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Sudans Regierung lobt den Waffenstillstand mit einer Rebellengruppe aus Darfur als "Beginn des Friedens". Weniger euphorisch gibt sich die Opposition. Zu viele Gruppen seien daran unbeteiligt gewesen - und Fragen nach der Machtbeteiligung seien ausgeklammert worden ...

tagesschau: Nach Abkommen zwischen Sudan und Rebellengruppe: "Beginn des Friedens" oder nur "erfreulicher Schritt"?

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Bei Kämpfen um eine Rebellenhochburg sind in der westsudanesischen Krisenregion Darfur mehr als 100 Aufständische getötet worden. 61 weitere Anhänger der Rebellengruppe Bewegung für Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit (JEM) seien nach den Gefechten in Jebel Moon gefangengenommen worden, teilte ein Armeesprecher mit. Insgesamt 108 Aufständische seien getötet worden. Die JEM ist die militanteste Rebellengruppe in Darfur. Sie hatte erst kürzlich die Friedensgespräche mit der Regierung in Khartum auf Eis gelegt ...

google news: Mehr als 100 Rebellen bei Kämpfen in Darfur getötet

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The leader of Darfur's main rebel group has been prevented from entering Chad while en route from Libya to Sudan. Justice and Equality Movement (Jem) leader Khalil Ibrahim was told at Chad's airport to return to Libya. A top Jem official told the BBC Chad is trying to "pressure" Jem into resuming peace talks with Sudan ...

BBC: Darfur Jem leader Khalil Ibrahim stopped in Chad

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Sudanese government expressed on Tuesday its tacit rejection to transport the leader of the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from Libya to Darfur following a meeting held by the joint peace mediator with Khalil Ibrahim. Khalil is in the Libyan capital since 19 May after the refusal of the Chadian authorities to allow him to cross to Darfur and his forced return to Tripoli. Ndjamena also confiscated his passport ...

Sudan Tribune: Sudan peace negotiator rejects Khalil’s return to Darfur region

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Sudanese military warplanes bombed during the last two days villages in southern and eastern Jebel Marra killing 18 people, the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) said on Thursday ...

Sudan Tribune: Sudanese war planes bomb South Darfur villages - rebels

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Darfur rebels on Friday accused Sudan's army of killing 27 people in a week-long campaign of air and ground assaults on their positions, as peace efforts in the arid region continued to flounder. Sudan's army told Reuters its troops killed 17 rebels in South Darfur state in clashes that lasted from Wednesday to Friday, but dismissed reports of air attacks. The army had earlier denied any fighting took place at all but its spokesman phoned back to say he had received a late report on the clashes near the villages of Deribat and Jawa ...

Reuters: Darfur rebels say Sudan army raids kill 27

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Sudan's army said it attacked rebels in Darfur on Thursday, hours before the arrival of U.N. Security Council envoys on a peace mission to the region. Hostile crowds met the U.N. party after it landed in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, on Thursday afternoon as news of the latest violence in Darfur's seven-year conflict started to emerge. The reception was in marked contrast to the welcoming crowds which greeted the ambassadors on Wednesday in Juba, the capital of south Sudan, an oil-producing region preparing for a referendum on whether it should separate from the north ...

Reuters: Sudan attacks Darfur rebels hours before U.N. visit

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China is trying to block the publication of a United Nations report alleging that Chinese ammunition was sent to Darfur in violation of an arms embargo. UN security council members are seeking to resolve the dispute about the report, which found Chinese bullets had been used in an attack on peacekeepers in Sudan ...

Guardian: China tries to block Darfur weapons report - Beijing dismisses UN report alleging that Chinese ammunition was sent to Darfur and used in attack on peacekeepers

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Some 25,000 residents fled Kalama IDPs camp after clashes between pro and anti Doha peace process , the UN secretary general said in a report to the Security Council Friday. Polarization among the internally displaced persons over the peace talks in Doha resulted in the killing of 35 IDPs last July, but also increased the tension among the IDPs in other settlements. But in Kalma, one of the largest IDPs camps in Darfur, the attack raised fears, as the government militias target the camp regularly. The Sudanese authorities describe it as hideout of rebel supporters ...

Sudan Tribune: 25000 residents fled from South Darfur camp after violence - UN

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Libya's Kadhafi Foundation announced on Monday projects costing eight million dollars to help Darfur refugees displaced by the conflict in western Sudan to return to their homes. "The projects aim at helping the return of 200,000 displaced persons to their villages" in Darfur, said Mashallah Zwei of the Brothers of the South Society, an affiliate charity of the Kadhafi Foundation ...

AFP: Libya's Kadhafi Foundation to aid Darfur refugees

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Abdel-Hamid Mousa Kasha, Governor of South Darfur state announced Sunday that oil exploration has started in the eastern part of the troubled state [...] Oil exploration have started in three locations in eastern South Darfur precisely: Addilla Barbar, Um-Radm Al-kori and Zarqa Um-Hadida, said Kasha today ...

Sudan Tribune: Sudan starts oil exploration in South Darfur

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Darfur rebels clashed with government troops in South Darfur on Wednesday marking the resumption of fighting after heavy rains had largely subdued hostilities in Sudan's war-torn west ...

Reuters: Darfur rebels, Khartoum clash despite peace talks

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Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) clashed Saturday in North Darfur state with the Sudanese army, after fighting in South Darfur and North Kordofan during the last two days. JEM and the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) confirmed the last two days battles but every side gives a different version about the outcome of these clashes. Al-Sawarmi Khaled, SAF’s official spokesperson said government troops in North Kordofan repelled JEM attack and destroyed nine rebel vehicles, contradicting what the rebel said yesterday ...

Sudan Tribune: Sudan army, JEM rebels clash in North Darfur

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Kurz vor dem Selbstbestimmungs-Referendum im Süd-Sudan, mit dessen Sezession allgemein gerechnet wird, hat Staatschef Omar Hassan al-Bashir Härte bei den Darfur-Friedensgesprächen gezeigt und mit deren Abbruch gedroht. Sollte an diesem Donnerstag bei den wiederholt unterbrochenen Gesprächen im Golf-Emirat Katar keine Einigung erzielt werden, werde die sudanesische Regierung ihre Delegation abberufen, zitierte die "Sudan Tribune" den Machthaber. Zugleich zeigte sich Bashir konziliant gegenüber dem Süden ...

Standard: Khartum verhärtet Position in Darfur-Verhandlungen: Bashir stellt Ultimatum - "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche"

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Seit dem letzten Wochenende habe die sudanesische Luftwaffe erneut mehrere Dörfer in Darfur bombardiert, berichtete die GfbV. UN-Ermittler seien nach den Luftangriffen daran gehindert worden, Augenzeugen zu verhören und die bombardierten Siedlungen zu besuchen. Auch sei die Bewegungsfreiheit von internationalen Helfern in Darfur auf Anweisung der Behörden massiv eingeschränkt worden ...

epo: Sudan: Armee bombardiert Zivilisten in Darfur

Sudan has carried out an air strike on a village in the troubled western Darfur region, the UN says. A team of peacekeepers is trying to enter the area of Sukamir in north Darfur to assess the damage, UN officials say. If confirmed it would be the second Sudanese air strike in Darfur in three days. The UN has accused pro-government Arab militias of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against non-Arabs in Darfur ...

BBC: Sudan jets bomb Darfur village, says UN

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