Word: garang
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...Rumbek In the largest such operation ever, the U.N. Children's Fund airlifted more than 2,800 demobilized child soldiers from the frontlines of the war in southern Sudan. The airlift, conducted over five days, followed a pledge last October by John Garang, leader of the guerrilla Sudan People's Liberation Army, to demobilize all of his young fighters, who ranged in age from eight to 18. unicef director Carol Bellamy called the evacuations "a marker of the growing global recognition that children should never be made instruments of adult conflicts and violence...
...latest political twist in Sudan's chaotic civil war, President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir ordered the arrest of opposition Islamist leader Hassan Al-Turabi and the detention of 30 members of his National Popular Congress. Turabi irked the President by striking a deal with Christian rebel leader John Garang, whose Sudan People's Liberation Army has waged war for greater autonomy in the mostly Christian south from the Muslim north. That agreement brought the Muslim and Christian fundamentalists together for joint "peaceful popular resistance" against Bashir's regime, which has to date failed to end Sudan's internal strife peacefully...