KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) -- Northern and southern Sudanese representatives were to meet on Saturday to try to defuse tensions over the disputed Abyei region, officials said. Northern Sudanese armed forces seized the disputed region of Abyei last week, less than two months before the south is to formally declare its independence. The military...
Would that I were in Juba to witness what one hopes is the end of the world's longest running civil war, a war which now spans almost my entire career. It was a visit to Sudan in 1964 which led me into journalism, and taught me some valuable lessons about the problems of the media, and of newly independent Africa. I had been a research student for...
The streets emptied at sunset. Twitchy-faced soldiers hit the pavement, literally thousands of them, wearing all stripes of camouflage, blues, greens, grays and browns. They twirled clubs and AK-47s and plastic pipes and ragged old beating sticks. Their giant trucks with four-foot-high wheels blocked the roads. This did not feel like a major...
Khartoum er hovedstaden i Sudan og ligger, hvor Den Hvide Nil, der kommer fra Uganda, møder Den Blå Nil, der kommer fra Etiopien. Byen har en befolkning på langt over en million og danner sammen med Omdurman en metropol med formentlig omkring 4 millioner indbyggere. Islam er den dominerende religion.