The Sudanese army says it has killed the leader of Darfur's main rebel group, Khalil Ibrahim of the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem). The report of his death, in fighting in the Wad Banda area of North Kordofan, could not be independently verified. Mr Ibrahim had returned from exile in Libya after the fall of Col Muammar Gaddafi's regime this year. If confirmed, his death would be a major blow to the Jem, which was behind several high-profile attacks.
Die sudanesische Armee hat nach eigenen Angaben den Anführer der wichtigsten Rebellengruppe in der Krisenregion Darfur getötet. Der Chef der Bewegung für Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit (JEM), Khalil Ibrahim, sei in der Region Nord-Kordofan bei einem Angriff sudanesischer Truppen ums Leben gekommen, berichtete die amtliche sudanesische Nachrichtenagentur Suna unter Berufung auf das Militär. Demnach kamen auch mehrere Personen aus Ibrahims Führungsmannschaft ums Leben.
Rebellen in Darfur nehmen 49 UNO-Soldaten gefangen
In der sudanesischen Krisenregion Darfur haben Rebellen nach eigenen Angaben 49 Blauhelmsoldaten der UNAMID-Mission gefangen genommen.
Die Soldaten der gemeinsamen Mission von UNO und Afrikanischer Union (AU) seien nach ihrem Eindringen in eine von den Rebellen kontrollierte Zone gefangen genommen worden, der Sprecher der Bewegung für Gerechtigkeit und Gleichheit (JEM), Gibril Adam Bilal, heute. Zudem seien drei mutmaßliche sudanesische Geheimdienstagenten gefangen genommen worden.
Die Rebellen wollten die Gefangenen befragen. Diese hätten vor ihrem Eindringen in die Zone weder um Erlaubnis gebeten noch die JEM darüber informiert. Bei den UNO-Soldaten handele es sich um 46 Senegalesen sowie jeweils einen Soldaten aus dem Jemen, Ghana und Ruanda.
Die JEM ist die am schwersten bewaffneten Rebellengruppe in Darfur. Dort herrscht seit Februar 2003 ein Bürgerkrieg, bei dem nach UNO-Schätzungen bisher 300.000 Menschen getötet wurden. In der Region kämpfen mehrere Rebellenorganisationen gegen regierungstreue Milizen und Streitkräfte. Die wichtigsten Gruppierungen lehnten im Juli einen Friedensvertrag mit der Führung in Khartum ab.
The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement led by Minni Minawi (SLM-MM) ambushed a Sudanese army logistical convoy in Darfur, the group announced on Tuesday. The attack occurred on Nyala – El-Fasher road at 05:00 pm local time, said a statement issued by Adam Saleh Abakr, military spokesperson of the rebel group. The convoy was transporting arms, provisions, and various supplies, he said. The rebel official further added that the assailants killed the commander of the convoy Hamed Hamdoun and three other officers. He said they seized sixty vehicles some of it loaded with food supplies, heavy and light weapons and ammunition.
In reaction to recent attacks by rebel groups, the Sudanese army said it will carry out new attacks on the rebel groups, saying that the rebels are seeking to disturb civilian security in the Darfur region [...] The army will conduct ground and air attacks against the rebel groups wherever they are because they are targeting civilians, said Al-Sawarmi Khalid, Sudan Armed Forces spokesman, on Saturday.
Fighting between two Arab tribes in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has resulted in the death of 58 people and the injury of 24, the country’s official news agency SUNA reported on Thursday. SUNA said that clashes erupted “at some point this week” between members of Al-Missryah and Al-Riziygat in the Abu Gabra area which lies in the border regions between East Darfur State and South Kordofan State.
At least eight people, most of them young students, have been killed and more than 50 others injured during confrontations between police firing live bullets and peaceful anti-government protesters in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, multiple sources confirmed on Tuesday. Eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune that the events in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, were triggered by exorbitant increases in prices which extended to fuel on Monday, raising the price of a gallon to 40 Sudanese pounds, approximately 10 US dollars. The rise in fuel prices prompted the syndicate of public bus drivers to stage a strike which paralyzed transportation to and out of downtown on Tuesday.
A number of Sudanese opposition and civil society groups have strongly chided the authorities for killing peaceful protesters in Darfur’s southern town of Nyala, calling for an immediate probe into the tragic incidents. Eight people, many of them teenagers, were killed on Tuesday during anti-price rises demonstrations in the capital of South Darfur State, Nyala, where police fired live bullets on the demonstrators but said they used “minimum force” to contain what they described as a group of vandals supported by the region’s armed groups.
A massive protest over price rises erupted Monday in Rahid Al-Barad locality of South Darfur State, where demonstrators burned several government buildings in the latest expression of discontent against economic conditions in Sudan. Sudan Tribune has learned that the protest was ignited by the state government’s decision to hike electricity charge rates. Eye witnesses said that hundreds of demonstrators including school children took to the streets and burned the main electricity station, the local Zakat Authority and the headquarters of the Warehouses Authority where, they added, large quantities of stored food were destroyed.
