The United Nations said the northern armydeployed 15 tanks - in Abyei town-- "Abyei town is now under control of the SAF (Sudanese Armed Forces). They came with tanks," said SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer. He said northern aircraft had also bombed at least four villages-

Following outbreak of news regarding death of Bin Laden, Al-Bashir's regime came pretty close to shutting down Sudan by way of official mourning of Bin Laden. The speaker of Khartoum's National Assembly Ahmed Ibrahim Tahir addressed a Parliamentary Session praising Bin Laden as a Mujahid (holy fighter) and described the US war on terror as "genocide against Muslims".

The Speaker's speech was interrupted by MPs who chanted Martyr, Martyr, in reference to Bin Laden.The Parliamentary mourning was also echoed at the public level by Al-Bashir's inner circle. Public prayers for Bin Laden were organized and performed in a central park in Khartoum. The overseers of the prayers were the usual staunch supporters of the regime. It included Head of Just Peace Platform Al-Tayib Mustafa. The latter is an uncle and confidant of Al-bashir, who is well known for his hatred of almost every thing: the USA, Europe, Israel, South of Sudan, Darfur and of course the ICC. The prayers were accompanied by inauguration of Brigade of Bin Laden which many Mujahideen joined on the spot.

In their public payers, Abdel Haye hailed Bin Laden as Mujahid who abandoned earthy life for the sake of God and whose legacy will live in the hearts of Muslims and inspire them to answer call for jihad against infidels, crusaders, Jews, America and its supporters.

Hamza joined in the frenzied attack on the USA and challenged Muslim rulers to become like Bin Laden. He further invited them to commission arms and soldiers under their authority to fight the infidel enemies of Islam and liberate Jerusalem. Sheikh Attia Mohamed Saeed, another member of Sudan's Official Association of Muslim Ulama, affirmed determination of his followers to follow Bin Laden's path, involve in jihad and establish an Islamic state.

Throughout the prayers, the speakers were interrupted by the chanting, "with Jihad we raise flag of God", "Bin Laden Bin Laden, Martyr, martyr" and "Khayber, Khayber oh Jews, the army of Mohamed will come back" (Khayber was a battle fought in early days of Islam where Muslims emerged victorious against their Jewish neighbours).

http://www.sudantribune.com/Carrying-a-bible-is-a-heinous,38917

-- In the years since August 15, 2000, there have been more than 1,000 aerial attacks on civilians and humanitarian operations in Sudan. Altogether, the data spreadsheet contains more than 1,400 such incidents; individual entries provide locations, sources, dates, casualties, and observational notes. A great many of these attacks involved not only retrofitted cargo planes but helicopter gunships and advanced jet aircraft; these have been reported as well. 

There have been many thousands of casualties, and human displacement has been in the hundreds of thousands. Agriculture has suffered badly, as the attacks have deeply demoralized farmers in both the South and Darfur. Water points and livestock herds have also been bombed, strafed, and rocketed. The assault has been not simply on civilians and humanitarians but on a way of life.

These attacks are all violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. Individually, they are war crimes; collectively they come within the legal ambit of "crimes against humanity." Moreover, the figures for attacks and casualties that I have confirmed vastly understate the actual numbers, perhaps by an order of magnitude. As one human rights report noted, "There are reports of frequent bombing in Blue Nile…but local people are so accustomed to it that they see no point in keeping records."

Revealingly, most entries for "number of casualties" simply read "unknown."  The international community has no way of investigating reported attacks, despite the presence of a UN-authorized peacekeeping force in Darfur. Nominally guaranteed"freedom of movement," the UN/African Union "hybrid" force (UNAMID) has been virtually paralyzed by Khartoum and its security forces. It conducts exceedingly few investigations, and only very rarely publishes its findings.

- I have already recorded more than eighty aerial attacks in 2011. Khartoum still faces no serious pressure to halt aerial attacks on civilians, and will persevere in this savagery until the world community specifies—explicitly and credibly—intolerable consequences. Tragically, international actors of consequence, especially the U.S., see normalizing relations with this brutal regime as the more important basis for Sudan policy going forward. And so the bombs will continue to fall.

  http://www.dissentmagazine.org/atw.php?id=446