Word: sudan
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...unprecedented global economic growth, the number of hungry people increased from 800 million to 830 million between 1996 and 2003. At current rates of logging, the natural forests of Indonesia and Burma will be gone within a decade or so. Each year the number of failing states increases - Sudan and Somalia today, perhaps Pakistan tomorrow - a trend that climate change will only worsen. Global demands on the Earth already exceed sustainable capacity by 25% - and we're set to add another 3 billion people by 2050. As Brown writes: "Civilization is in trouble...
...Chadian show-trial, and accuse Paris of failing to provide sufficient assistance and protection to what they say are blameless humanitarian officials. They contend the staffers were trapped in the shifting political sands surrounding the Darfur crisis - particularly the deployment of French-led peacekeeping forces to the Chad-Sudan border region, a move that Chadian authorities resent. Public opinion in Chad, on the other hand, has broadly accused the court of letting a cabal of child traffickers working under humanitarian cover off lightly. Some local commentators fear the transfer of Zoé's Ark staffers back to France could...
...went out there to have a bit of an adventure and got more of an adventure than I bargained for.' GILLIAN GIBBONS, the British teacher who spent more than a week in a Sudan jail for letting her students name a teddy bear Muhammad; she returned to Britain...
Islam is a double-edged sword in Sudan. In many instances, the regime harnesses it to advance its own power - witness the decades-long war successive Arab regimes in Khartoum waged against non-Muslim Africans in the south. Then, too, there are the regime's frequent charges of anti-Islamic bigotry against the West for its diplomatic pressures on Khartoum...
...larger backlash bordered on paranoia. Riot police were deployed, and Internet access to some stories was denied. Lord Ahmed, one of a pair of British parliamentarians who traveled to Khartoum as private citizens - and as co-religionists with the Sudanese - to secure Gibbons' release, told TIME that Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir admitted to them he was weighing a retrial - on stricter charges...