The Justice and Equality Movement rebel group is a powerful force in Sudan, with a large array of weaponry and trucks.
The group says it wants to create a new country - the United Regions of Sudan (URS) - and redistribute local wealth more fairly.
Al Jazeera's May Welsh reports exclusively from the Chad-Sudan border.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"