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Sudanese Journalists Arrested at Censorship Rally

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Sudanese Journalists Arrested at Censorship Rally

Police in Sudan arrested more than 60 journalists during a protest against media censorship, report by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the...

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Darfur fears of crisis as aid agencies leave the region

Sudan's president Omar al Bashir has been issued with an international arrest warrant, and so has expelled aid groups from the Darfur region. Today no aid workers showed up to the Zamzam Camp leaving refugees to try and figure out how they are going to get water and food and...

created by Amy Judd | 42 wks ago
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Sudan's President Defies Arrest Warrant

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has rejected the arrest warrant against him issued by the International Criminal Court. He told thousands of supporters in the capital Khartoum that Sudan would not "kneel" to colonialists. Mr Bashir faces two counts of war crimes and five...

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created by Rachel Nixon | 42 wks ago | updated 42 wks ago
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Hijacked Sudanese plane Lands in Libya

This is a developing story. We welcome your news, photos and videos, or comments. BBC is reporting that Hijackers have released few passengers. " The hijackers of a Sudanese plane flown to Libya have started to free some of the women and children on board, Libyan...

created by julianw | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Mia Farrow To Air "Darfur Olympics"

Mia Farrow has spent much of the last several years raising awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Darfur and she has been an outspoken critic of China's role in Sudan. As the Olympic games begin today in...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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George Clooney Tells Us, "Peace Must be Waged"

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UN council set to renew Darfur peacekeeping mandate

The UN Security Council is going to renew the mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur today, as the council is ready to discuss the fact that President Omar Hassan al-Bashir needs to be brought to justice for the...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Plan to send Mideast refugees to Sudan draws protest

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Plan to send Mideast refugees to Sudan draws protest

Is Sudan the only place to save those refugee?! Is that the right choice?! Do UNCHR fully aware about the safety for those refugee?!"Palestinian refugees along the Iraq-Syria border are so desperate, they may...

created by renovatio | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Prosecutor seeks to charge Sudan's president - 14 July 08

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Charges of Darfur genocide pose no threat to Sudanese leader's rule

Sudan's president has showed no signs of giving in to pressure today for his surrender for war crimes in Darfur. He has received a lot of support from the Arab and African world, so he's not ready to give in yet -...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Sudan: Pro government demonstration as foreigner´security is guaranteed

2,000 pro government Sudanese demonstrated in Khartoum on Sunday to oppose international attempts to indict President Omar al-Beshir for alleged war crimes in Darfur. Yesterday, African Union also expressed opposition to such move by both United States and International...

created by rahul | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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BREAKING NEWS: Plane with 180 aboard crashes in ___

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Sudan air crash death toll still unknown

The death toll is still unknown in the plane crash that happened in the Sudan yesterday. Investigators are searching passenger lists and examining the wreckage to try and determine what caused the plane to veer...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Rebel armies on the move to central Sudan

Armed conflict in Sudan is escalating as rival troops from north and south Sudan are converging on the oil-rich region of Abyei in central Sudan."UN regional co-ordinator for South Sudan David Gressley said the country was "on the brink". The warning follows recent clashes in...

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Darfur rebels retreat from Khartoum

Sudanese officials said that Darfur rebels have retreated from their attack on the capital this past Saturday. But rebel commanders announced that they will attack again."Suleiman Sandal, a Jem commander,...

created by cynthia yoo | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Sudan says rebel attack on Khartoum defeated

Darfur's government is saying that the attack earlier today in a suburb of Khartoum by Sudanese troops was defeated."It was the first time fighting had reached the city in decades of conflict between the...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Freed Al-Jazeera cameraman details horrors of Gitmo

Journalist Sami Al-Hajj has been returned to Sudan after six years of imprisonment, and is speaking out publicly about the conditions he endured in Guantanamo Bay.Some of his most powerful words came Friday: “My last message to the US administration,” he concluded,...

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How To Buy a Gun In Darfur

" My first glimpse into the flow of small arms into Darfur began at 4:45 on a February morning in 2006. The lights were off in the first-class Sudan Airways lounge at Khartoum International Airport. Sitting to my left was Abdallah, resplendent in white robes, sporting...

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