Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Abdalla El Araby in Khartoum June 4, 2011 (REUTERS PICTURES)
Posted on 06/21/2011 4:08:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Sudan Foreign Minister Ali Karti has reiterated accusations that armed groups from his country’s western region of Darfur are fighting alongside the beleaguered regime of Libyan leader Muammar Al-Gaddafi.
As the uprising in Libya against Gaddafi's 41-year rule started to gain traction in mid-February, Libyan revolutionaries-turned-armed-rebels claimed that Gaddafi was using "African mercenaries" to fight them.
Sudan foreign ministry spokesman Khalid Musa on 20 February suggested that some elements from Darfur could be involved in the fighting, but he fell short of confirming it, saying that the competent authorities were still in the process of ascertaining these reports.
...Karti strongly denied that his ministry's accusation had caused harm to any Sudanese citizens in Libya.
"We have not received any information on a single Sudanese assaulted due to this statement. There are still tens of thousands of Sudanese in Libya and those who had incidents had it because they were present in the areas of fighting," he said.
...in May last year after Libya provided sanctuary to the leader of Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement, Khalil Ibrahim, after he was shunned by his erstwhile allies in Chad. Sudan closed its shared borders with Libya in response to the harbouring of Khalil, only to re-open them again to receive citizens fleeing the unrest in eastern Libya...
Karti told the parliament that the government had known for a long time that Libya was the main supporter of rebellion in Darfur, saying that Tripoli had supplied them with arms and setup training camps for them in eastern and southern Libya...
In April this year, Sudan asked the Libyan consulate in Darfur to vacate its offices and leave the country in retaliation for Tripoli's decision to expel Sudanese diplomats Libya's southeastern town of Al-Kufrah.
(Excerpt) Read more at sudantribune.com ...
Sudan’s Foreign Minister Ali Karti (L) speaks during a joint news conference with Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Abdalla El Araby in Khartoum June 4, 2011 (REUTERS PICTURES)
The Islamofascists of Sudan are trying to reassert control over black African Darfur, which has voted itself into independence.
Darfur has voted itself independent? When?
It’s been at least a few months, but I’m not sure when, try the Darfur or SouthSudan keyword.
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