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Sudanese officials who deny and deceive the world about crimes committed in Sudan's western Darfur region might face criminal charges, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said on Friday.
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).
Military prosecutors on Wednesday sought to persuade a judge in Guantanamo Bay's war crimes court to amend the charge sheet for a Sudanese detainee accused of being a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.
Sudan may be unable to hold credible elections in coming months because the ruling party and opposition cannot agree on ground rules for the polls, the U.S. State Department said on Friday.
Actress and Darfur activist Mia Farrow makes these pancakes every morning, saying it's "a Zen way of starting my day."
Afghanistan will become the costliest operation for the International Committee of the Red Cross next year, superseding Sudan, the agency said Tuesday as it sought to boost spending on medical care.
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 3, 2009) - The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today announced that Canada will contribute an additional $30 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its operations. This will help the WFP to meet the immediate food aid needs of vulnerable populations and respond to a range of humanitarian situations around the ...
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday that she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent
A 16-year-old Christian girl from southern Sudan said Friday she was lashed 50 times for wearing a skirt deemed indecent by authorities in the north who enforce a strict version of Islamic law.
The communist government led by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il must be investigated for crimes against humanity for alleged human rights violations including extreme torture, sexual slavery and prison brutality, defectors said Thursday.
NAIROBI, 26 November 2009 (IRIN) - Hundreds of former combatants in Darfur, western Sudan, have been discharged in a process that targets 5,000 members of various fighting groups, the AUUN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said. The discharge took place from 22-24 November, in El Fasher town.
A group of activists and North Korean defectors urged an international tribunal Thursday to investigate alleged human rights abuses in the North and put its authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il on trial.
File photo, 2008/ Courtesy Dr. David Reed/Beckie Bollin Patients wait their turn at the Duk Lost Boys Clinic last year. It is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. No one is turned away if they show up after hours because the staff lives nearby. Mothers carry their babies in baskets that they made from grass.
December 1, 2009: The government is responding to criticism from South Sudan, Congo, the Central African Republic (CAR), and the UN regarding the LRA. Earlier this year the government contended the LRA had been defeated in northern Uganda.
Gene Engle had never been far from his hometown of Hannibal, Mo., when in 1942 at age 20 he joined the Army Air Forces.
Hundreds of Sudanese refugees from the U.S. and abroad gathered in Council Bluffs this week to talk about helping the war-torn country they left behind, as well as adjusting to their adopted homeland.
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