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Khartoum's U.N. envoy, rejecting a bleak U.N. assessment of the situation in Sudan's conflict-torn western Darfur region, said on Monday it was time for international peacekeepers to prepare to leave.
A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan's Islamic law into the spotlight.
A Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an "indecent" knee-length skirt, her lawyer said on Saturday.
Sudan may be unable to hold credible elections in coming months because the ruling party and opposition cannot agree on ground rules for the polls, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday that she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.
NAIROBI, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of former combatants in Darfur, western Sudan, have been discharged in a process that targets 5,000 members of various fighting groups, the AUUN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said. The discharge took place from 22-24 November, in El Fasher town.
Hundreds of Sudanese refugees from the U.S. and abroad gathered in Council Bluffs this week to talk about helping the war-torn country they left behind, as well as adjusting to their adopted homeland.
A 16-year old Christian girl from southern Sudan has been lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by the authorities in the north.
CAIRO -- A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.Silva Kashif said she was arrested by a plainclothes policeman in a Khartoum market last week for wearing a skirt beneath the knee. She was convicted of offending public morality and received 50 ...
Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed Hussein said Tuesday she had donned a full Islamic veil to sneak out of Sudan and travel to France, two months after she was freed from jail for wearing trousers.
U.S. Special Envoy Gration Trip Summary Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC November 27, 2009 The United States Special Envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, has just returned from a November 16-November 23 trip to Sudan. He traveled to the areas of Khartoum, Abyei, and Darfur. In Khartoum, the two parties to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA)—the National Congress Party (NCP) and the ...
A missionary group from a Kansas City church is raising money to build a school for children in Sudan.
The Sudanese journalist briefly jailed for wearing "indecent trousers" said Wednesday she might not return to her country but instead continue her campaign for women's rights from abroad.
LOS ANGELES — Shareholders at American Funds, among the biggest fund families with $900 billion, have rejected a measure that seeks to screen out investments possibly linked to genocide in Sudan's Darfur region and other international hot spots.
