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Seven countries from the Middle East and Africa met in Cairo on Thursday to discuss ways to stop piracy in the Red Sea after the kidnapping of Saudi supertanker "Sirius Star" with 100 million dollars worth of crude oil on board.
Participating countries will discuss how to share information on piracy cases through a centre...
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Somali pirates achieved a new milestone in their seemingly unstoppable rise this weekend when they seized a Saudi Arabian supertanker laden with two million barrels of oil worth almost 100 million dollars.
It seems that every month there is a new first for the pirates, who have dramatically increased the frequency of their attacks...
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Most of the estimated 30,000 children abducted by Ugandan rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) during its two- decade-long war with the government were sold to fight in Sudan's restive Darfur province, Uganda's Daily Monitor reported Wednesday.
The children were first forced by the LRA to fight and commit atrocities. Afterward,...
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The presence of international warships has provoked a gunbattle that led to three Somali pirates being shot dead aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, a maritime official said Tuesday.
"There was a shootout because of a misunderstanding between the gunmen," Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers'...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument with their
mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were
injured in the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between
the pirates,...
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Three Somali pirates were shot dead in an apparent argument
with their mates aboard a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks, the
Itar-Tass news agency reported on Tuesday.
None of the 20 crew being held hostage on the freighter Faina were injured in
the exchange of fire stemming from a alleged dispute between the...
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Three warships are hemming in Somali pirates who hijacked a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying tanks and other military supplies, a US Navy official said Monday.
"There are now three ships in the vicinity," Lieutenant Nathan Christensen, Deputy Spokesman for the US Navy's fifth fleet, told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa.
The MV...
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Pirates have seized a Ukrainian cargo ship carrying military tanks off the coast of Somalia, a maritime official said Friday.
"The ship was grabbed yesterday evening as it sailed to (the Kenyan port of) Mombasa," Andrew Mwangura of the East African Seafarers' Assistance Programme told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
"It...
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Nineteen people kidnapped by an unknown group of masked men on September 19 in the Egyptian Western Desert have now been transferred to Libya, the Arab satellite broadcaster al-Arabiya reported on Thursday.
A spokesman for the Sudanese Foreign Ministry told the channel that the group, which includes five Germans, five Italians and one...
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Conflicting reports on the identity of the group that kidnapped 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians in Egypt's Western Desert on Friday continued to circulate Wednesday.
An Egyptian government spokesman said the kidnappers were from Djibouti, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported.
But other Egyptian officials were...
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Conflicting reports on the identity of the group that kidnapped 11 European tourists and eight Egyptians in Egypt's Western Desert on Friday continued to circulate Wednesday.
An Egyptian government spokesman said the kidnappers were from Djibouti, the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper reported.
But other Egyptian officials were being...
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The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has demanded the immediate release of 90 schoolchildren it says were abducted in the Democratic Republic of Congo by a notorious Ugandan rebel group.
The agency said local authorities informed them that the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) took 50 children from the village of Kiliwa and 40 from...
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Up to 15 tourists have been kidnapped in Egypt, amid conflicting reports on the nationalities of the victims, media reports in the region said Monday.
The television broadcaster Al-Arabiya said that 10 to 15 tourists were seized in the Upper Egyptian city of Aswan, with five of the victims being Italian nationals and possibly two...
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Fifteen tourists were kidnapped in Upper Egypt on Monday, with Egyptian authorities now in touch with kidnappers to try to negotiate their release, latest media reports said.
The latest reports said that the 15 included five Germans, five Italians, four Egyptians and one Romanian national.
In both Berlin and Rome, the respective...
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The United Nations and the Democratic Republic of Congo have started a military operation directed against Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), news reports said.
Kony is refusing to sign a final peace deal after two years of negotiations and is believed to have been using the time to rearm.
The...
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Arab League foreign ministers have expressed exasperation at the continued impasse between factions in the Palestinian Territories.
This emerged Tuesday after the ministers late Monday ended a one- day meeting in Cairo chaired by Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al- Faisal.
While political division in the Palestinian Territories...
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Joseph Kony, the leader of Uganda's notorious rebel Lord's Resistance Army, will only sign a final peace deal on Sunday if an international warrant for his arrest is dropped, the group's spokesman said Friday.
"It is possible he (Kony) will sign, but he wants the International Criminal Court (ICC) to drop its arrest warrant...
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The civil rights group Human Rights Watch sharply criticised Wednesday the use of
special courts in the Sudan, saying they were a 'charade' and fell
short of 'even minimal fair trial standards.' In a statement,
HRW called attention to the special courts which were set up to combat
rebels, and which at the end of July sentenced 30...
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The UN Security Council Thursday extended the
joint peacekeeping mission to Sudan for one year, while at the same
time rejecting demands by Libya and South Africa to defer the arrest
warrant for Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. Prolonged by
lengthy diplomatic wrangling, the council's 15 members agreed with a
large majority to...
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The ICC prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said
Thursday he will seek to prosecute rebel groups in Sudan's Darfur
region just as he is prosecuting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for
genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur's ethnic
conflict. Moreno-Ocampo said the International Criminal Court
(ICC) based at The...
