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Darfur: arrive alive Jul 11, 2009
The United Nations says up to 300000 people have died since ethnic minority rebels in Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum to demand equality in February 2003 ... The war began when African ethnic minority rebels took up arms against the Arab-led Khartoum regime and state-backed Arab militias, fighting for resources and power in one of the most remote and deprived places on earth. (iAfrica.com)
Beshir eyed for genocide Jul 8, 2009
7 million have fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels in Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated regime in Khartoum in February 2003. Sudan's government says 10000 have been killed. (iAfrica.com)
Irish team in Sudan to help free kidnapped aid staff Jul 6, 2009
KHARTOUM, July 5 (Reuters) - Irish diplomats and negotiators flew in to Khartoum on Sunday to help in efforts to free two female aid workers kidnapped in Sudan's Darfur region ... The Irish delegation, including ambassador to Egypt Gerard Corr and officials from the Foreign Affairs Department, arrived in Khartoum airport early on Sunday ... "This is a very high level delegation that is here to negotiate and do everything that is possible to free the hostages," said Ireland's honorary consul in... (AlertNet)
African Union in rift with court Jul 4, 2009
The UN says 300,000 people have died and more than two million fled their homes since fighting erupted in 2003 between black-African rebel groups and the Khartoum government. Bookmark with. (BBC News)
Iranians Walk Out During Shimon Peres Speech Jul 2, 2009
"Together with all the Arab leaders, we can realize your vision, our vision and the vision of all the leaders and all believers in our shared god of peace and justice. "We are aware of the big change which has occurred in the positions of a majority of Arab countries toward peace with Israel, a transition from the 'Three Nos of Khartoum - no negotiation, no recognition, no peace - to the three 'yeses of the Saudi initiative," Peres said. "The king of Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Abdullah II,... (Newsmax)
Sudanese 'suspect' back in Canada Jun 29, 2009
Canada refused to renew his passport, but after his release he stayed at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum. On 4 June a Canadian court ordered the government to allow him to return. (BBC News)
Sudan: Mounting Ethnic Tensions in the South [analysis] Jun 25, 2009
Khartoum arming southern factions. Observers say there are concerns the Khartoum government is rearming certain factions in the south, and Southern Sudan president Salva Kiir has blamed "outside forces" for escalating traditional rivalries. (allAfrica.com)
Sudan: seed multiplication and war surgery May 28, 2009
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'Robber who cries thief' May 16, 2009
Chad late on Friday hit back at Sudanese accusations it had mounted air strikes across the border with ramped-up rhetoric saying Khartoum was "the robber who cries thief". Government spokesperson Mahamat Hissene told reporters that Chad "is surprised to learn that the regime in Khartoum is protesting against action by the Chadian air force on Sudanese territory."It is decidedly the case of the robber who cries thief," he underlined.Rump of rebelsHissene said that any clashes between the Chadian... (iAfrica.com)
INTERVIEW-Bashir sure to face genocide charges: prosecutor May 12, 2009
Khartoum has retaliated by expelling 13 foreign and three domestic humanitarian aid agencies, accusing them of collaborating with the ICC. ... Pretoria has warned Khartoum that the Sudanese leader could be arrested ... Khartoum, however, says 10,000 people have died. (AlertNet)
* Khartoum allows expanded role for remaining aid groups May 9, 2009
Khartoum allows expanded role for remaining aid groups. REUTERS, KHARTOUM Saturday, May 09, 2009, Page 6 ... Speaking after meeting UN humanitarian chief John Holmes, US special envoy Scott Gration and other officials, Sudanese Humanitarian Assistance Minister Haroun Lual Ruun said Khartoum would be allowing the remaining UN and NGOs to expand their existing operations. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Feds appeal court order to bring Khadr home May 9, 2009
He was accused of having ties to al-Qaida but has been cleared by CSIS and the RCMP, and is now living at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, because Ottawa won't issue a travel document. Mr. Abdelrazik is in Federal Court arguing that his constitutional right to mobility is being violated by the Canadian government. (Globe and Mail)
