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         <title>US envoy visits South Sudan and hold talks with senior officials</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[JUBA - The US special envoy to Sudan, Scott Gration, is&#160;visiting Juba where he will discuss ways of improving bilateral relations between the United States and Sudan.
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service by phone from Juba on Monday, Walter Braunohler, the public diplomacy officer at the US embassy in Khartoum, said the envoy’s visit is also aimed at finding ways of improving the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Darfur.
“The envoy is in Juba today. He has just finished his meeting with...]]></description>
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         <title>Al-Hilal football club qualify for next round of African Champions </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - Al-Hilal football team has qualified to the next round of the African Champions League despite its 2-1 defeat by the Tamponaise of Reunion Islands.
In the first leg of the home game, Al-Hilal defeated Tamponaise by three goals to one.
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         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>200 million dollars needed to secure kidnapped Aid Workers -Militants</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI&#160;- A group that has kidnapped two aid workers with the French organization Aide Medical Internationale in Sudan's restive Darfur province has demanded a massive ransom for their release, media reports said Monday.

According to Sudan Media centre the unidentified kidnappers want 200 million dollars to release the French and Canadian citizens. 

The two workers were taken from the aid group's compound in Ed El-Fursan in southern Darfur Saturday night.
France and Canada's foreign...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Darfur region included in Sudan's presidential election</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - A member from the National Electoral Commission, Dr. Mukhtar el Asam, has affirmed that the elections will take place in vast areas of the Darfur region.
Mr. Asam said that the commission has the right to interrupt the elections in some areas if it is convinced that insecurity prevents the electoral procedures, in those areas.
He said that a delegation from the Commission headed Abel Alier will head to Darfur next week to asses the security situation in the region.
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         <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Salva Kiir visits Malakal to boost peace and development process, denounces tribalism</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[MALAKAL - The first vice President and the president of the government of southern sudan, in his speech at the opening of the reconciliation conference in Malakal, confirmed commitment of southern sudan government to ensure security and stability in southern states.
He called on people of southern sudan to shake-off tribalism, saying that it is main cause of backwardness of the south.
Kiir also instructed the governors of the ten southern states to implement the developmental and governmental...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan sends a message to Russian president Dmitry Medvedev</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[MOSCOW - President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan has forwarded a message to his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev. It was handed on Friday at the talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and a representative of the Sudanese President – Minister of Finance and National Economy Awad Ahmed Al Jazz, who is visiting Moscow.
Opening the meeting, Lavrov said that he regarded it as a continuation of an intensive political dialogue between the two parties. “I hope we shall make a headway in the...]]></description>
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         <title>AU team arrives in Darfur to assess situation and carry out own investigation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[AL FASHIR, DARFUR - The African union high level panel which was assigned by the African Union to evaluate the peace process in Darfur arrives to Al Fasher today. The panel will hold consultations with sides concerning the Darfur issues.
Yesterday a delegation headed by the former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, met the vice president Ali Osman Mohammed Thaha, judicial organs and political forces.
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         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>ICC arrest warrants just Pen-on-Paper says Sudanese presidential advisor</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM -&#160;Sudan presidential advisor Bona Malual has&#160;said that Omar el bashir's recent visits overseas confirms that the ICC arrest warrants are just pen-on-paper in Hague as he&#160;described with no effect on Sudan political affairs and progress.
According to reports by Sudanese media Malual described the warm welcome the president had received in Sudan after his arrival from Doha were he attended the Arab summit and his trip to Arabia as showing how much the Sudanese people and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan President to Visit Darfur again next Tuesday </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - President Omar Al Bashir is due to visit western Darfur state Tuesday next week for the second time after the ICC had issued him with an arrest warrant for alleged war crimes in Darfur. 
Western Darfur state deputy government Al Sanosi Bashir said arrangements had already been completed for receiving the president. 
