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Reuters AlertNet - UK warns against Khartoum travel over attack fears


African hunger East Sudan insurgency East Timor nation-building Eritrea-Ethiopia border Ethiopia Ogaden crisis Georgia, Abkhazia, S. Britain's Foreign Office said on its Web site that public services at the British embassy in Khartoum will be suspended on Sunday and Monday as a precaution. Mustafa Elsayed Elkhalil, health minister for the Al-Gadarif federal state which governs Saraf Saeed, says the water, which is supposed to be a source of life, is the "real source of our health problems". On Saturday the British embassy in Khartoum issued a notice to Britons living in Sudan to be vigilant. Police arrested eight Sudanese in connection with the stores, which mostly contained grenades and ammunition, sources at the interior ministry said. Some local Sudanese papers initially reported that foreign Islamists had been arrested but an interior ministry source played down fears of terrorist attacks. The updated travel advice comes after Sudanese police found three weapons caches in the capital during the past week. Three of the village's five natural wells have been contaminated in recent weeks by floodwaters. We advise against all but essential travel to Khartoum," the Foreign Office said. Western interests, including British official interests, may be targeted.