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Fundamentalist Islamic authorities in Sudan inflicted the physical punishment of 50 lashes on a teenage Christian girl for dressing ‘indecently’ in public. The...
made popular Nov 28 2009
At least 47 people have been killed in fighting between rival groups in southern Sudan in the latest round of bloody clashes in the troubled region.
This attack was...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Visitors to Rier, in southern Sudan, are welcomed by a large rectangular tank and a freshly-painted sign trumpeting the White Nile Petroleum Operating Company’s...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Thousands had gathered under the shade of the trees by the airstrip in Akobo, waiting for the arrival of a United Nations helicopter packed with food aid.
Bony-armed...
made popular Nov 7 2009
Air raids may no longer target the highlands of central Sudan, but heads still turn sharply to scan the skies at the sound of an aeroplane engine overhead.
The Nuba...
made popular Nov 4 2009
Being a Kenyan citizen, sometimes I wonder what would bring an end to the elusive drought that has claimed quite a number of lives as well as animals. I would be quick...
made popular Oct 28 2009
President Obama’s Sudan strategy, announced this week, is consistent with his approach to foreign policy elsewhere: Engage, don’t isolate. Hold out carrots,...
made popular Oct 21 2009
The Obama administration’s new policy toward Sudan, formally announced Monday, turns the spotlight back on where the troubled nation’s problems first began:...
made popular Oct 20 2009
A Sudanese court sentenced four Islamists to death for a second time on Monday for the murder of a US diplomat and his driver in Khartoum last year.
The sentencing...
made popular Oct 12 2009
Gunmen from the Lou Nuer tribe attacked a village of the Dinka Hol tribe on Sunday, driving away security forces who were guarding the remote settlement, Duk...
made popular Sep 22 2009
A Sudanese woman has been jailed for a month after refusing to pay a fine for “dressing indecently” by wearing trousers, her lawyers say.
Lubna Ahmed...
made popular Sep 8 2009
This is not about pants, Lubna Hussein insists. It is about principles.
A woman should be able to wear what she wants and not be publicly whipped for it, says Mrs....
made popular Sep 7 2009
Tribesmen trying to steal cattle attacked a village in southern Sudan, sparking a conflict that killed 46 people, including seven soldiers, the U.N. said Monday.
The...
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Activists mostly based in the US argue that a genocide is still being carried out against non-Arab tribes scattered across the area’s arid wastes.
But General...
made popular Aug 28 2009
In the war-devastated South Sudan, a region with a population of over eight million people, Yeneneh Mulugeta is the only permanent ophthalmologist.
Dozens visit the...
made popular Aug 18 2009
The Christian police crackdown on young women wearing trousers or short skirts follows an order from the commissioner of Juba county, the capital of southern Sudan....
made popular Aug 4 2009
A Sudanese woman journalist was preparing to be flogged 40 times in Khartoum on Wednesday for wearing “indecent” clothes, with 10 women already whipped for...
made popular Jul 29 2009
In almost every bed in Ward Two of Nasir hospital in South Sudan, there lies a patient with a bullet wound.
“I was hit in my leg, when the soldiers started...
made popular Jul 8 2009
Tracy McVeigh and John Domokos report on the challenges facing southern Sudan Link to this video
Corline Timon shrugged her AK-47 off her shoulder and held it out in...
made popular Jun 22 2009
President Obama’s special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration, said Wednesday that the Sudanese government is no longer engaging in a...
made popular Jun 18 2009
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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...
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