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WCMH Columbus - Tue Dec 8, 10:02 am ET
In an attempt to extend medical care to people abroad, local Hilliard resident Steve Walker is heading up a project to build a health-care clinic in Piol, Sudan, a village that witnessed incredible death and destruction during the Second Sudanese War.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 8, 8:46 am ET
A former Darfur rebel group said on Tuesday it captured three gunmen who killed five Rwandan peacekeepers in attacks in the restive province last week.
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Amnesty International - Tue Dec 8, 4:07 am ET
Amnesty International today strongly condemned a violent crackdown by Sudanese security forces on protestors gathered outside parliament in Khartoum and said it received reports that those arrested had been tortured while detained
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Amnesty International - Tue Dec 8, 4:06 am ET
Amnesty International has strongly condemned a violent crackdown by Sudanese security forces on political protests in Khartoum on Monday.
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New York Times - Tue Dec 8, 12:34 am ET
The police arrested several top opposition leaders at a protest in the capital, Khartoum, on Monday
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INO News - Mon Dec 7, 7:26 pm ET
(RTTNews) - Thousands of people took to the streets in the Sudanese capital city of Khartoum on Monday, demonstrating against the arrests of three senior officials from the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), a coalition partner in the Sudanese power-sharing government.
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United Nations - Mon Dec 7, 7:00 pm ET
On 4 December at approximately 4:15 p.m. local time, a military convoy of the UN-African Union Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) escorting a water tanker, was ambushed by unidentified armed assailants at Saraf Umra in North Darfur.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Mon Dec 7, 6:36 pm ET
UNITED NATIONS - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is seeking help from Sudan's president to free two members of the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur who have been held hostage for more than 100 days.
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Boston Globe - Mon Dec 7, 4:48 pm ET
The U.N. and a U.S. advocacy group warned that the detention of three senior southern Sudanese politicians during a crackdown Monday on pro-reform protesters in Khartoum could undermine the country's upcoming elections and its fragile north-south peace deal.
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The Times Record - Mon Dec 7, 4:44 pm ET
TOPSHAM — Fourth-graders at Woodside Elementary School welcomed eight very special “teachers” to their school Friday morning.
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The Maryville Daily Times - Mon Dec 7, 3:27 pm ET
One Maryville native has devoted most of her adult life to humanitarian efforts and is proudly serving in one of the greatest conflicts of our time. Emily Chambers recently spoke with Alcoa High School students about working in West Darfur.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 2:39 pm ET
Southern protesters torched an office of Sudan's ruling party after Khartoum police arrested three leaders and dozens of demonstrators on Monday in a crackdown against a pro-reform rally.
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SouthtownStar - Mon Dec 7, 2:23 pm ET
When Aala Mohamed, a senior at Universal School, was traveling in Sudan several years ago, she saw two little girls running behind her van. "Their clothes were tattered and their rib cages were showing," she recalled. But the girls didn't want food — they wanted pencils to be able to write. This past summer Mohamed organized a follow-up trip to Sudan to help other children in the same plight.
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 2:17 pm ET
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Monday strongly condemned the killing of five Rwandan peacekeepers in Sudan's Darfur region. Unknown gunmen attacked the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Friday and Saturday, resulti...
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EARTHtimes.org - Mon Dec 7, 2:17 pm ET
Lima - Five people were killed Monday in an explosion and subsequent fire at their home in Lima that was apparently caused by fireworks, police said. The home in a slum of Lima's San Juan de Miraflores district was apparently being used to store gunp...