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 Re: طائرة جون قرنق تهبط بسلام فى احدى المعسكرات بالجنوب (Re: هاشم نوريت)
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By Khaled Abdel-Aziz and Daniel Wallis
KHARTOUM/KAMPALA (Reuters) - Sudanese state TV said on Sunday reports indicated the aircraft carrying ex-rebel and Vice-President John Garang, feared missing en route from Uganda, had landed safely in southern Sudan.
"Reports indicate that the aircraft of the first vice-president John Garang landed safely in a camp in the south," state television said in a brief statement.
A source in Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), reached by phone in Nairobi, said he was fine. He would not comment on speculation of an accident, a potentially dangerous turn of events for Sudan's peace process.
"Dr. Garang is fine," the SPLM source said.
Uganda's military said they were involved in a search for the aircraft, which left on Saturday night to take Garang -- who waged a two-decade war against Khartoum from southern Sudan until January -- back home.
He had been meeting Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
"What we know is they left here, they went and we don't know where they are," Uganda military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Shaban Bantariza said. "There has been no communication back."
Before the state TV report, a senior Sudanese government official who declined to be identified said a combined Sudanese-Ugandan-Kenyan search was in progress but had stopped because of darkness. "It will resume tomorrow morning," he said.
The official said Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir Bashir and Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha were holding an emergency meeting in Khartoum.
"The aircraft was going from Uganda to New Site in southern Sudan when it lost contact last night. We don't know what happened because there is no communication," he added.
Four helicopters could be seen flying search patterns over Kitgum District in northern Uganda, near southern Sudan, a United Nations security source in the region said.
The 21-year civil war ended with an historic peace deal in January, the terms of which gave Garang the vice-presidency on July 9. Crowds greeted his arrival in Khartoum.
Confusion over Garang's fate spread consternation around the region.
"This is the biggest crisis we have faced in Sudan in 20 years," said Dan Eiffe, a respected humanitarian advocate who has worked in Sudan for 18 years.
"At best he is seriously injured and at worst he is dead. He is the hope of everything. People's hopes are pinned on him."
The war started in 1983 when the Islamist Khartoum government tried to impose Islamic Sharia law on the mainly Christian and animist south.
Garang arrived in Uganda on a charter flight on Friday on a personal visit, and was then flown on Museveni's helicopter to meet the Ugandan president at his ranch at Rwakitura, about 300 km (190 miles) southwest of Kampala.
They were said to have discussed the civil war in northern Uganda and the political future of southern Sudan.
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