Word: darfur
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...Troops to Sudan? Khartoum opposes U.N. move Bluster or backbone? The Security Council will meet Sudanese officials this week to discuss peacekeeping troops for Darfur. Sudan sees a threat to its sovereignty. But the U.N. may act anyway...
Ghosh says that all Baghdad's residents are experiencing "Life in Hell." Iraq isn't exactly paradise, but perhaps Ghosh should have spent time in other places, say, Darfur, the Ninth Ward of New Orleans--or Iraq when it was still under Saddam Hussein's rule. William West Fairborn, Ohio...
...higher purpose. Activist video games--which use whiz-bang formats to address real-world issues--are scoring high with both kids and teachers. Given the success of the U.N.'s aid-relief game Food Force (with more than 4 million downloads in 15 months) and the MTV-affiliated Darfur Is Dying (more than 800,000 players since April), techno do-gooders are proliferating, and gamers are saving the world...
...great lengths (perhaps questionable ones) in order to have a spot on a boat to Cyprus. Many of the 100 or so other men milling around with him probably think the same. Theirs are tales of constant flight from one crisis to another. Ismael, for example, fled Darfur in Sudan to work in Iraq, until the Americans invaded and he fled to Syria, where he was arrested for entering the country illegally. For two months, his Syrian jailors beat him every day, he said, before releasing him to go to Lebanon."Where will I go now?" he asks...
...after the divestment in April, the University again spoke about its holdings, saying that the divestiture “reflect[ed] deep concerns about the grievous crisis that persists in the Darfur region of Sudan...