{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"Radio Tamazuj","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en","title":"Sudan: Top stories of 2012 - Radio Tamazuj","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"ftt7aSajDA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en\/news\/article\/sudan-top-stories-of-2012\">Sudan: Top stories of 2012<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radiotamazuj.org\/en\/news\/article\/sudan-top-stories-of-2012\/embed#?secret=ftt7aSajDA\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Sudan: Top stories of 2012&#8221; &#8212; Radio Tamazuj\" data-secret=\"ftt7aSajDA\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\"><\/iframe><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n\/* <![CDATA[ *\/\n\/*! 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The continuing economic decline coupled with the ongoing border wars were the top developments of the year. The regional crises fed into social unrest and political instability at the core. In its first full year of coverage Radio Tamazuj focused on ground-level events at the state periphery. A selection of the year's top stories:\u00a0 War SAF airstrike victim recounts his painful experience (26 October) \u2013 Hundreds of Sudanese civilians are maimed, crippled or have perished in the unabating air force campaign in South Kordofan. Top security men perish in Kordofan plane crash (19 August) \u2013 The government loses an aircraft and several militia commanders during an effort to organize a holiday war rally. Misseriya say 107 men died fighting in Heglig (27 April) \u2013 National leaders on both sides downplay the death toll of the Heglig fighting but local leaders admit to higher losses. SRF take over Nyama base in South Kordofan (17 April) \u2013 Darfur-linked rebels play an underreported role in the April oil war, as in the attack on Nyama, a rear base of anti-Juba militias. Deadly fight Dajo-Misseriya in S. Kordofan (10 July) \u2013 The war front in the western Nuba Mountains remains relatively quiet throughout the year but the region is not without incident. State official says warplane kills 7 in Mayom (16 April) \u2013 During the April oil war the Sudanese air force bombs not only the Unity State capital but a number of other remote towns in South Sudan.\u00a0 \u00a0 Talodi empty 'like a ghost town' (2 April) \u2013 The SPLA-N insurgents in South Kordofan fail in repeated assaults to take the garrison town of Talodi. Refugees Jamam clinics see 600+ severely malnourished children from Blue Nile (26 June) \u2013 The health situation is a disaster long before refugees even reach the aid sites in Maban County. Mothers and children suffer terribly en route to Doro Camp (5 July) \u2013 More than 35,000 refugees cross from Blue Nile in late May and June in an unexpected surge. New refugees in north-east Nuba Mountains (27 November) \u2013 Throughout the year major movements of internally displaced people within South Kordofan are indicated but not fully understood owing to access constraints. \u2018To join the enemy \u2013 or to starve\u2019 (20 July) \u2013 Food stocks are exhausted in north-central South Kordofan. Society Dams authority resettles Blue Nile villagers (17 November) \u2013 Twenty-thousand families are moved out of the dam reservoir. Abyei leader embraces 'tamazuj' concept (4 September) \u2013 Edward Lino says Abyei isn\u2019t the only \u2018blending\u2019 area. Labor shortage hits farms on White Nile border\u00a0 (11 September) \u2013 The removal from the labour force of most of the ethnically South Sudanese, Blue Nile and South Kordofan workers hits major agricultural schemes hard. Workers continue strikes in El Fula and Babanusa (10 January) \u2013 The year opens and closes with major unrest in West Kordofan towns inhabited by the Misseriya Arab tribe. Politics and Diplomacy \u2018Plot\u2019 in Khartoum: timeline of events (26 December) \u2013 The alleged coup attempt in Khartoum is foiled only a week after President al-Bashir\u2019s throat surgery.\u00a0 Tripartite agreement dies (15 November) \u2013 Sudan lays aside the international agreement on aid access to Blue Nile and South Kordofan states. SPLA deputy chief Paulino Matip dies after long illness (23 August) \u2013 A major affair of state. Sudans\u2019 oil deal announced as Bashir returns from Qatar (4 August) \u2013 The oil accord begins to take shape after the president\u2019s visit to the Gulf creditor nation. Blue Nile commander: no aid talks, no political talks with Khartoum (27 July) \u2013 The north\u2019s revolutionaries remain nominally united. UNMISS dodges border monitoring task (30 May) \u2013 Hilde Johnson downplays the mandate of her peacekeepers along the border, hints at a wider role for UNISFA. Crime and Violence Execution site found near Wau in South Sudan (18 December) \u2013 The mass murder of six migrant workers later leads to reprisals and fears of wider tribal conflict. Soldiers rape three women in Kadugli (9 November) \u2013 Soldiers attack and rape three women by night in the state capital. Police open fire on students at Juba school (31 October) \u2013 Two suffer gunshot wounds when security forces break up a mob of secondary students protesting at a construction site near their school. Fayareen in tense standoff commit to pay blood money to Rizeigat (26 August) \u2013 Traditional diya payments help reconcile two Arab tribes after costly battles. To contact Radio Tamazuj with news tips or information write to\u00a0radiotamazuj@gmail.com. For instant updates follow @RadioTamazuj on Twitter.Photo Credit: A Misseriya woman stands in front of a thatched shelter in Goli, Sudan, March 2009 (Tim McKulka\/UN)"}