Al sanosi speaking to the Sudan media centre explained that citizens of the state from all walks of social categories would gather in huge rally to receive and give...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Disarmament Campaign in South Sudan was flawed and disorganised Says Small-Arms Watchdog</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI - The Geneva-based Small Arms Survey has released a report indicating that the disarmament campaign ordered last year by President Salva Kiir Mayardit was flawed.
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service on Monday, the author of the report, Adam O’Brien, said the disarmament campaign failed because it did not receive adequate support from the Government of southern Sudan.
“It was required that the state authorities, supported by the SPLA, should collect the weapons in their states. But there...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:14:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan president Defies ICC warrants again and travels to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for Islamic pilgrimage</title>
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RIYADH,&#160;SAUDI ARABIA&#160;-- Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in the western Saudi port city of Jeddah on Wednesday to perform Umrah (an Islamic pilgrimage) rituals, the state-run SPA news agency reported.
He was received at King Abdulaziz International Airport by Prince Misha'al bin Majid bin Abdulaziz, Governor of Jeddah Governorate and a number of officials, according to the report.
The Sudanese president's trip follows his participation in a summit of the Arab states and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>India's MRPL offers euro payment for Nile Blend</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NEW DELHI - Indian state-run Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd has offered to pay in euros for spot purchase of Sudanese Nile Blend crude and traders said most sellers preferred the currency as Sudan faced U.S. sanctions.
"We have given this additional option to increase competition. It is based on the market feedback," MRPL (MRPL.BO) Director of Finance L.K. Gupta told Reuters on Monday.
The company issued an amendment on Friday to its latest tender, allowing euro payments.
Gupta did...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:41:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>British Council to Host Mombasa's 'Strategic Leaders' Conference</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Transforming organisations into being productive,more globally competitive and socially responsible:
MOMBASA - Mombasa is bringing together leaders from Kenya , Nigeria , Botswana , Tanzania , Sudan , Ethiopia , Ghana , Cameroon , Malawi , Namibia , Senegal , and the UK , from March 24 - 27, 2009
All the participants have completed a leadership programme in one of the hub events held earlier in Botswana , Ghana and the UK .
Strategic Leaders Programme is for senior business leaders, bankers and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 12:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Politicizing 'Justice': UN, ICC Action Against Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Growing opposition voiced about Security Council role in ICC warrant against al-Bashir
By Von Ronda Hauben (netizen2)
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The recent action of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in issuing a warrant for the arrest of the head of state of Sudan, President Omar al-Bashir, has created a significant controversy.
Journalists Ask UN's View of ICC Action Against Sudan
A press conference was held in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania on March 12 with the UN Deputy Secretary-General Ash-Rose Migiro. A...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:59:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Policy speech by Mr. Hirofumi Nakasone, Japan's Minister for Foreign Affairs</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;Policy speech by Mr. Hirofumi Nakasone, Minister for Foreign Affairs
"Creating Peace: Japan-Africa Partnership" TICAD IV Follow-Up Symposium
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His Excellency Dr. Luka Biong, Minister of Presidential Affairs of the Government of Southern Sudan,
His Excellency Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin, Minister of Regional Cooperation of the Government of Southern Sudan,
His Excellency Mr. Samuel Poghisio, Minister for Information and Communication of the Republic of Kenya,
His Excellency Mr. Farid...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Legitimacy of Global Court (ICC) Questioned Over Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Thalif Deen; Inter Press Service: 
The ongoing political crisis in Sudan is expected to worsen in the face of a rash of threats and warnings following the indictment last week of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
The beleaguered Sudanese president has threatened to expel diplomats from Khartoum and throw out more humanitarian organisations - in addition to the 13 that were run out of town last week - in retaliation for the indictment.
