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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Khartoum

Khartoum stories: 6 news summaries

(Newser) - Supporters of a woman facing 40 lashes for wearing trousers were beaten and teargassed by police in Sudan yesterday, the Guardian reports. Some her female supporters wore pants in solidarity with Lubna Hussein, in defiance of the country's law against "indecent dressing." "We are here to protest... More »

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Sudan • protests • Islamic law • Khartoum • flogging • Lubna Ahmed Hussein

Sudan Cuts Ties With Chad
After Surprise Rebel Attack

Assault was crushed, says Sudan prez

May 11, 08 6:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sudan today severed ties with Chad, charging that the nation aided hundreds of Darfur rebels who launched a surprise assault on the Khartoum suburb of Omdurman late yesterday. Khartoum and Omdurman were heavily guarded and under curfew after the assault hundreds of miles from rebel bases in the west. Sudanese... More »

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Darfur • Chad • Sudan • Crisis in Darfur • Khartoum • Sudanese

Chad President Claims 'Control' of Country

Rebels supported by Sudan 'forced to flee,' Idriss Deby says

Feb 6, 08 2:19 PM CST
(Newser) - The president of Chad said today his forces had reclaimed control of the whole nation, the AP reports. "Security forces have repulsed the aggressors. The mercenaries directed by Sudan have been forced to flee," Idriss Deby said in his first public remarks since the uprising began last week.... More »

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Chad • Sudan • Idriss Deby • Khartoum • Chadian rebels • N'Djamena

Darfur's Displaced
Battle Hunger, Disease, Raids

Sudan's 2.5M refugees struggle to survive

Dec 8, 07 1:05 PM CST
(Newser) - "It is unsafe for me to go back home and it's not safe here," a resident of Abu Chok, a refugee camp in Darfur currently home to 54,000, tells the Guardian. Residents endure endemic malnutrition, malaria, and typhoid in hopes of security—the camp is 4 miles... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Sudan • malaria • refugee camp • refugee • Khartoum • Janjaweed • malnutrition

Teacher Held
for Teddy Bear Blasphemy

Briton in Sudan faces 40 lashes over bear named 'Mohammed'

Nov 26, 07 7:25 PM CST
(Newser) - A UK teacher in Sudan may get 40 lashes and a 6-month sentence over a teddy bear named "Mohammed," the Telegraph reports. Sudanese cops nabbed Gillian Gibbons yesterday for blasphemy after she let her elementary school kids name the bear after Islam's prophet. School director Robert Boulos, who... More »

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Sudan • Islamic Sharia law • Khartoum • blasphemy

Sudan's Leader Meets Pope, Vows to Honor Ceasefire

In controversial Italy visit, Bashir pledges quiet during October peace talks

Sep 14, 07 3:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, in a rare and controversial visit to Italy, promised today to observe a ceasefire in Darfur during October peace talks. Pope Benedict used a meeting with Bashir to stress the importance of human rights, while Italy’s PM voiced “strong concerns” over the four-year genocidal... More »

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United Nations • Darfur • genocide • Pope Benedict XVI • Europe • Sudan • Italy • religious freedom • Omar al Bashir • Khartoum • Janjaweed

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