Portal:Current events/2008 May 11

May 11, 2008 (Sunday)

2008 attack on Omdurman and Khartoum:
- Sudan's government halts an attack on the country's capital Khartoum by hundreds of rebels from Darfur. (Al-jazeera)
- Sudan breaks diplomatic ties with Chad, claiming it backed the rebel attack. (BBC News)
- Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem says there is proof that Chad supported the rebels. Opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi is arrested. (BBC News)
Cyclone Nargis:
- The International Federation of the Red Cross says that the cargo ship carrying the first load of food aid from the Red Cross for survivors of Cyclone Nargis has sunk in the Irrawaddy River. (Reuters) (AP via Yahoo! News)
- The official death toll for Cyclone Nargis rises to 28,458. (Vatican Radio)^{[permanent dead link‍]}
Pakistan's two main coalition leaders, Asif Ali Zardari and Nawaz Sharif meet with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher in London to discuss the removal of judges by President Pervez Musharraf, but fail to reach an agreement. (AP via CNN)
Run-offs in the Zimbabwean presidential election, according to George Chiweshe, the elections commissioner, must be delayed past the time allotted by law, up to a year, until funding can be found. (AP via CNN)
Serbian voters go to the polls in the Serbian parliamentary election, 2008. A pro-Europe coalition associated with the President of Serbia Boris Tadić wins the most votes. (BBC News) (Sydney Morning Herald)