Sudan Archives - Page 6 of 9

10Mar

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Sudanese government collaborates with Saudi Arabia to betray Palestinian cause

NOVANEWS HASSAN+AL-BASHIR Khartoum – A confidential letter from the Saudi Zio-Wahhabi embassy in Sudan to the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was leaked out and provoked controversy in Sudanese media. The letter purportedly repots a meeting between Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour, Zio-Wahhabi ambassador to Sudan and an European expert on the sidelines of the Twenty-sixth African Union summit in Addis Ababa. According to the leaked document, Saudi Zio-Wahhabi has expressed its full support for Sudan over the disputed Halayeb Triangle with Egypt, emphasizing on granting Khartoum much-needed economic and political support. On the other hand, the Sudanese government has vowed to coordinate with KSA to reframing its relations with the Palestinian factions. Since 1902, the Halayeb Tri...

31Jul

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The International Criminal Court is unfit for purpose

NOVANEWS Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem, Sr By Dr David Hoile The debate that has opened up regarding the International Criminal Court as a consequence of South Africa’s decision not to arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir while he was attending the recent African Union summit in Johannesburg and Palestine’s successful application to join the court is long overdue. The pursuit of justice, in the wake of wrong-doing and especially in the face of crimes against humanity and war crimes, is one of mankind’s most noble instincts. The International Criminal Court was embraced with understandable enthusiasm by a wide range of people, non-governmental organisations and governments when it came into being on 1 July 2002. Less than eight years later, however, the ICC-friendly Economist found itself ...

14Jun

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South African court prevents Sudan’s al-Bashir from leaving country

NOVANEWS al-Bashir war crimes A high court in South Africa issued an interim order Sunday preventing Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from leaving the country. Al-Bashir is currently in South Africa attending the 25th African Union Summit that is underway in Johannesburg. The South African court will decide later on Sunday whether or not to hand the Sudanese leader over to the International Criminal Court, which issued an arrest warrant against al-Bashir in 2009. He is accused of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur region. Pretoria High Court Judge Hans Fabricus issued the order on Sunday after the Southern Africa Litigation Centre submitted an application calling for the Sudanese leader’s arrest. Amnesty International also appealed to South Africa to arre...

26May

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Al-Bashir blocks 10 newspapers from running a story about rape and sexual abuse 'VIDEO'

NOVANEWS Al-Bashir blocks 10 newspapers from running a story about the rape and sexual abuse of children on school buses ' Widely known as the ‘butcher of Sudan,’ Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has all but eliminated freedom of the press and political dissent. RELATED STORIES/VIDEOS: will-arab-summit-condemn-the-butcher-of-sudan-for-crimes-against-humanity worst-human-rights-abusers-and-liberals-support-the-butcher-of-sudan islamic-north-sudan-declares-war-on-christian-black-south-sudan-israel-arming-south sudan-if-this-wasnt-genocide-by-arab-muslims-what-is sudan-for-5-days-arab-muslims-forced-to-carry-the-sawed-off-head-of-a-child-while-it-rotted-in-my-hands sudanese-genocide-how-come-the-media-never-mention-that-muslims-are-the-slaughterers

28Mar

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South Sudan Frees Hundreds Of Child Soldiers, Including 9-Year Old Girl

NOVANEWS Some 12,000 children are still in active combat both on the side of the rebels and militias allied to government, Unicef says, making the removal of child fighters from the conflict a difficult task. By Lisa Vives A Sudanese family takes shelter at the Kalma refugee camp for internally displaced people, south of the Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan. (AP/UNAMID) NEW YORK, Mar 24 2015 - South Sudan’s Democratic Army Cobra Faction announced its third release of child soldiers as agreed in a pact with the government signed last May. Over the weekend, 654 children registered with the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) were released – bringing the total freed by the militia group since January to 1,314. The children exchanged their weapons and uniforms for civilian clothes at a ceremony in L...

28Feb

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Speaking at Adelaide Writer’s Week 2015

NOVANEWS I’ve just returned from South Sudan (very briefly) to speak at Adelaide Writer’s Week. What a culture shock coming from Africa. Everything here is so shiny. Anyway, I’ll be speaking about Israel/Palestine, my investigative work over the years, interviewing British writer John Lancaster on financial shenanigans and running a masterclass with the South Australian Writer’s Centre. Here’s the Adelaide literary festival director Laura Kroetsch introducing my work:

23Feb

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South Sudan, Another US Intervention Resulting in Violent Chaos

NOVANEWS Thousands of children are being used as soldiers in the U.S.-caused war in South Sudan. | Photo: Child Rights Awareness Creation Organization Unidentified gunmen abduct 89 boys while in school, possibly to use as armed soldiers. Unidentified gunmen in war-torn South Sudan, kidnapped about 90 boys, some as young as 13, from their school in oil-rich Upper Nile State, the United Nations reported on Saturday. The schoolboys were taken while doing their exams, the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said, adding that the total number of kidnapped children could be "much higher." No group has yet claimed responsibility for the abductions and the gunmen's intentions were not clear, though in the past armed groups have forcibly recruited children before major offensives. ...

21Feb

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UN Says Conflicts In Darfur Displace 41,000 In Two Months

NOVANEWS Some 300,000 people have been killed in the conflict in Darfur, and the region is home to more than two million internally displaced persons, according to the UN. By Al Akhbar A Sudanese family takes shelter under their donkey cart at the Kalma refugee camp for internally displaced people, south of the Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan. (AP/UNAMID) Fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels in parts of Darfur has displaced more than 41,000 people from their homes since late December, the UN said on Thursday. “Aid organizations have assessed and verified the needs of 41,304 people displaced” by violence in North Darfur state and the Jebel Marra areas in the war-torn region, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said in its weekly bulletin. Th...

18Feb

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The South Sudan Military Is Still Recruiting Children

NOVANEWS The country's military has enlisted boys as young as 13, often by force, in Upper Nile state, the rights watchdog said. By AP A Sudanese family takes shelter under their donkey cart at the Kalma refugee camp for internally displaced people, south of the Darfur town of Nyala, Sudan. Photo: UNAMID/AP KAMPALA, Uganda — South Sudan’s military and rebel forces are recruiting children despite assurances to the contrary, Human Rights Watch said Monday, citing children and parents interviewed last month. The country’s military has enlisted boys as young as 13, often by force, in Upper Nile state, the rights watchdog said. The allegations were strongly denied by two senior South Sudanese officials who said standing orders forbid the army from recruiting children. “We issued orders to...

11Feb

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UN head Valerie Amos backs arms embargo on South Sudan

NOVANEWS By: Antony Loewenstein My following story appears in today’s Guardian (I’m currently based in Juba, South Sudan): Valerie Amos has joined calls for an arms embargo against South Sudan, the most senior UN official to back growing international demands for action against the country as it enters a second year of civil war. “Anything that takes weapons off the streets, out of countries and out of communities will help us because ultimately for us it’s about bringing peace,” the UN humanitarian chief told the Guardian. “If there are no weapons, it’s harder for people to fight, peace will come sooner and we can get more aid to the people who so desperately need it.” The United States has so far resisted efforts to implement an embargo, although the secretary of state, John Kerry, an...