Sudan: Civil Society Cancels Darfur Peace Conference May 9, 2009
The organizers of the conference, which was scheduled to take place next week, announced Fridaythat they had cancelled it because Khartoum had refused to allow Darfurian delegates to travel to Addis Ababa for the meeting. The conference was organized by a group calling itself "Mandate Darfur," the operations of which are being facilitated by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the organization founded by the Sudanese mobile phone pioneer of the same name to promote good governance in Africa. (allAfrica.com)
Order Abdelrazik home, lawyers tell court May 8, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik listened to the court drama from the Canadian embassy in Khartoum, halfway around the world but the closest he has been to Canadian justice since he was imprisoned nearly six years ago in Sudan. He was asked nothing and said nothing during the day-long hearing. (Globe and Mail)
Sudan opens up to more aid groups May 8, 2009
On Thursday, the minister for humanitarian assistance, Haroun Lual Ruun, said Khartoum would invite new non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to Darfur. He also said it would allow those UN agencies and NGOs remaining in the Sudanese region to "expand their existing operations". (BBC News -- Africa)
Canada free to bring Abdelrazik home: UN May 7, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik, 47, has been living in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum for more than a year ... Thursday in Federal Court, government lawyers are expected to argue that Mr. Abdelrazik can't come home because the travel ban associated with the UN terrorist blacklist means every state he might fly over between Khartoum and Montreal would need to explicitly seek a travel ban exemption for him ... Other documents show Ottawa rejected Sudanese offers to fly Mr. Abdelrazik home and that Khartoum told... (Globe and Mail)
Abdelrazik asked to appear before committee May 5, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik has been living in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum for more than a year. Passing this motion means that Mr. Abdelrazik will finally be able to come home, said Mr. Dewar. (Globe and Mail)
Canadians secretly interrogated Abdelrazik, papers show May 4, 2009
Newly obtained government documents, now in the possession of The Globe and Mail, also show that in a secret briefing to then foreign affairs minister Maxime Bernier, officials admitted as recently as last year that Mr. Abdelrazik had been originally imprisoned in Khartoum at the request of mysterious Canadian authorities ... Meanwhile, Mr. Abdelrazik, a Canadian citizen with family in Montreal, continues to live in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum. (Globe and Mail)
Father of released aid worker says she's doing well May 1, 2009
The French presidency earlier said the two workers for Aide Medicale Internationale were in good health and safe in Khartoum. In a statement, French President Nicolas Sarkozy welcomed the release of the hostages and thanked those who helped make it happen. (Globe and Mail)
Canadian released in Darfur Apr 30, 2009
Their kidnappers handed the two women into the care of a leader of the Beni Helba tribe in southern Darfur, said a United Nations official contacted last night in Khartoum ... He said AMI staff in Khartoum were waiting to see the two women in person. (Globe and Mail)
Africa: Statement by Johnnie Carson at Confirmation Hearing Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Apr 30, 2009
In southern Sudan, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the twenty-one year civil war between the Khartoum government and the SPLA has not been fully implemented and at times has been on the threshold of collapse. And in the Great Lakes region of the Eastern Congo, several different rebel groups continue to defy central government authority, terrorize the population and keep tensions high along the border with Rwanda and Uganda. (allAfrica.com)
Cause for all Canadian citizens to worry Apr 29, 2009
He is a citizen denied the right to return to his country by the Canadian government without explanation; for the past year he has languished in Canada's embassy in Khartoum ... If he is dangerous, isn't it better to have him in Canada, where he can be watched or charged, than to allow him to roam (he is free to leave the Khartoum embassy), perhaps to turn up in Afghanistan, with the enemy. (Globe and Mail)
Darfur rebels sentenced to death Apr 28, 2009
