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[A] decade ago Sudan was a haven to Bin Laden and other international outlaws, such as Carlos the Jackal. In 1993, it was placed on the US state department's list of terrorist regimes. Approaches from Khartoum were rebuffed - even as it offered its services against an emerging al-Qaida in the 1990s.
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Sudan's oil sector comes of age: Moin Siddiqi provides an update on what is now SSA's third-largest oil producer. Asian majors are the key investors with Sudapet in Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Co, the number-one producer.(Oil Industry)
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Despite persecution, the Anglican Church in Sudan is growing rapidly, Munde said. "Persecution is the seed of the gospel." Sudan's relations with the United States have been strained by U.S. accusations that Khartoum supportsinternational terrorism and abuses human rights. In 1998 the United States launched a missile strike on a Khartoum medicine factory in saying it was making poison gas ingredients. Sudan denied the charge.
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Sudan, Chad and the Central African Republic renew a pledge not to support rebels attacking each other's territory. Past agreements have failed to stop fighting in the region. African Union chairperson John Kufuor says that Sudan’s neighboring states may now be ready to accept a proposal that a joint African Union and United Nations force monitor their borders. Khartoum ... has still not changed its position in rejecting a UN-AU hybrid peacekeeping force in Darfur.
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Eventually, revolt broke out in Sudan, led by the Sudanese religious leader Muhammad ibn Abdalla, the self-proclaimed Mahdi (Guided One), who sought to purify Islam and end foreign domination in Sudan. His revolt culminated in the fall of Khartoum and the death of the British General Charles George Gordon (Gordon of Khartoum) in 1885. The Egyptian and British forces withdrew from Sudan leaving the Mahdi to form a short-lived theocratic state.
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Rome, January 12 (NE): The Church in Sudan celebrated last week the centennial of their first Eucharistic celebration carried out in this region after centuries of Islamic dominance, as the Italian daily Avvenire reported. The Mass, presided by Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako of Khartoum, took place in the Merik stadium of Omdurman, and counted with the participation of hundreds of Sudanese faithful.
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