At...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:12:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Justice and peace in Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By John Prendergast and Omer Ismail :
For the first time in a quarter-century, Sudan has a chance for peace throughout the entire country. On the face of it, this assertion seems counterintuitive – even preposterous. Darfur is burning, and the historic 2005 agreement that brought peace between northern and southern Sudan is at risk of collapse. Sudan scholars throughout the world busy their days penning academic dirges, and diplomats despair. We've seen that many of California's anti-genocide...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Chicago Bulls say Sudanese British NBA star Deng is fine easing fears after bruised shin</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[CHICAGO - Sudan-born British forward Luol Deng has only a bruised right shin and not a stress fracture as first feared, the Chicago Bulls announced on Monday.
Deng, averaging 14.1 points and 6.0 rebounds over 49 games for the National Basketball Association club, underwent an MRI exam on Sunday and is listed as day-to-day by the Bulls, who had feared a season-ending injury.
Deng, who ranks fourth among the Bulls' point producers, suffered the injury against Houston on Saturday.
The seventh...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>South Africa calls on African states to increase trade and cooperation with South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Tshwane, South Africa - Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Sue van der Merwe has urged African countries to increase trade and investment with southern Sudan, to help the country tackle the challenges of post-conflict reconstruction.
Speaking at a trade and investment seminar in Johannesburg on Thursday, the deputy minister said while the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) was signed in January 2005 bringing an end to a long period of civil war in Southern Sudan, there were numerous challenges...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Zain Telecom Sudan opens new office in South Sudan making it third office in the region</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - Zain Telecom Sudan has expanded operations in Sudan by opening a new regional office in the semi-autonomous region of South Sudan on Wednesday.
The new office, located in Wau city, Bahr El-Ghazal province, is the third in the region after Juba and Malakal offices, director of regional office department of Zain Telecom Sudan Habib Abdulmen'em told KUNA Khartoum.
It will offer integrated services to residents of city and the neighboring areas, Abdulmen'em said.The opening of the office...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Peace on the rocks: Sudan's Comprehensive Peace Agreement</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ENOUGH Project (Washington,&#160;DC)
PRESS RELEASE
19 February 2009
The precarious peace between northern and southern Sudan stands at a crucial crossroads.
Intended by its architects as the cornerstone of peace in a country fractured by conflict, the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, has been hamstrung by the National Congress Party's intransigence, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement's growing pains, and the international community's neglect.
With only two years remaining before a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:08:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>New airline company SKYJET starts operations in South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Kampala, Uganda - SKYJET, a new airline company, has launched fights on the Entebbe - Juba route.
A return air ticket will cost $390 (about sh764,400) inclusive of taxes.
The service is expected to easy transport and promote business between Uganda and South Sudan.
A white bull was on Sunday slaughtered at Juba Airport to commemorate the inaugural flight witnessed by Garang Deng Aguer, the proprietor, and Musoke Tamale, the Kampala operations manager.
"We used to fly from Entebbe to Juba via...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>College basketball: Cal recruit's an 'early in morning' hoops warrior from Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Jeff Faraudo (Contra Costa Times) :
UNITED STATES&#160;- 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 6-foot-10 native of the Sudan about his name.
"I was named after my granddad. It means, 'early in the morning,'"‰" Bak said. "Because in my country sometimes, if you want to go to the war, you don't go...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Russian Special Envoy Official Visit To South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Press Release
Government Of Southern Sudan,
Ministry Of Regional Cooperation,
Department of Information and Media&#160;
A high level delegation from the Russian Federation arrived in Juba yesterday morning, received by the Minister of Regional Cooperation. The delegation was headed by the Special Envoy of the President and the Head of the Council of the Federation Committee for Foreign Affairs Mr. Michail Margelov, accompanied by Mr. Alexey Volin and Mr. Evgeny Gaverdovsky experts of the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Russian automaker GAZ to open new plant to assemble trucks in Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NIZHNY NOVGOROD - &#160;Urals-based truck manufacturer Ural, part of Russia's second largest automaker GAZ Group, plans to organize the assembly of 2,000 trucks in 2010 in Sudan, the GAZ Group press office said Tuesday.
