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Sudan became a notorious refuge for militant Islamists in In the early 1990s, including Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was based in the country from 1991 to 1996.
Al-Qaeda’s presence led to American sanctions on Sudan that have continued ever since.
In 2011 Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan by US special forces.
Al Jazeera English | Inside Story - Is N Africa Al-Qaeda’s new front? | 12 Dec. 2007
Thursday 14 February 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – An Ethiopian military source has told Sudan Tribune that the country has built the first unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone which could be used for multiple purposes. A US (...)
Saturday 23 February 2013
February 22, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The leader of Sudan’s Al-Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles group, Abu Hazim, was killed in an airstrike carried out recently by French warplanes on the positions of jihadists in northern Mali. An (...)
Wednesday 27 February 2013
February 26, 2013 (PARIS) - Malian rebels who seized control of their country’s northern region last year may have crossed into Sudan, a well-placed diplomatic source told Sudan Tribune. Chad President Idriss Deby sits during the (...)
Monday 7 February 2005
By Matthew Green
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Fears that the Horn of Africa could become an incubator for international Islamic extremism are overblown, partly because plans to sow such militancy have already failed, a regional (...)
Saturday 16 October 2004
By Paul de Bendern
ALGIERS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - African governments agreed on Thursday to push for tougher action to root out the terrorism that still threatens the continent despite the anti-terror campaign in force since September (...)
Monday 18 February 2013
February 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of several rebel groups fighting a decade-long war against Khartoum in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, Monday claimed that they have detected and documented (...)
Friday 24 February 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
February 23, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian and Somali forces on Wednesday captured the strategic Somali town of Baidoa from the hands of the al-Qaeda-allied al-Shabaab militant group, according to the Ethiopian (...)
Tuesday 3 May 2011
May 2, 2011 (KHARTOUM) – The West should withdraw its forces from Afghanistan after the United States announced that it has killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, an official in the ruling National Congress Party (NCP) in Sudan said (...)
Friday 4 January 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
January 3, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s security forces have arrested 15 individuals alleged to be members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda’s network in the East African region, the country’s (...)
Sunday 26 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
August 25, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - US president, Barack Obama, has spoken with Ethiopia’s acting prime minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, who has become nation’s new leader following the death of his predecessor on 21 (...)
Misleading statements of U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Khartoum 2017-06-28 22:58:00
By Eric Reeves
The Trump administration State Department is evidently content to allow recently appointed Charge d’Affaires Steven Koutsis to remain the senior U.S. diplomat in Khartoum, serving (...)
Confronting Climate Change in South Sudan: Risks and Opportunities2017-06-27 13:57:30
By Jean-Luc Stalon and Biplove Choudhary
The man made crisis in South Sudan has pushed the country back on multiple fronts: ranging from an outbreak of a severe macroeconomic crisis to an (...)
South Sudan: Lament of diminished hopes2017-06-26 22:36:53
By Dennis Lissa
In the lonely town of Buggari in Western Bahr El Ghazel, stands a flag in the middle of government square. The flag is fading in colour and partially torn. It waves sadly (...)
HRW denounces "collective punishment" in South Sudan’s Wau2017-04-15 07:06:48
Human Right Watch
South Sudan: New Spate of Ethnic Killings
Urgent Need for Justice; UN Should Increase Patrols in Wau
(Nairobi, April 14, 2017) – Government soldiers and allied militias (...)
Statement by South Sudanese Communist Party on the National Dialoguel 2017-03-22 05:44:42
The Communist Party of South Sudan On the Initiative of the National Dialogue
The initiative taken by the President of the Republic of South Sudan declaring a need for a national dialogue is an (...)
An Appeal to President of the Republic of South Sudan2017-03-15 07:22:45
Dear. Mr. President,
I write to appeal to you for the release of political detainees now in the custody of the National Security Service at Jebel and other detention facilities. In doing this, I (...)
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Misleading statements of U.S. Charge d’Affaires in Khartoum 2017-06-28 22:58:00 By Eric Reeves The Trump administration State Department is evidently content to allow recently appointed Charge d’Affaires Steven Koutsis to remain the senior U.S. diplomat in Khartoum, serving (...)
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