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Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on Monday threatened to attack any election officials that came into their territory, underlining the challenges facing the country's first multi-party poll in 24 years.
MALAKAL, 9 November 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of cases of kala azar (also known as visceral leishmaniasis), a parasitic disease transmitted by the sand fly, have been reported in Southern Sudan in the past month, aid workers and doctors have said.
CHARLESTON — Hundreds of drawings by children from Darfur and Sri Lanka star in the new documentary, “Crayons and Paper,” which will screen at 7 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Doudna Fine Arts Center.
Southern Sudan is facing a "serious outbreak" of the deadly kala azar tropical disease, the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) warned on Friday.
Actress Mia Farrow has taken her passion for the affairs of Sudan to the Toronto Star newspaper in Canada, agreeing to pen a column for the publication this weekend (08Nov09).
SUDAN — Searchers have recovered the body of a missing Cypriot paraplegic diver.
SUDAN — Neither Cypriot nor Sudanese governments have done anything to help locate Dimitris Matsas, a Cypriot paraplegic diver who has been missing since Sunday, friends and family said yesterday.
June 3 We arrive in the steamy small town of Awiel, with the various U.N. aircraft bringing us to this remote spot becoming progressively smaller with each segment of the trip. Now we will embark upon a multi-day road trip that will take us through three states in southern Sudan and close to the troubled areas of South Darfur in the north of Sudan.
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that a French staff member was abducted last night by several armed men in eastern Chad, near the border with Sudan.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Obama administration prepared to unveil its new policy toward Sudan, more than one hundred rabbis from around the country sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to take stronger steps to counter the Darfur genocide.
Turkish officials say Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will not attend a summit of Islamic leaders in Istanbul Monday.
Cross-posted from the Department of State's blog . On October 19, Secretary Clinton, accompanied by Ambassador Rice and myself, released the Obama Administration’s new comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan. As mentioned in my past blog post , the strategy focuses on three major areas: ending the conflict in Darfur, implementing the North-South Comprehensive ...
It’s not every day that people see a group of high-schoolers walking from class to class wearing pedicure flip-flops on their feet.
China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in new low interest loans to African nations over three years, offering the beleaguered continent sorely needed cash while dismissing criticism that Beijing's motives in Africa are far from altruistic.
JUBA, 5 November 2009 (IRIN) - Sudan has started registering voters for presidential, legislative and regional elections, but officials in the south and international observers say the process has begun on a flawed note.
Tucked into a grimy building in Guangzhou, a small band of Chinese master carvers chip away at ivory tusks with chisels, fashioning them into the sorts of intricate carvings that were prized by Chinese emperors.
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