Tag Archives: Sudan

Sudanese security officials arrested opposition leader Hassan al Turabi after he urged President Omar al Bashir to surrender to the International Criminal Court. In 1990 Turabi invited Osama bin Laden to base his operations in Sudan; bin Laden and al Qaeda remained in Sudan until 1996. Turabi has also supported Hezbollah and the Abu Nidal […]

The US warned that al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Niles threatened to attack US citizens and allies in Sudan. Embassy officials warned staff against using a Khartoum cafe popular with Westerners and wealthy Sudanese. Sudan denies al Qaeda has a presence in the country.

A man holding a knife hijacked a plane carrying more than 100 people. The plane left from Sudan’s troubled Darfur region and was diverted to Libya. Libyan aviation officials confirmed that the plane landed in Kufra, in a southern desert area close to the Sudanese border. Two senior commanders from different Darfur rebel factions, which […]

A group called Ansar al Tawhid, or the Partisans of Monotheism, claimed responsibility for the murder of an American diplomat and his driver on New Year’s Day in Khartoum. “The soldiers of monotheism carried out their operation in killing the U.S. diplomat John Micahel Granville and his Sudanese driver, who sold his faith for nothing […]

Over 1,000 rebel troops were responsible for overrunning the African Union peacekeeper Haskanita base. Over 150 AU troops manned the base, 10 were killed, and 20 are still missing as Sudanese troops took up positions to guard the relief effort. Senegal threatened to withdraw its troops from Darfur after the incident.