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Jul 21 2008, AP

The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on any possible indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister said on Monday.The African Union will make...

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Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

The African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to suspend action for a year on the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Darfur genocide charges, Nigeria’s foreign affairs minister said on Monday.The African Union will make the...

 
 
Jul 21 2008 by AP0 Comments

Nigerian foreign affairs minister says the African Union will ask the U.N. Security Council to defer the indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for a year.ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo is seeking an arrest warrant for al-Bashir on charges of...

 
 
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Nov 19 2007 by Sunit0 Comments

Somalia’s problems are getting worse day by day and there is a widespread belief that the war-ravaged country in the Horn of Africa would not be able to withstand the humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding in front of the civilized world. Since...

 
 
Oct 1 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

The Darfur conflict is getting worse by the day. What commenced as a common tussle between a militia and rebel groups in 2003 has now webbed in the entire world. The final full stop to the script doesn’t arrive in the perspective at all.

Some...

 
 
Sep 27 2007 by Subhankar0 Comments

Africa has made leaps towards the ideals of progress and advancement, but it’s not a secret that a lot of distance is yet to be covered. Much of Africa remain steeped in poverty, gun crime, warfare and economic crisis while for the likes of Zimbabwe...

 
 
Aug 2 2007 by Sarita0 Comments

The second largest cell phone manufacturer of Japan AU has launched wide array of concept phone designs. AU is quite a reputed name in the telecom sector of Japan. It is worthwhile pointing that AU was the first company to come up with sweet looking...

 
 
Jul 14 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Bloodshed, murder, looting and atrocities are nothing new but the recurrent malaise for many victimized Darfurians. However, there is some light at the end of the tunnel that they have been waiting for, since the fatal crises that began in Feb. 2003...

 
 
Jun 13 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Intense diplomatic pressure and fears of tough UN resolutions forced Sudan to succumb to take UN and AU help. With this assent, there is some light at the end of the tunnel that Darfuris are waiting long since the fatal crises began in Feb. 2003 that...

 
 
Jun 7 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Darfuris who were expecting the sigh of relief with UN and AU plans to deploy more than 23,000 troops, police, and Mobile infantry battalions for their security are at dismal due to unnecessary delay of Sudanese authorities to take decision and their...

 
 
May 25 2007 by Vinod0 Comments

Amid the human rights violations and fear of lives, Darfur seems to rejuvenate with the ray of hope that comes from UN and African Union’s peacekeeping plans. The genocide and unprecedented violence in Darfur that proved a scar on humanity due to...

 
 
Apr 11 2007 by Pankaj0 Comments

Did you hear that China using its influence to stop the crisis in Darfur. China urged Sudan on Monday to accept the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur, increasing the pressure on a key economic partner that Beijing has been criticized for...

 
 
Mar 29 2007 by Pankaj0 Comments

Mogadishu has returned to a nightmare only seen in the early days of the civil war. The fighting is worst since the war over the New Year to kick out the Islamists and put President Abdullahi Yusuf’s interim government in the capital.

The...

 
 
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Au pair Bianca Schulze, right, plays with Catherine Flowers, 4, left, and her twin brother William at the Flowers’ home in Kensington, Calif., on Tuesday, March, 25, 2008. The number of au pairs - young foreigners temporarily allowed into the United...