LONDON: Hollywood star George Clooney has paid tribute to fellow activist Mia Farrow
for fasting to bring attention to the ongoing problems in Sudan.
The two stars have become leading celebrity campaigners about the genocide in Sudan. While Clooney

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By Chinedu Offor
Washington DC
 
Amnesty International is protesting the death sentences handed down to 82 Darfuri men by a Sudanese special court. The men were allegedly involved in a May 2008 attack on the capital, Khartoum, by an armed opposition group based in Darfur, the Justice and Equality Movement.

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DOHA, April 29 (KUNA) — Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr Al-Thani opened here on Wednesday evening a meeting, as part of reconciliation efforts between Chad and Sudan.
Addressing the meeting, Al-Thani expressed hope that the meeting would achieve improving and

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By Heba Aly

April 29 (Bloomberg) — Gunmen said they freed two Western aid workers who were kidnapped in Sudan’s Darfur region on April 4, and a Sudanese foreign ministry official confirmed the claim.

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

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Khartoum Tortures Darfur War Prisoners
A Statement from JEM:

Recent trials of JEM war prisoners in Khartoum reveal horrific treatment of Darfur detainees at the hand of their captors.  Since JEM invasion of Khartoum, May 2008, Darfur detainees, many of whom had no role in the invasion, have continued enduring

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Tribute To Pan-Africanist
Deng Ajack

A year after Sudden Departure
The late Deng Ajack-Juba-April 21, 2007

By: Mahmoud E. Yousif

yousif_474@yahoo.com/

On May 2, 2009 Africa lost one of it is greatest Pan Africanist, strategists, and a humanists lost for the world, a talent person who seeks justice beyond personal and tribal

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The Sudan Justice and Equality Movement (JEM)

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Decrees of President of JEM
Decree No. 26 for the year 2009
Amendment of Executive Board of JEM

Name of the Decree and its Enforcement

The Decree issued herewith is called The Decree for Appointment of a Deputy of General Commander of JEM Forces, as well as the Appointment of Military Leaders.

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Five members of Congress were arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington Monday as they demonstrated against the situation in Darfur.

Hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur in western Sudan in what the U.S. State

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By Jacob K. Lupai

April 27, 2009 — Suggesting a new capital for Southern Sudan is most likely to raise a number of questions. One is about the feasibility of such a project and of course the imagined enormous cost that may be prohibitive. The other question is why a new capital when there is already one. The last

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Tuesday, April 28 2009

An audience at the Doha Debates has defied the governments of the Arab League and told them to send Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for trial at the International Criminal Court.
 
A 350-strong audience voted 55 to 45 percent in favour of a motion: ‘This House believes Arab states

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Doha Debates vote goes against Bashir

By Peter Townson
The motion “This house believes that the Arab states should hand over the Sudanese president to the International Criminal Court (ICC)” was passed by 55% to 45% during the latest episode of the Doha Debates last night,

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First to speak for the motion was the spokesman
for JEM (Justice and Equality Movement) in Darfur, Ahmed Hussain Adam, who announced that he was “strongly in favour of the motion,” claiming that “Sudan would be a better place if Bashir was taken to trial.”

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Hollie McKay
ADVERTISEMENTActress Mia Farrow began a fast of water only in solidarity for the people of Darfur Monday, attempting to abstain from all food for three weeks.

FOXNews.com’s Hollie McKay interviewed Farrow on her mission to bring awareness to the people of Darfur.

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A Sudanese court has sentenced another 11 Darfur rebels to death for a deadly attack on the capital last year.

Judge Hafez Ahmed found the men guilty of involvement of the attack in verdicts issued Sunday. Eight other men were acquitted.

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By Wasil Ali*

April 26, 2009 — Amr Moussa, Arab League Secretary General: Per your statements the Israeli assault on Gaza and the human toll that resulted is a war crime requiring ICC intervention to achieve justice. But you said that Darfur conflict, despite the heavy death toll far outnumbering Gaza, is nothing more than a “semi-civil war” and that the ICC is charging a serving head state so according to you it is the wrong thing to do.