The first batch of 50 vehicle sets will be shipped to the northeastern African country this year, the press office said.
Viktor Korman, head of the GAZ Group truck division, said exports had been declared a priority direction for the automaker in 2009. The Ural auto factory...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudanese native plans to ship $21M worth of medicine to Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 very large gift.
Through a partnership with the Wisconsin-based International Children's Fund, Operation Nehemiah Missions is sending $21 million in medical supplies to the country to combat common but...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) to Open in South Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA &#160;- The Public Financial Enterprises Supervisory Agency (PFESA) approved 15 million dollars the state owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has requested to open a branch in Juba, South Sudan. The Agency has given the green light for CBE's request last Monday, January 12, 2009.
South Sudan banking regulations require a minimum of 15 million dollars establishment capital for foreign firms to enter the industry in its territory, according to knowledgeable...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>New GSM Network Launched in Southern Sudan</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[&#160;LONDON/JUBA -&#160;­Vivacell has announced that it launched a commercial GSM 900/1800 network in Southern Sudan on the 22nd of Dec 2008. Vivacell is one of four GSM operators licensed to operate in Southern Sudan but is the first to be headquartered in Southern Sudan.
At launch, four states are covered including the capital city Juba.
During the first half of 2009, Vivacell aims to extend its coverage footprint to all of the 10 States.
Last April, Zain launched a GSM network in Southern...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Kenyan and East African Investors flocking to S.SUDAN</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[NAIROBI, KENYA - Kenyan investors have started moving to Sudan in large number following the signing of the historic Comprehensive Peace Accord (CPA) between Northern and Southern Sudan in 2005.
According to a number of Kenyans who have put up investments in Sudan the business climate is healthy. The Kenyans have since been joined by other investors from Africa, especially Uganda.
Most traders narrate tales of success in a land they describe as one full of hope and light and with friendly...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Lopez Lomong returns to Sudan to bring two younger brothers to America</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[
(picture: Lopez Lomong, left, from Sudan, and Chicago Bulls forward and fellow Sudan native Luol Deng attend lost boys celebration)
By&#160;Maureen Sieh:
U.S. Olympian Lopez Lomong&#160;returned to his native&#160;Sudan&#160;Tuesday to bring his two younger brothers to the United States. Peter, 12 and Alex, 11, will attend boarding school in Virginia.
Lopez told me about his plans to bring his brothers to the United States last September when he returned home to Central New York to celebrate...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan's north-south peace deal faces tough tests in 2009</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Andrew Heavens and Skye Wheeler:
KHARTOUM/JUBA - A series of political squalls on the horizon in Sudan this year threaten to build into a perfect storm with the power to wreck a peace deal between north and south.
While much attention has focused on the conflict in the western Darfur region recently, the deal four years ago this Friday to end over two decades of north-south war looks ever more shaky as promises made at the time come due to be met.
Elections are scheduled by July ahead of a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:09:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Malakal town gets new stadium upgrade</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[MALAKAL - Malakal County Commissioner Sayyid Awad Marajan officially inaugurated a new lighting system for Malakal stadium on Monday as part of the preparation for the upcoming celebrations marking the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement scheduled for January 9th. ٍ 
Speaking to Sudan Radio Service at Malakal stadium, Mr. Marajan said the inauguration ceremony marks the 1st phase of installing a lighting system necessary for conducting games and cultural activities late in the evening...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 14:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>President Bush Meets with Darfur Human Rights Activist Dr. Halima Bashir</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Press Release: The White House
President Bush Meets with Darfur Human Rights Activist Dr. Halima Bashir
THE PRESIDENT: I have just had the distinct pleasure and honor of visiting with Dr. Halima Bashir, who wrote a book called "Tears of the Desert." This good soul brings firsthand accounts to what life is like in Darfur. She has witnessed violence, deprivation, and she carries a message of a lot of people who want our help.
