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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.
Amnesty International has learned that the Danish government has invited Sudanese President al Bashir to attend a meeting in Copenhagen on climate change in December.
A few months after she was arrested for wearing pants, Lubna Hussein was lounging around her home in a shady, upper-class neighborhood in this capital along the Nile River.
Monday’s Games GIRLS Olton 42, Lubbock Christian 32 O (n/a): Russell 17, Ivy 11; JV: O 30, LCHS 24. Others: Shallowater 74, Estacado 40; Sudan 72, River Road 23; Plains 37, Brownfield 32; Sundown 58, Morton 37; Loop 57, Meadow 42; Tahoka 36, Stanton 26.
Emmanuel Jal is fighting to give the youth of Sudan an education after his own childhood was stolen by war.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- UNICEF is asking religious leaders to pray Friday for Sudan's children on the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Right of the Child, an official said.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- China National Petroleum Corp. , the nation’s largest oil company, signed agreements with Sudan to expand a refinery in Khartoum and swap oil production assets.
Along with his 17 works of fiction, Oz was, and is, an homme engagé, a co-founder of Peace Now who spoke out in favor of the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians immediately following Israel’s heady victory in the Six-Day War. It took about 35 years before Israel’s prime ministers and America’s presidents, from both the left and the right, would all agree with him.
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Two Congolese militia leaders sent child soldiers and other fighters to wipe out a village in a revenge attack that left more than 200 men, women and children dead, a prosecutor told judges Tuesday at the International Criminal Court. "Some were shot in their sleep, some cut up with machetes to preserve bullets. Others were burned alive after their houses were set ...
The dispute between Egypt and Algeria over World Cup qualifiers played in Cairo and Khartoum should never have happened. Both countries should have taken a united stand against football’s worldwide scourge -- hooliganism.
It is often asserted that climate change will affect women the most in the developing world. That's because most women will have to walk farther for drinking water, work harder to grow food, pull daughters out of school to help with family chores, and fuss more about family hygiene as the world – and particularly the developing world – becomes a hotter, drier place to live.
SUDAN New delay hits election plans KHARTOUM | Sudan on Sunday announced a six-day delay to long-awaited elections to make up for holdups in registering millions of voters in the oil-producing country. Election officials have faced huge logistical challenges in rolling out the first multiparty polls in 24 years in Sudan, Africa's largest country. Sudan's National Elections Commission said it was ...
Imagine a full-scale farm right in the heart of New York City, in the deserts of Darfur or on the moon. While you might have to wait some time for your lunar lettuce, vertical farming technologies are increasing the possibilities of cultivating crops much more efficiently here on earth.
A secretive fellowship of powerful Christian politicians includes some names that have recently been prominent in the headlines: Sen. John Ensign, Rep. Bart Stupak and Rep. Joe Pitts. Writer Jeff Sharlet describes the men's involvement with the Family, and discusses recent developments within the group.
Nairobi - A United Nations-backed operation in the Democratic Republic of Congo has failed to neutralize the rebel group it targeted and exacerbated the humanitarian situation, according to a report due to be presented to the UN Security Council Wedn...
China National Petroleum Corp., the country's biggest oil and gas producer, said Friday it has signed agreements with Sudan to expand a refinery and swap oil production assets.
