By Jeff Faraudo (Contra Costa Times) : UNITED STATES - TO BEGIN to understand the world from which Cal basketball recruit Bak Bak escaped, consider the opening exchange in my interview with him last Friday afternoon at Village Christian High in Sun Valley, north of Los Angeles. I asked the...

By Ryan Hutton, New England Newspapers: LANESBOROUGH, USA - For 15 years, William O. Levi, a southern Sudan native who now lives in Berkshire County, has sent substantial aid to his home country through his charity, Operation Nehemiah Missions — but this Christmas, he got the war-torn country one...

(picture: Lopez Lomong, left, from Sudan, and Chicago Bulls forward and fellow Sudan native Luol Deng attend lost boys celebration) By Maureen Sieh: U.S. Olympian Lopez Lomong returned to his native Sudan Tuesday to bring his two younger brothers to the United States. Peter, 12...

By Pamela Constable, Washington Post Staff Writer. Many Darfurians Remain in Conflict, but Sudanese Who Settle In Area Find Themselves at Odds on Religion, Politics, Locale Although the five-year conflict in Sudan's vast, parched Darfur region has spawned dozens of U.S.-based support groups, and...

Badru Mulumba JUBA. In a television studio the size of two trailer trucks, the Government of Southern Sudan's Information Minister Changson Chang talks like a man sensing a crisis on his hands. In his midst, scores of journalists, apparently bleeding, have converged. "I see every one with this,"...