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Of course, the northern Sudanese regime is lousy and has committed great crimes and massacres against the people of south Sudan and genocide in catercorner Darfur.
But Sudan was not always what it is today. The regime currently running the north is..
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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged Rwanda on Wednesday not to end its peacekeeping operations in Sudan as he sought to defuse rising tensions over a...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has flown to Rwanda to discuss the country’s threat to withdraw its UN peacekeepers from Sudan if the United Nations publishes a...
made popular Sep 8 2010
It’s not often you hear about Muslims and Christians in Africa (or anywhere else) working together peacefully, reaching across a humongous religious divide to...
made popular Apr 1 2010
Two French hostages seized in the Central African Republic on 22 November have been freed in neighbouring Darfur, the French foreign minister says.
Bernard Kouchner...
made popular Mar 15 2010
Since the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest against Sudan’s president Omar Al-Bashir in connection with atrocities committed in the country,...
made popular Feb 23 2010
The president of Sudan, who is already facing an international arrest warrant, came under new legal scrutiny on Wednesday when appeals judges at The Hague reopened the...
made popular Feb 6 2010
The International Criminal Court will reconsider bringing genocide charges against Sudan’s president after judges upheld an appeal by prosecutors.
Last year, an...
made popular Feb 4 2010
The number of people needing food aid in south Sudan has quadrupled in a year to more than four million, the UN’s World Food Programme says.
The WFP wants to...
made popular Feb 3 2010
Not all Muslims hate Israel. Sure, most Arab Muslims do, but African Muslims sing a different story, especially those from Darfur. Of course, they would understand,...
made popular Jan 27 2010
Two Rwandan peacekeepers have been killed and three seriously wounded in Sudan’s Darfur region, the joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force says.
A spokesman...
made popular Dec 5 2009
As it is well known internationally, Darfur is suffering a wide range of unbelievable human rights violations and atrocities by which a comprehensive system of...
made popular Dec 12 2008
Seventy years ago last weekend, the Holocaust began. On the night of November 9th-10th, 1938 Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked by Nazi...
made popular Nov 18 2008
A disputed region in Sudan could turn into another conflict to rival that in Darfur, a think-tank has warned. The International Crisis Group said the main political...
made popular Oct 25 2008
The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Argentine Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has sought the arrest of the first sitting head-of-state to be...
made popular Aug 30 2008
While we were busy grumbling over our economic problems, Arab militiamen known as the janjaweed were busy butchering thousands of black African civilians in Darfur,...
made popular Aug 19 2008
made popular Jul 16 2008
The craze in recent months has been to climb the New York Times 8th Ave building in order to bring attention to ones pet cause.
Recent climbers include French climber...
made popular Jul 16 2008
OMAR Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, was yesterday charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, his country’s western province.
made popular Jul 17 2008
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The International Criminal Court has accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of genocide in Darfur. Around 300,000 people have died since rebels took up arms in 2003....
made popular Jul 15 2008
Why are African leaders turning against their own people? International Criminals Court has accused Sudan head for serious crimes against rebellous civilians of...
made popular Jul 16 2008
The Republic of Chad, situated between Niger to the west and Sudan to the east, will be celebrating nearly half a century of independence in a month. But this central...
made popular Jul 12 2008
The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...
made popular May 13 2008
Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) called the attention of the faithful to the sufferings of Africa during his midday audience on Sunday, April 27.
After leading the...
made popular Apr 29 2008
The number of deaths in Sudan’s Darfur region since 2006 may have been underestimated by as much as 50 percent, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian...
made popular Apr 23 2008
‘Well what would you do in your country?” That was the question a group of Darfuri refugees put to an aid worker in their camp near the Sudanese border 18...
made popular Apr 24 2008
All Darfuris are Muslim and black. The “African” and “Arab” distinctions pertain more to lifestyle and livelihood categories. Comprising 35% of the population...
made popular Apr 24 2008
This photo by Kevin Carter won the “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 and became a symbol of the Sudan famine at the time. The picture depicts stricken girl crawling towards...
made popular Apr 20 2008
US President George W Bush has defended his decision not to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur, despite what he calls a genocide taking place there.
He...
made popular Feb 15 2008
Film director Steven Spielberg and actress Mia Farrow joined activists worldwide Tuesday in using the Olympics as a backdrop to address human rights concerns, urging...
made popular Feb 13 2008
# According to a new study, mass killings reported as statistics fail to tickle human emotions while a person’s accidental death reported on the evening news can...
made popular Jan 14 2008
Life for them holds no importance it’s just a synonym with sexual slavery. Feelings, which evoke a sense of liveliness, have relinquished them, at least, for this...
made popular Aug 15 2007
Since the beginning of the tragic chapter of Sudan’s history in 2003 more than 200,000 have been killed and more than 2 million have been displaced but the first...
made popular Aug 3 2007
Tougher US sanctions are now in place against Sudan on the Darfur crises. Will these sanctions really lead to any visible and positive change on the ground is any...
made popular May 30 2007
Millions of civilians are paying the price for nearly four years of unkept promises and empty commitments. Darfur, is long calling for the imposition of strong...
made popular May 29 2007
With the Darfur genocide having spilled into neighbouring Chad, the United Nations needs to act fast and put in place a peacekeeping force to provide security among...
made popular Feb 17 2007
Bathed in the blood of more than 200,000 innocents, Darfur has put the world at shame. Screaming with wounds of rape, murder and devastation, the region is an epitome...
made popular Dec 11 2006
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Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger, right, shakes hands with Djibril Bassole, left, joint African Union and United Nations chief mediator for Darfur, prior to their talks in Vienna, Austria, Wednesday April 22, 2009.
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