Report: Sudan's Garang killed

The BBC is reporting that Sudanese vice-president and former rebel leader John Garang has been killed in a helicopter crash. He'd been flying back from Uganda after a meeting with that country's leader Yoweri Museveni. Preliminary reports are pointing to dreadful weather.

Ironic that Garang survived decades of civil war in southern Sudan but died after not even a month as the country's vice-president.


Update: There have been riots in Khartoum, the Sudanese capital, following the announcement of Garang's death.