If Only Our Leaders Had Mariam’s Guts

IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan If Only Our Leaders Had Mariam’s Guts By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: June 6, 2012 41 Comments Go to Blog » I’d like to introduce a valiant woman here, Mariam Tia, to President Obama and other world leaders, so she could explain how they’re allowing Sudan’s leaders to get away [...]

Obama meets with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Sudan

Obama prioritizes Sudan at talks with China 03/28/12 By Shannon Orcutt On Monday, President Obama met with Chinese President Hu Jintao during the Nuclear Summit in Seoul, South Korea. During the President’s remarks before the meeting, Sudan was the only country mentioned outside of the context of nuclear proliferation. Earlier this month, George Clooney asked the President [...]

Prevent Famine In the Nuba Mountains Sudan

Open Letter To President Obama: Now Is The Time To Act To Prevent Starvation In The Nuba Mountains “Displaced man [from Nuba Mountains] in Kurchi in his makeshift bomb shelter watches an Antonov aircraft fly overhead. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled indiscriminate aerial bombardment by the Sudanese military to seek shelter wherever they [...]

Home more dangerous for S. Sudanese women than war

South Sudanese who fled the recent ethnic violence listen as a woman describes the attacksHome more dangerous for S. Sudanese women than war http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/home-more-dangerous-for-s-sudanese-women-than-war South Sudanese who fled the recent ethnic violence listen as a woman describes the attacks, in Gumuruk, Jonglei state, January 12, 2012. REUTERS/Hereward Holland By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (TrustLaw) – The [...]

Ambassador Rice Foreign Policy Magazine

Rice: Sudan is deliberately preventing aid to civilians affected by crisis and near-famine (Foreign Policy Magazine) Posted By Colum Lynch Tuesday, January 17, 2012 – 12:49 PM   Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, warned the U.N. Security Council that Sudan’s restive South Kordofan region faces the prospects of famine if Khartoum [...]

US Warns of Impending Food Crisis in Parts of Sudan

US Warns of Impending Food Crisis Photo: AP Relief food of the World Food Program is offloaded in Pibor, South Sudan, Jan 12, 2012. The United States is warning of a severe food crisis in parts of Sudan if the Khartoum government does not give the United Nations and its aid partners immediate access to [...]

Skype Call to Nuba Mountains

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Nuba Refugees in Sudan South

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George Clooney’s Satellites Build a Case Against an Alleged War Criminal

The International Criminal Court is compiling evidence of possible recent war crimes in southern Sudan, allegedly directed by the same man, Sudanese Defense Minister Abdelrahim Mohamed Hussein, who a prosecutor at the court wants to apprehend for alleged crimes eight years ago in Darfur. An internal ICC memo outlines the Darfur crimes, and says Hussein [...]

MSF starts emergency medical response for refugees fleeing bombing raids in Sudan

Report — MSF 2 December 2011 – Thousands of refugees have crossed the border from Sudan into the newly independent South Sudan. Refugees arriving in the village of Doro, some 40 km from the border with Sudan, have told staff from Médecins Sans Frontières MSF (Doctors Without Borders) that they fled bombing in and around [...]