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North Kordofan State North Kordofan State
Governor: Mutasim Mirghani Hussain Zaki Dean
Capital: El-Obeid / Al-Ubayyid
Area: 185,302 km2 (71,546 sq miles)
Population: 2,529,370 (2006 est.)
Towns: Al-Nuhud, Er Rahad, Um-Rwaba/Um Rawaba, Bara, Gibaish, Sodari, Abu Zabad
Background: North Kordofan forms part of Sudan’s commercial heartland, is a hub for the country’s agriculture, livestock and gum Arabic industries.
- Monday 20 May 2013
May 19, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The United Nations has expressed its concern over the continued fleeing of civilians in South Kordofan state because of the fighting between the Sudanese Armed forces (SAF) and the rebel armed groups.
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- Friday 17 May 2013
May 16, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Council of Defence and National Security (CDNS) discussed Thursday the recent attacks by the alliance of rebel groups, Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), while the foreign affairs minister is preparing to (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan said today that rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) will face "disastrous consequences" if they dared to launch an attack on the capital city of Khartoum. Undated photo released by the SPLM-N (...)
- Tuesday 14 May 2013
May 13, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir, has announced that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Mujahideen (holy fighters) are “now” on the outskirts of Abu-Kershola in South Kordofan’s northeast and vowed (...)
- Monday 13 May 2013
May 12, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s National Assembly speaker Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Tahir has issued a warning to the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) saying that its leaders will face death at the hands of the army so long as they are (...)
- Saturday 11 May 2013
May 10, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s High Committee for Mobilisation and Alert has held a meeting with mosque imams to discuss the implications of the recent attacks in South and North Kordofan states by the rebel Sudan Revolutionary Front (...)
- Thursday 9 May 2013
May 8, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s National Assembly has decided to suspend its sessions next week in order to enable lawmakers to head to their constituencies and lead a mobilisation campaign in support of the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) in (...)
- Tuesday 13 November 2012
November 12, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese oil minister Awad al-Jaz said today that the country has 762 million barrels of oil reserves as of 2012 and disclosed that his ministry is seeking to boost gas reserves as well. Sudanese (...)
- Wednesday 1 May 2013
April 30, 2013 (LONDON) - Abdel Aziz Adam El-Hilu, the General Chief of Staff of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) denied on Tuesday reports that he has been killed by the Sudanese military following the rebel alliance’s attack on Um (...)
- Tuesday 30 April 2013
April 29, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The opposition Popular Congress Party (PCP) leading figure, Ibrahim Al-Sanossi, has dismissed allegations linking him to the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF) weekend attack on Um Rawaba town in North Kordofan (...)
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