SUDAN

After preliminary peace talks ended yesterday, the Sudan's southern border is again in flames.

Presidents of the soon-to-be-independent nations met in Ethiopia to discuss the occupied area of Abyei.

Violence continues between North and South Sudan; thousands displaced from their homes

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Some prominent American universities and pension funds, among other wealthy foreign investors, are allegedly purchasing huge tracts of land in Africa -- acts that may lead to the eviction of thousands of local farmers, according to a study by the Oakland Institute (Oakland Institute), a California-based think tank.

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Former South Korean Ban Ki-moon has asked for the support of UN Security Council for his candidacy for a second five-year term as U.N. secretary-general.

Ethiopia will consider dispatching peacekeepers to the disputed border area of Abyei between north and south Sudan if both Juba and Khartoum lodge a request, an official said on Tuesday.

North and south Sudan have agreed to establish a patrolled demilitarized border zone to strengthen security along the borders, the African Union said.

Around 80,000 people fled after the North Sudanese army seized the disputed Abyei region in Southern Sudan, a southern official told Reuters on Friday.

South Sudan’s minister Luka Biong Deng of the national government has resigned, saying war crimes had been committed in the disputed Abyei region.

Armed looters set ablaze parts of Sudan's disputed Abyei border town, days after the UN asked the North-Sudanese troops to seize it on Monday.

The United Nations Security Council has demanded an “immediate withdrawal” by northern Sudanese armed forces from the disputed town of Abyei.

Unconfirmed reports say Egyptian militant Saif al-Adel has been chosen to lead the global terrorist group al Qaeda following the killing of Osama bin Laden in a raid on May 1 in Pakistan by US Navy SEALs.

As if tensions weren't high enough between the United States and Pakistan, new internal Pentagon documents reviewed by the Wall Street Journal reveal that the U.S. has been denying 40 percent of Pakistan's expense claims.

Pakistan confirmed on Tuesday that the government will give permission to the U.S. to question the captured widows of Osama Bin Laden. Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik also said Bin Laden's three wives and some children will be repatriated to their home countries after the U.S. interrogates them.

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Osama bin Laden, the man who masterminded the deadly Sept. 11 attack, a pariah to the Western world and celebrated by many in the Arab world is dead and buried in sea but his ignominious legacy lives on.

Amidst a growing chorus accusations by India that the Pakistani authorities had been harboring Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in their country for years, the former chief of Pakistani intelligence vehemently has denied the allegations. However, he also warned that Al Qaeda may take revenge in retaliation for the killing of Osama.

Sudan produces up to 81,000 tonnes of camel meat per year. Down there, it's common food.