Report: Eritreans Enslaved and Tortured in Camps
Tens of thousands of Eritrean refugees have been found languishing in camps in Egypt and Sudan over the last decade, where many were kidnapped and subjected to rape and torture by traffickers,...
View ArticleMust-Reads from Around the World: February 20, 2012
Changing China — The announcement that Foxconn, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and others, will raise salaries from 16 to 25% at its Chinese...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Official: Soldiers Tried to Overthrow Us
Heavy fighting broke out in the capital of the world’s newest nation on Monday morning in what the country’s foreign minister is calling an attempted coup. Explosions and gunfire rang through Juba, the...
View ArticleMust-Reads from Around the World: February 20, 2012
Changing China — The announcement that Foxconn, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and others, will raise salaries from 16 to 25% at its Chinese...
View ArticleMust-Reads from Around the World: April 4, 2012
Perilous Path – The Independent of London reports on how the already dangerous journey for refugees fleeing the violence in Syria has become even deadlier in recent weeks as President Bashar al-Assad...
View ArticleSudan Media: At Least 30 Killed in Clashes in West
(KHARTOUM, Sudan) — A Sudanese news agency says clashes between herdsmen from two Arab tribes in the western Darfur region have left at least 30 people dead. The semi-official Sudan Media Center said...
View ArticleIn Unofficial Vote, Abyei Overwhelmingly Chooses South Sudan
Almost all voters in Abyei, the contested region along Sudan’s border, voted to join South Sudan in an unofficial three-day referendum earlier this week, election officials said Thursday. A spokesman...
View ArticleSudan President Says 58 To Be Tried Over Protests
(KHARTOUM, Sudan) — Sudan’s president says that 58 people will face trial for their alleged role in violent protests against the government last month. Omar al-Bashir told the Sudanese parliament on...
View ArticleOfficial: South Sudan Rebels Kill 41 in Gun Attack
(JUBA, South Sudan) — Rebels in South Sudan killed at least 41 people and wounded scores in a gun attack in a remote part of the country’s restive Jonglei state, a regional official said Sunday. The...
View ArticleInternet Access Partially Restored in Sudan after Web Blackout
Updated: 3:03 p.m. Internet access was cut off across Sudan Wednesday morning just as riots erupted over the end of fuel subsidies, the Washington Post reports, but had been restored by Wednesday...
View ArticleObama Taps Ethiopia Envoy for Sudan Post
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama says he’s selected his outgoing ambassador to Ethiopia to be the U.S. special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan. Obama says Donald Booth will lead U.S. efforts to...
View Article90,000 Missing After S. Sudan Violence, Says Group
(NAIROBI, Kenya) — The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders says that around 90,000 people are still missing and likely hiding in fear after ethnic violence last month in South Sudan. Doctors...
View ArticleLessons from East Timor for South Sudan: Three Things Nation #193 Can Learn...
The verdict, it seems, is already in. Many are already calling South Sudan, which will become the world’s 193rd nation on July 9, a soon-to-be failed state. Indeed, the prognosis is grim: as its...
View Article200 Wounded in South Sudan Tribal Clashes
(KAMPALA, Uganda) — A United Nations official in South Sudan says 200 people have been wounded in ongoing clashes between rival tribes in the country’s largest state. Toby Lanzer, the U.N. humanitarian...
View ArticleOfficial: 7 U.N. Peacekeepers Killed in Sudan Attack
CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen ambushed a United Nations peacekeeping team Saturday in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing seven and wounding another 17 in the deadliest ever attack single attack on the...
View ArticleSudan’s Deputy Chief Justice Wants Judges to Carry Out Amputations
Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice caused alarm among human rights campaigners last week when he announced at a press briefing that Sudanese judges may receive special training to perform amputations on...
View ArticleWhat Does the Future Hold for the Sudans: An Assessment by America’s Envoy
Princeton Lyman continues to be troubled by the question of whether he could have done more to foresee and prevent a recent conflict that broke out in Sudan and says he will be for a long time. The...
View ArticleFrench Family’s Cameroon Kidnapping Stokes Fears of a Pan-African Islamist War
Updated: Feb. 21, 2013, at 6 a.m. EST France began holding its breath Feb. 21 amid unconfirmed news that a French family of seven kidnapped two days earlier in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamist...
View ArticleSudan: Is Bashir’s Regime Crumbling?
Shortly after midnight on Thursday a column of tanks drove slowly down one of the main boulevards of Khartoum. Although residents of Sudan‘s capital of Khartoum awoke hours later to what seemed like...
View ArticleDid Israel Bomb a Sudanese Ammunition Depot?
Late on Oct. 23, an enormous explosion erupted around a government-run ammunition factory on the outskirts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Terrified residents in the area reported a blackout, the whizz...
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