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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
Chad has closed its border with Sudan, in response to Khartoum's decision to break diplomatic relations with N'Djamena following a rebel attack on the Sudanese capital. The Chadian government issued a statement Monday saying it had sealed the border...
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News Source: The Daily Star
| about 1 year ago
Two days after an unprecedented Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum, witnesses reported gunfire around the US Embassy and said the military was heavily deployed in the capital's twin city of Omdurman as the army hunted for rebels. Associates of Turabi...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
Alongside four top members of his party, al-Turabi was captured by the Sudanese forces who were looking for masterminds behind a raid carried out earlier by Darfur rebels on the capital Khartoum. The government has accused al-Turabi of cooperation...
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News Source: The Hindu
| about 1 year ago
Sudan snapped diplomatic ties with Chad on Sunday after an attack on Khartoum by a Darfur rebel group. The assault by the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) on Omdurman on Saturday marked the first time during the civil war that any rebel group had...
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News Source: AFP
| about 1 year ago
Chad closed its border with Sudan on Monday, its government said, ramping up tensions between the volatile neighbours after Khartoum accused Ndjamena of backing a rebel assault on the Sudanese capital. The Chadian government ordered the "airtight...
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News Source: France 24
| about 1 year ago
France 24 Monday, May 12, 2008 The attack against Khartoum: tit for tat for N’Djamena? Monday 12 May 2008 Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has blamed the weekend's foiled rebel attack against Khartoum on his Chadian neighbour, though N'Djamena...
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News Source: Macleans
| about 1 year ago
Sudan arrested and questioned the head of one of the country's largest opposition parties Monday apparently because of his links to Darfur rebels who attacked close to the capital this week, his party and state media said. Hassan Turabi was arrested...
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News Source: The Mercury
| about 1 year ago
Darfur rebels in Khartoum today after an unprecedented rebel attack at the weekend and detained Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi before releasing him...It was the first time fighting had reached the capital in decades of conflict between...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| about 1 year ago
Just two months after the signing of a peace accord, Sudan and Chad have once again broken off relations after Darfur rebels attacked the Sudanese capital Khartoum. Sudan holds Chad responsible for the raid and has arrested the Islamist opposition...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
The government imposed a curfew on Saturday in Khartoum and adjoining areas in response to the daring assault by fighters of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), a Darfur-based anti-government group...Earlier, Awad Babiker, al-Turabi's private...