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Sudan's President Accepts Southern Secession Vote

Sudan's beleaguered president, Omar al-Bashir, announced today that he accepts the results of a vote by his country's south to secede and form its own country -- a move that will ultimately diminish his power over roughly a third of Africa's largest nation. Almost 99 percent of voters in southern Sudan voted last month in...

Sudan Arrests Opposition Leader Amid Tunisia Uprising

Sudan arrested a prominent Islamic opposition leader early today in a wave of arrests coinciding with neighboring Tunisia's popular revolt, suggesting that other North African dictators may be seeking to tamp down similar uprisings before they happen. Tunisia's longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali fled his country...

Opinion: A Sudan Reality Check

In the 1980s, I lived in Sudan and Ivory Coast, and since then both countries have succumbed to civil war, ethnic conflict and political corruption, and have dallied with diplomatic isolation and pariah status. I am, it would seem, the guest from hell, leaving chaos in my wake wherever I go. This is absurd -- at least, I...

For Jubilant Voters in Southern Sudan, New Country Nears

JUBA, Sudan -- Men and women walked to election stations in the middle of the night Sunday to create a new nation: Southern Sudan. Some broke out into spontaneous song in the long lines. And a veteran of Sudan's two-decade civil war, a conflict that left 2 million people dead, choked back tears. "We lost a lot of people,"...

A Former Child Soldier Fights to Save His Homeland

"My country is on the brink of war. On Jan. 9, Southern Sudan will vote for its independence to be free from a government who has slaughtered and displaced our people for 43 years. The time to prevent genocide is now." So explained Emmanuel Jal, a 30-year-old Sudanese musician and former child soldier, less than a...

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THE HUFFINGTON POST

Time for Some Real "Peacekeeping" in Darfur

The UN Security Council is reconsidering the deployment of its joint African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, known as UNAMID.

THE HUFFINGTON POST

Why I Was Arrested -- Again

I was arrested for a second time in just a few years because of the atrocities being committed in Sudan.

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05/24/12 FG Airlifts Logistics to Troops in Darfur, Liberia Source: AllAfrica.com Defence minister, Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed, has expressed satisfaction with the commencement last week of airlift of arms, beddings, operational vehicles and other logistic items to over 3,300 military peace keepers currently serving under the auspices of the United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) and UNMIL in Liberia.
05/23/12 MSF says Sudan blocks drugs for Darfur project Source: Expatica Sudan's government has blocked shipments of medicines to a violence-plagued part of the Darfur region, leaving more than 100,000 people without vital healthcare, Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres - MSF) said on Wednesday.
05/23/12 World Food Programme - 30 Percent of Darfur... Source: AllAfrica.com The World Food Programme says that 30 percent of the population of Darfur is threatened with food insecurity and in need of urgent aid.
05/23/12 Pittsburgh salutes Hawa Salih, heroine of Darfur Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette It is hard to reconcile the joyful, optimistic smile on the face of Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih as she stood in the Pittsburgh City Council chamber Tuesday morning, accepting praise and a standing ovation from council.
05/22/12 Unamid Comments 'Ignore Reality On the Ground' Source: AllAfrica.com Residents of internally displaced people camps are frustrated at the comments made by the UN/African Union Mission in Darfur spokesman Christopher Cycmanick, in which he described the security situation in Darfur as 'relatively calm'.

Background on Darfur

Darfur ( ', ) is a region in western Sudan. An independent sultanate for several hundred years, it was incorporated into Sudan by Anglo-Egyptian forces in 1916. The region is divided into five federal states: Central Darfur, East Darfur, North Darfur, South Darfur and West Darfur.

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