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Women and girls face hellish conditions amid the Sudan civil war and atrocities happening in Darfur.
There are plenty other classic stories based in the continent that deserve to be shared.
(AP) — A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. Clooney’s Not On […]
(AJC) — When Deng-Athoi Galuak walked into the refugee camp in Ethiopia, he was a thinned-out, raggedy kid who had survived the bombing of his village, three months of walking, two bouts of malaria, starvation and predation by wolves and lions. Days ago, thanks to some newly available records, Galuak saw, for the first time, […]
Sudan, the largest country on the continent, is on the verge of splitting up, with the south about to vote on whether to secede from the north after decades of war, mistrust and marginalization. (NY Times) — On Monday a major step was taken in that direction — voter registration — and judging by the […]
(BBC) — Former rebel leader Salva Kiir has been confirmed in power in the semi-autonomous south in the first polls since the north-south war ended. The polls were one of the world’s most complex ever and Sudan’s first multi-party elections in 24 years. Observers and opposition parties have complained of fraud in north and south. Read […]