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Displaced persons from East Darfur at a camp in another part of the region in western Sudan.

Last Update: Sunday, May 19th 2013 23:09Z 13477 Articles available Events from Jun 19th 1999 to May 19th 2013 A Juba Airways Antonov AN-12, registration ST-JUA performing freight flight JUC-700 from Khartoum to Juba with 4 crew and 11 tons of cargo, was climbing out of Khartoum's runway 18 about 2 minutes into the flight when the crew reported a ... (more)

Gazans craving the colonel's secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken can now order their fix from a group of smugglers who transport KFC deliveries from "Last chance to order for the Thursday 6pm delivery is Wednesday night," says the Yamama delivery firm on its Facebook page .

The grandmother of a five-year-old who drowned in a hotel pool in Egypt told today of her family's 'anger and hurt' that more wasn't done to save her.

Sudan's foreign minister said on Friday neighbour South Sudan had promised him it would not let rebels operate across their shared border, defusing a row that had threatened a key oil deal.

If you've already crossed the Appalachian Trail off your bucket list, hiked the length of New Zealand along the Te Araroa and walked through the Alps on the Haute Route , then I may have found your next big adventure: a new long-distance hiking trail set to open in Africa early next year that will give adventurous travelers an opportunity to follow ... (more)

Egypt's Sinai Peninsula has long been a country apart. It has its share of foreign tourists seeking sun and sand on the Red Sea.

KFC, founded in 1930 in southeast Kentucky, is one of those distinctly American exports that enjoy enormous popularity overseas.

The governor of Khartoum, Abdel-Rahman al-Khidir, asserted today that the Sudanese capital is safe amid growing concern among officials and residents of an imminent attack by rebels from the Sudan Revolutionary Front .

The Egyptian prosecutor's office says evidence shows three suspects linked to al Qaeda targeted the U.S. and French embassies in Cairo, as well as an Egyptian army facility in the Sinai Peninsula, according to state news.

In a cramped government office in Khartoum, engineer Ahmed Taha and dozens of other Sudanese, lured by local newspaper adverts for jobs in the Gulf, sit waiting to get a permit to leave the country and work abroad.

According to Jewish tradition, the upcoming festival of Shavuot is the anniversary of the giving of the Torah and the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai.

President Salva Kirr Mayardit of South Sudan will be visiting Sudan this Wednesday .

When I finished university I felt that urge, like so many other young Kiwis, to get out of the country.

Sudan accused South Sudan of having supported rebels who launched a major assault two weeks ago, warning this could derail recent oil and security agreements between the African neighbours, state media said on Saturday.

Dr. Mursi Saad el-Din passed away last month at the age of 92. Egypt Today's long-serving editor-in-chief led a life filled with books, politics and cultural postings - and he will be sorely missed by all.

A Conversation with Ken Dorph, Sag Harbor resident and authority on the Middle East and its economy, who will give a lecture "Seven Keys to Understanding the Arab Middle East" at the Rogers Memorial Library on July 6. I was actually pre-med as an undergraduate and I had this wonderful Egyptian woman teaching my anthropology course, and I remember ... (more)

Red Sea segregation: The first hotel catering for religious conservatives has opened at the popular holiday destination.

Monday's incident is the second attack on Ugandan traders transporting goods to South Sudan in less than two weeks.

South Sudanese people stuck at northern port of Renk, having left Sudan but unable to take families and luggage back home George Malual Deng has spent two years in a transit site at Renk waiting to return to his home in South Sudan's Jonglei state.