al-Hamra

I no longer always go up onto the roof of the al-Hamra Hotel, where I am living, to see the black smoke rising and to try to work out where the bomb went off.

08/08/2005 2005

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, the first attacks came in Baghdad this morning at about 12 minutes past 8: 00 -- the attack focusing on the al-Hamra Hotel.

CNN Transcript Nov 18, 2005 2005

The gunfire in al-Zawiya al-Hamra started around 7 p.m. and lasted until midnight, said Mohammed al-Sayid, a nearby butcher.

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Qamar Dalman, spokesman for the insurgent Sudan People's Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) in South Kordofan, said rebel fighters engaged Sudan's army on Friday near the town of al-Hamra in an area about five kilometers (3 miles) from the state capital, Kadugli.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

"In his speech he told us not just to kill, to remember to keep our people on the same side as us and not to make them fear us but to try to help them," said Abdul Saleem Abu Saleh, a Serai al-Hamra fighter.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The Brotherhood won heavily in al-Zawiya al-Hamra.

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"The SPLA in South Kordofan destroyed four modern tanks and a large number of military vehicles in fighting throughout the day yesterday in the area of al-Hamra," he said in an emailed statement.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

Al-Zawiya al-Hamra, a crowded grid of squat apartment blocks amid smoggy boulevards, typifies the decades of governmental neglect that helped fuel the uprising.

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"There is not any fighting in the al-Hamra area," he said.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

In the poor district of al-Zawiya al-Hamra that day, 1,000 protesters rallied in the shabby park in front of the station.

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