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Hunt for Kony becomes a casualty of Central African Republic overthrow

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 04 (News Analysis) - The country's membership in the African Union has been suspended, putting a freeze on the AU's military effort there to catch notorious warlord Joseph Kony. ...

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From Peace Prize to Paralysis

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Jun. 09 (Opinion) - When a government devours its own people, as in Syria or Sudan, there are never easy solutions. That helps explain President Obama’s dithering, for there are more problems in international relations than solutions, and well-meaning interventions can make

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Starving Its Own Children

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Nicholas Kristof - Jun. 02 (Opinion) - Perhaps hundreds of thousands of people here have no food and are reduced to eating leaves and insects, as Sudan’s government starves and bombs its own people in the Nuba Mountains. Children are beginning to die. “Yes, my children may die,” Katum Tutu, a 28-year-old mother, told me. She recently lost her 2-year-old daughter, Maris, to starvation and has nothing to feed her four remaining children. “I think about it every day, but there’s nothing I can do,” she said.

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South Sudan awaits big China loan

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Apr. 28 (News Report) - South Sudan's president called China one of his country's "economic and strategic partners" Officials in South Sudan say China has agreed to loan it $8bn (£4.9bn) for major development projects.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Dodging Bombers in Sudan

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Nicholas D. Kristof - Feb. 22 (Opinion) - In Sudan, people are living in caves and starving in the Nuba Mountains as their government indiscriminately bombs the region and bars food aid.

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Famine in Somalia is over, says UN

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - Feb. 03 - Exceptional harvest and food deliveries have improved conditions, but millions of people are still at risk An exceptional harvest after good rains and food deliveries by aid agencies have ended famine in Somalia, although conditions remain fragile and could worsen, the United Nations have said. The UN declared famine in two parts of southern Somalia last July and extended the famine warning in September to six out of eight regions in the country. The UN said initially 750,000 Somalis faced imminent starvation and lowered this to 250,000 by November. Six months after famine was declared, 4 million Somalis were in need of aid and the UN said the number now stood at 2.34m. "The gains are fragile and will be reversed without continued support," said Mark Bowden, the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia. "There are 1.7 million people in southern Somalia still in crisis. Millions of people still need food, clean water, shelter and other assistance to survive and the situation is expected ...

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South Sudan Massacres Follow Independence

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Jettleman - Jan. 13 (News Report) - The trail of corpses begins about 300 yards from the corrugated metal gate of the United Nations compound and stretches for miles into the bush. There is an old man on his back, a young woman with her legs splayed and skirt bunched up around her hips, and a whole family — man, woman, two children — all facedown in the swamp grass, executed together. How many hundreds are scattered across the savannah, nobody really knows.

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Fleeing Sudanese fill refugee camps

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Moni Basu - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Last July, the world celebrated the birth of its newest nation as South Sudan officially separated from the north. It was hoped then that after decades of bloodshed, the people of of both nations would finally know peace. But just a few months later, refugee camps are filling to the brim as fighting in the border states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile has intensified and displaced more than 400,000 people.

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South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Bombing Civilian Camp

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Josh Kron - Nov. 10 (Breaking News) - The United States condemned the airstrike by Sudan and what it called other “negative developments” that increase the potential for hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan.

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Sudan split was 'over-simplified' by media

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - By Ali M Latifi - Jul. 10 (Opinion) - For many directly affected by the world's longest-running civil war, the Sudanese conflict has been over-simplified in the Western press as inter-religious or inter-ethnic strife. "The media tried to make us look like Jafar in Aladdin," says Khalid Albaih, a Sudanese political cartoonist. "Everyone looks alike [in Sudan], the Arabs and the Africans," he adds. John Prendergast, human rights activist and co-founder of the Enough project, told Al Jazeera: "One should not overplay this idea of north versus south or Christian versus Muslim." While Moez Ali, a Sudanese blogger and political commentator, said the conflict was an issue of disenfranchisement of a people "who were never given an agenda in the government" throughout the nation's 55-year history. Since independence in 1956, "a small group of people in power in Khartoum used race and religion to divide and conquer," says Prendergast. This conflict was further exacerbated in 2004 when the Khartoum government, headed by Omar al-Bashir, made a bid to control the oil and water resources of the south, he adds.

