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Citizen
April 29, 2018
The fighting is between the SLA/AW group and Sudanese government forces in the Jebel Marra mountains and it has sent villagers fleeing into ... Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide related to theÃâà...
The Conversation CA
April 29, 2018
Overwhelmingly, the Sudanese were unwilling to return to Sudan given that they faced a worse and more dangerous situation there. ... They are not fleeing ethnic cleansing and possible genocide, as the Sudanese did from Darfur, but an oppressive regime that made military service compulsory andÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
April 29, 2018
... the Sudan Liberation Movement faction under the leadership of Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW), echoing similar comments by prominent Sudanese this ... of the Darfur camps for the displaced is "Khartoum's plan B to complete its demographic change project in Darfur"; it constitutes "a second genocide".
Sudan Tribune
April 28, 2018
The SLM-TC spokesperson Nurraldine Kouki, reaffirmed the group readiness to abort government second plan to commit "genocide and operate a comprehensive demographic change in Darfur". In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune Thursday, Kouki said that government militias early this monthÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 27, 2018
The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, met with the South Sudan Council of Churches (SSCC) ... More than 1.5 million South Sudanese are living as refugees in neighbouring countries and more than 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) areÃâà...
TIME
April 26, 2018
The U.S. government is investigating allegations of atrocities committed against Myanmar's Muslim Rohingya minority, gathering documentation that could be used to prosecute the country's military for crimes against humanity, Reuters reports. Led by the State Department, the investigation entailed moreÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 26, 2018
A convoy of 10 South Sudanese aid workers has disappeared in the south of the country, the United Nations has announced. ... Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, as having a human cost of "epic proportions" - has created Africa's biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
WAER
April 25, 2018
"This is the same regime that has conducted genocide against the people of Dafur... and denied millions of South Sudanese citizens. And not only that, this is the government who killed our parents and made us Lost Boys." Congress is considering taking Sudan off of the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
The Guardian
April 24, 2018
But critics fear the main motivation is to stop refugees reaching Europe, and such engagement emboldens the Sudanese government, which has one of ... “People are leaving because of Sudan's abusive and genocidal models of governance,” says Maddy Crowther, co-executive director of Waging Peace.
WAER
April 24, 2018
"This is the same regime that has conducted genocide against the people of Dafur... and denied millions of South Sudanese citizens. And not only that, this is the government who killed our parents and made us Lost Boys." Congress is considering taking Sudan off of the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
Sudan Tribune
April 22, 2018
The SPLM-N Agar also pointed to an argument advanced by other opposition forces that the re-election of al-Bashir who is wanted by the ICC for genocide and war crimes would maintain Sudan isolated for more five years. "A broad range of forces wider than the formal opposition platforms will be willing toÃâà...
Sudan Tribune
April 22, 2018
The human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan continues to deteriorate in a disturbing manner. ... In January 2015, the Sudanese Parliament amended the Interim National Constitution to endorse this expansion of NISS's mandate and transform it from an .... Katie-Jay Scott, Stop Genocide Now, USA
Independent Catholic News
April 20, 2018
On Sunday, April 15th 2018, Sudanese, Rwandans, and other survivors of genocide and mass violence gathered at White City Tiger Turf for London ... Team Sudan, led by Karim Suleiman, a former professional footballer in Sudan and Sudanese refugees and survivors who are friends of Waging Peace.
Moorpark Acorn
April 20, 2018
Darfuri refugees remain in camps more than a decade after fleeing genocide in Sudan. With support from Jewish World Watch, they are being trained to use low-water, cutting-edge farming techniques to overcome food shortages. Other exhibits will reveal how medical aid is delivered behind enemy lines inÃâà...
New Haven Independent
April 20, 2018
In more recent times, Connecticut has welcomed Sudanese genocide survivors from Darfur, as well as survivors of the brutal genocide in Rwanda. In Bridgeport last year, I welcomed a refugee family from Syria who fled the brutal suppression of a popular uprising by the totalitarian monster Bashar al Assad,Ãâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 20, 2018
The ICC has issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir, whom it accuses of being "criminally responsible, as an indirect co-perpetrator" for alleged acts of genocide and war crimes committed in Darfur. An insurgency erupted in Darfur in 2003 against Sudan's government in Khartoum for political and economicÃâà...
IRINnews.org
April 13, 2018
More than four million people, one third of the population, have fled their homes since South Sudan's brutal war began in December 2013, creating the largest refugee crisis in Africa since the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and parts of the country have plunged towards famine. Accused of human rightsÃâà...
ABC News
April 12, 2018
For residents living in the Nuba Mountains in Sudan running for their lives as planes dropped bombs on them was part of daily life. Ravaged by civil ... Its president continues to be wanted for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. And, as the ... Targeted by the Sudanese government. CatenaÃâà...
