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...January 2005, an accord ended two decades of fighting between the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement in the south and the government in Khartoum. A coalition government was created and south Sudan was given the option to hold a referendum on independence in 2011. The south Sudanese government was also to receive half of all oil revenues from Sudan's oil (last year, the country exported $6 billion worth of oil). Yet unresolved issues with the peace deal, including oil sharing, deployment of northern troops in southern oilfields and the demarcation of the north-south border, are dangerously...
...Stoppard's new play, Rock 'n' Roll, opening on Broadway Nov. 4, is about Czechoslovakia in the years between the 1968 Soviet crackdown and the 1989 Velvet Revolution - set against the backdrop of the rebel rock music of the era. The playwright talked with TIME's Richard Zoglin about the play, his tastes in rock and other matters. Excerpts...
...British academics and shuttles back and forth between Cambridge and Prague in the years between the 1968 Soviet invasion and the "velvet revolution" of 1989. It's an exploration of political repression and commitment (with a typically Stoppardian digression into Sappho's poetry), but also a celebration of the rebel rock music that, in Stoppard's view, was as potent a force for revolution as Vaclav Havel's speeches. Scenes are punctuated with the sounds of groups like the Rolling Stones and the Plastic People of the Universe, a Czech band imprisoned during the Soviet crackdown--with a special...
...Human Rights 101” class, sponsored by the Harvard Human Rights Advocates (HHRA). A general practitioner, Atim called for “long term intervention” by restructuring health, education, and the economy in Uganda. The 21-year civil war between the established government and a rebel group, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has displaced 1.7 million people, according to Human Rights Watch. The conflict is blamed for the abduction of children, an increase in sexual violence, and consequently the spread of AIDS. “The conflict in northern Uganda is the biggest forgotten, neglected...
...park's emergency plan to continue tracking and monitoring the gorillas even with the rebel presence has fallen through. With thousands of rebels throughout the forest, the security situation has worsened into a "no-go zone," says Lucy Fauveau of the London Zoological Society. The Congolese Institute for the Conservation of Nature is currently attempting to collaborate with MONUC, the U.N.'s peacekeeping mission in the Congo, to provide protection to the gorillas. The U.N. employs around 17,000 peacekeepers in the Congo - the largest force of its kind worldwide. In the meantime, conservationists say they will wait...