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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/01/AR2005080100376.html

Sudanese VP, former rebel leader Garang killed in helicopter
crash
Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 12:40pm
Sudan's vice president and former southern rebel leader John Garang
has died in a helicopter crash, officials said, dealing a blow to a
landmark peace deal signed in January with Khartoum to end more than
20 years of civil war. "The presidency has followed the reports about the
disappearance of the aircraft of Sudanese Vice-President John Garang
and it is confirmed beyond doubt that it crashed in the Amatonj
mountains," said a statement from Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir.
"It resulted in the death of John Garang and six people accompanying
him as well as seven members of the crew of the Ugandan presidential
aircraft," said the statement, which was read on state television. The
Amatonj mountains are in the Eastern Equatorial province of Sudan near
the border with Uganda. A Ugandan official later said in Kampala that
the wreckage of a crashed Ugandan helicopter and the bodies Garang
and the 13 other people on board had been located in a remote area of
southern Sudan. Full Story

( I didn't get the link for the above article, L.A. Times maybe, the above link is to the riot story below, the newsletter fought me on clipping it, and the site would not open for me, so all I got was the clipping...granny)

Sudan Turns Violent After Garang's Death
Posted on Monday, August 1, 2005 at 6:52pm
Rioters burned cars and threw stones in Sudan's capital on Monday after
a helicopter crash killed the country's vice president, who until recently
was a southern rebel leader. Sudanese leaders appealed for calm and
said the nation's peace process would remain on track. But some
southern Sudanese said they were suspicious about the circumstances of
the death of John Garang, who was a key figure in a fledgling peace deal
between the predominantly Arab Muslim government and the Christian
south. Full Story