GayandRight (Free subscription) | yesterday
More proof of the evil being directed from Tehran... Two Iranian businessmen working at a Dubai-based firm were linked to video surveillance devices sold to Sudan and used in unmanned drones in Darfur in violation of a U.N. arms embargo, a U.N. report said. The 94-page report by the so-called U.N. "Panel of Experts," published on Friday, details arms violations by all parties in the Darfur...
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Great news from UNICEF (KHARTOUM/JUBA) 06 November 2009: The Dutch Government has given $23.5 million to UNICEF in Sudan which will be used to provide safe water and improved sanitation for hundreds of thousands of people across the country. “This very generous contribution by the Dutch Government will have a real impact on saving lives,” said Hilde Johnson UNICEF’s Deputy Executive...
New Vision (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
KHARTOUM - The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) is to increase funding for agriculture projects to help governments stave off future food price crises and droughts, the bank's director general said.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK and are still fighting their asylum cases are celebrating yesterday’s Home Office decision to concede that their removal to Khartoum would be unsafe and that they should all be granted asylum. An Operational Guidance Note (OGN) issued by the Home Office late yesterday states as follows:
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Election observers expressed concern on Tuesday over the harassment of political parties and funding delays as voters began to register for Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years.
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Notorious Ugandan Christian Radicals Suspected Of Committing Attacks In Sudan's Darfur. First Published 2009-11-01 Courtesy Of Middle-East-Online KHARTOUM - Uganda's Christian extremist rebel Lord's Resistance Army, the feared abductors of children who have spread fear in east-central Africa, are now rumoured to be heading into new terrain in Sudan's troubled Darfur. A brutal guerrilla group, whose...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Nairobi/Khartoum - Voter registration began in Sudan on Sunday for the first general election to take place in the troubled African nation in 20 years. Logistical support for the election, to take place in six months, is to be supplied to the Sudanes...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese began registering on Sunday for the country's first multi-party elections in 24 years, but opposition parties threatened to boycott the April poll unless democratic reforms are passed.
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Enthusiastic Sudanese began on Sunday to register for Sudan's first presidential, legislative and regional elections in 24 years, with the authorities facing a tough logistical challenge. Due to be held in April, the ballot comes at a crucial time for Sudan. The president faces an international arrest warrant for alleged crimes in the troubled western region of Darfur and tensions remain between the...
Knight Talk: Politics and World Affairs (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Hillary Rodham Clinton has the most artificial smile I have ever seen, and I must say, bogus displaying of choppers aside, I have never been very enamoured with Hillary Clinton or her husband, and I have never trusted either of them. Bill Clinton's tenure was riddled with mediocrity; he achieved nothing spectacular in his eight years in office. His policy of cutting defence-spending was itself a good...
Sudan Watch (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Good news from Sudan Tribune by James Gatdet Dak, 31 October 2009: South Sudan establishes news agency October 29, 2009 (JUBA) – A government’s electronic and print news agency will soon be established in Southern Sudan, says the official spokesperson. Paul Mayom Akech has told the press that a News Agency of Southern Sudan (NASS) is a substitute for the Khartoum-based Sudan News Agency...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) in Sudan on Tuesday warned that the child and maternity mortality rates in the country were close to emergency and urged responses at all levels with a sense of urgency. "It is shocking that every year about 305,000 children under the age of five die. Almost 110,000 of those die within 28 days of being born," said Nils Kastberg, UNICEF Representative...
Financial Times (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Khartoum says it needs a 'closer scrutiny' of the proposal by a panel of African leaders that a special court be set up to try those accused of atrocities in Darfur
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The higher committee for coordinating the humanitarian work in Sudan stressed Wednesday the importance of tackling the phenomenon of abduction of aid workers in Darfur. In a meeting in Khartoum, the committee emphasized the importance of coordination among all parties in the humanitarian process in Darfur to protect the aid workers. The committee brings together representatives from the Sudanese government,...
In From the Cold (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Kudos to staff writer Michael Hoffman of Air Force Times . Mr. Hoffman--the first reporter to uncover the inadvertent transfer of nuclear weapons between Air Force bases in North Dakota and Louisiana in 2007--has discovered another event the service would rather forget. It happened almost three years ago, at a remote airfield in Sudan. An Air Force HC-130, normally used to coordinate search-and-rescue...
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