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ABYEI: Misplaced civility at the heart of an intractable conflict

| May 19, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Deng Vanang May 13, 2013 – Until death do us part, seem to be the rapturous echoes ripping through the throbbing heart of bewildered Ngok Dinka citizens in Abyei. The disputed territory is aging as it is well over its centenary year in self-imposed exile. It is to be recalled the tiny but much [...]

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African Union calls for Sudan, South Sudan summit on Abyei

| May 9, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Susan Guyett INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) – The daughter of Ariel Castro, the chief suspect in the Cleveland abduction of three women freed on Monday, is serving time in an Indiana prison for attempted murder after she slashed her baby’s throat four times with a knife, court documents show. Emily Castro, 25, was sentenced to 25 [...]

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Shisha Smoking Makes Quiet Reappearance in Khartoum – VOA

| May 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

— For Sudanese businessman Mohamed Ali the tedium of the evening hours is finally over – his favorite shisha cafe in the capital Khartoum has reopened after a two-year break.         “I come here every day. I love to be here and smoke water pipe with my friends and socialize,” said Ali, sitting at [...]

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South Sudan Lodges Complaint Against Khartoum At UNSC Over Killing of …

| May 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

Juba — South Sudan on Monday lodged a strongly worded complaint to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the killing of Abyei tribal leader Kuol Deng Kuol, warning that until the perpetuators are identified and brought to justice, it is no longer “business as usual”. South Sudan‘s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, [...]

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South Sudan lodges complaint against Khartoum at UNSC over killing of Abyei …

| May 8, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 7, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan on Monday lodged a strongly worded complaint to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) over the killing of Abyei tribal leader Kuol Deng Kuol, warning that until the perpetuators are identified and brought to justice, it is no longer “business as usual”. FILE – South Sudan’s minister of [...]

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Abyei remains top issue to settle with Sudan, says Kiir

| May 4, 2013 | 0 Comments

May 3, 2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, says the fate of Abyei – a key disputed oil-producing border region – remains his government’s top priority following the country’s secession from Sudan in July 2011. South Sudanese President Salva Kiir (REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah) His comments have raised expectations that direct negotiations on the [...]

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Shisha smoking makes quiet reappearance in Khartoum

| May 3, 2013 | 0 Comments

By Ulf Laessing KHARTOUM | Wed May 1, 2013 10:06am EDT KHARTOUM (Reuters) – For Sudanese businessman Mohamed Ali the tedium of the evening hours is finally over – his favorite shisha cafe in the capital Khartoum has reopened after a two-year break. “I come here every day. I love to be here and smoke [...]

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"We Start the Training with under 10 Year-old Children", Football Coach …

| April 27, 2013 | 0 Comments

“We Start the Training with under 10 Year-old Children”, Football Coach Tomohiro Nishijo Sports in the SocietySports are a basic element in every society and historians have proved that even the most primitive societies have practiced some kind of sport. And it may be enough to mention that the Olympic Games came to us from [...]

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Review – Band Aid for a Broken Leg

| April 27, 2013 | 0 Comments

By the time aid workers decide to pen a memoir of their experiences, the initial pull of a humanitarian career has often been replaced by a creeping sense of disillusionment. In memoirs such as Tony Vaux’s The Selfish Altruist, and Emergency Sex And Other Desperate Measures: True Stories from a Warzone by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thomson, [...]

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Catechist: ‘We prayed the rosary as we ran’

| April 25, 2013 | 0 Comments

(CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) Bruna Maloal, a 63-year old Catholic catechist, stands at the gate to her home in Abyei, a town at the center of the contested Abyei region along the border between Sudan and South Sudan. • • •   Printer Friendly March 27th, 2013By Paul Jeffrey ABYEI, Sudan – When Bruna Maloal was a [...]

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