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South Sudan, world's newest nation, is instantly one of the most troubled

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Jul. 10 (News) - Africa's longest civil war gives birth to South Sudan, a country about the size of France that has broken away from its bitter antagonist to the north. Heads of state gather for a euphoric celebration in the fledgling capital of Juba, but poverty, corruption and questions about its leadership already plague the new nation.The countdown clock ran out, the flag ascended over the fledgling capital and a new nation born from Africa's longest civil war and the deaths of 2 million people joined the world Saturday.

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After Years of Struggle, South Sudan Becomes a New Nation

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Jul. 09 (News Report) - After more than five decades of an underdog, guerrilla struggle and two million lives lost, the Republic of South Sudan, Africa’s 54th state, declared its independence in front of a who’s who of Africa.

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Sudan 'bombs oil-rich southern state'

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:05:37 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 10 (News Report) - North bombs a village in Unity State, southern officials say, as tensions rise ahead of south's secession next month.

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UN estimates 100,000 have fled South Sudan tension

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 07 (News) - The U.N. refugee agency says some 100,000 people have fled tension around the disputed South Sudan town of Abyei.

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Bashir says Abyei belongs to the north

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - May. 25 (News Report) - Sudan president says his forces will not withdraw from disputed region, escalating fears of fresh north-south conflict. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, has said that Abyei belongs to the north and that his forces will not withdraw from ...Fresh Sudan violence at risk of escalatingABC OnlineUN calls for talks to end Sudan's Abyei crisisPakistan Daily TimesSouthern Sudanese wait, worry about how to get homeDaily Star - LebanonVoice of America -New York Times -Reutersall 1,927 news articles »

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South Sudan: Messy Divorce Or Amicable Split?

Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AllAfrica - By Yohannes Woldemariam - May. 13 (Opinion) - The history of Sudan is a complex one which can't be reduced to a linear narrative of south versus north,' writes Yohannes Woldemariam. Can South Sudan resolve the sticking points standing in the way of successful secession?

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MADRE :: Press Room :: Getting Stronger Every Generation: Six Women's Stories

Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

madre.org - May. 02 (Special Report) - Great popular change is the result of years of sustained organizing, education and activism. Six women’s lives can tell this story. These are women who came together across generations to demand their rights and to fight for the safety and health of their communities.

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How Southern Sudan's 'ticking time bomb' was defused

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Alan Boswell - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - If it were held properly, the Sudanese government in the north faced the certain loss of not just a third of its land but also 80 percent of its oil. If the vote were blocked, or even delayed, conflict probably would erupt.

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George Clooney: 21st-Century Statesman

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By John Avlon - Feb. 20 (News Report) - In the age of Twitter-shortened attention spans, fame is an increasingly powerful weapon of diplomacy. How George Clooney is helping to bring change—and a hefty dose of hope—to Sudan.

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The End Of History

Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

TechCrunch - By Jon Evans - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - The world is quaking. Egypt and Tunisia are overthrown; Algeria, Gabon, Jordan, Sudan, Syria and Yemen are rocking. Some say this is thanks to Twitter and Facebook. Others, notably Malcolm Gladwell and Evgeny Morozov, say that social media are politically irrelevant and/or dangerous. China has censored “Egypt”, Syria has legalized Facebook, and the president of Sudan has declared he will use social media to crush his enemies. You couldn’t make this stuff up. What’s going on? Who to believe? Fear not. I can explain. Everyone is right, and what’s going on is nothing more than the end of international politics and history as we know them. Welcome to our brave new world, and about time, too. The old one sure was miserable while it lasted.

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Is Mexico at war? Conflict prompts linguistic debate

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - Feb. 04 - MEXICO CITY — Over a 48-hour period this week, gangsters tossed grenades, torched buses, set up roadblocks and strafed police units in Mexico's second and third largest cities.

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South Sudan referendum: 99% vote for independence

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 30 (News) - Some 99% of South Sudanese voted to secede from the north, according to the first complete results of the region's independence referendum.

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Initial results: SSudan independence vote approved

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Jan. 19 (Breaking News) - Officials say preliminary results show more than 98 percent of voters in and near Southern Sudan’s capital voted for independence from the north.

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George Clooney focuses the camera on Sudan

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Rebecca Keegan - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The actor's Satellite Sentinel Project is collaborating with other organizations to aim commercial satellites at the nation's north-south border in hopes of preventing possible genocide.

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First day of south Sudan vote ends

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Ranjit Bhaskar - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Polling stations have closed on the first day of voting in Southern Sudan's week-long referendum on secession. The atmosphere was festive in the southern capital Juba on Sunday, with voters queueing for hours outside polling stations.

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