The unprecedented rebel attack on Khartoum left more than 200 dead. A Sudanese court has sentenced 11 Darfur rebels to death for an attack on Khartoum in 2008 ... The Jem fighters drove across the desert to reach Khartoum and were only stopped near the presidential palace. (BBC News -- Africa)
A teddy bear nightmare in Sudan Apr 28, 2009
She told John Humphrys for the BBC's On the Ropes programme how a teddy bear in a primary school in Khartoum led to her arrest and riots in the streets ... One of the children [at the primary school in Khartoum] brought one in but some of the boys in the class thought this was a bit babyish, so to make them feel more part of it I let them choose his name ... After Mrs Gibbons's 15-day term was imposed, crowds of people marched in Khartoum to call for a tougher sentence. (BBC News -- Africa)
Expulsion of aid workers drives Darfur to brink of catastrophe Apr 28, 2009
Since 2003, the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum has been fighting non-Arab rebels in Darfur. Although the worst of the killing is over, much of the rural population was uprooted. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Sudan bars Bashir foe from travel Apr 20, 2009
Mr Turabi had a travel permit from the interior ministry but was stopped at Khartoum airport, the aide said. The leader of the Popular Congress Party was released from prison in March after two months in custody. (BBC News -- Africa)
Sudan to allow some restoration of foreign aid Apr 17, 2009
Khartoum says expelled aid groups remain unwelcome ... KHARTOUM, April 16 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator John Kerry said after talks with senior Sudanese officials on Thursday Khartoum would allow some foreign aid to be restored in its western Darfur region but that it was not sufficient ... Kerry arrived on Wednesday just two days after Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir struck a more conciliatory tone towards Washington, seen by Khartoum in the past as an enemy. (AlertNet)
Kidnappers threaten to kill Canadian aid worker, colleague Apr 13, 2009
KHARTOUM Kidnappers holding a Canadian aid worker and her French colleague in Sudan's Darfur region said today they would kill them unless Paris retried members of a French group convicted but later pardoned over the abduction of children from Chad. Stephanie Jodoin, a Canadian, and Claire Dubois, a French national, working for Aide M. (Globe and Mail)
Ottawa cites international obligations for denying citizen's return home Apr 13, 2009
The government has unveiled new and unprecedented reasons barring the return of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik, claiming every country he might fly over on the way home from Khartoum needed to give explicit permission ... For nearly a year now, Mr. Abdelrazik has been living in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum ... The government also denies that CSIS or any other Canadian agency asked the Sudanese to imprison him when he was in Khartoum visiting his ailing mother. (Globe and Mail)
Exiled Canadian challenges minister Apr 7, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik said in a telephone interview yesterday from the Canadian embassy in Khartoum where he is marooned in exile ... For nearly a year ever since the government granted Mr. Abdelrazik temporary safe haven in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum it has repeatedly changed the requirements he must meet before it would give him an emergency travel document to replace the passport seized while he was imprisoned in Sudan. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Darfur aid workers nabbed Apr 6, 2009
The group, which has been providing medical relief in Ed el-Fursan since 2004, was spared from Khartoum's decision last month to expel several non-governmental organisations from Darfur ... The Darfur conflict erupted in February 2003 when ethnic minority rebels took up arms against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government and its militia allies. (iAfrica.com)
CRISIS WORSENS Apr 5, 2009
KHARTOUM, April 4 (Reuters) - Darfur is on the brink of a deeper humanitarian crisis following Khartoum's expulsion of aid groups and needs a new relief push within weeks, the U.S. special envoy to Sudan said on Saturday ... Khartoum says 10,000 people have died ... He called on Khartoum to return about 400 vehicles and other seized assets and to speed up visa applications for new aid workers. (AlertNet)
US Sudan envoy: Slim chance aid groups will return Apr 5, 2009
