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- Saturday 22 December 2012
December 21, 2012 (LONDON) — The South Sudanese army, SPLA, shot down a United Nations helicopter in the troubled state of Jonglei, killing all the members of its Russian crew, the international organisation said. Boxes and sacks of (...)
- Sunday 23 December 2012
December 22, 2012 (BOR) - The commissioner of Pibor, Joshua Konyi, claims that the helicopter shot down on Saturday in Jonglei was supporting rebels in the area and denied claims that it was downed by the South Sudan army (SPLA). UN (...)
- Friday 30 March 2012
By Ngor Arol Garang
March 29, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudan has formed a technical fact finding committee to investigate the cause of a plane crash at Wau Airport on Thursday morning, according to officials. Feeder Airlines plane after (...)
- Tuesday 28 February 2012
February 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese minister of agriculture, Abdel Halim al-Mutafi, has escaped certain death in a helicopter crash which killed three people on Monday. Sudan’s minister of agriculture and forestry Abdel Halim (...)
- Tuesday 28 August 2012
August 27, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A Russian plane that crashed last week in Sudan’s southern region of Kordofan was ordered to be grounded by inspectors four days before takeoff, a local newspaper has revealed, shedding more light on the (...)
- Thursday 31 May 2012
May 30, 2012 (JUBA) - A chartered aircraft carrying South Sudan’s Minister for Agriculture and Forestry, Betty Achan Ogwaro, was forced to return to Juba airport on Thursday, just moments after the plane left the capital. South Sudan’s (...)
- Tuesday 21 August 2012
August 20, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese plane that crashed in South Kordofan state on Sunday was driven by a Russian pilot, the Russian embassy in Khartoum said.
An Antonov AN-26, belonging to Alfa Airlines, crashed in an accident (...)
- Monday 8 October 2012
October 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Fifteen military personnel were killed when a Russian military plane crashed on Sunday morning, 40 kilometres west of Omdurman, in Khartoum State.
Al-Sawarmi Khaled, spokesperson of the Sudanese army, (...)
- Sunday 7 October 2012
October 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM) - Thirteen military personnel were killed and nine others wounded when a military plane crashed on Sunday morning, 40 kilometers west of Omdurman.
Al-Sawarmi Khaled Saad, spokesperson of the Sudanese army, (...)
- Wednesday 22 August 2012
August 21, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The head of the Sudanese Civil Aviation Corporation (SCAC), Mohammed Abdel Aziz, tendered his resignation to the country’s president Omer Al-Bashir on Tuesday, citing the need to account for a plane crash (...)
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