The Football Battlefield

In the last few days, we’ve witnessed a bloody battle in the Middle East. Not at the borders of Palestine, not at the borders of Lebanon and not at the borders of Iraq, Syria, Pakistan or Afghanistan… but at...

Logistical Challenges Facing Sudan Elections

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) signed by the Khartoum regime in the north and rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), based in the south of Sudan, is approaching a decisive and possibly its most difficult-to-implement phase so far: the April 2010 elections....

Video Portrait #2 from Southern Sudan: Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach

This is Alberto Kuol Kuol Makuach’s story. During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed over a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. Each person offers an intimate view of their lives during the 21-year civil war and since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace...

Video Portrait #1 From Southern Sudan : Rose Achan Beryl

This is Rose Achan Beryl’s story. During a 7-week visit to Southern Sudan, I interviewed about a dozen Southern Sudanese men and women. Each one offers an intimate view of their lives during the 21-year civil war and since the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in...

Darfur hijack plans to be shared with UN humanitarian agencies

Press Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDateline: Nairobi, KenyaFriday, 2 October 2009 Darfur hijack plans to be shared with UN humanitarian agencies The Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), one of Darfur's largest...

South Sudan Faces Widespread Crop Failure, Food Crisis

Juba, South Sudan—The threat of a massive food deficit in South Sudan is growing, Action Against Hunger | ACF International cautioned today. The international organization is concerned about the humanitarian impact of a number of troubling developments: high staple food...

25 dead in fresh clashes:Sudan

Thats the way it is, at least in case of Sudan. Every day 20-30 people die in clashes, and so called government does nothing, but ask for aid.In latest incident 25 people died in clashes in upper Nile zone of...

43 people killed in Sudan clashes

Last day i reported about the end of Drafur crisis in Northern Sudan, but that hope was momentary.Today in southern Sudan more than 43 people died in clashes. Authorities says that more than 50 are seriously wounded." At least 43 people have been killed, including seven...

Call To Charge Torturers

Fantastic video from ACLU,    please  sign the petition if you can

Sudanese woman 'faces 40 lashes'

"A Sudanese woman who is due to appear in court in Khartoum says she faces up to 40 lashes for wearing trousers. The woman, Lubna Hussein - a former journalist who now works for the United Nations - has invited journalists and observers to the trial. " The woman arrested for...

Sudan women 'lashed for trousers'

"Several Sudanese women have been flogged as a punishment for dressing "indecently", according to a local journalist who was arrested with them. Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, who says she is facing 40 lashes, said she and 12 other women wearing trousers were arrested in a...

UN Security Council: Protect Civilians in Armed Conflict

"UN Security Council: Protect Civilians in Armed Conflict Council Should Turn Its Talk Into an Effective Response to Civilian Suffering June 22, 2009 Related Materials: Letter...

Abdelrazik - on the UN No Fly List has returned to Canada

A man, who went to visit his ailing mother in Sudan in 2003, finally returned home today.  Abousfian Abdelrazik was accused by Sudanese authorities of being an associate of Al-Quaida was stuck in Sudan for...

Ex-Rwanda minister jailed for genocide

A UN Court has given a 30 year jail sentence to a former minister in Rwanda, Callixte Kalimanzira for the 1994 genocide. He was accused of tricking thousands of minority Tutsis people to hide on a...

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