Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) meets with his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Beshir in Cairo on February 22, 2009 (Getty Images)
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, right, meets with Qatari prime minister and minister of foreign affairs Sheik Hamad bin Jassem Al Thani in Khartoum,Tuesday, March 24, 2009 (AP)
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This still image image obtained November 27, 2008 from IntelCenter shows Ayman Al-Zawahiri, the second-in-command of al-Qaeda, in a video message from an undisclosed location and issued to jihadist forums on November 27, 2008 (Getty Images)
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Displaced Darfurians arrive by truck at the Zamzam refugee camp in northern Darfur, Sudan, Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009. (AP)
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Traders work in the crude oil futures trading pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Reuters)
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An Israeli Air Force fighter plane releases flares during an aerobatics display at a graduation ceremony for new pilots at the Hatzerim Air Force Base near the southern Israeli city of Beersheba (AP)
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meets with Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir at the Presidential Palace in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 25, 2009 (AP)
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South Sudanese cattle herders from the Dinka ethnic group dance while watching a wrestling match in Bor in Jonglei State, 2008 (AFP)
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Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi greets Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, right, upon his arrival in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, March 26, 2009 (AP)
U.S. President Barack Obama (C) speaks about Afghanistan and Pakistan as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) looks on behind him in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 27, 2009 (AFP)
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Former South African President Thabo Mbeki (AP)
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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa speaks during a press conference with Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani, unseen, in Doha, Qatar, Saturday, March 28, 2009 (AP)
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Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha (AFP)
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Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani (R) greets Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir upon his arrival in Doha on March 29, 2009 (AFP)
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Pagan Amum
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Arab leaders leave the stage after posing for a picture prior to the opening session of the Arab League summit in Doha on March 30, 2009 (AFP)
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Lakes State Governor Daniel Akot (photo M. Mayom)
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: U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Sudan envoy Scott Gration in the Roosevelt Room of the White House March 30, 2009 in Washington, DC (AFP)
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir attends the closing session of the Arab summit in Doha, Qatar, Monday, March 30, 2009 (AP)
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Children in Western Equatoria, Jan. 2009 (photo R. Ruati)
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World Bank trainees and instructors in Juba
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Jordan’s Queen Noor (Reuters)
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Suleiman speaking during a SLM-Unity meeting with the former AU-UN peace envoys on Dec 6, 2007
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AU Panel on Darfur meets VP Taha (photo UNAMID- Olivier Chassot)
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Egypt’s Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit (Reuters)
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US envoy to Sudan Scott Gration speaks during a press conference at the ministry of foreign affairs in Khartoum on April 2, 2009 (AFP)
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Thabo Mbeki (AFP)
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Traders work in the crude oil futures trading pit at the New York Mercantile Exchange (Reuters)
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US special envoy to Sudan J. Scott Gration, left, arrives at the Sudanese foreign ministry for meetings with officials after his arrival in Khartoum, Sudan, Thursday, April 2, 2009 (AP)
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France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy (L) shaking hand with U.S. President Barack Obama
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Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, 76, speaks to journalists at his house in Khartoum March 9, 2009 (Reuters)
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Two fighters of the Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) Wahid-Nur faction (Reuters)
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Edward Lino
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Sudanese President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir addresses the 61st United Nations General Assembly September 19, 2006 (AFP)
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Pagan Amum, the number two in the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, chaired by First Vice President Salva Kiir (AFP)
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Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor (AFP)
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Darfur Transitional Authority Chairman Minni Minnawi (center) with UN-AU Representative Rodolphe Adada (right), (photo UNAMID – Olivier Chassot )
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Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov (AFP)
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US MH-60L Defensive Armed Penetrators (DAPs) on training flight (photo specialoperations.com)
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Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Ahmed Karti (Reuters)
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Scott Gration (Getty Images)
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Southern Sudanese women sing as they celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ during a holy Easter service in Bor (photo Philip Thon Aleu)
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File Photo showing Enumerators from the Sudan Commission for Census and Statistical Evaluation prepare for interviews with residents on the opening day of Sudan’s 5th National Population and Housing Census in Khartoum (AP)
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Islamist opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, 76, sits on a couch at his house in Khartoum (Reuters)
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French human rights minister Rama Yade (Getty Images)
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NCP political bureau Secretary General Mandoor Al-Mahdi (Akhbar Al-Youm)
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International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo speaks beside assistant prosecutor Fatou Bensouda (R) during a news conference in the Hague July 14, 2008 (Reuters)
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File photo showing First Vice President of the Republic of Sudan and President of the Government of Southern Sudan Salva Kiir, left, sits after holding a press conference at his home after midnight to mark the launch of a census in Sudan, in Juba, southern Sudan, Tuesday, April 22, 2008 (AP)
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Pagan Amum, the secretary general of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (AP)
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A Sudanese refugee cries upon reaching Bahai on the Chad border, after fleeing political violence in Darfur, Sudan on July 9, 2004 (AP)
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Egypt Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit (AFP)
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A picture made available by Albany Associates shows fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) riding in the back of an armoured vehicle (AFP)