The New Times
April 8, 2018
Bunduki noted that “we learn from Rwanda's unity and reconciliation.” Jules Uwimana, the Chairperson of the Rwandan Community in South Sudan, spoke about the bad politics that cultivate seeds of hatred, which made the Genocide inevitable. “The determination to prevent the Genocide from happeningÃâà...
HuffPost
April 3, 2018
More than a million refugees ― a population twice the size of Miami ― have arrived in Uganda since civil war broke out in South Sudan in 2013. ... The South Sudanese refugee crisis could soon be Africa's biggest since the Rwandan genocide of 1994, and few of the displaced people hope to return homeÃâà...
Courthouse News Service
April 2, 2018
MANHATTAN (CN) – Four years after its aid of U.S.-sanctioned countries like the Sudan resulted in an $8.9 billion fine, BNP Paribas ducked a lawsuit Friday by refugees of the Sudan's ethnic-cleansing campaign. Entesar Osman Kashef and the other 15 refugees who took the French bank to court in 2016Ãâà...
ReliefWeb
April 1, 2018
The camps have long been a point of vulnerability for the Sudanese government, as they offer both evidence of the genocide and a pretext for ... that all aid organizations, including the WFP, are required to register with Sudan's Humanitarian Aid Commission, which directs where agencies place their moneyÃâà...
New Jersey Herald
March 31, 2018
20, 2018, photo, a Sudanese refugee boy stands on top of a broken-down tractor in Yida, South Sudan. While millions of South Sudanese flee their country in what the United Nations has called the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide, hundreds of thousands of people fromÃâà...
New Vision
March 18, 2018
Uganda's interventions in South Sudan, Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, for peace and stabilisation efforts earned Uganda scores to host the summit. ... The recent political and ethnic-driven violence in South Sudan and Burundi threatened scenarios of genocide with the figures purporting the number of peopleÃâà...
Duke Chronicle
March 7, 2018
However, human rights advocates maintain that these migrants are fleeing harsh political conditions in Eritrea, or genocide and civil war in Sudan. Even though Israel has ratified international treaties concerning refugees and refugee rights, the country has accepted less than 1 percent of refugee claims,Ãâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
In the catalog of horrors afflicting the world's most hellish places, South Sudan can check about every bloodied box. More than four years of civil warfare have left tens of thousands dead, 2 million displaced, half the population at threat of starvation without aid and a trail of atrocities — genocide, childÃâà...
HuffPost
March 7, 2018
The United Nations defines genocide as acts meant to destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group in whole or in part. Such a designation is rare under international law, but has been used in contexts including Bosnia, Sudan and an Islamic State campaign against the Yazidi communities in Iraq andÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 6, 2018
“It's a very worrying situation,” said Taj Haroun, who fled Sudan during the genocide in Darfur and has been living in Israel for a decade. ... Since 2009, Israel has granted refugee status to just one Sudanese and 10 Eritreans, recording an acceptance rate within those communities of less than 1 percent,Ãâà...
The Atlantic
March 5, 2018
Brutal ethnic and political violence has claimed tens of thousands of innocent lives in South Sudan. This is ... Most prominently, Obama issued a presidential directive in August 2011 that declared the prevention of genocide and other mass atrocities to be a “core national security interest” and a “core moralÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 5, 2018
NAIROBI: Activists accused South Sudan's government on Monday of funnelling cash from the state oil company to militias responsible for atrocities and ... The war has forced more than 4 million South Sudanese to flee their homes, creating Africa's largest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
TheChronicleHerald.ca
March 4, 2018
Adama Dieng, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' special adviser for the prevention of genocide, has intensified the call for an end to violence in South Sudan, following sustained diplomatic pressure from the African Union on South Sudanese leaders. Both the government and rebels have done veryÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 28, 2018
The government of Sudan has often been accused of violating human rights and just as often, it has denied these charges. DW's Conflict .... The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants in 2009 and 2010 against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir with three counts of genocide. Bashir hasÃâà...
ABC News
February 23, 2018
One South Sudanese man returned home after hiding from government soldiers to find they had blinded his mother, gouging out her eyes with spears. She had tried to ... More than two million people have fled the country, the largest refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide 24 years ago. Millions whoÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 14, 2018
Peace talks between the Sudanese government and Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM/N) facilitated by the African Union High-Level ... war crimes and genocide in Darfur, yet, under the Obama administration, the US welcomed rapprochement with Sudan to collaborate on counterterrorism andÃâà...
Haaretz
December 31, 1999
Hundreds of asylum seekers from the Nuba Mountains of Sudan who suffered genocidal attacks are to be given the same legal status as people from ... told the court that any legal decision made regarding the Sudanese from the Darfur region would also apply to those from Nuba and Blue Nile regions.
