pagan Amum, secretary-general of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, at a protest rally in the capital Khartoum, the Southern party’s spokesman Yen Mathew said by phone today.
Riot police arrested two senior members of south Sudan's main party and their supporters who turned out to demonstrate outside Sudan's parliament on Monday in defiance of an official ban, a witness and officials said.
(RTTNews) - Sudanese authorities say they have arrested some gunmen suspected of killing three Rwandan peace-keepers Friday in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
Girls and boys in south Sudan do not need bogeyman scare stories to make them behave: the child snatchers are real.
Santa waved at some of the hundreds of children who turned out for a chilly afternoon Christmas parade in Trent Woods on Sunday. As is traditional, Santa arrived at the rear of the parade, which featured fire engines, community groups, dancers, bands, members of Sudan Shriners’ units and more.
Police in Sudan said on Sunday an opposition demonstration planned for Monday outside parliament in favour of key laws on elections and a referendum on independence for south Sudan was illegal.
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Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in two attacks on the international peacekeeping force in the Darfur region of Sudan, a spokesman for the mission said Saturday.
Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for the mission said, marking a swift upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.