A weblog by Andrew Heavens, a journalist based in Khartoum, Sudan. Contact andrew dot heavens at gmail dot com.
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Just spent most of today covering Sudan's fourth fatal air disaster in two months. It was also Sudan's second cargo plain crash in fours days. And it was the second time passengers have died in a fireball at the end of our road at Khartoum airport in three weeks. If Sudan's air safety record wasn't so dismal, now would be the time to start forming conspiracy ....
It looks like Darfur's SLM-Unity rebels have started using Google Translate to turn their Arabic statements into English. A significant military statement from slm-u Able profiteers Liberation Movement / Army Command Unit in Darfur noon today, 08/06/2008, in sharp two twenty Greenwich Sudan and local forces across the 126 Brigade of the movement in the northern sector of the ambush of a military brigade infantry military mechanic ....