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1.	Khartoum attacks pinpoint plight of Darfur, says Sudan bishop
	Author: Fredrick Nzwili, Nairobi	Date Written: 15 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Ecumenical News International
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.eni.ch
	Key Words: Darfur, Khartoum, churches, JEM
	Summary & Comment: "Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Menegazzo, the apostolic administrator of El Obeid diocese which covers Darfur, has said the attack on the country’s capital, Khartoum, by a rebel group from the troubled western part of Sudan, signifies a deterioration of the situation in the region."
2.	Watermelons, conflict and climate change
	Author: IRIN, El Obeid	Date Written: 13 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: climate change, ecology, environment
	Summary & Comment: Most of Sudan comprises arid land or desert, and lies in the Sahel, a region described by the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) as the most vulnerable in the world to droughts." "
3.	“An up-close view of brutality in Darfur”
	Author: Eric Reeves, North Hampton	Date Written: 13 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Eric Reeves, Christian Science Monitor
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article214.html
	Key Words: Darfur,
	Summary & Comment: "The brutality of the Khartoum regime’s military actions in the Darfur region of western Sudan continually forces a question that seems to have no morally intelligible answer: Is there no act of civilian destruction so cruel, so savage, that the international community will finally respond vigorously and unambiguously?" [Abbreviated with . . . [expand]
4.	Darfur rebels attack Khartoum
	Author: Ismail Kamal Kushkush, IOL, Khartoum	Date Written: 11 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IslamOnline.net
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Darfur, JEM, Khartoum
	Summary & Comment: "Explosions and gun battles rocked the Sudanese capital Khartoum on Saturday May 10, after a rebel attempt to seize control of the capital."
5.	UN chief condemns Justice and Equality Movement attack in Khartoum
	Author: Sudan Tribune	Date Written: 11 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: Darfur, JEM, Khartoum
	Summary & Comment: "The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon condemned today attack by the rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) forces that has broken out on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum."
6.	Bombings in Darfur cast doubt on resolving crisis
	Author: IRIN, Khartoum	Date Written: 6 May 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://ww.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Darfur, UNMIS, terrorism
	Summary & Comment: "Days after the UN and African Union condemned as unacceptable the bombings of villages and markets in Darfur by Sudanese government planes, at least 13 people were reported killed in an attack on a primary school and market in North Darfur state."
7.	Sudan church leaders warn of threats to peace accord
	Author: Fredrick Nzwili, Juba	Date Written: 1 April 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: ENI
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL:
	Key Words: churches, South Sudan, Comprehensive Peace Accord, CPA, Abyei
	Summary & Comment: "Church leaders in Sudan say they fear that renewed fighting could break out in the south of Africa’s biggest country if a 2005 peace accord that ended a two-decade-long civil war is not properly implemented."