Africa's longest civil war is over. Sunday's peace agreement, signed in Nairobi, Kenya, by Sudan's government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army and its nonmilitary arm, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, now referred to as the SPLM/A, ended fighting that began in the mid-1980s. The war claimed 2 million lives and displaced 4 million people.
Carlos the Jackal," the most infamous terrorist of the 1970s and '80s, smiled and flashed a clenched fist salute on Monday when he went on trial in Paris for deadly bomb attacks he is accused of mounting at the height of his "anti-imperialist campaign. When asked to describe his profession to the special terrorism court, the 62-year-old Venezuelan -- who was born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez -- declared: "I am a revolutionary by profession," showing that his bluster has been undiminished by two decades served in French prisons since his 1994 capture in Khartoum by French special forces.
It's not every day that the leader of a brand-new country makes his maiden foreign voyage to Jerusalem, capital of the most besieged country in the world, but Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, accompanied by his foreign and defense ministers, did just that in late December. Israeli President Shimon Peres hailed his visit as a "moving and historic moment." The visit spurred talk of South Sudan locating its embassy in Jerusalem, which would make it the only government anywhere in the world to do so. This unusual development results from an unusual story. Today's Sudan took shape in the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire controlled its northern regions and tried to conquer the southern ones. The British, ruling out of Cairo, established the outlines of the modern state in 1898 and f...
...Bush administration pressured Khartoum to sign the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that end...
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Two British parliament members met officials in Sudan Saturday to try to secure the release of a British teacher imprisoned for naming a teddy bear Muhammad and later said the Khartoum government wants to resolve the case. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Nazir Ahmed, both Muslim members of Parliament's upper house, also visited the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, in prison for more than an hour.
Darfur peacekeepers: 2 civilians kidnapped KHARTOUM, Sudan - An armed group kidnapped two foreign civilians working for the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Two former enemies joined forces Saturday to sign into being Sudan's new constitution while pledging to promote peace and renewal in a nation scarred by two decades of civil war. John Garang, an ex-rebel leader who has returned to Khartoum for the first time in 22 years, was sworn in as Sudan's first southern and Christian vice president.
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Two British Parliament members met officials in Sudan Saturday to try to secure the release of a British teacher imprisoned for naming a teddy bear Muhammad and later said the Khartoum government wants to resolve the case. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi and Lord Nazir Ahmed, both Muslim members of Parliament's upper house, also visited the teacher Gillian Gibbons in prison for more than an hour.
The United States ambassador to the UN, Zalmay Khalilzad, reacting to the requests, told reporters, "We believe there cannot be impunity." He said the security Council "wants to see progress in Darfur." His French and British counterparts said it is too soon to discuss the issue of delaying [Bashir]'s prosecution. The U.S. realizes to get the oil, they need regime change," [Abdul Akbar Muhammad] said. The Sudanese president has stated that he would refuse to allow American firms to drill for oil in the south, preferring companies from China, Malaysia, India, Pakistan, France and Sweden. He said the U.S. firms had been "too demeaning" and their conditions "were unacceptable. The struggles in Darfur date back to February 2003, when two rebel groups attacked the Sudanese government, decl...
...issue with the regime in Khartoum is all about oil. "The U.S. realizes to get the oi...
SEE if this sounds familiar: The United States launches a cruise missile attack on a sovereign nation, claiming that it is in part retaliation for an unprovoked and bloody terrorist attack by Osama bin Laden and in part a pre-emptive strike against someone's capacity to make weapons of mass destruction. In the aftermath, it turns out that the intelligence is faulty, that there is no hard evidence of any such weapons or their development. Lives are lost, foreign relations are strained, and the attack provides a bonanza for those recruiting terrorists. And oh, yes, before an audience of students and faculty at Georgetown University, CIA Director George Tenet defends the agency's intelligence and analysis, refusing to admit error even when there is a consensus among those most knowledgeabl...
..., defending the agency's targeting of Khartoum even as one of his most senior deputies privately ...
JUBA, Sudan - The U.N. is planning for the possibility that 2.8 million people will be displaced in Sudan if fighting breaks out over the south's January independence referendum, according to an internal report reviewed by The Associated Press on Tuesday. Just over two weeks remain before voters in Southern Sudan decide whether to remain with the Khartoum-based north or - more likely - to secede and create the world's newest country.
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