Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
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Archive for the ‘sudan’ Category
Sudanese demand schoolteacher’s execution
Saturday, December 1st, 2007Worldwide rallies held for Darfur
Thursday, September 20th, 2007Protests took place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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Chaos in Darfur rises as Arabs fight with Arabs
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Arab tribes in Darfur were fighting over the spoils of war, killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
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UN approves hybrid force for Darfur
Thursday, August 2nd, 2007The UN Security Council has approved a joint UN-African Union force of up to twenty-six thousand troops for Darfur.
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Geologist: Underground lake in Darfur probably dry
Wednesday, July 25th, 2007A French geologist stated that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago.
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World failing Darfur, says Rice
Monday, June 25th, 2007US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the world has failed Darfur.
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France holds conference on Darfur
Monday, June 25th, 2007France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
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UN: Darfur conflict beginning of climate wars
Saturday, June 23rd, 2007A UN reported warned that the Darfur conflict heralds era of wars triggered by climate change.
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Iraq ranked second among world’s failed states
Monday, June 18th, 2007Iraq was rated the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan.
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UN: Somalia worse than Darfur
Friday, May 18th, 2007The United Nations top humanitarian chief is saying the refugee situation in Somalia is now worse than Darfur.
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China, Russia deny Amnesty Report of illegal arms supply to Sudan
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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Sudan to allow peacekeepers
Monday, April 16th, 2007Sudan agreed to allow more than 3,000 armed U.N. and African peacekeepers into Darfur.
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Biden to send troops to “Somalia” as president
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed†in Darfur, and although he did not know where that is, he was pretty sure it started with an S.
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Sudan forces bomb rebel areas in Darfur
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Sudanese forces bombed two rebel locations in Darfur just days after the head of the African Union’s peacekeeping force visited the area to urge the rebels to join a cease-fire agreement, the AU said Sunday.
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Sudanese president accepts UN package for assistance
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006Sudan’s president said he accepts a U.N. package to help end escalating violence in Darfur and is ready for urgent discussions on a ceasefire, according to a letter circulated Tuesday.
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30 killed in Darfur
Sunday, December 10th, 2006About 30 civilians were killed in an attack by gunmen on a convoy carrying medical and relief supplies in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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Hundreds killed in southern Suden clashes
Thursday, November 30th, 2006Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday.
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Presidential advisor in Darfur wants something done
Monday, November 27th, 2006Former Darfur rebel turned presidential adviser Minni Arcua Minnawi on Monday accused the Sudanese government of rearming and mobilizing the feared Janjaweed militia, violating a peace deal signed in May.
He also urged the international community to take action rather than just talk about the Darfur conflict, which has killed 200,000 and driven 2.5 million people from their homes in the vast region in the west of Sudan.
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ICC says Darfur evidence enough to prosecute
Friday, November 24th, 2006The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has nearly completed an investigation into war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region and has sufficient evidence to file charges soon, he said on Thursday.
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Bush to think about doing something in Darfur
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006President George W. Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at new ways to stop the violence in Darfur after getting a “grim” report about the humanitarian crisis from his special envoy.
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