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Chances are slim that all the aid groups expelled by the Sudanese government will return, and alternative ways must immediately be found to help the millions of people in Darfur, President Barack Obama's new envoy to Sudan said Saturday. Envoy J. Scott Gration made his comments after touring Darfur's fastest growing refugee camp -- one month after an international court issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president for war crimes in the vast, western region. (WSVN-TV Miami, FL)
Mbeki speaks out on Darfur Apr 5, 2009
"This conflict has lasted too long," Mbeki told reporters in Khartoum, where he is leading a high-level African Union panel that is looking into the conflict and drawing up recommendations for the AU peace and security council ... Its visit coincided with one by the US special envoy for Darfur, Scott Gration, who said Saturday in Khartoum that the humanitarian crisis in the vast, arid and impoverished western region is "on the brink of deepening". (iAfrica.com)
Sudan: Murky World of Post-9/11 Intelligence Apr 5, 2009
com: Sudan: Cleared of Terrorism, Canadian Stranded in Khartoum (Page 1 of 1). Sudan: Cleared of Terrorism, Canadian Stranded in Khartoum ... Toronto The murky post-9/11 sharing of information between western security and intelligence agencies and Sudan's notorious human rights-abusing regime appear to be at the heart of a year-long marooning of Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik at his country's embassy in Khartoum. (allAfrica.com)
Canada denies passport to blacklisted citizen Apr 4, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik remains stranded in the lobby of the Canadian embassy in Khartoum, where he has living for nearly 11 months, granted temporary safe haven by former Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier. Canadian citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik in March 2009 in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum. (Globe and Mail)
CSIS disowns the plain truth Apr 3, 2009
A Canadian citizen, Abousfian Abdelrazik, is at this very moment stranded in Canada's embassy in Khartoum. Official Canadian documents show that this country asked Sudan no bastion of human rights to arrest and detain him. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Sudan to hold an election Apr 3, 2009
According to a 2005 peace treaty and power sharing agreement between the Khartoum government and the south's Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, elections were to have taken place this year ... 2 million fled their homes since ethnic minority rebels rose up against the Arab-dominated Khartoum government in February 2003. (iAfrica.com)
Sudan leader on Mecca pilgrimage Apr 2, 2009
State TV in Sudan said Omar al-Bashir would perform a lesser pilgrimage in Mecca before returning to Khartoum ... Former air force general J Scott Gration will travel to Darfur, as well as visiting southern Sudan and the capital, Khartoum. (BBC News -- Africa)
SUDAN'S PRESIDENT Apr 2, 2009
(Recasts with return to Khartoum, quotes) ... KHARTOUM, April 1 (Reuters) - Crowds of supporters welcomed Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir back to Khartoum on Wednesday on his return from his latest trip abroad in defiance of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court ... Bashir's flew into Khartoum from Saudi Arabia, the fifth foreign state he has visited since the court issued an arrest warrant against him on March 4, accusing him of war crimes and crimes against humanity... (AlertNet)
PM failing Abdelrazik, opposition parties charge Apr 2, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik, who has been cleared in writing of any terrorist or criminal activity by both the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and the RCMP, remains stranded in Khartoum because the Harper government refuses to issue him either a passport or an emergency travel document ... Mr. Abdelrazik has lived in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum for nearly a year ... He left Canada in 2003 to visit his ailing mother in Khartoum, was arrested (government documents suggest it was at the request... (Globe and Mail -- National)
Sudan: U.S. President Holds Meeting on Darfur Apr 1, 2009
And so I can't think of somebody who is better equipped to travel to Africa, the continent where he grew up, and communicate to Sudan a couple of important points: Number one, we have an immediate crisis prompted by the Khartoum government's expulsion of nongovernmental organizations that are providing aid to displaced persons inside of Sudan ... And that means that General Gration's task is going to be to see if we can reinvigorate the North-South agreement, make sure that it's implemented in... (allAfrica.com)
