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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.
JUBA, 24 November 2009 (IRIN) - Suspected Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) fighters have attacked Nzara region of Southern Sudan at least three times this month, forcing civilians to flee their homes, local officials said.
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...
Only quick, concerted international action can avert a nationwide war and keep the peace.
CAIRO - A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by strict Islamic authorities. Silva Kashif said she...
Shareholders at American Funds have rejected a measure that seeks to screen out investments possibly linked to genocide in international hot spots like Sudan's Darfur region.
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.
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 ...
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.
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.
Doha - Qatar, which hosts talks between the government of Sudan and rebels from its western Darfur region, has expressed hope that a peace deal can be reached soon between the warring sides, media reports said Sunday. Minister of State for Foreign Af...
Experts fear the conflicts involving cattle, water and land may be just the beginning of climate-driven violence in Africa. At least 400 people have died in northern Kenya this year, the U.N. says. Have the climate wars of Africa begun?
BOLOGOVSKY, Russia — An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing at least 39 people and injuring scores of others, emergency officials said early today. The state-run railway said the derailment late Friday could have been the result of sabotage, raising fears that the luxury train, popular with business executives and government officials ...
WASHINGTON, D.C. The Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are giving U.S. financial institutions an additional six months to comply with regulations designed to ban Internet gambling.
