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Sudan. "Infrastructural development is key to the success of South Sudan. We encourage our like-minded neighbours to invest more in improving our infrastructure like what Kenya wants to do for Lamu," said Lagu. He hinted that South Sudan may drop the...
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In an apparent escalation of tensions, a Sudanese government spokesman accused South Sudan of trying to topple the regime in Khartoum by halting oil shipments and sponsoring rebels in the restive South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, a charge denied by...
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A senior official and member of Sudan's negotiating team Yahya al-Hussein speaks during a news conference in Khartoum February 16, 2012. Sudan and South Sudan want to have the bulk of their loosely-defined and volatile border demarcated as soon as... View Photo »
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Aboul Naga, minister of planning and international cooperation, has warned Egyptians time and again about what she sees as the danger foreigners pose to her country. 0632 GMT: In Sudan, police raided student dormitories at the University of Khartoum on...
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The youth activist group Change Now said the National Intelligence Security Services stormed the dormitories before dawn at the University of Khartoum and detained more than 350 students. All of those arrested were later released, the President of the...
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(Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images) The university had been closed for two months following anti-government protests in late December. Still, several students remained on campus with nowhere else to go, Reuters said. “Police wielding batons entered the...
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Yahya Hussein, a member of Khartoum's negotiating team with South Sudan speaks to reporters in Khartoum on February 16, 2012. Sudan and breakaway South Sudan will immediately begin demarcating their border, Hussein said, after the latest effort to... View Photo »
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The police entered the student housing early Friday, beating and detaining hundreds, a witness said. A member of a committee of student activists said 317 students had been arrested and were being held at 11 police stations. The campus had been closed...
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The youth activist group Change Now said the National Intelligence Security Services stormed the dormitories before dawn at the University of Khartoum and detained more than 350 students. All of those arrested were later released, the President of the...
About Khartoum
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Khartoum (الخرطوم al-Ḫarṭūm "Elephant Trunk") is the capital of Sudan and of Khartoum State. It is located at the point where the White Nile, flowing north from Uganda, meets the Blue Nile, flowing west from Ethiopia. The merger of the two niles is known as "the Mogran". The merged Nile flows north towards Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Full Article
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