Word: sudan
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Samaritan's Purse is active in the relief effort in Sudan. What do you think of the recent Darfur peace deal? I don't trust the [Sudanese] government. I don't trust them for a second. These are men who have murdered and murdered and murdered, and they're still in power. How can we trust them...
...Amnesty International. China is a party to the UN Refugee Convention, and human rights activists say that China is required to grant asylum to North Korean refugees under that convention. Lee said he hopes to begin an activist movement on campus similar to the movement that focused on Sudan divestment here at Harvard. “Harvard students have to use their freedom and resources to make a difference.” Lee said. Lee said he was inspired to create the branch of LiNK at Harvard after visiting South Korea last summer and working at a school for North...
...Over the past three years, the conflict in Darfur has displaced more than 2 million people and killed tens of thousands - perhaps more than 200,000. But in the past year the fighting, which originally pitted black African tribesmen against Sudan's government in Khartoum and its vicious Janjaweed militia proxies, has metastasized...
...African Union negotiators had set a deadline of last Sunday night for the combatants to come to an agreement. Since then, however, mediators - including American and British negotiators flown in to try to break the deadlock - have extended the talks twice. The latest deadline is midnight on Thursday. Sudan's government has agreed to sign the peace plan, but rebel groups are holding out for assurances that the government-sponsored Janjaweed militias, responsible for much of the bloodshed in Darfur, will be disarmed. Rebels also want to share governance of Darfur, a demand the government in Khartoum sees...
...thing, Security Council member China, which has extensive oil interests in Sudan, has regularly blocked moves to impose sanctions on Sudan. China is unlikely to block a U.N.-backed peacekeeping force, but it could limit its mandate. Arab League nations, which tend to side with Khartoum, could also make forming a mission troublesome. And Khartoum says it will refuse U.N. peacekeepers entry to Sudan. Beyond these irritants, there is the question of where troops would come from. Traditional suppliers of peacekeepers such as Jordan and Nigeria are stretched thin elsewhere...