The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

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SLIM Group to Join JEM

A General Statement
Mindful of the pressing need for unity among Darfur fighters.
Conscious of the prolonged suffering of our people as a result of divisions among our Movements and
After exhaustive discussion with JEM under leadership of Brother Dr. Khalil Ibrahim, we arrived at the following decision:
We, members of the SLM consisting of 600 soldiers of diverse ranks, including Commander Ibrahm

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The Arab League has some real problems. There are the usual ones in Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Mauritania, Somalia, Morocco (Western Sahara), Yemen; and the economic woes of Egypt, and Dubai to a lesser extent. For sure, the Arab League faces some serious PR issues.

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TIME Magazine on Tuesday cites high-ranking Israeli security officials as saying that dozens of Israeli jets and unmanned drones took part in the January strike on a Gaza-bound weapons convoy in Sudan.

According to sources cited in the TIME article, the attacks were carried out by F-16 fighters, which carried

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KHARTOUM (AFP) - US President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, retired air force general Scott Gration, is to arrive this week on his first visit to the country, a diplomat said on Monday.
“Gration will arrive in the middle of the week on his first official visit” since Obama named him to the post earlier this month, the official said, adding that Gration will visit Khartoum, Darfur and south Sudan and leave on April 11.

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Mariam Al-Mahdi adopts the Janjaweed as “ANSAR” for her Family Party

By Mahmoud A. Suleiman

Wednesday 25 March 2009 02:30.  

March 24, 2009 — The “National” Umma Party is back at it again with its customary shocking insult against the devout “Ansar” people of Sudan in Darfur. Mariam al-Sadiq al-Mahdi has been reported by

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Why Not Re-invoke the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Darfuri IDPs?
Dr. A. Adam
Following great concern at the appalling decision by the National Congress Party (NCP) that led to the expulsion of 13 national and international NGOs and the slowly unfolding humanitarian disaster in the troubled region of Darfur it is high time that UNSC re-invoke the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)

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WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday that Sudan faces an immediate crisis over the Sudanese government’s decision to expel some aid groups in Darfur.

Obama made the comment during a White House picture-taking session with his Sudanese envoy,

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Arab leaders have concluded their annual summit by showing their support for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who is wanted for war crimes.

The Arab League said it rejected the International Criminal Court’s decision to issue a warrant for his arrest.

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By Daniel Van Oudenaren

March 29, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — Pa’gan Amum Okiech, the Secretary General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM), said Saturday that President Omer Al-Bashir should cooperate with the International Criminal Court, which is seeking the president’s arrest on seven counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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Sudan’s president, who is charged by an international court for war crimes, has slammed the U.N. Security Council and accused it of corruption. Speaking at an Arab League summit in Qatar, Omar al-Bashir criticized the Security Council for asking the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into war crimes in Darfur.

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According to GoSS Minister for Telecoms and Postal Services, Maj-Gen Gier Chuang, Juba wants the government in Khartoum to allow Gemtel and Vivacell to operate in the North as well. Photo/GRAPHICS

By KEZIO-MUSOKE DAVID 

The Government of Southern Sudan is pushing to have Khartoum allow its two telecom operators — Gemtel and Vivacell — to operate beyond its 1956 border.

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March 28, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – The foreign ministers of the 22-members Arab League appeared divided during their preparatory meeting today in the Qatari capital on the issue of the arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir issued earlier this month.

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James Hider
Jerusalem President al-Bashir of Sudan, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges for the mass killings in Darfur, flew to Qatar for an Arab League summit, his fourth trip abroad since a warrant was issued for his arrest.

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Why Not Re-invoke the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ Darfuri IDPs?

Dr. A. Adam
s.abdel@hotmail.co.uk
Following great concern at the appalling decision by the National Congress Party (NCP) that led to the expulsion of 13 national and international NGOs and the slowly unfolding humanitarian disaster in the troubled region of Darfur it is high time that UNSC re-invoke

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by Yehudah Lev Kay

(IsraelNN.com) The London Sunday Times reported that the Israeli Air Force used Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) to carry out strikes on three Sudanese convoys carrying Iranian missiles destined for Hamas in Gaza. Sources also said that the convoys carried Fajr-3 missiles which have a range of 43 kilometers, capable of reaching Yavneh and Be’er Sheva.

