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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.
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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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"The Plight and Promise of Africa: An Eckerd College Initiative" is a Tampa Bay communitywide effort that will promote dialogue about Africa both in and out of the classroom. (PRWeb Dec 1, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/eckerdcollege/africa/prweb3272574.htm
GENEVA — The United Nations asked Monday for $7.1 billion to pay for its humanitarian work aro...
WASHINGTON (BP)--Efforts by the Sudanese government to hire a U.S. lobbyist have been stopped, according to The Washington Post.
Manila - Somali pirates seized a Greek vessel with 28 people aboard, including 16 Filipinos, the Philippine foreign department said Tuesday. The MT Maran Centaurus was hijacked Monday about 750 nautical miles off the coast of the strife-torn country....
The School Committee delayed a vote on granting approval for the establishment of the “Darfur Sister Schools Club” at the Bromfield School.
Courtesy of Dr. David Reed Dr. Barbara Connor examines a pregnant woman at the Duk Lost Boys Clinic in southern Sudan in this undated photo from February 2008. Dr. Connor is leaving Sunday for her third trip to Sudan.
A hushed crowd filed into a standing-room-only space above the Escape Club in Amsterdam last week to hear the Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Maziar Bahari describe the four months he spent in a Tehran jail.
A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said. Lawyer - Murder - Crime - Organizations - In Memoriam
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World Without Genocide to launch book clubs By Audra Otto | Monday, Nov. 30, 2009 In January 2010, the Twin Cities-based nonprofit World Without Genocide will launch book clubs throughout Minnesota aimed at deepening understanding of genocide past and present and encouraging intercultural dialogue on human rights.
GENEVA, 30 November 2009 (IRIN) - The UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, John Holmes, urged donors not to squeeze funding to humanitarian emergencies while launching the annual Consolidated Appeal Process (CAP) in Geneva on 30 November.
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