The United States has said that "regional extremists" may be targeting Air Uganda airplane flights between Southern Sudan and Uganda. A warning posted yesterday on the Web site of the US Embassy in Khartoum says there is a "potential threat" on the flights between Juba , Sudan and Kampala, Uganda. Juba is the capital of semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry, however, commented that the threat wasn't "serious". Foreign Ministry spokesman Moawiya Osman Khalid commented that "they did not inform us of this security threat, we learnt about it from the embassy's website," as quoted by Agence France-Presse . "They did not ask for our cooperation, which they should have done before notifying the media."
The United States has said that "regional extremists" may be targeting airplane flights between Southern Sudan and Uganda. A warning posted yesterday on the Web site of the US Embassy in Khartoum says there is a "potential threat" on the flights between , Sudan and Kampala, Uganda. Juba is the capital of semi-autonomous Southern Sudan. The Sudanese Foreign Ministry, however, commented that the threat wasn't "serious". Foreign Ministry spokesman Moawiya Osman Khalid commented that "they did not inform us of this security threat, we learnt about it from the embassy's website," as quoted by . "They did not ask for our cooperation, which they should have done before notifying the media."
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