I assured her that, in spite of the economic difficulties, our aid will...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:05:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>SABMiller Africa opens new beverage plant in Sudan</title>
         <link>http://nationview.webnode.com/news/sabmiller-africa-opens-new-beverage-plant-in-sudan/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[JUBA - SABMiller Plc, the world’s third- largest brewer, plans to build the first ever brewery in&#160;southern Sudan, a region which spent more than two decades fighting for independence from the mainly Muslim north.
The $37 million brewery, in the region’s capital of Juba, will start brewing operations in February, with the production of soft drinks starting “shortly thereafter,” London-based SABMiller said in&#160;statement&#160;on its Web site dated Dec. 10.
Southern Sudan became a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan's Leaders Brace for U.S. Shift As Obama Takes Over Presidency</title>
         <link>http://nationview.webnode.com/news/sudans-leaders-brace-for-u-s-shift-as-obama-takes-over-presidency/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[
By&#160;Stephanie McCrummen and Colum Lynch -
Washington Post Foreign Service.&#160;
Obama Team Seen As Tough on Darfur
NAIROBI - If the election of&#160;Barack Obama has been greeted with glee across much of Africa, there is at least one spot where the mood is decidedly different.
In the Sudanese capital of Khartoum these days, political elites are bracing for what they expect will be a major shift in U.S. policy toward a government the United States has blamed for orchestrating a violent...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Kony's Survival Ploy</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Peter Eichstaedt, IWPR Africa editor, in Juba.
After announcing that he would sign a peace deal with the Ugandan government on Saturday, November 29, Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony again drew a crowd to the jungle camp of Nabanga on the border between South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo, DRC.

As Kony has done in the past, he balked, leaving a host of his Acholi tribal and cultural leaders waiting and wanting, along with the United Nations special envoy Joachim Chissano, the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Somali Pirates, Just Another Conspiracy?</title>
         <link>http://nationview.webnode.com/news/somali-pirates-just-another-conspiracy/</link>
         <description><![CDATA[By Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed.
Before developing into the threat they are today, spreading terror throughout the region's oceans, these Somali pirates where said to be Israelis or Iranians.
The thoughts and fears of all sides were brought to the surface, as is customary when facing the impossible or the incomprehensible. Yet, it is still incomprehensible as to how mere gangs of possibly illiterate bandits are able to highjack large sophisticated ships in an area teeming with international naval...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Government of Southern Sudan Health Assembly</title>
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The second Government of Southern Sudan Health Assembly (GoSSHA2) was held in Juba from October 26 to 29, 2008. This assembly is an annual forum organized by the MoH/GoSS, in partnership with stake holders in the health sector to review the state of health care and service delivery. This year's theme was "Building Effective Health System in Southern Sudan". All the participating agencies and individuals had an opportunity to present their experiences and useful lessons learnt through...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan Benefits from Brazilian Program of Technology Transfer</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - The governments of Brazil and Sudan have signed a protocol of understanding for cooperation and bilateral communication in the areas of sanitary health, animal products and other animal husbandry affairs of mutual interest.
The document was signed November 21, in São Paulo, by the Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Reinhold Stephanes, and by the Minister of Animal Resources and Fisheries of the Republic of Sudan, Ismail Khamis Jallab.
Sudan is mainly interested in the...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Al-Mariekh Wins Sudan Premier League Championships</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM - Al-Mariekh won the football Premier League Championship after beating Al-Hilal in the final in Omdurman on Monday evening. 
Al-Mariekh, five-times winner of the competition, ended the tournament with sixty-one points. Semi-finalists Al-Hilal finished the season with fifty-nine points. 
Al-Mariekh striker Hitham Tambal opened the score for Al-Mariekh just before half-time. Al-Hilal replied in the 33rd minute of the second half with a goal from Saif Mastawi. 
The one-all draw was...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>People in North Uganda just want peace &amp; are ready to forgive LRA rebels</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Fredrick Nzwili, (World Council of Churches).
