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Official: 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...
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200 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...
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Lessons 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...
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90,000 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...
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Obama 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...
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Internet 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...
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Official: 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...
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Sudan 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...
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In 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...
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Sudan 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...
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Must-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...
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Must-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...
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South 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...
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Must-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...
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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,...
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