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Published: July 31, 2007, 12:09 pm

Tags: United Nations, China, Sudan, Darfur, Human Rights

this week. … Sudan’s U.N. ambassador, Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad, reacted harshly to a version of the draft that circulated at U.N. headquarters last week, calling it “ugly” and “awful.” … The latest draft removes a specific mention of ongoing attacks by government forces and janjaweed

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Good News From Darfur [UPDATED]

Published: August 1, 2007, 6:04 am

Tags: United Nations, Sudan, Darfur

Union-led force for the Sudanese province of Darfur by authorizing a 26,000-member peacekeeping mission. … The current AU force of about 7,000 has been unable to stop the violence, and Sudan only agreed to allow a bigger peacekeeping force after massive international pressure. Fighting between government-backed militias and rebel

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Darfurther Nonsense XXXVII

Published: August 2, 2007, 10:34 am

Tags: United Nations, Sudan, Africa, Darfur

yes, all well and good: Sudan on Wednesday endorsed a U.N. resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide real protection to civilians in one of the world’s most embattled regions. If fully deployed, the troops would be the United Nations’ largest peacekeeping

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When Animals Attack

Published: August 2, 2007, 2:13 pm

Tags: Israel, Sudan, Egypt, Immigration, Human Rights

soldiers executed four Sudanese refugees near the Egypt-Israel border overnight Wednesday in full view of IDF troops, a shaken-sounding IDF soldier said in an interview to Channel Ten, Thursday evening. According to the soldier, female IDF soldiers operating night vision devices identified several refugees approaching the border in an

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Dead Sudanese Alert

Published: August 8, 2007, 6:52 am

Tags: Sudan, Egypt, Immigration

I were Sudanese (I “experimented” with many things in college, but never that), I’d take my vacations anywhere but Egypt: The body of a slain Sudanese refugee was found hands and feet tied up near Egypt’s border with Israel in the early hours Wednesday, an Egyptian police official said. The refugee was identified as

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Africa pushes for more UN support in Somalia

Published: August 13, 2007, 7:13 pm

Tags: Defence Forces, World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Somalia, Sudan

African nations have pressed the United Nations (UN) to supply peacekeeping backup for turbulent Somalia, similar to that initially provided for Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.

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Darfur rebel leader demands security before talks

Published: August 13, 2007, 6:02 pm

Tags: Unrest Conflict War, Sudan

A key Darfur rebel who has boycotted a meeting aimed at paving the way for peace talks has said there was no hope for the process without security on the ground first.

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Rep. Ron Paul

Published: August 17, 2007, 11:28 pm

Tags: News, Civil Liberties, Empire, Iran, Nukes, Libertarianism, Israel, Russia, Politics, Antiwar Radio, Iraq, Ron Paul, Sudan Darfur, Syria, Troop Support, Draft, Democrats, Republicans

Download audio file (07_08_17_paul.mp3) Presidential candidate Dr. Ron Paul discusses the economic consequences of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the scars of PTSD and the administration’s betrayal of wounded veterans, how nice it would be if the War Party had to clean up the DU, why the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq as soon as

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Darfurther Nonsense XXXVIII

Published: August 24, 2007, 11:13 am

Tags: Sudan, Darfur, Human Rights

military shipments at the Sudanese army airport in the West Darfur state capital of El Geneina, the group said. One photograph shows Sudanese soldiers moving containers from an Antonov cargo plane onto military trucks and two others show Russian-supplied Mi-7 and Mi-24 attack helicopters at the airport, Amnesty said. “Sudan flaunts its

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Darfurther Nonsense XXXIX

Published: August 28, 2007, 6:46 am

Tags: Darfur, Sudan

common with Chad, southern Sudan and — dare we say it? — Somalia. In Darfur today, knowing who is on which side is not straightforward. The savage counterinsurgency offensives, with their massacres and scorched earth, that Colin Powell called “genocide” in September 2004 had in fact largely concluded by the time Powell

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ASIA: Hidden Dragon, Crouching Tiger ?

Published: August 30, 2007, 10:53 am

Tags: Red Dragon, Sudan, Kazakhstan, Gail, Iran, Turkey, Angola, Cnpc, Philippines, India, China, Ccngh, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Wen Jiabao, Egypt

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Darfurther Nonsense XL

Published: September 1, 2007, 11:47 am

Tags: Darfur, Sudan

but this can’t help: Sudanese rebels from war-torn Darfur killed 41 people in an attack earlier this week on a base for government forces in the neighboring Kordofan region, Sudan’s interior ministry said in a statement on Saturday. “Information shows there were 41 martyrs, including people from the area,” the ministry

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Apartheid State Update IX

Published: September 5, 2007, 3:30 pm

Tags: Darfur, Sudan, Israel

estimated 300 refugees from Sudan’s violence-ridden Darfur region who have already arrived here, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit said Wednesday. Sheetrit said he would work with the United Nations to set a quota of refugees who would be naturalized. While he estimates the number of Darfur refugees at 300, other government officials and

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Sudan, rebel groups set date for peace talks

Published: September 6, 2007, 3:02 pm

Tags: World Politics, Unrest Conflict War, Sudan

Sudanese Government and rebel groups will start talks on October 27 in Libya, to push for peace in violence-torn Darfur before 26,000 peacekeepers deploy there, the United Nations (UN) and Khartoum announced. The talks, to which some eight rebel groups are expected to be invited, will be mediated by UN and African Union (AU) special envoys, UN

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INDIA: Dogged diplomacy

Published: September 6, 2007, 4:23 pm