Darfur

Source: news.yahoo.com --- 1 hour ago
AP - As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actress activist Mia Farrow is Web-casting her own "Darfur Olympics" from a refugee camp on the barren Sudan-Chad border, aiming to shame China into using its influence with Khartoum to end the Darfur conflict. ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 4 hours ago
Wu Jianmin brushes off criticism, saying activists don't really care about Darfur ...

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 3 hours ago
Six people are killed and 28 wounded after a camel attack on a civilian convoy in Sudan's Darfur region, the UN says. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 hours ago
KHARTOUM: The United Nations on Thursday voiced concern over trials in Sudan that sentenced to death 30 alleged Darfur rebels for an attack on the capital and urged Khartoum to abolish capital punishment.'The United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) has ...

Source: www.usatoday.com --- 8 hours ago
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Source: sport.guardian.co.uk --- 3 hours ago
Elana Schor asks US Olympic speed skater and Darfur activist Joey Cheek about Beijing's choice to revoke his visa ahead of the Games ...

Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com --- 6 hours ago
With President Bush seeking to demonstrate he is not papering over differences with China as he makes his way through Asia, the Chinese decision to keep speed skating champion Joey Cheek out of the country does not make the president's... ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 12 hours ago
US Olympic team defies pleas not to politicise the Beijing Games. ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 8 hours ago
Activists say court actions amount to a finding of likely genocide in Darfur, and that such a finding triggers clear obligations for international community ...

Source: www.voanews.com --- 9 hours ago
The world cannot ignore the terrible crimes that have occurred in Darfur and the massive human suffering there. A U.N. resolution sends the wrong message that in seeking peace in Sudan those crimes can be overlooked. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 25 minutes ago
VOA News Aug 7 2008 6:27PM GMT ...

Source: religionblog.dallasnews.com --- 1 hour ago
So: Literally poisonous air. Almost daily examples of government repression. Somebody remind me why it was a good idea to let China host the Olympics? But here's a bright spot, courtesy of the US Olympic team: Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A Sudanese-born runner who is a member of an athletes group critical of China's policies toward Darfur was chosen to carry the U.S. flag in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Lopez Lomong, a 1,500-meter runner who became an American citizen 13 months ago, was selected last night in a vote of captains of the sports squads on the U.S. Olympic team. And the link . ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 14 hours ago
Sudan Tribune Aug 7 2008 1:54AM GMT ...

Source: newsblaze.com --- 4 hours ago
The 10 May attack against the Sudanese Government was carried out by members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) in Omdurman, on the outskirts of Khartoum. ...

Source: www.catholicexplorer.com --- 53 minutes ago
In 2001, some "lost boys of Sudan" arrived in the U.S. and the first phase of their long run from the horrors of their homeland's civil war was fading in the distance.  For one boy resettled in the Syracuse Diocese, however, that year marked the beginning of a new run, both literally and figuratively. ...

Source: www.bignewsnetwork.com --- 1 day ago
Sudanese Justice Minister Abdel-Basset Sabdrat Tuesday named a chief prosecutor to probe alleged crimes in the western region of Darfur, the country's official news agency SUNA reported. Nimr Ibrahim ... ...