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South Sudan Massacres Follow Independence

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeffrey Jettleman - Jan. 13 (News Report) - The trail of corpses begins about 300 yards from the corrugated metal gate of the United Nations compound and stretches for miles into the bush. There is an old man on his back, a young woman with her legs splayed and skirt bunched up around her hips, and a whole family — man, woman, two children — all facedown in the swamp grass, executed together. How many hundreds are scattered across the savannah, nobody really knows.

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Fleeing Sudanese fill refugee camps

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

CNN - By Moni Basu - Dec. 29 (News Report) - Last July, the world celebrated the birth of its newest nation as South Sudan officially separated from the north. It was hoped then that after decades of bloodshed, the people of of both nations would finally know peace. But just a few months later, refugee camps are filling to the brim as fighting in the border states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile has intensified and displaced more than 400,000 people.

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South Sudan Accuses Sudan of Bombing Civilian Camp

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Josh Kron - Nov. 10 (Breaking News) - The United States condemned the airstrike by Sudan and what it called other “negative developments” that increase the potential for hostilities between Sudan and South Sudan.

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South Sudan, world's newest nation, is instantly one of the most troubled

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - Jul. 10 (News) - Africa's longest civil war gives birth to South Sudan, a country about the size of France that has broken away from its bitter antagonist to the north. Heads of state gather for a euphoric celebration in the fledgling capital of Juba, but poverty, corruption and questions about its leadership already plague the new nation.The countdown clock ran out, the flag ascended over the fledgling capital and a new nation born from Africa's longest civil war and the deaths of 2 million people joined the world Saturday.

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After Years of Struggle, South Sudan Becomes a New Nation

Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Jeffrey Gettleman - Jul. 09 (News Report) - After more than five decades of an underdog, guerrilla struggle and two million lives lost, the Republic of South Sudan, Africa’s 54th state, declared its independence in front of a who’s who of Africa.

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Sudan 'bombs oil-rich southern state'

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:05:37 -0700

Aljazeera - Jun. 10 (News Report) - North bombs a village in Unity State, southern officials say, as tensions rise ahead of south's secession next month.

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UN estimates 100,000 have fled South Sudan tension

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Jun. 07 (News) - The U.N. refugee agency says some 100,000 people have fled tension around the disputed South Sudan town of Abyei.

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Bashir says Abyei belongs to the north

Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Aljazeera - May. 25 (News Report) - Sudan president says his forces will not withdraw from disputed region, escalating fears of fresh north-south conflict. Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, has said that Abyei belongs to the north and that his forces will not withdraw from ...Fresh Sudan violence at risk of escalatingABC OnlineUN calls for talks to end Sudan's Abyei crisisPakistan Daily TimesSouthern Sudanese wait, worry about how to get homeDaily Star - LebanonVoice of America -New York Times -Reutersall 1,927 news articles »

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How Southern Sudan's 'ticking time bomb' was defused

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

McClatchy - By Alan Boswell - Feb. 25 (News Analysis) - If it were held properly, the Sudanese government in the north faced the certain loss of not just a third of its land but also 80 percent of its oil. If the vote were blocked, or even delayed, conflict probably would erupt.

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George Clooney: 21st-Century Statesman

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Newsweek - By John Avlon - Feb. 20 (News Report) - In the age of Twitter-shortened attention spans, fame is an increasingly powerful weapon of diplomacy. How George Clooney is helping to bring change—and a hefty dose of hope—to Sudan.

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South Sudan referendum: 99% vote for independence

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - Jan. 30 (News) - Some 99% of South Sudanese voted to secede from the north, according to the first complete results of the region's independence referendum.

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Initial results: SSudan independence vote approved

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Jan. 19 (Breaking News) - Officials say preliminary results show more than 98 percent of voters in and near Southern Sudan’s capital voted for independence from the north.

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George Clooney focuses the camera on Sudan

Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Rebecca Keegan - Jan. 10 (News Report) - The actor's Satellite Sentinel Project is collaborating with other organizations to aim commercial satellites at the nation's north-south border in hopes of preventing possible genocide.

