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...With Khartoum unable or unwilling to provide security, the African Union hopes to increase its peacekeeping force from 2,700 to 7,700 by September. But even that may not be enough to tame an area the size of Texas. Five turbulent rounds of peace talks have made little headway, and frustration and mistrust run high...
...mourners gathered in southern Sudan to bid farewell to John Garang, many Sudanese were still struggling to understand what his death means for their country. Garang led the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (splm) during its 21-year war against the northern Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, and helped to negotiate the power-sharing agreement between the north and the south that brought the conflict to a close early this year. Three weeks ago, 60-year-old Garang arrived in Khartoum to take up his new job as Sudan's Vice President. He died last week when...
...name-only cachet. (A Madrid hairdresser has started offering "the Condi flip.") "She has a little bit of star power," says Democratic Senator Joseph Biden, "which isn't a bad thing to have." But she can also play tough: in Sudan last month, Rice demanded an apology from the Khartoum government after members of her traveling party were manhandled by Sudanese security agents; she got one within an hour. At home, Rice has wrested control over the tone and direction of U.S. foreign policy away from war-cabinet hard-liners, curbing their unilateralist bluster. She persuaded President George W. Bush...
Sometime after the 1967 Six-Day War, Abu Nidal joined Yasser Arafat's Fatah arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He rose quickly through the ranks and in 1970 opened a P.L.O. office in Khartoum. About a year later he was asked to leave by the Sudanese, largely because of his efforts to recruit local Palestinian students as guerrilla fighters...
...That was a huge statement,” Reeves says. “In Khartoum, it went off like a bomb....The first company to leave will put enormous pressure on all the others...