With its streets full of bicycle riders transporting luggage or passengers alongside mini buses, Gulu in northern Uganda looks as peaceful as any small African town. However, its inhabitants, who say now they want nothing but peace, have to come to terms with the terrible crimes that were committed here during 22 years of civil war.
Rev Julius Peter Olugu, the priest of the Anglican Ongako parish, told members of an international ecumenical...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:03:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>SADC moves to Congo rescue one more time</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[THE Southern African Development Community (SADC) has finally plucked up the courage to dispatch monitors to the borders between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda.
Unfortunately, knowing the borders are being monitored will not be much consolation to the hundreds of thousands of Congolese who have been forced to flee before advancing rebel insurgents.
The immediate cause of the fighting is the Congress in Defence of the People (CNDP), a rebel militia led by former...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:54:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan makes it to Group D in third round as African 2010 world cup qualifications intensifies</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[ACCRA - The draw for the third round of qualifying in the African Zone for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa was made on Wednesday with Ghana in a relatively manageable all West African group. Sudan has been placed in Group D alongside Ghana, Benin and Mali. Information gathered from FIFA.com by GNA Sports reveals who takes on who in the five groups of four. The matches are scheduled to take place between March and November 2009.

Group A, which is termed as the group of death, would see...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>The plight of Darfur's displaced worse than ever</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[TAWILA CAMP,DARFUR - As Sudan lobbies the international community for support in its fight to ward off looming charges of genocide against its president, arguing they would endanger the "great strides" the government is making towards peace, people displaced by more than five years of fighting in Darfur tell a different story.&#160;
"Since 2004 until today, there has been no resolution. The problems have only gotten worse," said a sheikh at a camp for displaced people in Tawila, 50km west of...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Thausands displaced in North Sudan by Government Dam Project</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[LOHAP (&#160;London)
Sudan Government has ordered the closure of Merowe dam on the river&#160;Nile&#160;fourth cataracts without agreeing on resettlement terms with the affected communities.
In August 2008, more than 3000 families – numbering an estimated 15000 to 16000 people were made homeless in&#160;Berti&#160;Island&#160;and surrounding areas ( roughly 20 km upstream from the dam site). On Sep 30th&#160;the dam authority raised water level even further displacing another 3000 families - a...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:53:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>United by Country, Divided By Their Tribal Differences</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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 the killings by militias have been labeled genocide by U.S. officials, very few of Darfur's victims have actually reached the United States.
In the Washington area, many Sudanese are longtime emigres...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Three Opportunities Exist for Peace in Darfur - ENOUGH Project</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[


ENOUGH Project&#160;(Washington,&#160;DC)
PRESS RELEASE



While the Darfur region of Sudan remains in a deep crisis, there are three significant opportunities immediately for the United States to push for a lasting peace for all of Sudan, Enough Project Co-Chair John Prendergast told the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom at a hearing on Capitol Hill today.&#160;Mr. Prendergast cited “crucial opportunities the United States must urgently seize to prevent Sudan’s...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan Journalists Protest Crack Down On Media By Government in Khartoum</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[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," Changson, right palm over his lips, says to officials seated next to him in the studio, long before the television cameras are switched on.
"They are trying to close their mouths," says Victor Bullen...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>U.S. Congressional Human Rights Caucus Holds Briefing on Genocide-Free Investing</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Enough Project
PRESS RELEASE

Washington DC

Representatives from the financial industry and leading human rights activists told the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC) today that a majority of Americans don’t want their investments tied to genocidal regimes and that financial markets need to be more responsive to the American public’s interest in genocide-free investing. In a 2007 KRC study which surveyed average Americans, 71% of respondents said companies should take into account...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Chad Clobbers Sudan 2-1 in Cairo game, Kicking Sudan out of 2010 World Cup Qualifications</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[CAIRO, EGYPT– Sudan’s national football team lost its first match against Chad on Saturday in Cairo, Egypt. The score was 2 to 1. The first goal was scored by Chadian striker Mobaym Meris in the first 28 minutes. 