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First day of south Sudan vote ends

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Ranjit Bhaskar - Jan. 09 (News Report) - Polling stations have closed on the first day of voting in Southern Sudan's week-long referendum on secession. The atmosphere was festive in the southern capital Juba on Sunday, with voters queueing for hours outside polling stations.

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Birth of a new country

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - Jan. 09 (News Analysis) - (Graphic) Southern Sudanese will begin voting Sunday on whether to separate from Sudan. If they elect to do so, they will join the ranks of more than two dozen other countries that have formed since the beginning of 1990.

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Masses turn out to vote in S Sudan

Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - By Ranjit Bhaskar - Jan. 09 (News) - Southern Sudanese have turned out in droves to vote in a historic referendum to decide whether they want to secede from Sudan or remain united. The week-long poll started on Sunday at 8:00 local time [05:00 GMT] across Sudan.

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Can Sudan's oil feed north and south?

Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0800

BBC News - By James Copnall - Jan. 06 (News Analysis) - Oil has fuelled conflict in Sudan, and rapid growth in the northern heartland of Africa's biggest country, as the 4x4s purring past shining skyscrapers in the capital, Khartoum, suggest. But now southerners seem certain to choose independence in Sunday's referendum - and when they go they will take most of Sudan's oil with them.

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Southern Sudan Likely to Vote to Secede from North, Presidential Aide Says

Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Bloomberg - By Karl Maier - Dec. 17 (News) - Southern Sudan is likely to vote to secede from Sudan in a referendum next month, said Nafie Ali Nafie, an aide to President Umar al-Bashir. Efforts to maintain the unity of Sudan have failed, Nafie said yesterday, according to state news agency SUNA.

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US NGOs concerned by Obama's Darfur envoy, policy

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Agence France-Presse - By Christophe Schmidt - Oct. 03 (News Report) - US non-governmental organizations are pressing President Barack Obama to launch a new peace initiative for Darfur, as they express concern about the approach being taken by US envoy Scott Gration.

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Sudan's simmering struggle

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Times - By Austin Bay - Oct. 03 (Special Report) - The "third civil war" would be as vicious as the last, but given current political conditions, it could rapidly expand beyond Sudan and become a regional war involving several other impoverished, fragile states in East Africa - a war of the poor creating greater poverty and anarchy.

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A Cold War Man, a Hot War and a Legal Gray Area

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - Sep. 30 (News Report) - The government of Sudan, eager to curry favor with a U.S. government that accused it of genocide, sought help last fall from an unlikely source: a former Reagan administration official known for his role in the Iran-contra scandal. The approach by Sudanese officials led to a $1.3 million contract for former national security adviser Robert "Bud" McFarlane, who went on to meet with two of the Obama administration's top policymakers on Sudan and its strife-torn Darfur region, according to documents and interviews.

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Darfur refugees raped in Chad camps

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 29 (News) - Women who fled violence in Sudan's Darfur region are being regularly raped in refugee camps in neighboring Chad, despite the presence of U.N.-trained forces, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

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Darfur rebels accuse Sudan army of attacks

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Reuters - Sep. 18 (News Report) - Darfur rebels accused Sudanese government forces of attacking their positions on Thursday and Friday, weeks after a senior peacekeeper said the region was no longer in a state of war. The reports came after a period of relative calm in the region, where more than six years of fighting has driven an estimated 2.7 million from their homes. Commanders from an arm of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) told Reuters Sudan's army, backed up by allied militias, launched ground and air attacks on their positions in territory around the North Darfur area of Korma.

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U.S. reshaping Darfur policy

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Peter Wallsten, Edmund Sanders - Aug. 04 (News Report) - The Obama administration is working on a new approach that may soften some sanctions against the Sudan government, which is implicated in the killing and displacement of tens of thousands.

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185 die in attack on refugee camp in southern Sudan

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Associated Press - Aug. 04 (News) - Armed tribesmen attacked a fishing village in southeastern Sudan where hundreds of displaced people were camped near a river, killing at least 185, most of them women and children, in the worst violence in three months, a southern Sudanese official said Monday. A flare-up of tribal clashes in southern Sudan over cattle and territory has left more than 1,000 people dead this year. The violence is separate from the conflict between rebels and government forces in Darfur, in Sudan's west.

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