Why Arab leaders embrace Sudan's indicted president Apr 1, 2009
Recent talks between Khartoum and Darfur's Justice and Equality Movement, also held in Qatar, ended without a deal. Arab and African leaders focused on self-preservation. (Christian Science Monitor)
Cannon adds new hurdle to Canadian's return Apr 1, 2009
After The Globe reported on the new hurdle, more than 160 Canadians, including former UN envoy Stephen Lewis and former solicitor-general Warren Almand, raised money to buy a ticket for Mr. Abdelrazik, who has been living in the lobby of the Canadian embassy in Khartoum, for more than 10 months ... Canada originally promised the Khartoum government it would bring him home but has delayed for years. (Globe and Mail)
U.S. President Obama Dispatches Special Envoy to Sudan Apr 1, 2009
com: Sudan: Obama Dispatches Special Envoy to Khartoum (Page 1 of 1) ... Sudan: Obama Dispatches Special Envoy to Khartoum ... "We have an immediate crisis prompted by the Khartoum government's expulsion of nongovernmental organizations that are providing aid to displaced persons inside of Sudan," March 30. (allAfrica.com)
* Sudanese president travels to Egypt in defiance of ICC Mar 27, 2009
THE GUARDIAN , KHARTOUM Friday, Mar 27, 2009, Page 6 ... Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jassem al-Thani, who visited the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday, said that while he had come under international pressure not to receive Bashir, an invitation had been extended. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
Sudan's Bashir visits Egypt despite ICC warrant Mar 26, 2009
Cairo has close ties with Khartoum and has called on the U.N. Security Council to suspend the warrant ... Khartoum says 10,000 people have died ... He told reporters in Khartoum: "We presented the invitation and I have come to present it again...We respect international law and we respect the presence of Bashir in Qatar." (Additional reporting by Andrew Heavens and Aziz al-Kaissouni; Writing by Will Rasmussen; Editing by Mark Trevelyan). (AlertNet)
Sudan's leader ends Egyptian trip Mar 26, 2009
Khartoum ordered the expulsion of 13 international aid agencies in the wake of 4 March arrest warrant. Deadly camp fire. (BBC News)
Canadians ‘from all walks of life' come to aid of Abdelrazik Mar 26, 2009
Mr. Abdelrazik, whose children live in Montreal, was arrested in Khartoum while visiting his mother in 2003 ... Mr. Abdelrazik, destitute and living in the Canadian embassy in Khartoum for the past 10 months, is subject to an assets freeze because of the UN blacklist. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Sudan's President Bashir to visit Egypt Mar 25, 2009
Khartoum says 10,000 people have died ... Sudanese foreign affairs spokesman Ali al-Sadig has said Khartoum is satisfied that the French official named in the reports was misquoted ... REFILE - CORRECTING COUNTRY Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir (R) and Somali President Sheikh Sherif (L) attend a news conference in Khartoum, March 22, 2009. (AlertNet)
Worker for Canadian aid group shot dead Mar 25, 2009
KHARTOUM, Sudan Gunmen have fatally shot a 39-year-old Sudanese relief worker in western Darfur, his Canadian-based aid agency said Tuesday ... He was shot by armed bandits at his home in front of his family last night because he could not provide them the satellite phone they were looking for, Mr. Simmons told The Canadian Press by telephone from Khartoum on Monday. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Defying Warrant, Sudanese President Travels Abroad Mar 24, 2009
KHARTOUM -- Sudan's president traveled to Eritrea Monday, choosing one of Africa's most politically isolated nations for his first trip abroad since an international court sought his arrest on charges of war crimes in Darfur ... Sudanese state television later Monday showed live images of al-Bashir returning to Khartoum. (Newsmax)
Beshir leaves Sudan Mar 24, 2009
"President Beshir will continue to visit African nations," he said after Beshir's plane touched down in Khartoum, late on Monday. "Each invitation which comes to the president will be studied carefully because we are not in a normal situation at the moment. They will be considered from a security point of view," Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor told reporters at Khartoum airport ... The United Nations says 300000 people have died in the six-year-long conflict between Darfur's ethnic minority... (iAfrica.com)