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April 26, 2009 (WASHINGTON) – The United States of America is positioning itself to become “friends” with the Government of Sudan, seeing this approach as the best way to improve the situation in Darfur and reach a political settlement, according to a closed briefing given by Special Envoy Scott Gration at the US State Department on April 20, 2009.

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Tribal fighting erupted on 18 April in several villages of Akobo County in Jonglei State, killing at least 195 people and wounding about 70 others, according to local authorities.

“Nyandit payam (township) of Akobo County was attacked early in the morning … from both sides of the

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An Iranian vessel loaded with weapons to transfer to Hamas via Sudan was recently sunk in the Red Sea by an unidentified missile ship believed to be Israeli, according to Arab media.

The vessel was attacked by either an Israeli or American ship and destroyed, according to a report Sunday

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April 25, 2009 (EL FASHER) – Facing ongoing insecurity and military engagements in Darfur, the joint UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) will send its highest official to New York to plead for donations of key equipment, said Noureddine Mezni, the UNAMID spokesperson.

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KHARTOUM, April 25 (Reuters) - Kidnappers holding two foreign aid workers in western Sudan’s volatile Darfur region said on Saturday that talks with the government of neighbouring Chad had stalled and a quick solution appeared difficult.

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(WASHINGTON) — The Sudanese government quickly dismissed a report by the UN this week describing the negative consequences that resulted from Khartoum’s decision to expel more than a dozen aid groups from Darfur.

Sudan said that the expelled organizations were passing information to the International Criminal

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KHARTOUM, Sudan - A major Darfur rebel group said yesterday that it has reshuffled some of its top political and military positions to include a number of smaller groups that had joined it in the past few months.

Suleiman Sandal, a Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, member, said almost 50 percent of the

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KHARTOUM, Sudan - A major Darfur rebel group said yesterday that it has reshuffled some of its top political and military positions to include a number of smaller groups that had joined it in the past few months.

Suleiman Sandal, a Justice and Equality Movement, or JEM, member, said almost 50 percent of the

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KHARTOUM, April 24 (Reuters) - A major Darfur rebel group said on Friday it has reshuffled some of its top political and military positions to include a number of smaller groups that had joined it in the last few months.

Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) member Suleiman Sandal said almost 50 percent of the executive

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Near El Geneina, Sudan - Chadian rebel chief Timan Erdimi sits in the shade of a mango tree near a dried-up wadi in western Sudan, charting out a strategy to topple the government in neighbouring Chad.

“When everything is ready we will launch the war,” Erdimi tells AFP near El Geneina, a wild and lawless

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April 23, 2009 (WASHINGTON) — The head of the largest opposition blocs in the Sudanese National Assembly came under fire after a stand-off over legislation setting the penalties for adultery.

The debate over draft criminal law has bitterly divided the legislature, partly because the adultery

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A Sudanese court on Wednesday sentenced 11 members of the Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) to death and acquitted five others for an unprecedented 2008 attack on Khartoum.

“The court has found the accused guilty… and has decided to impose the harshest punishment,” judge Samid Din Ismail told the defendants.

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April 22, 2009 (PARIS) — The Sudanese delegation ended their talks last night with French and British officials in Paris with neither sides appearing to reach common grounds on issues discussed.

Khartoum dispatched a high level delegation to the French capital consisting of presidential assistant

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Omar Al-Bashir lied & Break-down The Peace Agreement

By: Ali Arshain

Wednesday 21/04/2009

Since the  International Criminal Court issued warrant to arrest the Sudanese president Omer Al-Bashir it became clear that the Criminal President (Omer Al-Bashir ) decided to continue with his government to  make it worth than before for Darfur. Omer Al-Bashir has appeared after the

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