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...Khartoum Sudan's Most Wanted Sudanese officials confirmed Oct. 13 that they had arrested notorious janjaweed militia leader Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-al-Rahman, also known as Ali Kushayb. The International Criminal Court (ICC) charged Kushayb with crimes against humanity in 2007 for orchestrating militia attacks in the Darfur region that led to the rape and murder of civilians and the destruction of entire villages. But given that Sudan's government had previously ignored orders to extradite Kushayb, its sudden willingness to cooperate raises suspicion that his arrest may have been merely an attempt to ease international pressure on Sudanese...
Overshadowed by the genocide in Darfur, the destabilization of Southern Sudan has received relatively little media attention, panelists said...
Africa is widely regarded as a world leader by measure of basket-case symptoms - war, disease, famine and humanitarian disaster. The continent has a greater share of its people mired in poverty than any other, and it hosts the world's two greatest humanitarian crises, Darfur and Somalia. So it may come as a bit of a surprise to many that much of Africa is doing rather nicely, in some cases recording healthier economic expansion than nations in the industrialized world. Even amid the financial meltdown in the West and dire predictions of a global recession, the International Monetary Fund...
...both sides are currently re-equipping their militaries. A revival of the decades-long north-south civil war would reopen one of Africa's bloodiest and most intractable wars - 2 million died in the fighting between 1972 and 2005 - and jeopardize hopes for a solution to the crisis in Darfur...
Lance Armstrong reignited the accessories-with-a-message trend in 2004 with the $1 yellow LiveStrong bracelet. The rubbery adornment has become this decade's AIDS ribbon and can indicate support for causes from bipolar disorder to Darfur. At HeroBracelets.org started in 2004--friends and family can honor servicemen from World War II to Iraq with personalized metallic bracelets. President Bush has received two from military moms. McCain got his at a New Hampshire campaign stop; Obama's came from Wisconsin. More than 50,000 bracelets have been sold so far, and since the debate, HeroBracelets founder Chris Greta says...