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UN divided on timing to end UN-AU peacekeeping in Darfur

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SUDAN  U.N. Security Council members affirmed their commitment to end the joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Sudan’s western...
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UN prepares for up to 200,000 Ethiopian refugees in Sudan

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KENYA The United Nations refugee agency says about 32,000 people have fled Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region into neighboring Sudan,...
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Sudan braces for up to 200,000 fleeing Ethiopia fighting

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SUDAN Up to 200,000 refugees could pour into Sudan while fleeing the deadly conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, officials...
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South Sudan activist flees to US, says Kiir wanted him dead

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SUDAN A prominent South Sudanese activist has fled to the United States with the help of the U.S. government,...
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UN says 2 aid workers, 4 others shot dead in South...

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SUDAN Two aid workers in South Sudan were shot dead along with four people they were helping after members...
sky news africa Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down the capital’s airport for hours and left at least two people dead. In a press conference, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the country’s ruling transitional council, announced that “life has returned to normal,” following a tense stand-off between the armed forces and rogue intelligence officers. The officers had fired shots in the air to demand better severance benefits. Sudan’s petroleum minister declared the resumption of oil production at two fields that had been seized by rebellious officers. The airport authority in neighboring Egypt said it was resuming all flights to Sudan, following a two-day suspension over security concerns. The burst of unrest had paralyzed street life in several parts of the capital, Khartoum, along with another western city. Videos circulated on social media showing vast deployment of security forces and heavy exchanges of gunfire. The armed forces will “not allow any coup to occur,” said Burhan, adding that it was a “shame that weapons were raised in the faces of the people.” The army quickly quelled the short-lived mutiny with “minimal losses,” said General Mohamed Othman al-Hussein, its chief of staff on Wednesday. The clashes killed two people and injured four others, including two officers, he added. The doctors’ union reported that a father and his two children were killed when an errant artillery shell struck their home in a Khartoum suburb. The father was killed instantly, it said, and his 19-year-old daughter and 25-year-old son died on the way to the hospital. The different death tolls could not immediately be reconciled. After trying to persuade the renegade officers to turn over their arms, the military stormed and retook the headquarters of an intelligence agency “using the least amount of force possible,” al-Hussein said. The mutiny was the latest twist in Sudan’s fragile democratic transition after three decades of authoritarian rule under former President Omar al-Bashir. A sweeping protest movement ousted al-Bashir in April and led to the creation of a joint military-civilian government last summer. During the transitional period, Sudan is devising ways to reorganize its armed forces. The program, al-Hussein said, requires dismantling an intelligence agency branch and merging it with a paramilitary unit known as the Rapid Support Forces, notorious for their brutal suppression of insurgencies in Sudan’s restive provinces. Unrest ensued as angry intelligence officers, who were dismissed without receiving what they considered fair compensation, took to the streets. Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok described the mutiny as “discord” aimed at “cutting off the nation’s transition to building a solid democracy.” The disturbance, revealing simmering tensions within Sudan’s security apparatus, poses a tough test for the newly formed government’s democratic and economic goals. “Sudan needs to figure out how to dismantle the deep state’s security forces and deal with their members,” said Cairo-based political analyst Saeed Sadek. “They are powerful, capable of creating civil war and subverting the transition.”
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Sudan mutiny claims two lives: normalcy restored, airspace reopened

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SUDAN Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down...
Putin meets Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan leaders
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Putin meets Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan leaders

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RUSSIA Presidents of Nigeria, Uganda and Sudan met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday on the sidelines of...
Sudan names commission to probe killings
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Sudan names commission to probe killings

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SUDAN Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok on Sunday named a commission to probe a raid on a sit-in in...
Sudan force arrest 138 Africans trying to enter Libya ''illegally''
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Sudan force arrest 138 Africans trying to enter Libya ”illegally”

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SUDAN Sudan’s paramilitary force announced Wednesday the arrest of 138 Africans trying to enter Libya ‘illegally’‘. These migrants include...
Sudan floods death toll reaches 62, about 100 people injured
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Sudan floods death toll reaches 62, about 100 people injured

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SUDAN A Sudanese health official says death toll from flooding triggered by heavy rains has climbed to at least...
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