Sudan scholars tell president to drop Qatar trip Mar 23, 2009
KHARTOUM, March 22 (Reuters) - Islamic scholars have told Sudan's president not to travel to an Arab summit in Qatar at the end of March, state media reported on Sunday, a move that offers him a way out of the risky trip ... Khartoum says 10,000 people have died ... The conflict flared when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government, demanding better representation and accusing Khartoum of neglecting the development of the region. (AlertNet)
Sudan's Bashir in Eritrea after ICC warrant Mar 23, 2009
Khartoum says 10,000 people have died ... The conflict flared when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the government, demanding better representation and accusing Khartoum of neglecting the development of the region. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
CSIS asks for probe into its role in Abdelrazik case Mar 22, 2009
Canada's anti-terrorist agency, seeking to prove its hands are clean, asked Friday for a formal probe into its role in the Abdelrazik affair, the still-murky saga of a Canadian citizen who was imprisoned and tortured in Sudanese jails and who remains marooned in Khartoum because the Harper government won't give him a passport ... Mr. Abdelrazik has been living for the past 11 months in the lobby of the Canadian embassy in Khartoum ... More than 160 Canadians the number continues to grow have... (Globe and Mail -- International)
How Sudan's leader sealed his fate Mar 20, 2009
Within minutes of the announcement, aid groups is Khartoum, the capital, started getting phone calls from government officials calling them on the carpet. Within the day, 10 had received letters revoking their authority to work in Sudan. (Globe and Mail)
SUDAN: Fallout scenarios Mar 20, 2009
"This is clearly an escalation and a challenge from Khartoum," Thomas-Jensen says. "The call now is for diplomatic pressure and diplomatic isolation of Khartoum to reverse the decision," says Jerry Fowler, president of the Save Darfur Coalition ... Thomas-Jensen says that could be just what Khartoum wants. (AlertNet)
Sudan's Al-Bashir: No Court Can Touch Me Mar 19, 2009
KHARTOUM, Sudan, March 18, 2009 ... Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir speaks at a rally protesting the recent decision of the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for war crimes charges against him, at the Friendship Hall in Khartoum, Sudan on March 17, 2009. (CBS News)
Sudan: Darfur Rife With Violence, Say Peacekeepers Mar 19, 2009
com: Sudan: Darfur Rife With Violence Against Peacekeepers, Civilians, UN Says (Page 1 of 1). Sudan: Darfur Rife With Violence Against Peacekeepers, Civilians, UN Says. (allAfrica.com)
Canada's safety minister skirts Arar sore point with U.S. Mar 19, 2009
In addition to Mr. Arar, there is the continued imprisonment of Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay and Washington's listing of Abousfian Abdelrazik, currently holed up in Canada's embassy in Khartoum as an al-Qaeda operative despite both the RCMP and CSIS clearing him. Mr. Van Loan said the Harper government's efforts to have Mr. Arar taken off the terrorist watch list would continue. (Globe and Mail)
Kidnapping aid workers: part of Sudan's strategy? Mar 16, 2009
"This is the plan of Khartoum," the capital and seat of the Sudanese government, says Abdul Wahid al-Nour, the founder of the Sudan Liberation Movement, one of several rebel factions in Darfur fighting the government over claims that their people have been marginalized. Mr. Nour says the government is trying to force nongovernmental organizations out "either by expelling them directly or terrorizing them.". (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Sudan's president: Local groups to distribute aid Mar 16, 2009
Speaking to thousands of security forces in Khartoum on Monday, al-Bashir warned aid groups to respect Sudan's sovereignty or "pay the price." He didn't elaborate. He says foreign aid groups can drop off humanitarian aid at Sudan's airports, but local groups should be the only ones distributing supplies. (International Herald Tribune -- Sports)
* Canadians pool money to fly al-Qaeda suspect home Mar 15, 2009
ALONE He is holed up at the Canadian embassy in Khartoum having said he fears for his safety if he leaves ... The university students, teachers, Christian missionaries once held hostage in Iraq, a former attorney general and others who pitched in to buy him a US$997 ticket to fly on April 3 from Khartoum to Toronto, via Abu Dhabi, now face possible charges by helping him. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
