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100 dead and rescuers trapped in Darfur gold mine disaster
Around 100 miners are estimated to have died inside a collapsed gold mine in Sudan’s Darfur region and nine rescuers trying to free them are now trapped, a miner said on Friday. “Nine of the rescue team disappeared when the land collapsed around them yesterday (Thursday),” said the miner, who…
U.S. diplomat warns situation in Darfur deteriorating
Security in Darfur is worsening and militias need to be disarmed, the US charge d’affaires to Sudan Joseph Stafford said on Sunday, condemning the recent attack which killed a peacekeeper. Stafford also expressed grave concern “about the reports of civilian casualties and deliberate targeting of civilians by militias in Muhagiriya…
UN ‘deeply concerned’ by Darfur tribal fighting
The UN on Sunday expressed deep concern over the latest deadly tribal violence in Sudan’s Darfur region, which has hampered assistance for tens of thousands of people forced to flee earlier fighting. Residents in the town of El Sireaf said an Arab militia firing heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades…
UN demands inquiry after Darfur peacekeeper killed
UNITED NATIONS — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon demanded an investigation after one peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded on Wednesday in an ambush in Sudan’s North Darfur state. According to Ban’s spokesman, Martin Nesirky, all the victims, from the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), had South…
Darfur rebels begin march on on Khartoum
Rebels from Sudan’s Darfur region have begun moving towards the capital Khartoum, their spokesman said Thursday, more than three years after they made an unprecedented attack on the capital. “Now our troops are moving from Darfur in an easterly direction towards the capital Khartoum,” Gibril Adam Bilal, of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), told AFP…
US could take Sudan off state terror list by July
WASHINGTON — Sudan could be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism as early as July if Khartoum recognizes the results of the referendum on independence for the south, a US official said Tuesday. “Should the referendum be carried out successfully and the results are recognized by…
Darfur clashes leave 40 rebels dead
KHARTOUM — Clashes between government forces and fighters from an alliance of Darfur rebel groups have left 40 rebels dead, Sudan’s army said Saturday, announcing a figure contested by the insurgents. The fighting occurred on Friday in the Shangil Tobaya region, about 65 kilometres (40 miles) south of El-Fasher, historic…
Almost 600 killed last month in Darfur: UN
KHARTOUM  Clashes in west Sudan’s Darfur region cost almost 600 lives in May, the highest monthly death toll since peacekeepers were deployed in 2008, according to a UN-African Union document seen by AFP. The confidential document compiled by the joint peacekeeping force said 440 people died in fighting last…
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