In the second half, Sudan’s Haitham Tambil evened the score in the 32nd minute by scoring the side’s only goal. Chadian Hassan Diallo finally scored the winning goal in the 40th minute of the second half. 
The Sudan Radio Service correspondent in Cairo said the Sudan team was very...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:06:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Africa sweeps Olympics athletic long-runs. Sudan wins first ever Silver medal, Kenya tops Africa medal list.</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Africa put the seal on its dominance of long-distance running in the closing days of the Olympics. On Saturday alone, African athletes won seven medals, sweeping up all the medals in both the men's 800m and 5000m races.
Ethiopia's Kenenisa Bekele, already the gold medallist in the men's 10000m, took gold in the men's 5000m, where Africans took the top six places. His countrywoman, Tirunesh Dibaba, had on Friday added a gold medal for the women's 5000m race to her gold for the 10000m earlier in...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudan 4 - Egypt 0, Sudan Defeats Egypt 4 to zero in World Cup qualifier warm-up</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[KHARTOUM&#160; - African champions Egypt were handed an embarrassing 4-0 defeat by Sudan in a World Cup warm-up match on Wednesday.
It was Egypt's first defeat by their southern neighbours in 33 years and added to the pressure before a World Cup qualifier against the Democratic Republic of Congo in Kinshasa on September 7.
Mahmoud Fathallah's own goal gave hosts Sudan the halftime lead before they added three goals in the last 10 minutes.
A slip by goalkeeper Mohamed Abdelmoncef handed Mudathir...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>China 2008 Olympics kicks off as one of worlds most spectacular in history with stunning displays ever</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[BEIJING, CHINA&#160;— Once-reclusive China commandeered the world stage Friday, celebrating its first-time role as Olympic host with a stunning display of pageantry and pyrotechnics to open a Summer Games unrivaled for its mix of problems and promise.
Now ascendant as a global power, China welcomed scores of world leaders to an opening ceremony watched by 91,000 people at the eye-catching National Stadium and a potential audience of 4 billion worldwide. It was depicted as the largest, costliest...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>South Sudanese Girl Wins Statewide Primary Race in America</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By James Adiok Mayik.
OREGON,USA - Ms. Aluel Emanuel Lang, 11, originally from Yirol of South Sudan, on Sunday, June 8, took the third gold medal in Salem Oregon, USA. Aluel took the lead from her team-members right from the start during a 800-feet race. She looked behind three times during a double lap run, which was a mistake - her coach would blame her for, were her competitors to take over. 
However, she seemed not to care about those glances as she was making sure nobody would pass her....]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Nobel Winner Prof. Maathai Attends Martyr''s Day in Juba </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Juma John Stephen
JUBA – The 2004 Noble Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai attended Martyr''''s Day in Juba at the late Dr. John Garang’s Mausoleum.
“It’s not how many years we spend on this planet but rather the commitment and devotion that we give to our fellow human beings when we are here,” Wangari said “Jesus himself who many of us follow as Lord, was only in this planet for 33 year and 2000 years later we are still being inspired by his actions,” she added.
The 2004 Noble Peace Prize...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Africa Action Urges More International Support for UNAMID Protection Force in Darfur</title>
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            One Year Into Peacekeeping Mandate, 
            Still No Security for Darfur
            Africa Action Urges More International Support for UNAMID Protection Force
            
        
        
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            WASHINGTON - On July 31 the one-year mandate for the United Nations-African Union hybrid peacekeeping force for Darfur known as UNAMID is set to expire. The UN Security Council has waited until the eleventh hour...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:57:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Media development organisation Article 19 Identifies Areas for Improvement in Southern Sudan Draft Media Legislation</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Article 19 (London)
PRESS RELEASE
4 July 2008
ARTICLE 19 today released its analysis of the revised package of draft Media Bills proposed for Southern Sudan, of which there are four media Bills. ARTICLE 19 welcomes the draft Bills which largely conform to international standards, but has identified areas for further improvement to the drafts.
