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With More Than 200 Killed, S.Sudan Says Khartoum Arming Rebels
By not in system - AOL NewsJUBA, 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 James Kok Ruea labeled last week's attack by rebel leader George Athor a "massacre." Ruea said 201 southern civilians and security forces died during the attack in Jonglei state and that 10 died later in the hospital. He said nearly 160 of the dead were civilians, including ...
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 ...
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, ...
As Vote Looms, US Offers Sudan Incentives for Peace
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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 ...
Can Curtailing Hate Speech Prevent Genocide?
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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 racist action" leads to "death and destruction," many domestic legal systems are not equipped to handle such cases. "It is not the norm, even when hate speech is in the statute book, that judges and magistrates and judicial officers are sensitized to the special problem 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 ...
Missing Pilot, Abducted Aid Worker Add to Darfur Woe
By Betwa Sharma - AOL NewsUNITED NATIONS (July 28) -- The unknown fates of an abducted American aid worker and a missing Russian pilot have heightened concern over the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, where hundreds of civilians are dying in conflicts that put humanitarian workers and U.N. peacekeepers at risk. "It is with grave concern that I have to report a spike in criminal acts and attacks against U.N. and humanitarian personnel," said Ibrahim Gambari, the U.N.'s top official in Sudan, as he briefed the Security Council on Darfur this week. Ashraf Shazly, AFP / Getty Images U.N. soldiers are shown ...
Women's Rights and the New U.S. Sudan Policy
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMore power to Christine in her rallying cry to make women's rights THE issue of the 21st Century. It couldn't come at a better time. The Prez and Secretary of State today unveiled the new US policy on Sudan, a country with some hefty and heinous women's rights violations to its name. Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentions the Sudanese woman who wore trousers -- Lubna Hussein -- and her courageous stand against a Sudanese court bent on lashing her for the indiscretion. But what of the thousands (some say, hundreds of thousands) of women raped during what the US describes as a genocide in ...
Rape in Guinea: No Justice, No Peace
By Alex Wagner - Politics Daily"I saw a woman who was stripped naked . . . They tore off her clothes. They surrounded her. They made her lie down. They lifted up her feet, and one of the soldiers advanced. They took turns." This unfortunate and latest chapter of Rape As A Weapon of War finds the women of Guinea the latest victims -- a cruel echo of similar cases around the world. ...
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