The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Sudan's President Omar Bashir has said the mass rape did not happen in Darfur and dismissed allegations he is responsible for genocide as "fabricated and made up".
Christians Under Attack (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
South Sudan's government has expressed outrage after police in the capital,...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
Sudanese Science and Technology Minister Ibrahim Ahmad Omar has said that Sudan is convinced that Luis Moreno Ocampo, International Criminal Court prosecutor for the trial of Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir, is using legal guise for political ... October 10, 2008, 5:01 pm
The Economist (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Who are the real owners of the tanks nabbed by Somali pirates? THE publication of the manifest of a Ukrainian ship recently captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia is embarrassing Kenya’s government. It apparently shows that MV Faina’s cargo of 33 T-72 Soviet-era tanks and other weapons was consigned to Kenya’s defence ministry on behalf of the government of south Sudan. Much will turn on the...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | yesterday
You may recall that in the Vice-Presidential debate, Governor Palin came down hard against the Government of Sudan and even recommended a no-fly-zone over Darfur. Since then, the intrepid ABC news investigative team discovered that "Palin owns up to $15,000...
Political Punch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Informed by ABC News that she holds an investment in a mutual fund that owns shares in companies that human rights organizations say help the government of Sudan, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin on Friday said through a spokesman that she...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Last week, we posted a story about comments from the president of Sudan, Omar al-Bashir. Yes, the same one who is committing genocide to the people in Darfur. I thought it was weird that he would show his face in a summit, and make charges against the international community. I also thought it was weird that he was the chair of this group's summit. We found this commentary on the international community...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
he top United Nations peacekeeping official is on his first official visit to Sudan's Darfur region, where the world body is slated to field its largest mission in an effort to stem a conflict that has already killed some 300,000 people directly or from resulting disease and malnutrition, and uprooted than 2.7 million others.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
A former detainee at Guantanamo, Mr Mustafa Ibrahim Mustafa, who was released after seven years, has told of the suffering that he faced at the notorious prison after his arrest in Pakistan in 2001.
Wired Science (Free subscription) | yesterday
An explosion equal to more than a kiloton of TNT rocked the sky over a remote part of northern Sudan late Monday night, ending a 20-hour scramble to track the first Earth impacting meteoroid to be discovered before impact. Though...
Arabic Video News in English (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
In Sudan, a manhunt is under way to find the leader of the rebel group which attacked the capital on Saturday. Khalil Ibrahim now has a bounty of $250,000 on his head. Fighters from his Justice and Equality Movement, based in Darfur, thousands of kilometres to the west, were stopped by the army in Omdurman, [...]
Flypaper - Stuck on Style (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Wearing skinny jeans is prolly the least of the concerns of the women in famine- and genocide-ravaged Sudan, but still. According to an eyewitness quoted in the NY Times, about 30 young women wearing " tight trousers " in Juba, Sudan were "piled up like animals in trucks," for disturbing the peace. Geez. Meanwhile, closer to home, Floridians are fussing over baggy jeans... Is it really that serious?...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Ganiyu Oseni will lead 17 other players to Sudan on Thursday for the Africa Youth Championship second leg qualifier between Nigeria and Sudan.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
FIFA U-17 World Cup -winning striker Ganiyu Oseni will lead 17 other players to Sudan today as the Flying Eagles go for the second leg of the final qualifying fixture for the 2009 African Youth Championship.
