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Well over one hundred SAF troops were observed by the Panel on the morning of 19 May 2009 as they boarded an Azza ST-AKW aeroplane in Khartoum airport at 9 a.m. and disembarked at 10.15 a.m. in El Fasher airport from the same aeroplane. On 29 July 2009, the Panel observed military materiel being unloaded from Azza aircraft in El Fasher airport. On the same date, on the tarmac of the new airport of El Geneina, the Panel also observed an aeroplane of the Azza Aviation Company. At the time, the new El Geneina airport was closed to the public and was used only by SAF and special Government of the Sudan air traffic.
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