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With More Than 200 Killed, S.Sudan Says Khartoum Arming Rebels

Feb 15th 2011 – 7:57AM

JUBA, Sudan --Political leaders in Southern Sudan on Tuesday angrily accused Sudan's Khartoum-based government of arming a rebel leader they say killed more than 200 southerners last week, a charge that could increase north-south tensions as the south prepares for independence. Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management...

Sudan Arrests Opposition Leader Amid Tunisia Uprising

By Lauren FrayerJan 18th 2011 – 10:44AM
Ashraf Shazly, AFP / Getty Images

Ashraf Shazly, AFP / Getty Images

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

Jan 10th 2011 – 6:00AM
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Spencer Platt, Getty Images

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...

As Vote Looms, US Offers Sudan Incentives for Peace

By Betwa SharmaNov 16th 2010 – 6:19PM
Pete Muller, AP

Pete Muller, AP

UNITED NATIONS (Nov. 16) -- Anxious to prevent a new civil war, world leaders gathered at the U.N. Security Council today to scold and cajole the Sudanese into ensuring that no violence erupts after the Jan. 9 referendum, when the people of South Sudan are expected to opt to declare independence from the North. The...

Can Curtailing Hate Speech Prevent Genocide?

By Betwa SharmaNov 7th 2010 – 6:18PM
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Uriel Sinai, Getty Images

UNITED NATIONS (Nov. 7) -- Can laws against so-called hate speech help prevent incidents of genocide like those that claimed millions of lives in recent decades in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda and the Congo? Githu Muigai, a Kenyan lawyer and the U.N.'s special rapporteur on racism, said Monday that even though "xenophobic and...

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Genocide and Starvation in Sudan Is Getting Worse... and There Is Something We Can Do

May 29th 2012 - 10:37AM

As you know, I traveled recently with Reverend Franklin Graham (and Samaritans Purse) to South Sudan and Sudan.

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Sudan President Warns South Sudan His Forces Will 'Chop Off Any Hand' Trying To Take Land

By The Huffington Post News Editors May 10th 2012 - 04:02PM

Sudan's president vowed revenge for any attacks by South Sudan against the north's territory, saying Thursday his forces will "chop off any hand" trying to take Sudanese land.

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Background on Omar al Bashir

Lieutenant General Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir (; born 1944) is the President of Sudan and the head of the National Congress Party.

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