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With less than five months before national elections, leaders of Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) said the 2005 Sudanese Comprehensive Peace Agreement is on the brink of collapse.
CHINA Olympic cover-up brings punishment BEIJING | Dozens of local Chinese officials and reporters face prosecution for covering up a coal mine accident that killed 35 people just weeks before the Beijing Olympics, a newspaper reported Monday. Officials in Hebei province's Yuxian county paid journalists a total of $380,000 not to report the July 14, 2008, accident, in which 34 miners and one ...
A missionary group from a Kansas City church is raising money to build a school for children in Sudan.
The Sudanese journalist briefly jailed for wearing "indecent trousers" said Wednesday she might not return to her country but instead continue her campaign for women's rights from abroad.
LOS ANGELES — Shareholders at American Funds, among the biggest fund families with $900 billion, have rejected a measure that seeks to screen out investments possibly linked to genocide in Sudan's Darfur region and other international hot spots.
MARS HILL — Causes like helping refugees in Darfur are easy to support in theory and just as easy to forget if there is no practical way to make a difference.
A specter is haunting Africa -- the specter of Obama. All the governmental powers of repression and ineptitude have entered into a desperate alliance to...
MARS HILL, N.C. — Students at a North Carolina college were so inspired by the author of a summer reading assignment they launched a campaign to help refugees in war-torn Darfur.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Christian and Jewish clergy from around the country marked the anniversary of the Nuremberg trials last week by sending President Obama a petition urging him to recognize America's "moral responsibility" to arrest Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir and bring him to a Nuremberg-style trial for his role in the Darfur genocide.
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 1, 2009) - Allana Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AAA) ("Allana"or the "Company"), is pleased to announce that it has awarded a drilling contract to Emerson Moore Drilling Ltd. ("EMD") for its Ethiopian Potash Project. EMD has extensive drilling experience and has completed projects in Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, Georgia, Slovakia, Jamaica, Spain, Kenya, Sudan ...
On Thursday night, the short film, "Hope from Alaska," will take viewers into the world of Dr. Jill Seaman as she works to ease suffering and save lives in the remote and impoverished village of Old Fangak in southern Sudan.
JOHANNESBURG, 1 December 2009 (IRIN) - In all the talk about adapting to climate change, "scant attention" is being paid to "the dangers of ... [adaptation strategies] going astray in fragile and conflict-affected" countries, warned a report released on 28 November.
UN wants $7.1 bln for 2010 humanitarian work as Afghanistan rises to second spot on needs list
Harare - German investment in Zimbabwe continues to be under threat because of ongoing lawlessness in the southern African country, the German government protested in an official complaint to Zimbabwe, it emerged Tuesday. The letter sent by the Germa...
Nouakchott - Mauritanian security officials on Tuesday said they had located three Spanish aid workers abducted last week, police told the German Press Agency dpa. Military officials had begun negotiations with the hostage-takers, police said. ...
Sudan, the largest country in Africa, is on the verge of plunging into yet another north/south civil war. International failure to guarantee the key provisions of a linchpin peace agreement means that a renewed war could be the most widespread and destructive in the country's half century of independence.
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