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...strategic town of Torit. The government started airlifting troops to its stronghold of Juba in the rebel-occupied south and recruiting in schools and universities. The spla is fighting for greater autonomy for the Christian and animist south from the Arab and Muslim north, which dominates the government in Khartoum...
...south of the country just days after an apparent breakthrough in talks to end the 19-year-old civil war. The rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army said that more than 1,000 people had been killed since the attacks began in the oil-rich Equatoria region. The Khartoum government denied the claim...
...distribution of oil revenues. Analysts said that Washington's involvement had been crucial. A coalition of Christian fundamentalists, black legislators and human-rights activists built support in the U.S. Congress for legislation that would have armed the SPLA and punished the oil companies backing the government in Khartoum. SOMALIA Militia Battles At least 28 people were killed and more than 25 injured in fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu's residential Medina district. Many of those who died were civilians. Thousands fled their homes after indiscriminate gunfire and shelling broke out between the forces of Muse Sudi Yalahow...
FORT WORTH Essam al Ridi testified in the embassy-bombing trial that in 1993 he bought a $210,000 plane for Osama bin Laden and flew it from Dallas-Fort Worth to Khartoum, Sudan...
...large portions of land in the resulting Six-Day War, including the West Bank from Jordan, which joined in fighting against Israel. The land was offered up in exchange for peace—the Palestinian’s second opportunity for independence—but at a meeting in Khartoum that August, the Arab states famously rejected the opportunity, instead saying no to negotiation, no to recognition and no to peace...