Sudan: Food becomes a weapon of war
The Global Post: TESS, Sudan — The United States and the UN are scrambling to get food to this conflict zone where an estimated 500,000 people are at risk of […]
Religious divide in Africa
SUDAN was bombing South Sudan again last week, only a couple of months after the two countries split apart. Sudan is mostly Muslim, and South Sudan is predominantly Christian, but the quarrel is about oil, not religion. And yet, it is really about religion too, since the two countries would […]
Chinese workers freed in Sudan, flown to Kenya
A group of Chinese workers kidnapped by rebels in Sudan has been freed and flown to Kenya, officials from both countries say. The construction workers were released to the International Committee of the Red Cross on Tuesday, 11 days after they were abducted. Read More…
Can Muslim states demilitarize politics?
By Shahid Javed Burki The Daily Star Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? This question is now paramount in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. To predict how this struggle will play out, […]
‘Malnutrition’ serious in southern Sudan
Press tv: Head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Valerie Amos has said that food insecurity and levels of malnutrition are climbing in some areas of the Sudanese provinces of South Kordofan and Blue Nile. People are “fleeing South Kordofan and Blue Nile to South Sudan […]
China’s foreign minister in first visit to South Sudan
China’s foreign minister is to arrive in South Sudan – the first high-level visit since independence in July. Yang Jiechi is expected to urge the government in Juba to develop a better relationship with Sudan. Read More
How the Arab world lost southern Sudan
Source/Credit: Aljazeera Both pan-Arabist and Islamist governments have failed to embrace diversity and pluralism – to their own detriment. The division of Sudan into two states is a dangerous precedent. The Arab world has to draw the right lessons from if it wants to avoid the break-up of other Arab […]
Khartoum recognizes South Sudan
By REUTERS Published: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 Updated: Jul 8, 2011 20:47 KHARTOUM/JUBA: Sudan became the first state to recognize the independence of its oil-producing south on Friday, smoothing the way for the division on Saturday of Africa’s largest country into two. Underdeveloped South Sudan secedes Saturday — a hard-won […]