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World News // 1 decade ago

Merchant's slaying sparks protest in Sudan

Protests broke out in the city of El-Obeid, Sudan, after a merchant was killed by pro-government Arab Janjaweed militia members, officials said.

World News // 1 decade ago

Six die in Sudan attack

Rebels shelled the main city of Sudan's oil-producing South Kordofan state, hitting the central market, a school and a local police station, authorities said.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Six women killed in Sudanese attack

An official in the Sudanese border state of South Kordofan said six people were killed and more than 20 others were injured in rebel mortar attacks.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Pillay troubled by Sudanese rhetoric

The U.N. high commissioner for Human Rights said orders issued by a Sudanese official to "clean" an area of rebels could be considered criminal.

World News // 1 decade ago

14 Chinese workers rescued in Sudan

Military forces freed 14 of 29 Chinese workers kidnapped during the weekend in Sudan's South Kordofan province, the governor of South Darfur state said Monday.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Rival victory claims along Sudan's border

Authorities in the war-torn Sudanese state of South Kordofan said rebel forces suffered huge losses, though the rebels have denied the claims.

World News // 1 decade ago

Party says Sudan election was rigged

South Sudan's ruling party says the election of a man wanted by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, for war crimes was rigged.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Sudan inaction on war criminals faulted

Sudan is violating international law by failing to arrest Darfur war crimes suspects, the U.N. Security Council charges.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Two Darfur probes to be complete this year

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in Geneva said he will finalize two investigations into Darfur war crimes by the end of the year.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Sudanese war criminal sought by U.N.

Sudan has nominated suspected war criminal Ahmed Haroun as co-chair of a committee responsible for investigating human rights complaints in Darfur.

Ahmed Mohammed Haroun (or Ahmad Harun أحمد هارون) is one of three Sudanese men wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Despite international pressure on the government of Sudan to surrender him to the ICC, Haroun served as Sudan's Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs until May 2009 when he was appointed to the governorship of South Kordofan. In September 2007, he was appointed to lead an investigation into human rights violations in Darfur.

Born in 1964, Haroun is from the state of North Kordofan. He comes from the Bargo tribe in western Sudan. He trained as a lawyer and at one time he was Sudan's youngest minister of state. He also accused in participating in mobilizing and training of tribal fighters to attack civilians during the counterinsurgency in South Sudan. He also participated in the mobilization of the Murahileen militia and the conduct of military operations in Kordofan during the 1990s.

During the time Haroun served as the Minister of State for the Interior, from April 2003 to September 2005, he also managed the Darfur Security Desk, which coordinated different government bodies involved in the counterinsurgency campaign in Darfur, such as the police, the Janjaweed, the Armed Forces, and the Intelligence Service. This department also managed access of NGOs and the media to Darfur. From 2006 until 2009, he was the Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs.

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