Word: sudan
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...mourners gathered in southern Sudan to bid farewell to John Garang, many Sudanese were still struggling to understand what his death means for their country. Garang led the southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (splm) during its 21-year war against the northern Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, and helped to negotiate the power-sharing agreement between the north and the south that brought the conflict to a close early this year. Three weeks ago, 60-year-old Garang arrived in Khartoum to take up his new job as Sudan's Vice President. He died last week when...
DIED. JOHN GARANG, 60, Sudanese rebel leader turned Vice President and key negotiator of a fledgling peace agreement between the Islamist government and Christian rebels in the south that, if completed, will end the longest civil war in African history; after his helicopter crashed in southern Sudan...
Fortunately, I can say that I am learning loads. Though I’ve only been studying the language for a year, I find myself already knee-deep in insights about the Russian culture. Upon finding out, for example, that 95 Rwandan troops were being launched into Sudan to stop the genocide there, I found myself marvelously tickled...
...about the only person they did not rough up." CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. Secretary of State, after members of her delegation and the media were forcibly blocked from her meeting with President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan...
...hope is that dumping such stocks en masse will persuade companies to cease working in Sudan, and the resulting economic pressure, like that applied to South Africa during apartheid, will push the government to rein in the Arab Janjaweed militias--which international monitors blame for the deaths of more than 70,000 black Darfuris since 2003. "It stops us from being directly complicit in genocide," says recent Harvard graduate Brandon Terry, who led the effort there. A spokeswoman for Siemens, targeted by activists for building infrastructure in Sudan, says the German firm "takes the concerns seriously" but that shutting down...