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DUBAI (AFP) – Arab leaders meeting in Doha for an annual summit should urge Sudan to allow humanitarian aid groups to resume their work in conflict-torn Darfur, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday.

“The League of Arab States could help save thousands of lives by pressing Khartoum to reverse the expulsions,” said Richard Dicker, director of Human Rights Watch?s International Justice Program in a statement.

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The president of Sudan thumbs his nose at the International Criminal Court

AP
OMAR AL-BASHIR certainly gets around. In defiance of the arrest warrant for war crimes issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 4th, the Sudanese president has spent the past week jetting about northern Africa. He visited Eritrea, Egypt and Libya and was planning a trip to Ethiopia. Having called on some of his neighbours, he is making up his mind whether to attend a

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The Hague: Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir may be able to travel to friendly neighbouring nations but he remains a fugitive from international justice, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said.

Al Bashir was back in Sudan on Friday after jetting to Eritrea, Egypt and Libya in four days, effectively

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International engagement is urgently needed to rescue south Sudan from the brink of an unfolding crisis. The perilous situation is being ignored amid the focus on the indictment of President Al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court. Approximately two million people have returned to south Sudan since 2005 to extreme poverty. Social services and livelihood opportunities for communities remain

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On the eve of the Summit of the League of Arab States (LAS) in Qatar, Amnesty International called on member states to enforce the arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who is expected in Qatar on Sunday. Amnesty International also urged the LAS to ask the Sudanese government to allow immediate access for humanitarian organizations to Darfur.

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March 27, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – The Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak personally warned his Sudanese counterpart Omer Hassan Al-Bashir this week on the growing trend of arm smuggling from Sudan, US officials told the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today.

The WSJ said that Mubarak was also echoing US complaints on the same issue who sent a formal letter

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by Gil Ronen
(IsraelNN.com) United States officials have confirmed that Israel Air Force warplanes bombed a truck convoy in Sudan in January. The trucks were carrying arms that would be smuggled into Gaza for use against Israel, the officials said, according to a report in the New York Times.

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March 25, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — An airstrike that targeted a convoy of arm smugglers inside Sudan last January was launched by Israeli planes and not American ones, according to a US television network.

Yesterday a Sudanese government official said that a “major power bombed small trucks carrying

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March 25, 2009 (EL FASHER) – After being ambushed and beaten on Saturday about 100 kilometres southwest of El Geneina, an aid worker was shot and killed Monday night by two armed men outside his residence in Kango Haraza, West Darfur.

Adam Khatir, a Sudanese staff member of Fellowship for African Relief (FAR), was killed in the attack

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TRIPOLI, March 26 (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir arrived in the Libyan city of Sirte on Thursday for talks with Libyan leader and African Union President Muammar Gaddafi, a Libyan official said.

“He arrived. He will meet the leader over lunch,” the official said on condition of anonymity,

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Unidentified aircraft attacked a convoy of suspected arms smugglers as it drove through Sudan towards Egypt in January, killing almost everyone in the convoy, two senior Sudanese politicians said Thursday. Skip related content
The politicians, who asked not to be named due to the sensitivity of the issue, told Reuters the strike

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UNITED NATIONS: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday he wants “the whole world” to demand that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir reverse his expulsion of 13 foreign aid organizations and three local ones that worked in Darfur.

“The humanitarian agencies that are working in Sudan should be allowed to stay there and continue

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A government minister in Sudan is accusing the United States Air Force of killing dozens of people in that north African country this past January – but the semi-official American version of the story is very different.

CBS News national security correspondent David Martin has been told that Israeli aircraft carried out

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

www.sudanjem.com
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Attn: His Excellency, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,
United Nations Security Council
United Nations Office
New York
USA

25/03/2009

Subject: Letter from President of JEM to the UNSC
Regarding the Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur

Your Excellency,

The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) commends the tireless work of the UNSC throughout the Darfur crisis and assures you of JEM’s full cooperation in bringing the Darfur conflict to an end.

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Early signs of trouble in camps of Darfur

The levels of disease and misery in the vast camps where people who fled their homes in the conflict live are all but certain to rise. (Nasser Nasser/The Associated Press)

By Lynsey Addario and Lydia Polgreen

NYALA, Sudan: The sign outside the clinic in Otash camp reads “8-hour service daily.”On Friday, Haider Ismael al-Amin lay in his mother’s arms, his 10-year-old body withered and weak from dehydration after a night of vomiting

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