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SF Gate
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Investigators examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames, killing at least 29 people, officials said.
Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel Hafez Abdel Rahim..
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CNN
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The government of Chad issued a communique Thursday that said rebels from Sudan had crossed into Chad. The communique, sent out from the capital N'Djamena, does not offer any other details. Chad is still recovering from a failed attempt last month by rebe..
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BBC News
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A vast underground lake that scientists hoped could help to end violence in Sudan's Darfur region probably dried up thousands of years ago, an expert says.
Alain Gachet, who used satellite images and radar in his research, said the area received too li..
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Reuters
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JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.
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BBC News
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Militias backing Sudan's government have killed at least 63 people in attacks in Darfur in the past week, African peacekeepers say...
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BBC News
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Peace talks between Somalia's weak interim government and Islamists are deadlocked in the Sudan capital...
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BBC News
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A national census, which was a vital step in the ending of years of civil war in Sudan, has begun.
It will help determine the way power and wealth is shared between Sudan's north and the oil-rich south ahead of next year's national polls.
The census w..
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BBC News
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A UK teacher has been released and handed over to British officials in Sudan after being jailed for letting her class name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, a mother-of-two from Liverpool, was freed four days after receiving a 15-day sentence..
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MSNBC
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A British teacher jailed after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was released Monday hours after Sudan's president pardoned her, a British Embassy spokesman said.
The teacher, Gillian Gibbons, said she did not intend to offend anyo..
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BBC News
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A British teacher charged in Sudan with insulting religion, inciting hatred and showing contempt for religious beliefs has appeared at court.
Journalists were prevented from entering the court as Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, went inside.
She..
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CNN
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A British female teacher has arrived at a court in Sudan after she was charged with offending religion by allowing a teddy bear to be named "Mohammed." Gillian Gibbons, 54, arrived at court looking dejected and dazed after she was detained earlier this we..
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USA Today
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Israel said Sunday it would expel refugees from Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, touching off hot 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 month..
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USA Today
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Though Sudan has accepted the notion of a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, the operation could still be derailed by a lack of funding and political will, African Union chairman Alpha Oumar Konare said Sunday.
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SF Gate
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They came, they met, they agreed that more must be done, but a gathering here aimed at solving the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region ended Monday with little visible progress.
"We really must redouble our efforts, and I think that that was the spirit of..
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BBC News
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the world to be "firm" with Sudan if it refuses to co-operate with efforts to end the conflict in Darfur.
He said "silence was killing" in the troubled region, as he opened talks in Paris between the world..
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CNN
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International wildlife experts have located hundreds of wild elephants on a treeless island in the swamps of south Sudan, where they apparently avoided unchecked hunting during more than 20 years of war.
"We flew out of a cloud, and there they were. It..
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International Herald Tribune
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The Sudanese government on Sunday ordered the chief U.N. envoy to leave the country within three days after he wrote that the Sudanese army had suffered serious losses in fighting with rebels in northern Darfur...
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