November 24, 2007
The prize for the most convoluted headline/story of the week goes to ...
Me
Three Darfur ex-rebels seized by own armed wingKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Three senior members of a former Darfur rebel faction were seized by armed members of their own group, a spokesman from the deeply fractured organisation said on Thursday.
The three high-ranking officials in the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) were taken late on Wednesday close to the central Khartoum house of their faction's leader Minni Arcua Minnawi -- the only rebel to sign a peace deal with Khartoum in 2006.
The armed group handed the men over to Sudanese security services who released them without charge Thursday morning, said al-Tayyib Khamis, spokesman for the SLM Minnawi.
The incident underlined the deeply ingrained divisions in Khartoum's only official partner among the splintering insurgent groups in Darfur.
Posted by aheavens at November 24, 2007 6:54 AM
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"The incident underlined the deeply ingrained divisions in Khartoum's only official partner among the splintering insurgent groups in Darfur."
And among the Sudanese government too? Is the gov't on the side of its official partner group or for its defectors? Wow ... great going!
Posted by: Tobian at November 24, 2007 8:01 AM
MI6 Agent Andrew H,
I hear your assignment in Sudan is not going as well as you hoped for. The rebels the Eritrean regime supports were supposed to be united against the government. It didn't pan out. Your assignment was to make the Sudanese government look very bad like you did with the Ethiopian government. But the rebels ended up being the monsters in the west-orchestrated darfur crisis.
Posted by: Tade at November 24, 2007 3:44 PM
"the name's Heavens, Andrew Heavens..."
der der der-deeer
Posted by: george at November 25, 2007 8:50 AM
ah, an MI6 agent. Now it all falls into place. The fast cars, the women etc etc
Posted by: wonderchops at November 26, 2007 11:16 AM
I can't believe that the rebel groups are turning out to be worse than the ugly Islamist Sudanese government.
Ah Africa!
Posted by: safiya at November 27, 2007 4:19 PM
Hey Andrew
I just saw u on CNN reporting about the British Teacher. Its cool to C u there man but steel U have to come back home...Ethiopia.
cheers
Posted by: NANI at November 29, 2007 2:14 PM
"deeply fractured organisation"
Really? You think? :)
Posted by: aaron at November 29, 2007 3:46 PM
Indrias,
I hope you are nowhere near the demonstrations against the teddy bear teacher. The idiots demonstrating against her is what happens when backward Africans meet Sharia. A teddy bear is considered an animal, and not a cuddly kind innocent thing associated with kids-hence the present idiocy towards the teacher.
Posted by: safiya at November 30, 2007 6:22 PM
We miss you Andrew, come back to Addis....
Posted by: ethiopia at December 1, 2007 9:28 PM