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A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
December 4, 2009: Last year, alarmed at how vulnerable their peacekeepers were without helicopters, Ireland hurriedly leased two Mi-8 helicopters from a Ukrainian firm, for use in Chad (where a battalion of Irish were serving along the Sudan border).
December 4, 2009: The Nuba Mountains lie in central Sudan, which puts the territory along a fault line between the national government (north Sudan) and the Government of South Sudan (GOSS, south Sudan).
A former top United Nations investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a 5-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region. Enrico Carisch, a Swiss national who until October led a U.N. panel looking into violations of the embargo, contrasted the efforts with those of the Bush administration, noting the previous ...
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has named his special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, as new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Ban's office said Thursday on its website.
A former top U.N. investigator on Thursday accused the Obama administration of failing to enforce a five-year-old arms embargo in Darfur, Sudan, and said weapons continue to flow into the region.
A judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court has denied a request by military prosecutors to expand their case against a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
The United States' special envoy to Sudan reluctantly agreed Thursday that he is negotiating with a government that is accused of carrying out genocide in Darfur in western Sudan.
To mark the Nov. 20 anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, 220 clergy representing five Christian and four Jewish denominations signed a petition urging President Barack Obama to bring about the arrest of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and bring him to a Nuremberg trial of his own.
The U.S. special envoy to Sudan voiced concern on Thursday about rising ethnic violence in its southern region and said Washington would step up efforts to help curb fighting ahead of nationwide elections next year.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 3, 2009) - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that Canada will contribute an additional $30 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its operations. This will help the WFP to meet the immediate food aid needs of vulnerable populations and respond to a range of humanitarian situations around the ...
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed the Enough...
A military judge dealt the Pentagon a double-barreled blow Thursday, rebuffing a bid to include al Qaeda 's 1992-96 founding era in a Sudanese captive's war crimes case and separately ordering the government to put on a show-cause hearing Jan. 6.
President Barack Obama's administration Thursday defended a new policy of engagement with Sudan in the face of withering attacks from lawmakers who said Washington is placating war criminals.
DARTMOUTH — A concert of African dance, drumming, and song directed by world renowned artist Kwabena Boateng Guest artists will include Abraham Kobena Adzenyah, Wes Brown, Scott Kessel, Abbie Chambers, Lauren Falabella, and Michael Ward.
The Bloomfield educator who inspired a communitywide effort to teach students about modern genocide has been invited to share what he has learned at a UNESCO international leadership forum in Rwanda.
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