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According to the reports received by UNAMID, there were 67 deaths directly attributable to violence in Darfur during October.This figure is subject to the usual caveats, which is that UNAMID access is uneven. In some places UNAMID patrols have been turned back by security officers, for example when investigating inter-triba (Read More)
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The Government of South Sudan (GOSS) has announced that it intends to establish a news agency that will cover areas of the south starved of mainstream media coverage [1]. The idea for establishing the News Agency of South Sudan (NASS) was endorsed at a cabinet meeting chaired by President Salva Kiir at the end of [...]. (Read More)
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Making Sense of Darfur:
It is frequently heard that Arabs/Muslims and their media were silent, unmoved or without opinion over Darfur. These suppositions tend to contain a measure of moral equivalence and finger-pointing, suggesting that responding as a Westerner — regardless of the quality, timing or efficacy of response — is the most correct opt (Read More)
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Darfur Daily News:
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, indicted by the International Criminal Court, has pulled out of an Islamic summit in Istanbul. The Turkish government had previously welcomed the attendance of President Bashir at the meeting and said that he would not be arrested. But the EU, which Turkey hopes to join, wanted the invitat (Read More)
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Thoughts on the future of Sudan from an unlikely source: Winston Churchill in his book ‘The River War‘. “It might seem at first a great advantage that the people of the Soudan, instead of being a multitude of wild, discordant tribes, should unite of their own accord into one strong community, living under fixed laws, [...] (Read More)
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Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth:
The world over, be it outside a Los Angeles School, or in Darfur, it’s all about the women.
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Arms embargo violations in Darfur increase
Posted in Darfur, Women Tagged: Darfur, Women . (Read More)
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Making Sense of Darfur:
Most political figures and commentators, Sudanese and international, made up their minds about the AU Panel on Darfur report before they had seen the contents of the report. Many were then struck silent when the report was actually released. Some have had the grace to admit that they were surprised by how substantive and pr (Read More)
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By Andrew HeavensKHARTOUM (Reuters) - Rape victims in Sudan's Darfur region have lost vital medical and psychological support since Khartoum expelled aid agencies working against sexual violence this year, the United Nations and aid workers said.A Sudanese minister on Wednesday dismissed the reports as "propaganda" saying t (Read More)
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East Africa Forum:
ReutersNovember 10, 2009GENEVA – Hundreds of thousands more Somalis are on the brink of leaving their country, where floods have aggravated already desperate humanitarian conditions, United Nations agencies warned on Tuesday.Flooding this month has driven 16,000 more people from their homes in the Horn of African country wh (Read More)
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Making Sense of Darfur:
The most recent effort to grapple with the far-reaching international response to the Darfur conflict comes from Steven Fake and Kevin Funk in “The Scramble for Africa, Darfur-Intervention and the USA.” The book offers a leftist critique of humanitarianism in Darfur that is inspired by Noam Chomsky’s accounts of NATO’s 1999 (Read More)
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Darfur Daily News:
There is growing awareness that national elections scheduled for April 2010 will fail on many counts, with unpredictable consequences for the Khartoum regime’s ambitions to retain its stranglehold on Sudanese national wealth and power. In turn, the prospect of an aborted or compromised Southern self-determination referendum (Read More)
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IRIN - Sudan:
NAIROBI Tuesday, November 10, 2009 (IRIN) - Armed groups in Sudan's Darfur region have continued to violate a UN arms embargo as well as international humanitarian and human rights law, a new report by a UN panel of experts has said. (Read More)
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Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth:
Tuesday, November 10, both Congress and the Administration plan to have another much-needed day for Sudan, marking the first major discussion following the release of the Administration’s Sudan policy. Tomorrow, November 10 at 3:00 p.m. EST Sudan and anti-genocide activists are invited to the White House for a Q&A s (Read More)
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Making Sense of Darfur:
War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile, by Wendy James, is now available in paperback. We reprint the review from its earlier (hardback) publication.Wendy James’s three books on the Uduk people of southern Blue Nile, a frontier area of northern Sudan that abuts both southern Sudan and Ethiopia, (Read More)
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Making Sense of Darfur:
The advent of the Thuraya phone has radically changed warfare in across the Sahara desert, as illustrated in the case of Darfur. Twenty five years ago, I remember travelling across Darfur with no phone lines, with telecommunication possible only through ageing two-way radios in the police stations. (Read More)
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