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Thursday 19 April 2012
April 17,2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, has accepted international pleas to release Sudanese prisoners of war which the country’s army captured after taking over the contested region of Heglig.
SAF prisoners of war (...)
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Monday 16 April 2012
April 15, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – President Omer Al-Bashir of Sudan told a visiting Egyptian diplomat on Sunday that his country is not prepared to resume negotiations with neighbouring South Sudan unless the latter withdraws its troops from (...)
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Tuesday 28 February 2012
February 26, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ministers of water from Sudan, Egypt and Ethiopia will meet in Addis Ababa in March for more talks over the controversial dam project Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile, according to Sudan’s (...)
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Thursday 26 April 2012
April 25, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Thirteen Sudanese military personnel who were detained in Heglig will arrive to Khartoum on Thursday, the foreign ministry announced here today.
The prisoners of war (POWs) were detained when South Sudanese (...)
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Monday 23 April 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
April 23, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The African Union’s Peace and Security Council will hold a meeting this week with the border conflict between Sudan and South Sudan over the contested oil-rich Heglig region due to be (...)
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Thursday 19 November 2009
November 18, 2009 (KHARTOUM) – The Egyptian government is dispatching special forces to Sudan to evacuate its soccer fans claiming to be targeted by Algerians in the capital, the Egyptian ambassador to Sudan said today.
Algeria’s (...)
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Monday 27 December 2010
December 26, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – The semi-official top newspaper in Egypt launched a rare attack on Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir saying that his policies over the years have made people in South yearn for their own state (...)
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Thursday 17 November 2011
November 16, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – A leading figure in an Egyptian Islamist group revealed in an interview that they sent some of their members to fight with the Sudanese army during the civil war years.
Nageh Ibrahim, a co-founder of (...)
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Monday 12 October 2009
October 11, 2009 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan is headed towards a renewed dispute with Egypt over a border region after the electoral commission announced that it will be covered in the upcoming April 2010 presidential and parliamentary (...)
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Saturday 11 February 2012
February 10, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s foreign minister, Ali Karti, has expressed doom and gloom over the situation in Syria, indicating that the chances of reaching a peaceful settlement to the crisis are now slimmer than ever. (...)
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