ARTICLE 19 has been working closely with the Ministry for Information and Broadcasting for the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) and wider Southern...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Sudanese native Lomong continues to run to achieve his Dreams</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By BRIAN LEWIS
(picture; Lomong running&#160;on the left)
EUGENE, Ore - At six, Lopez Lomong spent three days running for his life through the desert to escape Sudan's Janjaweed militia. By 16, he'd survived a decade in a Kenyan refugee camp as a Lost Boy. And by last Christmas, he'd been reunited with his parents and gone back to visit a grave - his own.
When the Olympic Track &amp; Field trials resume today, the adopted New Yorker will stand just three 1,500-meter races from overcoming his...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Reaching for his dreams in Australia- Sudanese Refugee</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Melbourne Australia
David Nyoul
David Nyoul Vincent has just graduated from Melbourne University. As many Sudanese refugees in Australia, he has witnessed the worst that a young boy could see: people being killed by militants, women drowning while running away, his friends dying for lack of medicines.&#160;
He even had to fight against thirst and hunger for his own survival in the jungle.
AUDIO: David Nyoul Vincent's story
But there’s a quality that is really striking about David.
His ability...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 01:38:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>ICC: 'Whole Sudan State Apparatus' Involved in Darfur Genocide</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[International Criminal Court (The&#160;Hague)
PRESS RELEASE
5 June 2008
Today in New York, International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo informed the United Nations Security Council that he will present in July a second Darfur case before the ICC judges.
“The entire Darfur region is a crime scene.&#160; For 5 years, civilians have been attacked relentlessly. In their villages. Then into the camps. They cannot return. Their land has been usurped. To plan and commit such...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Emmanuel Jal: Rapper for peace was child soldier</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By&#160;NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
Picture: Rapper Emmanuel Jal
NEW YORK – After spending his youth mired in brutality and poverty as a child soldier in Sudan’s ethnic conflict, Emmanuel Jal was rescued by aid workers who pushed to give him a new start at life in a different country.
But there were times when he didn’t want it.
“When I was in Kenya, I hated myself,” says Jal, a slight, soft-spoken man whose gentle demeanor belies his past. “I even cursed the day I was born. I hated it. I wanted to...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Robotic arm of Mars spacecraft leaves 'footprint' </title>
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         <description><![CDATA[TUCSON, Ariz. - NASA's new robot on Mars has reached out and touched the soil for the first time, leaving behind a striking footprint-like impression, scientists said Sunday.
The Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm was making a test run, just one week after its landing. The spacecraft, which is also its own laboratory, will soon start scooping up soil and ice and running tests on it.
"This first touch allows us to utilize the robotic arm accurately," said David Spencer, Phoenix's surface mission...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Plant waste biofuels benefit from food debate</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[By Julie Gordon
(REUTERS)
TORONTO (Reuters) - In the search for renewable energy, turning low-value materials like switchgrass and corn husks into ethanol to fuel cars is something of a Holy Grail.
In theory, these materials would replace corn as the main feedstock for ethanol in North America, reducing the pressure on farmland that has played a role in rising food prices and put drivers into competition with hungry people.
But scientists on the front lines of this search are finding that...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Ugandan peacekeeper shot dead in Sudan's Darfur</title>
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         <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:36:00 +0200</pubDate>
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         <title>Website launching soon</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[Our new website&#160;is still on an early testing period but will be launching fully very soon.
We&#160;would like to bring you all the news, events and etertainment that matters to you, no matter where you are we will bring you what you want to know right&#160;to your computer. we like to keep our visitors updated with all the latest news from Sudan aswell as Africa and the world at large. Don't forget to visit The Nation View for all the important views about the lastest events and...]]></description>
         <pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 16:43:00 +0200</pubDate>
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