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Sudanese officials who deny and deceive the world about crimes committed in Sudan's western Darfur region might face criminal charges, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday.
In an African country 7,000 miles away from Muncie, a group called the Janjaweed has murdered 300,000 people. But the people don’t expect their government to protect them from the Janjaweed.
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CAIRO -- Of all the events in contemporary history, it is the soul-shattering military defeat of 1967, when Arab armies lost land to Israel, that some Egyptians have pointed to for comparison as the nation struggles to come to terms with the debacle that followed their loss to Algeria in a soccer game.
The children of this dusty village rarely see cars or trucks, but they fashion toy airplanes out of mud with paper propellers that turn in a hot, dry wind. It's what they know.
The issues discussed in this blog are ongoing. What is written here is a snapshot of the situation, but the developing world is always, well, developing. These issues don’t disappear when we stop talking about them. So, as this will be the last blog post of the semester, I thought it would be fitting to revisit some of the issues discussed in the previous months to see how they have developed in ...
Britain's Prince Charles exits an African hut that is to be shipped to Southern Sudan as part of a new school construction during a visit to the Weymouth Training Centre in, Dorchester, England.
Sudan will never comply with a warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) to hand over President Omar al-Bashir to face charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, Sudan's ambassador to the United Nations told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
U.S. Department of State Launches Open Government Initiative Washington, DC December 9, 2009 The Department of State is releasing unprecedented new information about conflicts in Africa, making it possible to analyze sub-national and transnational areas of armed conflict, inter-communal strife, and political violence. This work represents only the beginning of an ongoing commitment across all ...
After fleeing his Sudanese home and moving across the world, Big East play can't seem too intimidating to Ater Majok. Majok, a 6-foot-11, 233-pound freshman on the Connecticut basketball team, has had many stops along the way to landing in Storrs to play for legendary coach Jim Calhoun.
The Secretary-General placed on record his strong condemnation of the 5 December attack the second in two days, on troops from the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID). The second attack took place at Shangil Tobaya in North Darfur, where the UNAMID troops were providing water to local civilians.
COPENHAGEN -- It is one of the grim paradoxes of climate change that nations on the front line of global warming are among those with the least political clout at the United Nations conference that opened this week in Copenhagen.
When Chad Stokes graduated from high school in Sherborn, he decided to postpone college and go to Africa instead. After six months in Zimbabwe, he returned to the United...
U.S. Condemns Use of Violence Against Protestors in Sudan Ian Kelly Department Spokesman , Bureau of Public Affairs , Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC December 8, 2009 The United States condemns the use of violence against and detentions of peaceful protestors and opposition political figures by Sudanese authorities on December 7, 2009 in Omdurman, Sudan. We condemn all acts of violence in ...
The United States on Tuesday condemned political violence and arrests in Sudan in the wake of unrest in the troubled African country, and urged Khartoum to "allow freedom of expression and peaceful demonstrations."
At the FPA’s Global Film Review Blog my colleague Sean Patrick Murphy takes a look at God Grew Tired of Us, a 2007 documentary tracing three of Sudan’s “lost boys” from a refugee camp to the United States, where they have to adjust to an entirely different life while reconciling with their pasts. I concur [...]
