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Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Mon Nov 30, 3:10 pm ET
Nigerian soccer player Stephen Worgu, who was sentenced to 40 lashes in Sudan after being convicted of drunk driving, said on Monday he would move to Europe if he got a suitable offer.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 11:06 am ET
Discontented young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 10:50 am ET
Discontent young Sudanese are campaigning for change in what will be for many the first multi-party elections in their lifetime, urging the opposition to unite against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
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USA Today - Mon Nov 30, 12:41 pm ET
The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work around the world next year, with Sudan and its troubled Darfur region most in need and Afghanistan rising to second.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 23, 4:19 pm ET
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.
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AP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 7:50 pm ET
A judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court has denied a request by military prosecutors to expand their case against a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 27, 7:35 am ET
A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudan's Islamic law into the spotlight.
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IRIN - Wed Dec 2, 9:30 am ET
TORIT, 2 December 2009 (IRIN) - An ancient tradition of community governance in Southern Sudan could encourage peace-building among warring communities, say researchers.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Mon Nov 30, 1:33 pm ET
A Darfur gang which says it kidnapped three French aid workers in Chad and the Central African Republic threatened on Monday to kill the trio unless Paris negotiates directly with them, a spokesman for the shadowy group said.
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The Dakota Student - Fri Dec 4, 5:06 pm ET
At eight years old, Emmanuel Jal carried an AK-47; today, the world renowned hip hop artist from deep within Sudan holds a microphone and a voice that carries with it all of the pain of his past, his intense passion and his hope for change in the world. "It's a long story," Jal said in reference to his life.
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Santa Barbara Independent - Fri Dec 4, 3:40 pm ET
Into Sudan with UCSB grad and Cottage Hospital ER doc Jason Prystowsky.
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Honolulu Advertiser - Fri Dec 4, 7:14 am ET
Prolonged starvation left a 12-year-old Honolulu girl so emaciated that she resembled someone "from Darfur or a concentration camp in World War II," a prosecutor said in court yesterday. The child's parents, Melvin and Denise Wright, were sentenced to life in prison for attempting to starve their daughter to death in 2007, and Senior Deputy Prosecutor Maurice Arrisgado said he will ask the Hawai ...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 28, 8:52 am ET
A Sudanese Christian teenager has been lashed 50 times for wearing what a judge considered an "indecent" knee-length skirt, her lawyer said on Saturday.
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The Huffington Post - Tue Dec 1, 11:01 am ET
I just listened to U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell's press conference on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the other day. Given the...
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Strategy Page - Fri Dec 4, 5:18 am ET
December 4, 2009: Last year, alarmed at how vulnerable their peacekeepers were without helicopters, Ireland hurriedly leased two Mi-8 helicopters from a Ukrainian firm, for use in Chad (where a battalion of Irish were serving along the Sudan border).