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 (...)
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 (...)
Eritrea continues to destabilise region, says Ethiopia
Saturday 28 September 2013
September 27, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia on Friday accused arch-rival Eritrea of continuing to destabilise the East African region by supporting armed groups and terrorists organisations such as Al-Qaida allied Al-Shabaab. Ethiopia (...)
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 (...)
Sudan’s ruling NCP describes Bin Laden as a "holy fighter"
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 (...)
AU and Somali forces capture Al-Shabab key town
Sunday 4 March 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle March 2, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Somali government and African Union peacekeeping forces (AMISOM) on Friday launched an attack against al-Shabaab insurgents, capturing Maslah, a town just 5km from Mogadshu. (...)
AU seeks a lift to arms embargo, charcoal ban in Somalia
Friday 2 November 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle November 1, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The African Union (AU) on Tuesday urged the United Nations Security Council to review an arms embargo imposed two-decades ago on war-torn Somalia. The Commission of the African (...)
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 (...)

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