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Sudan's President Accepts Southern Secession Vote
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSudan'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 favor of independence from the mostly Muslim and Arab north, according to results released today. The January vote was the last big step in implementing a 2005 peace treaty that ended Africa's longest civil war, between north and south Sudan. The status of one small but ...
Sudan Arrests Opposition Leader Amid Tunisia Uprising
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsSudan 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 Friday after weeks of violent unrest that began with protests over food prices and other social grievances. Similar economic woes simmer under the surface in Sudan and other North African countries like Egypt, where authoritarian regimes rule with a strong fist over a mostly ...
Obama Optimistic but Wary About Vote on Southern Sudan Secession
By Tom Kavanagh - Politics DailyWith a two-decade-long civil war that claimed 2 million lives as a backdrop, voters in southern Sudan on Sunday began a week-long voting process expected to lead to secession from the brutal government in Khartoum. In a statement, President Obama congratulated the Sudanese for the promising start to the voting, but warned that "the international community is united and determined to ensure that all parties in Sudan live up to their obligations. . . . Voters must be allowed access to polling stations, and must be able to cast their ballots free from intimidation and coercion." Former ...
Opinion: A Sudan Reality Check
By not in system - AOL NewsIn 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 hope it is -- but it is no less absurd than the simplifications we impose on complicated situations. Take Sudan. Sunday saw the start of voting for the long-awaited referendum on independence for the South -- expected to pass -- the fruit of years of diplomatic wrangling, ...
For Jubilant Voters in Southern Sudan, New Country Nears
By not in system - AOL NewsJUBA, 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," said Lt. Col. William Ngang Ayuen, who was snapping pictures of camouflaged soldiers waiting in long lines to vote. The 48-year-old turned away from his comrades for a moment to maintain composure. "Today is good for them." Thousands of people began casting ballots Sunday ...
A Former Child Soldier Fights to Save His Homeland
By Chris Epting - AOL News"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 month before people in his homeland will cast critical votes that will decide the future of Southern Sudan. Looking at his early life, it's easy to understand what inspires his attitudes. Noble PR Singer Emmanuel Jal, 30, is using his music to call for peace ahead of ...
As Vote Looms, US Offers Sudan Incentives for Peace
By Betwa Sharma - AOL News
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 United States, in particular, offered Sudan clear incentives if the referendum is carried out peacefully. The U.S. has imposed crippling sanctions on Sudan, which once sheltered al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, but the Obama administration has signaled a willingness to engage the ...
UN Report: Chinese Bullets Used in Darfur
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Oct. 21) -- China has attempted to smother a draft United Nations report that says Chinese bullets have been used in attacks on international peacekeepers in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region. The preliminary report -- compiled by the U.N.'s Panel of Experts on the Sudan -- notes that at least 11 kinds of Chinese-made cartridge cases have been found at sites in Darfur where government-allied militia attacked U.N. and African Union forces, according to The Christian Science Monitor. The final version of that document has not yet been approved by senior figures in the international ...
Opinion: Can George Clooney Help Prevent Genocide in Sudan?
By Barbara Slavin - AOL News(Oct. 13) -- George Clooney has certainly had more lavish accommodations than the hut where he stayed recently on a fact-finding tour in south Sudan. The Academy Award-winning actor returned with a stark warning: An agreement must be negotiated now about the fate of south Sudan after a Jan. 9, 2011, referendum or Africa could see another genocidal conflict on the order of Rwanda, Congo and Darfur. There is "an opportunity to prevent atrocities," Clooney told the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington on Tuesday night. "Not mopping up afterwards. ... If we do nothing, hundreds of ...
George Clooney Meets With Obama to Put Focus on Sudan Partition Vote
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyActor and Sudan activist George Clooney visited President Obama in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon to discuss his recent trip to south Sudan in advance of a referendum in January on partition. Clooney called attention to the increasingly unstable relationships between the northern and southern regions. Sudan President Omar Al Bashir, who has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide in the country's Darfur region, is expected to fight to keep South Sudan from seceding because it has more than 75 percent of the country's oil. This was the Oscar winner's second ...
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