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...nearly two years now, the country's 10 southern provinces have begun to emerge from their own 20-year war with the central government in Khartoum that left the territory physically ravaged but in possession of oil, minerals, wildlife and forests. With its capital in the city of Juba, south Sudan, a semi-autonomous region with 6 million residents, now has an annual budget of $1.2 billion and is in possession of most of Sudan's oil reserves. Foreign investors are clamoring to get in. But oil is both promise and danger; Khartoum may not be willing to release...
...Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Kony and his co-defendants say that they want the government to scrap the multiple-count indictment. If not, the rebels warn that they will not sign a peace agreement that is being hammered out in Juba, in southern Sudan, between the Ugandan government...
SUDAN Back to War Sudanese President Omar al- Bashir broke off peace talks with the rebel Sudan Peoples' Liberation Army after spla forces captured the strategic town of Torit. The government started airlifting troops to its stronghold of Juba in the rebel-occupied south and recruiting in schools and universities. The spla is fighting for greater autonomy for the Christian and animist south from the Arab and Muslim north, which dominates the government in Khartoum...
...identified as the subject of a rare marble portrait statue found in Cherchel, Algeria. On loan from that city's Archaeological Museum, the statue has never been outside Algeria before. Cherchel was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Mauretania, restored by Augustus to Cleopatra Selene's husband, Juba II. Another marble rendering of Cleopatra Selene, found near Juba's palace at Cherchel, shows her as a more mature woman, with a heavier face and "snail-shell" curls around her forehead...
Maximus escapes the executioner's blade and is sold into a troupe of gladiators, including the African Juba (Djimon Hounsou). Their job is to fight and die, and their Vince McMahon is the wily Proximo (Oliver Reed). Act II of Gladiator is a backstage show-biz story, the one about the old pro who makes a comeback in a new role. Maximus' battleground is now the arena; instead of barbarians, his opponents are hungry tigers. Proximo tells Maximus he must make the crowd love him. If he does, he'll go out there as Tiger Chow but come back...