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Deseret News - Sat Dec 5, 1:36 pm ET
Gunmen killed five Rwandan soldiers in a series of attacks on the international peacekeeping force in Darfur, a spokesman for...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Dec 4, 12:31 am ET
United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon has named his special envoy to Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, as new head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Ban's office said Thursday on its website.
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Deseret News - Sat Dec 5, 10:36 am ET
CAIRO (AP) — A spokesman for the peacekeeping force in Darfur says gunmen have killed three Rwandan soldiers in an...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Thu Dec 3, 2:27 pm ET
President Barack Obama's administration Thursday defended a new policy of engagement with Sudan in the face of withering attacks from lawmakers who said Washington is placating war criminals.
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The Christian Post - Tue Dec 1, 9:36 am ET
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.
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Miami Herald - Thu Dec 3, 3:08 pm ET
A military judge dealt the Pentagon a double-barreled blow Thursday, rebuffing a bid to include al Qaeda 's 1992-96 founding era in a Sudanese captive's war crimes case and separately ordering the government to put on a show-cause hearing Jan. 6.
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The Huffington Post - Fri Dec 4, 12:00 pm ET
After all is said and done, chucking a sitting head of state for war crimes into The Hague is akin to regime change. If we're going down that route, we might as well start with Switzerland.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 2, 2:48 pm ET
Sudanese opposition parties and former rebel groups from the south could field a single challenger to Omar al-Beshir in next year's presidential elections, senior politicians said on Wednesday.
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CNN - 32 minutes ago
Flying high above the dry, sweeping plains of southern Sudan, Paul Elkan is a man on a mission.
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IRIN - Thu Dec 3, 5:45 am ET
KASSALA, 3 December 2009 (IRIN) - Eastern Sudan hosts more than 66,000 registered Eritrean refugees, the first of whom arrived in 1968 during the early years of Eritrea's war of independence against Ethiopia. These days, Eritrea's policy of indefinite military conscription, coupled with drought and poor economic opportunities, prompt some 1,800 people to cross into Sudan every month, according ...
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The Providence Journal - Fri Dec 4, 10:16 pm ET
Spiritual leader of Anglican Christians in Southern Sudan seeks support for his people
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The Huffington Post - Thu Dec 3, 3:30 pm ET
Testifying before the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health today at a hearing to review the administration's new Sudan policy, I expressed the Enough...
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AFP via Yahoo! News - Tue Dec 1, 2:16 pm ET
Sudan needs to redouble efforts to register voters ahead of its first elections in 24 years, international observers have said, amid denunciations of "irregularities" and even calls for a boycott.
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SouthtownStar - Mon Dec 7, 6:21 am 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 Nov 30, 2:46 pm ET
New York - Sudan's warring parties have begun a new round of talks, but they lack conviction for an agreement in the six-year conflict, a UN official said Monday. The talks in Doha were attended by representatives from all communities in Darfur, the ...