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Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein
Sudan Armed Forced spending
According to Research and Markets, a think-tank, spending on the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) stood at US$3.308bn in 2010 and is expected to rise to US$3.923bn in 2011, amounting to 22.2% of GDP.
The Sudanese air force consists of 61 combat capable aircraft, as well as Russian-built Divina 2 anti-aircraft missiles, according to the 2012 edition of the International Institute for Strategic Studies’ The Military Balance”.
- Friday 10 May 2013
May 9, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army has agreed to boost salaries of soldiers and officers by 22% amid growing military activities against rebels in the country. FILE PHOTO - Sudanese army troops (GETTY)
Last month the Sudanese (...)
- Tuesday 27 March 2012
March 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The President of Sudan, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, on Monday decreed the establishment of a committee to undertake “mobilization of Jihadists”, appointing first Vice-President Ali Osman Mohammad Taha as its (...)
- Monday 5 November 2012
November 5, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese parliament revealed on Sunday that the country’s military budget will be increased next year to strengthen the army’s defense capabilities as criticism grows over the failure to respond to an (...)
- Wednesday 11 April 2012
April 11, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s parliament declared a general mobilisation to recruit people into its army and paramilitaries across the country after the seizure of an oil rich area in South Kordofan yesterday by the South Sudan (...)
- Thursday 15 November 2012
November 14, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese defense minister Abdel-Rahim Mohamed Hussein blasted South Sudan government claiming that the latter caused the breakdown of the security talks in Juba this month. Sudan’s Defence Minister (...)
- Wednesday 30 May 2012
May 30, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s defense minister, and chief of staff of the Libyan Air Force last Monday discussed military cooperation between the two countries but few information was available about the meeting.
The official (...)
- Sunday 22 July 2012
July 22, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — The rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) vigorously denied launching a ground attack on South Darfur state from South Sudan, pointing out that such "false accusations" aim to cover up fresh air strikes (...)
- Thursday 8 November 2012
November 8, 2012 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) — The Sudan-South Sudan security committee concluded its meeting in Juba without announcing the start of implementation process of a deal reached last September including a number of security (...)
- Wednesday 7 November 2012
November 7, 2012 (JUBA/KHARTOUM) - South Sudan’s army has pledged to withdraw its forces from the demilitarized buffer zone it has agreed to establish along its tense border with Sudan, following the first sitting of a joint security (...)
- Friday 1 June 2012
June 1, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The leadership office of Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party (NCP) approved on Thursday a proposal recommending the removal of fuel subsidies to avert collapse of the country’s economy amid a great deal of (...)
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