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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.
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 [...]
With production levels of a half-million barrels of oil a day and rising, Sudan's oil should be a blessing for its people, but is it a curse?
Election officials from war-ravaged Sudan are on a cross-country voter registration campaign. For the first time in more than two decades, Sudanese refugees will have the chance to vote in a presidential election of their home country.
The U.N. chief phoned Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who has been charged with crimes against humanity, for the "sole purpose of an urgent humanitarian matter," the international body said Monday.
Sao Paulo - Police in the Brazilian cities of Sao Paulo and Rai de Janeiro regularly use excessive violence and resort to extra- judicial executions, a human rights group said in a report released Tuesday. Police officers in Rio de Janeiro and Sao P...
The Microtel Inn & Suites in Birmingham (Hoover), Alabama Is Hosting a Silent Auction to Benefit Neverthirst, a Birmingham-Based Non-Profit That Provides Clean Water Through the Local Church to the Poor in India, Sudan and Central African Republic; The Silent Auction Will Be at the Microtel Inn & Suites in Hoover on Thursday, December 10, 2009 From 4pm to 6pm
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called Sudan's president to seek help in freeing two members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who have been held hostage for more than 100 days, the U.N. said Monday.
Nairobi - Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan urged Kenya's leaders Tuesday to quicken the pace of reforms considered crucial to avoid a repeat of the violence that followed disputed presidential elections in December 2007. Annan broke...
Montevideo - The presidents of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela expressed Tuesday in Montevideo their total rejection of the recent general election in Honduras. Gathered in the Uruguayan capital for a summit of the South American...
Warsaw - Former Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa said Tuesday he could still feel effects of a back injury he suffered in Berlin a month ago and feels moments of numbness. It's still effecting me, Walesa told TVN 24 about the injury he suffered ...
