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...months since violence erupted between African rebels and pro-government Arab militias known as janjaweed in Sudan's remote western region Darfur, tens of thousands of people have been killed and more than 1.6 million forced from their homes. From the parched Saharan dunes in the north to the grassy savannas in the south, the war has been a study in lawlessness and savagery. Villages have been razed, looting and rape are commonplace, and food and medical attention are in short supply. The United Nations calls it the worst humanitarian crisis in the world; the United States labels it genocide...
Deng also said that divestment was one of the more effective strategies for taking on Sudan’s government, as he dismissed the role of the United Nations, which he felt would not confront the regime. The war has been described as a confrontation between an Arab governing elite and black minority...
...controlled by Arab oil money,” he said...
...master plan for the $1 billion reconstruction effort. An even more daunting challenge is rebuilding people's spirit. The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) is running a psychosocial rehab program, aimed at helping Bam's children come to terms with the death and destruction they witnessed. Shokrollah Arab, 10, was lying next to his parents when they were crushed by a collapsing wall. Since then he's lived in an orphanage, with a tidy bed that he never sleeps in. Fearing another quake, he insists on sleeping outside on the portico despite freezing temperatures. "If anything happens...
Caton admits that he has some difficult barriers to overcome. He says that while Latin American studies have been a strong and constant force in academia over the last 40 years, Middle Eastern studies surge in intellectual interest for brief moments, for example, following the Arab oil embargo of 1973, but then go forgotten...