Al Qaeda | al-Qa’eda

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

Ethiopia produces first military drone aircraft
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 (...)
JEM rebels "sight" Malian rebels in north Darfur
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 (...)
Ethiopia sentences Kenyan, nine others for plotting terror attacks
Thursday 17 January 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January 16, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - A court in Ethiopia on Tuesday passed jail terms against nine individuals including one Kenyan national who are alleged to be members of a terrorist cell affiliated with Al Qaeda’s (...)
UN warns Darfur a potential “fertile ground” for jihadist groups
Monday 26 January 2015
January 25, 2014 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan’s troubled western Darfur region of may be “potentially fertile ground” for African jihadist radical groups currently active in the continent, particularly in North and West Africa, a report by a panel (...)
Ethiopia thwarts kidnap-for-ransom plot against UN staff
Wednesday 27 March 2013
March 26, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian security forces have thwarted an alleged kidnapping plot by members of Somalia Islamist extremist group, against foreign United Nations aid workers based in Ethiopia’s Somali region. According (...)
Sudan served as a hub for receiving Al-Qaeda suspects nabbed by CIA: report
Tuesday 5 February 2013
February 5, 2013 (WASHINGTON) – The CIA transferred five individuals suspected of having links to Al-Qaeda from Malawi to Sudan in 2003, according to a report released on Tuesday. A new report reveals Sudan provided assistance to the (...)
Chad tells France that Mali rebels may have entered Sudan: diplomat
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 (...)
Leader of Al-Qaeda in Sudan killed in Mali: reports
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 (...)
Obama urges Ethiopia’s new leader to promote human rights, security
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 (...)
South Sudan welcomes killing of Osama bin laden
Thursday 5 May 2011
May 4, 2011 (ABYEI) - A senior member of the South Sudan’s ruling party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) on Wednesday welcomed the death of terrorist leader, Osama bin laden, Pakistan following a raid by the United States (...)

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