Local authorities in Sudan’s western region of Darfur have introduced an additional set of security measures to protect road movement in response to increased carjacking incidents, an official announced on Monday. According to Ibrahim Ahmad Madibo, the minister of culture, media and tourism at Darfur Regional Authority (DRA), the new measures are designed to prevent the occurrence of carjacking to government vehicles. Madibo pointed out, as reported by Sudan official news agency SUNA, that these measures involve increasing the number of guards of government convoys as well as banning the movement of DRA vehicles at night times unless under emergency circumstances.
A group of armed men attacked Monday the premises of two ministries of Darfur Regional Authority (DRA) in the capital of North Darfur and fled after seizing some vehicles. The group attacked the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Youth and Sport and the headquarters of Peace and Reconciliation Commission. They unfurled a banner at the youth ministry where they wrote "the Headquarters of the Liberation and Justice Movement – Army". Youth minister Hussein Abdel-Rahman and other officials had been taken hostage by the gunmen before to free them later after negotiations with North Darfur governor Osman Kibir. The attackers also carried out acts of sabotage in the two ministries and run away with four vehicles.
Heavy firefighting erupted on Tuesday’s night between an unknown armed group and government forces in Nyala, the capital of South Darfur State, in the latest sign of increased insecurity in Sudan’s western region. Eye witnesses told Sudan Tribune that the armed clashes took place around midnight in Al-Sika Hadid, or railways neighborhood, where unknown gunmen “dressed in military uniforms” exchanged heavy fire with government forces, sparking a great deal of panic among residents.
The governor of North Darfur State in western Sudan has declared a state of emergency and appointed a military ruler in two of the state’s localities, where weeks of ethnically motivated revenge attacks involving regular and irregular forces increased dramatically in the last two days, risking total absence of law and order in the volatile region [...] tough measures would be taken in order to restore law and order in the localities of Al-Waha and Kutum [...] which lie 120 kilometers northwest of El Fashir
The rebel Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdel Wahid Al-Nur (SLM-AW) said they repelled an attack by the Sudanese armed forces on Thursday in West Darfur and captured 32 vehicles. Nimir Abdel Rahman, SLM-AW spokesperson, told Sudan Tribune that government troops riding about 70 vehicles attacked their positions in Fanga Suk located in the remote northern part of West Darfur state. "Our fighters inflected heavy losses on the government forces and we seized 32 vehicles equipped with machine guns and important quantities of ammunitions," Nimir said.
Al-Sawarmi in his statements spoke about clashes with rebels of Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) in the village of Al-Arabeib Al-Ashara eastern Jebel Marra, North Darfur state. But he did not cite a specific rebel group [...] the army repelled the assailant force and killed 32 rebels besides destroying 10 vehicles [...] The Sudan Liberation Movement- Abdel Wahid faction (SLM-AW) came on Thursday evening with a different account accusing the army of attacking its position in Fanga Suk on the border of West Darfur with North Darfur [...] captured 32 vehicles and inflected heavy losses on the government troops [...] Badawi Moussa Al-Sakin, JEM military spokesperson, said they clashed with SAF troops in Tanga, eastern Jebel Marra, South Darfur on Thursday 6 September. "The (Sudanese army) force consisting of 110 vehicles, two military tanks and air-cover squadron was summarily defeated," he added in statement to Sudan Tribune. Al Sakin said they captured 30 vehicles and destroyed 10 others in addition to the two tanks.
Two rebel groups said they ambushed Thursday a Sudanese military supply convoy in North Darfur, but a regional official said they attacked was against a commercial convoy [...] They said the attack occurred between Tabet and Hamrah in North Darfur [...] The rebels said they captured 15 four-wheel drive vehicles loaded with military equipment, and four fuel trucks in good conditions. They further said they destroyed 10 vehicles and 10 fuel trucks [...] The assault took place in Tabet near Sangil Tobay in North Darfur
300.000 Tote, zwei Millionen Flüchtlinge - seit zehn Jahren herrscht Krieg in der westsudanesischen Region Darfur. Doch gesprochen wird nur noch selten darüber. Dabei hat sich die Lage kaum verbessert [...] Derzeit versucht die Friedensmission UNAMID die Rebellen zu überzeugen, ihre Waffen abzugeben. Doch im Juli 2013 läuft das UNAMID-Mandat aus - ob es zum sechsten Mal verlängert wird, muss der Weltsicherheitsrat in den nächsten Monaten entscheiden. Dann, so die Hoffnung vieler Menschen in Darfur, kehrt der vergessene Konflikt vielleicht wieder ins Schlaglicht der Weltöffentlichkeit zurück.
Verheerender Zwischenfall in Darfur: Sieben Blauhelm-Soldaten wurden getötet, 17 verletzt. Einzelheiten sind noch nicht bekannt.
Berlin - In der sudanesischen Krisenregion Darfur sind am Samstag sieben Blauhelm-Soldaten getötet und 17 weitere verletzt worden. Das teilte die gemeinsame Friedensmission der Uno und der Afrikanischen Union (AU) in der sudanesischen Hauptstadt Khartum mit.
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