( BUA were also acting as Sudan Airways's technical advisers.

The leaks go on to speculate that these clandestine operations were motivated by the Kenya political leadership's desire to support Southern Sudan, but not in a way that would openly provoke Khartoum or potentially threaten South Sudan's eventual independence.

Kenya serves as a major host for refugees from Somalia and Sudan and currently has troops in three United Nations peacekeeping operations.

Mozambique has also been involved in many peacekeeping operations in Burundi, Comoros, The Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor and Sudan.

SUDO ’ s offices remained locked, its assets remained frozen, and the organization in Sudan was not allowed to resume operations.

Janjaweed militias use technicals on their raids against civilian villages in Darfur, Sudan, as do the Sudan Liberation Army ( SLA ) and Justice and Equality Movement ( JEM ) rebel troops in defense of their areas of operations.

During that year, the Government of Sudan worked actively to counter AQ operations that posed a potential threat to US interests and personnel in Sudan.

The brigade established its headquarters in Yambio in South Sudan, close to the border with the DRC, and is commanded by a Ugandan officer ; a Congolese officer has oversight of intelligence operations.

The Uganda Peoples Defense Force ( UPDF ) launched " Operation Iron Fist " against LRA rebels in northern Uganda in 2002 and conducted operations against LRA sanctuaries in southern Sudan with the permission of the Sudanese Government.

Eventually his friend Wavell, by this time commander-in-chief of Middle East Command which was based in Cairo, invited him to Sudan to begin operations against Italian occupation forces in Ethiopia.

Sudan has received the most number of Mamba APCs, with South Africa having delivered 62 Mamba Mk3 units to assist in the peacekeeping operations there.

The Israeli and American governments has mounted aliyah operations, most notably during Operation Brothers in Sudan between 1979-1990 ( which includes the major operations Moses and Joshua ) and in the 1990s from Addis Ababa ( which includes Operation Solomon ).

Several films have dealt with the British military operations in Sudan in this period.

Very important to the success of the operations in northwest Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie I crossed the border from Sudan to join the force of Ethiopian patriots.

The Squadron replaced its IIIFs with Fairey Gordons ( effectively IIIFs powered by a radial engine ) in January 1933, continuing its operations in support of the Sudan Defence Force and floatplane patrols over the Red Sea.

In May 2006 KCB extended its operations to South Sudan following licensing by the Bank of South Sudan.

He coordinated support for health aspects of crises response operations in Darfur, Sudan, and in countries affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and Tsunami.

Islamic banking operations are successfully operating in many Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Iran, Sudan, Turkey and Bahrain.

Insurance operations, starting in Sudan in 1977, have now been successfully implemented in a number of countries from Malaysia to Jordan.

In 1991, bin Laden moved to the Sudan, where he led operations in East Africa, including the 1993 assault on American troops at Mogadishu in Somalia.

has had a number of bases of operations, including a nuclear submarine mobile in the Atlantic Ocean ; a base in the Bronx, New York ; Black Mesa, Colorado ; West Caldwell, New Jersey ; Asia, Canada, Europe, Haiti, India, Sudan and Boca Caliente ( also known as AIM Island ), an island republic in the Caribbean.

There is no agreement on when and where this Urheimat existed, though the language is generally believed to have originated somewhere in or near the region stretching from the Levant / Near East to the area between the Eastern Sahara and the Horn of Africa, including Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan.

However, the 9 / 11 Commission found that although " former Sudanese officials claim that Sudan offered to expel Bin Laden to the United States ", " we have not found any reliable evidence to support the Sudanese claim.

The army uses its artillery systems and tanks, but well-equipped insurgents have probably managed to destroy over 20 of Chad's 60 tanks, and probably shot down a Mi-24 Hind gunship, which has bombed enemy positions near the border with Sudan.

Population censuses have been carried out in Sudan in 1955 / 56, 1973 ( national ), 1983 ( national ) and 1993 ( only north ).

The varieties of Arabic are considerably different from each other-especially those spoken in North Africa ( Maghreb ) from those of the Middle East ( the Mashriq in the broad definition including Egypt and Sudan )-and had there been the political will in the different Arab countries to cut themselves off from each other, the case could have been made to declare these varieties as separate languages.

Egypt and Sudan have enjoyed intimate and longstanding historical ties, seeing as they are each other's closest allies in the North African region.

Expeditions by Ezana into the Kingdom of Kush at Meroe in Sudan may have brought about its demise, though there is evidence that the kingdom was experiencing a period of decline beforehand.

More recently, fish, flowers, salt, and textiles have joined the list of exports, and Sudan is no longer a major trading partner.

Ties between Iraq and Sudan have since improved.

Some like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan and Malaysia have high levels of hostility due to the influence of religion and politics.

The Hausa people of Sudan have a term equivalent to lesbian, kifi, that may also be applied to males to mean " neither party insists on a particular sexual role ".

Most of the gravel roads in southern Sudan have become unusable after being heavily mined by the insurgent southern forces of the Sudanese People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ).

The military and allied militias have fought in the Sudanese Civil War, the Darfur Conflict, the Sudan – SPLM-N conflict and the 2012 South Sudan-Sudan border conflict.

Egypt and Sudan have enjoyed intimate and longstanding historical ties, seeing as they are each other's closest allies in the North African region.

On February 27, 2008, Sudan decided to boycott Danish goods after the controversial Muhammad cartoons have been reprinted by a series of newspapers in Denmark and other European countries.

For decades, Russia and Sudan have maintained a strong economic and politically strategic partnership.

Although on opposing sides of the Middle East Peace Process spectrum, Turkey and Sudan have in recent years joined forces to end the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Ties between Iraq and Sudan have since improved.

Due to both states sharing the same religion, being former British colonies, and refusing to recognize Israel as a legitimate nation, Pakistan and Sudan have shared generally close and warm relations for decades.

Conflicts between the government and rebel groups — the civil war involving north-south tensions, the Darfur conflict involving Arab-tribespeople tensions in the Darfur region in the west — have resulted in rape, torture, killings, and massive population displacements ( estimated at over 2 million in 2007 ), earning Sudan comparison to Rwanda in the press.

There have also been several reported cases of crucifixions carried out in Sudan.

Muslim states with blended sources of law: Muslim countries including Pakistan, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Egypt, Sudan and Morocco have legal systems strongly influenced by sharia, but also cede ultimate authority to their constitutions and the rule of law.

Wall Street firms have however also contributed to projects such as Habitat for Humanity as well as done food programs in Haiti and trauma centers in Sudan and rescue boats during floods in Bangladesh.

As of November 2009, 193 countries have ratified, accepted, or acceded to it ( some with stated reservations or interpretations ) including every member of the United Nations except Somalia and the United States, as well as the new nation of South Sudan.