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  • Sudans defuse row over rebel support, promise more talks

  • Sudanese Foreign Minister Karti speaks during a joint news conference regarding the Syrian conflict, in CairoBy Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - Sudan's foreign minister said on Friday neighbor South Sudan had promised him it would not let rebels operate across their shared border, defusing a row that had threatened a key oil deal. The countries, which fought one of Africa's longest civil before a 2005 peace deal, agreed in March to resume cross-border crude exports and defuse tensions that have plagued them since South Sudan's secession in 2011. ...



  • Sudanese foreign minister to visit Juba on Friday

  • Sudanese Foreign Minister Karti addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. Headquarters in New YorkKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan's Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti will visit South Sudan on Friday, state media said, the first high-level meeting between the neighbors since Khartoum accused Juba of supporting rebels who launched a major attack three weeks ago. Both African countries agrees in March to restart crucial cross-border oil flows and end tensions that has existed since the south seceded in 2011. But despite this thaw, Sudan accused South Sudan on Saturday of supporting a rebel alliance which launched a surprise attack on the central Sudanese city of Um Rawaba. ...



  • Tired of economic crisis, Sudanese pack up to try their luck abroad

  • Sudanese migrants wait to get their visas at The Secretariat for Sudanese Working AbroadBy Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM (Reuters) - In a cramped government office in Khartoum, engineer Ahmed Taha and dozens of other Sudanese, lured by local newspaper adverts for jobs in the Gulf, sit waiting to get a permit to leave the country and work abroad. "I've had enough of Sudan and will go to Saudi Arabia," said Taha. "I am so tired of this country, the (economic) crisis, the corruption. ...



  • Ex-IMF boss Strauss-Kahn attends South Sudan bank opening

  • Former IMF chief Strauss-Kahn arrives to grace the opening of NCB in JubaBy Hereward Holland JUBA (Reuters) - Dominique Strauss-Kahn helped to open a new bank in the world's youngest nation, South Sudan, on Tuesday, a low-key return to the international stage for the former IMF chief brought down by a sex scandal. The former French finance minister, who has battled a blizzard of lurid allegations over his private life since the 2011 scandal, was a guest speaker at the opening of the National Credit Bank in South Sudan's capital, Juba. ...



  • Carlos the Jackal: Ex-enigma now mired in court

  • FILE - Undated 1970s file of Illich Ramirez Sanchez, also known as " Carlos The Jackal", who was sentenced to life in prison by a French court in Paris early Wednesday Dec 24, 1997. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing Monday May 13, 2013 his two life sentences for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago. He's been jailed since 1994 after French agents seized him in Sudan. (AP Photo/French Police)PARIS (AP) — Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing his life sentence for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving two life sentences in France for a triple murder in 1975 and for the bombings in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140. He's been jailed since 1994 after French agents whisked him out of Sudan in a sack.



  • Carlos the Jackal appeals life term in France

  • Police officers talk inside the courtroom where Venezuelan convicted terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal", or Illich Ramirez, is due to appear Monday, May, 13, 2013 in Paris. Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War’s most wanted men, is appealing his life sentence for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago. Carlos, whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, is serving two life sentences in France for a triple murder in 1975 and for the bombings in France in 1982 and 1983 that killed 11 people and injured more than 140. He’s been jailed since French agents seized him in Sudan in 1994. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)PARIS (AP) — Carlos the Jackal, the flamboyant terrorist and self-proclaimed revolutionary who was once one of the Cold War's most wanted men, is appealing his life sentence for orchestrating bombings in France two decades ago.



  • Sudan says South Sudan helped rebels attacking major town

  • KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan accused South Sudan of having supported rebels who launched a major assault two weeks ago, warning this could derail recent oil and security agreements between the African neighbors, state media said on Saturday. The two countries agreed in March to resume cross-border oil flows and end tension that has plagued them since South Sudan's secession in 2011. Since then ties have improved with Sudan receiving last week the first oil exports from the landlocked South, which had shut down its production in January 2012 in a dispute over pipeline fees. ...
  • Sudanese security pulls plug on Khartoum Web conference

  • KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The organizer of a forum on promoting ideas through the Internet accused Sudanese state security agents on Saturday of shutting down the event in Khartoum by cutting off the power. The local branch of New York-based TED, an independent group that spreads knowledge about the Internet and social media, drew 900 people to its 'Knowledge into Action' conference in a luxury hotel, its founder Anwar Dafa-Alla said. After the first speech, a security agent came and asked to halt the event, saying there was no permit for it, Dafa-Alla told Reuters. ...
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