29 January 2009

Very Many Players..

On Monday, Darfur's most powerful rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), had a gunman brawl with some members of the Sudanese troops. So on Tuesday the Sudanese armed forces proceeded with artillery attacks and air strikes on the rebels in two main areas of Darfur.
A city called El-Fasher is one of those main areas. And stationed in El-Fasher is the main base of the United Nation. Main Area - Main base.
"Ground and aerial bombings by the government continued this morning approximately nine kilometres (five miles) from El-Fasher in an attempt to clear the area of armed movements who had advanced towards the outskirts of the city yesterday," stated the people of the African Union peacekeeping Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), who are also located in El-Fasher.
Although no one was killed in these attacks, the same cannot be said about the battle that went down just south of El-Fasher near Muhajaria, which the JEM seized last week from forces loyal to the Sudanese Liberation Army (SLA). The fighting in Muhajaria wounded three civilians and resulted "..in approximately 3,000 people gathering around a UNAMID camp seeking shelter and protection," the statement said.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the renewed fighting.
The united nations says that up to 300,000 people in Darfur have died and more than 2.2 million have been displaced since the uprising against Sudan's Arab-dominated government started in February 2003.
The conflict has deteriorated with the emergence of a multiplying array of rebel groups and breakaway militias.

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