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| Sudan: Military clashes with rebels |
| 2010-02-26 |
| [ADN Kronos] (AKI) - Sudanese soldiers exchanged gunfire with Darfur rebels the same day the country's president supported a truce with another insurgency, while French aid group Doctors of the World said fighting forced it to suspend operations in the central Jabel Marra region on Wednesday. More than 100,000 people had been displaced by fighting in the area over recent days, Doctors of the World said. Darfur's insurgent Sudan Liberation Army, or SLA, said government forces attacked at least three areas in the mountainous region on Wednesday, including the busy market town of Deribat. "Heavy fighting was going until late into the night," SLA spokesman Ibrahim al-Hillu said in one report. "The government attacked in huge numbers backed up by Antonovs, helicopter gunships and MiGs [fighter jets]. This is the peace the government is offering." Speaking at a Darfur rally, Sudanese president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday declared the war in Darfur over on, announcing the release of 57 rebels a day after signing a ceasefire and initial peace deal with the separate rebel Justice and Equality Movement , or JEM. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 DAILY TIMES.PK > UN says approxi ONE-FIFTH OF CHADIANS [Chad] are FACING SERIOUS HUNGER = STARVATION. IMO read, FUTURE MILIT-TERR RECRUITS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-26 19:52 |
| #1 DAILY TIMES.PK > UN says approxi ONE-FIFTH OF CHADIANS [Chad] are FACING SERIOUS HUNGER = STARVATION. IMO read, FUTURE MILIT-TERR RECRUITS. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-02-26 19:52 |