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CNN
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A British teacher in Sudan jailed over the naming of a teddy bear has been released from police custody, the British Embassy in Khartoum said, several hours after Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir pardoned her. Gillian Gibbons, freed after Sudan's presiden..
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BBC News
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Sudan's government has promised $300m (�150m) to "help rebuild and repair" Darfur, tripling a previous pledge, said ex-US President Jimmy Carter.
Mr Carter said President Omar al-Bashir was also willing to have international observers at planned elec..
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BBC News
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Amnesty International (AI) has accused the Sudanese government of deploying weapons to Darfur in "breathtaking defiance" of a UN arms embargo.
The rights group said photographs of Russian-supplied military helicopters and a transport plane at an airpor..
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Yahoo News
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Israel said Sunday it would no longer accept refugees from Sudan's Darfur region, touching off debate over whether the Jewish state, founded after the Nazi genocide, has a duty to take in people fleeing persecution.
Israel has been grappling for months..
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CNN
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Sudan on Wednesday endorsed a U.N. resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide real protection to civilians in one of the world's most embattled regions. If fully deployed, the troops w..
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Al Jazeera
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President Bashir should take the last chance by responding to the secretary-general's efforts and to meet the just demands of the international community," Bush said, making clear he would not wait long.
Bush's warning comes just days after Sudan told..
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Al Jazeera
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The men claim they are unarmed herdsmen arrested at the border but Chad says the identifications cards shown in the video prove their affiliation to the Sudanese army. "If the mercenaries attack us again, we will follow them wherever they go and I hope t..
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Al Jazeera
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Sudan has accepted the second phase of the agreement of UN support for the African force," Lam Akol, Sudan's foreign minister, told a news conference, adding that this included the sticking point of deploying helicopter gunships.
Khartoum's green light..
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BBC News
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Lawyers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating reports of slavery during the conflict, the BBC has learned.
"There are many cases of abductions," a Sudanese lawyer told the BBC.
They are too afraid of possible reprisals from either militias or s..
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BBC News
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Camps for those displaced by fighting in Sudan's Darfur region are almost full, the UN says.
Several camps are having to turn away new groups of refugees, a report for UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says.
More than 80..
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BBC News
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The "whole state apparatus" of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in Darfur, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo's report into the crisis in western Sudan, due on Thursday, coincides with a visit..
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BBC News
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Shooting has been heard in two separate parts of Sudan's capital, Khartoum, following a raid by Darfur rebels.
Details are sketchy - in one incident a lot of shooting was heard and roads closed after security forces pursued a small group of suspected r..
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BBC News
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Heavily-armed rebels have entered the east of the country from Sudan, Chad's government is saying.
An announcement on national radio reported that "mercenaries crossed the border in the area of Moudeina", north of the border town of Ade.
A rebel attem..
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BBC News
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At least seven South Sudanese have been freed from their Arab abductors after the resumption of an operation to rescue them, the BBC has learnt.
The seven have been taken to a transit camp in the South Darfur capital, Nyala, the head of the operation s..
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BBC News
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The UN secretary general is pressing Sudan's leader to accept non-African troops in the peacekeeping force due to arrive in Darfur within weeks.
Ban Ki-moon has dispatched two of his most senior envoys to a Lisbon summit.
In 25 days a joint African..
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SF Gate
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The British schoolteacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her 7-year-old pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammad was pardoned Monday by the Sudanese president and left for England later in the evening.
President Omar el-Bashir made the decision after m..
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BBC News
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Arab groups in Sudan's Darfur region could start their own rebellion, a leading think-tank has warned.
Some Arab communities felt they had been used by Sudan's government, says the International Crisis Group (ICG).
The ICG report also criticised the..
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BBC News
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Former rebels in South Sudan have strongly criticised President Omar al-Bashir, after he threatened to rearm northern militias despite a peace deal.
The president "almost declared war", one Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) official told the BB..
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BBC News
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is visiting Sudan's western Darfur region, where a four-year conflict has claimed 200,000 lives and displaced millions.
Mr Ban visited a refugee camp. He said he wanted to be able to finalise a date and venue for peace..
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SF Gate
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon began a weeklong Africa trip devoted to Darfur by pleading with Sudan on Monday to ensure the human rights of its citizens.
Ban also hinted that he would show more understanding toward the country's much-criticized le..
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