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Emirates to resume Khartoum flights
The Middle East's largest carrier, Emirates Airline, said Thursday it has decided to resume flights to Sudan from 8 July after a one-month suspension in the face of deadly unrest.
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Seven killed as mass demos rock Sudan
The 'million-man' march had been seen as a test for protest organisers after their push for civilian rule was hit by the 3 June raid on a Khartoum protest camp and a subsequent internet blackout that curbed their ability to mobilise support.
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Mass protests for civilian rule rock Sudan
The 'million-man' march is seen as a test for protest organisers whose push for civilian rule has been hit by the 3 June raid on a Khartoum sit-in and a subsequent internet blackout.
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Sudan military issues warning to opposition over planned protest rally
Direct talks between the council and the Forces for Freedom and Change coalition stalled and then collapsed altogether when security forces stormed a protest sit-in in central Khartoum on 3 June, killing dozens.
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Sudan protest leaders get new AU, Ethiopia transition plan
The move comes after Sudan's ruling generals urged mediators from the AU and Ethiopia to unify their efforts and come up with a joint proposal on the country's transition.
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Chronology of Sudan's political crisis
An infographic of the chronology of Sudan's political crisis. Picture: AFP.
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Sudan's Bashir charged on corruption in first public appearance since ouster
Wearing traditional white robes and turban, he was driven to the prosecutor’s office in Khartoum, Reuters witnesses said.
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Sudan's Bashir to appear in court on graft charge: prosecutor
Omar al-Bashir "will appear in court next week following charges of corruption and possessing foreign currency," Al-Waleed Sayyed Ahmed said, without specifying the day.
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JEAN-JACQUES CORNISH: SA has lost the moral high ground as a mediator
Jean-Jacques Cornish says that in terms of Mzanzi mediation, the reality is that the wasted Zuma years of corruption have cut the moral high ground from under South Africa’s feet.
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Sudan’s military junta admits to giving orders that left 118 dead
The United Nations Security Council condemned the violence and noted the junta’s undertaking to investigate the massacre.
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US names special Sudan envoy as protesters demand guarantees
The apparent breakthrough in the standoff between the military rulers who toppled veteran leader Omar al-Bashir and protesters demanding civilian rule followed mediation led by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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JEAN-JACQUES CORNISH: Sudanese enthusiastic as negotiations resume
The African Union has taken the unprecedented step of suspending Sudan under its current military junta because of the 3 June slaying of at least 118 unarmed pro-democracy activists.
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Sudan strikes suspended as talks resume
Talks have resumed between Sudan’s military and opposition alliance groups.
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Rebel leader says he's been deported as web 'blackout' sweeps protest-hit Sudan
Sudanese state television had earlier reported that Yasir Arman - together with fellow leading rebels Ismail Jalab and Mubarak Ardol - had been released from custody.
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4 killed on first day of Sudan 'civil disobedience' - doctors
The Central Committee for Sudanese Doctors blamed the ruling military council and paramilitary forces for the deaths.
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How the crisis in Sudan unfolded
Here is a summary of events leading up to the military's move to end the long-running protest.
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Sudan opposition groups call for civil disobedience
The opposition groups rejected the call for talks by Sudan’s military junta.
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Sudan forces arrest protest leaders after deadly crackdown
It comes just days after Monday's crackdown by men in military fatigues on a weeks-long sit-in that left dozens of demonstrators dead.
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Amnesty International: Forces responsible for Khartoum killings must be confined
The human rights watchdog called what happened in the Sudanese capital barbaric and a bloodbath.
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Ethiopia PM Abiy in Sudan to meet with chief of military council
On Thursday, a diplomatic source said Ethiopia - where the African Union is based - planned a mediation effort in Sudan, with members of both the ruling TMC and the opposition.
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Khartoum residents in 'state of terror' after bloody crackdown
Members of the Rapid Support Forces, who rights groups say have their origins in the Janjaweed militias of Darfur, deployed on the streets in pick-up trucks mounted with machine guns and rocket launchers, witnesses said.
