Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti said on Wednesday it would be a “long while” before the country, struggling to pull itself out of an economic crisis, received bilateral assistance.
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Sudan aircraft bomb settlement near Chad: rebels
Sudanese aircraft bombed a town in northwest Darfur on Monday, killing two people and destroying crucial infrastructure, a spokesman for the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) said on Tuesday.
France hands dead pirates back to Somali region
The French navy handed two dead and two captured pirates to authorities in the semi-autonomous Somali region of Puntland on Monday, but confusion persisted over how best to deal with the sea gangs.
Former Sudan leader Nimeiri dies
Former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri, who brought Islamic law to the country, has died at the age of 79, government officials say.
Sudan, tribal clashes kill 244
Scores of policemen and nearly 200 tribesmen were killed in clashes this week between two pastoralist groups in Sudan’s South Kordofan area, Sudan’s state news agency SUNA reported on Friday.
Darfur: Bashir nargue la Cpi
Le président soudanais, Omar el-Bashir, est arrivé jeudi à Tripoli pour participer au sommet de la Communauté des Etats sahélo-sahariens (Cen-Sad) malgré un mandat d’arrêt international lancé à son encontre, a annoncé une source officielle libyenne.
Darfur rebels pull out of key settlements
Darfur rebels said on Thursday they had pulled out of two key settlements close to the border with Chad after coming under heavy bombardment from Sudanese government forces.
South Sudan demolition leaves 30,000 homeless: UN
The United Nations called on south Sudan on Wednesday to stop a demolition campaign it said had left more than 30,000 people homeless in the region’s capital.
Air strike on Sudan convoy killed 119: state media
A total of 119 people were killed when unidentified aircraft attacked a convoy of vehicles travelling close to Sudan’s border with Egypt in January, state media reported on Monday.
Sudan’s defence minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein made a report to parliament saying the attack on a suspected smuggling convoy was still under investigation, the state Suna [...]
Ethiopia “coup plotters” remanded without charge
A group accused of plotting to overthrow the Ethiopian government were remanded in custody on Monday again after spending more than one month in prison without any charges or visitation rights, relatives said.