Ann Noling
Last Sunday Gillian Gibbons, a British schoolteacher at a Christian school in Khartoum, was arrested. Ms. Gibbons is being held in custody while the Sudanese officials decide whether or not to charge her for blasphemy for allowing her class to name a teddy bear Muhammad. During a unit on “animals and their habitats” she [...]
Justice was finally served in the Sudan, and an ill-fated family can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Last week, the Sudanese court decided to sentence all 10 convicted murderers linked to the death of journalist, Mohamed Taha, to death by firing squad. Taha, the editor for the al-Wifaq Daily, was kidnapped from his home [...]
Darfur force could fail, says UN official
By Reuters, Nov. 15
A planned UN-African Union force attempting to stabilize Darfur may not get off the ground due disputes with Sudan. The 26,000-member force will try to end the conflict that has been going on for 4.5 years. They will replace the African Union force of 7,000. Sudan [...]
Darfur rebels attack Chinese-backed oil field
By Darney Jopson in Tripoli and Harvey Morris at the United Nations
The violence originating in the Darfur region has began to spread outside its boarders. This past Thursday rebels claimed to have attacked a Chinese backed oil field in a neighboring Sudanese province. This does not bode [...]
by Ann Noling
The BBC reported on Monday that the Sudanese government has started forcing refugees out of UN run-camps in Nyala. The government argues that Nyala, the capital of South Darfur has become so violent that the refugees are no longer safe in the camps. The UN official who spoke with the reporter described one [...]
Another potentially deadly crisis has sprung to the foreground in the Sudan. The Southern Sudanese People Liberation Movement withdrew from the Government of National Unity, further enhancing the risk of a potential full-scale war. Although the National Congress Party and the Southern Sudanese People Liberation Movement might publicly proclaim that they are going to avoid [...]
by Nick Freundlich
the article
Since 2003, over 200,000 Sudanese people have been killed and at least 2.2 million have been forced to leave the country due to violence between rebels, Government forces, and the Janjaweed. Recently, UN Officials have gathered in Sudan to urge a peace talk between the belligerent groups, stressing that there is no [...]
Sudan’s president reshuffles cabinet
By Barney Jopson in Nairobi
Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s president, reshuffled his cabinet on Wednesday in an attempt to attract former southern rebels upset over the declining peace agreement. The effort failed to get them to return to their position in the central government that they quit in early October. The main southern political [...]
Meskel Square posted a chart on Britain’s exports from Sudan over the past couple of years, which has more than doubled. I did a little bit of internet surfing, and found some similar data of the U.S.’s exports and China’s. Our imports from Sudan have decreased from 2005 to 2007:
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I can’t figure out how to [...]
Peace talks between the various Darfuri rebel groups are currently scheduled on October 27th in Tripoli, Libya. The idea behind these talks is to allow the groups to meet and develop a common agenda which they can present to the Sudanese government in future negotiations. However it is becoming more and more likely that these [...]
