Eritrean deportees seize plane, give up in Khartoum
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A group of 78 Eritreans being deported home from Libya by air on Friday hijacked their plane and diverted it to Khartoum in Sudan where they surrendered, a senior United Nations official said.
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Eritrea has arrested some United   Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and   Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people   out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan  - The pilot of a cargo plane that was losing altitude steered his aircraft away from a built-up area and crashed in an open space outside Khartoum on Thursday, Sudan's director of civil aviation said.
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Rebels say they have inflicted a major defeat on the Sudanese army in Darfur, capturing soldiers and equipment.
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DORTI CAMP, Sudan  - Angry and dismissive, Darfuris who fled their homes to the relative safety of overcrowded makeshift camps demand Khartoum hand over two war crimes suspects to an international court.
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The five, who were staff and relatives at Britain's embassy in Addis Ababa, were captured in the remote north-east Afar region, near the border with Eritrea.Comment
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Eritrea denied on Friday that a group of five Europeans kidnapped in neighboring Ethiopia had been taken to its country by Afar separatist rebels.
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A group of 78 Eritreans being deported home from Libya hijacked their plane Friday and diverted it to Khartoum in Sudan, where they surrendered, U.N. and Sudanese officials said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Darfur rebels attacked an oil field in a rare extension of their campaign east toward the Sudanese capital and said yesterday the military garrison guarding the field had surrendered.
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Eritrea has arrested some United  Nations staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and  Ethiopia on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people  out of the country, the government's Web site said.
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NAIROBI, June 26 -- Widespread banditry, kidnapping and political violence in the volatile and virtually lawless northeastern corner of the Central African Republic are forcing thousands of villagers to flee to Chad, where the security situation is possibly more desperate, according to an Amnesty...
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NYALA, Sudan -- With violence increasing and political pressure mounting to end conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, the government agreed yesterday to halt military flights over the region and signed a separate agreement to allow free access to aid for the nearly 2 million people displaced by the violence.
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A group of armed men abducted a CNN producer in Gaza City on Monday. The men kidnapped producer Riad Ali after stopping a taxi he was riding in with CNN Correspondent Ben Wedeman and a CNN camerawoman.
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A group of 76 Eritreans on a  repatriation flight from Libya Friday forced their plane to  change course and land in the Sudanese capital Khartoum where  they sought political asylum, U.N. and Sudanese officials said.
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Nine French citizens were arrested in Chad after a group tried to fly more than 100 African children to France, saying it wanted to save them from the crisis in neighboring Darfur, the French Foreign Ministry said.
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A Turkish man seeking political asylum hijacked a jetliner carrying 113 people on Tuesday and forced it to land in southern Italy, where he surrendered and released all the passengers unharmed, officials said.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan Aug. 27, 2004 - Armed with knives, Eritrean deportees hijacked a plane that left Libya carrying about 80 fellow Eritreans and forced it to land Friday in the Sudanese capital before surrendering to security forces, officials said.