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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.
CAIRO (AP) — 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.
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AMSTERDAM (JTA) -- A hushed crowd filed into a standing-room-only space above the Escape Club in Amsterdam last week to hear the Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Maziar Bahari describe the four months he spent in a Tehran jail.
One of a Kind Show and Sale Chicago: The show features original workfrom over 500 juried artists. Items include artwork in a variety ofmediums, furniture, clothing, holiday, jewelry and more.
‘Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime.”This was one of the tenets of the Peace Corps that I believed when I joined as a volunteer in the fall of 1967. After 40 years, I still believe in those words.Over the years, the Peace Corps has proved to be one of the best people-to-people diplomacy and development programs the U.S. offers to ...
What you need to know about the person shaping Turkey's muscular new foreign policy.
NEW YORK — One can only hope that Ater Majok is as good as advertised, because it sometimes seems as if the University of Connecticut is waiting for the young man from Australia (via Sudan) to save them from doing the necessary grunt work on the backboards.
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Unidentified gunmen, many riding on camels, killed 11 people in attacks on two villages in Sudan’s Darfur region, the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping mission said today.
It's the Turks—not the Iranians, as many observers claim—who are emerging as the war's real winners. In economic terms Turkey is running neck and neck with Iran as Iraq's biggest trading partner. And in terms of regional influence, Turkey has no rival.
University of North Florida I ntricately beaded wall hangings, hand-stitched pillows and photos of family and friends fill Rosa Yol's living room, reminding her where she's come from. The wall hangings were beaded by women from Yol's homeland of Sudan. The purple pillows came from Egypt, where Yol lived as a refugee for three years. The photos throughout the home are of people from Yol's past ...
Turkey is the surprising beneficiary of U.S. misadventures in the Middle East.
Three weeks have passed without news of two kidnapped civilians working for the joint United Nations African Union Mission in Darfur, a UNAMID spokesman said on Tuesday.
Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December.
France's foreign minister has praised the courage of a journalist who has led a fight against a law in Sudan allowing for women to be flogged for wearing pants.
Kampala - The president of Southern Sudan on Wednesday narrowly avoided becoming the second successive leader of the autonomous region to die in an air crash when a tyre burst on his plane just before take-off at an northern Ugandan airfield. Salva K...
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