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit
said Thursday that justice in Sudan would be achieved through
'political settlement that would aim at stopping the fight and uniting
Sudan.' Abul Gheit made his comments during a press
conference after his joint meeting with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh
Mohammad al-Sabah who has...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has
emphatically denied reports he expressed concern over moves to issue an
international arrest warrant against Sudanese President Omar Beshir for
genocide in Darfur. Reports on Sudanese radio that he had
expressed great concern over the application by International Criminal
Court (ICC) prosecutor...
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 The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court
officially called for an arrest warrant on Monday for Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir,
accusing him of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity executed
during the past five years of atrocities in the Darfur
region of his country.
The prosecutor’s chase of the...
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The official levelling of war crimes charges
against Sudanese President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir has been
welcomed in many quarters, but fears remain the decision could cause an
escalation of violence in Darfur and more misery for millions of
long-suffering displaced Darfuris. International Criminal
Court (ICC) Prosecutor Luis...
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 The U.S.
government has announced that it is strengthening security for its team in Sudan after an
international prosecutor made a move into arresting Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir and his actions set off concerns regarding dangerous repercussions.
On Monday, Washington
unexpectedly ceased to offer its support to the attempts...
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 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is
expected Monday to inquire about the detention of Sudan’s president for suspected
genocide and crimes against humanity.
According to BBC, the prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is
prepared to propose the charge of president Omar al-Bashir in a report
addressed to the judges...
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 U.N. officials and diplomats announced that the head
prosecutor of the International Criminal Court would request a detain warrant on
Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, accusing him of genocide
and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of aggression
that caused the deaths of hundreds of...
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 United Nations officials announced on Wednesday that seven
international peacekeepers were killed and 22 injured in an audacious day
ambush by armed men in the Sudanese northern province
of Darfur.
The group of about 60 soldiers and police officers was
assaulted on Tuesday afternoon along a desert road area by hundreds of...
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 At least 29 people were killed inside a Sudan Airways burning plane, while
171 managed to escape, said Sudan Civil Aviation Authority spokesman Abdel
Hafez Abdel Rahim Mahmoud, according to The Press Association.
Authorities are currently examining the wreckage in order to determine the
cause of the crash, police spokesman Major...
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 A day after Darfur rebels attacked Sudan’s capital Khartoum, things continue to unfold with reactions on both sides.
Darfur leader Khalil Ibrahim threatened Sudan with a follow up of the assaults. As a response, Sudan officials made public their intention to cut diplomatic relations with Chad, as they consider that the governing...
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 Sudanese authorities said the attack on the Sudanese capital by Darfur rebels was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby. As a result, they cut diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday (local time). Darfur rebels’ conflict with Sudanese troops erupted in a suburb of Khartoum on Saturday in an attempt to seize power. The attack was...
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 Not On Our Watch , a charitable group co-founded by Hollywood
elite actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, civil rights
lawyer David Pressman and producer Jerry Weintraub has donated $500,000 to the
United Nations World Food Program(WFP) to help stop hunger in Darfur, an
affiliated organization said on...
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Sudanese President Omar El Bashir on Monday brushed off criticism of
the appointment to his personal staff a Janjaweed leader suspected of
involvement in ethnic cleansing in Darfur saying that allegations he
was involved in murders was blatantly wrong.
"These allegations (against Musa Hilal) are untrue and we
definitely do...
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 UN Security Council members on Wednesday criticized Sudanese troops for
shooting at a UN-African Union supply convoy in Darfur, the first such
an attack since the joint force's deployment to try to end the ethnic
conflict in that region.
Jean-Marie Guehenno, UN undersecretary general for peacekeeping
operations, told a closed-door...
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 The trial of six French nationals charged over their attempt to spirit
out more than 100 African children from eastern Chad began in the
capital Ndjamena Friday, with the accused each facing up to 20 years in
prison if convicted.
The members of French aid charity l'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark), who
are being tried alongside three...
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 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met with leaders from troubled
African nations Wednesday, calling for greater vigilance in keeping out
"negative forces" from Congo and a robust peacekeeping force for
war-torn Somalia.
Rice's 24-hour visit to the vast Horn of Africa nation was meant to
spur movement on...
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 The release in Sudan of a British school teacher jailed for naming a
teddy bear Mohammed was Monday hailed as a victory for "common sense"
in Britain.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Anglican Church leaders and mainstream
Muslim organizations hailed the decision by Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir to pardon Gillian...
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 Two Muslim members of the upper house of British parliament met
Saturday with the British teacher who was convicted of blasphemy in
Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Mohammed.
Lord Ahmed, a peer in the House of Lords for the Labour Party, and
Baroness Warsi, of the Conservatives, met with Gillian Gibbons at...
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 A British schoolteacher has been found guilty of insulting religion by
a court in Sudan after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear
Mohammed.
Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, was sentenced to 15 days and
would be deported, her lawyer said. Two other charges against her,
which included inciting hatred, were...
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 Seven Europeans charged with complicity in the attempt to kidnap 103 purported Darfuri orphans were released Sunday after French President Nicolas Sarkozy jetted into Chad for talks with Chadian President Idriss Deby.
Three French journalists and four Spanish stewardesses were released upon Sarkozy's arrival in the Chadian capital...
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 In a recent press release quoting President, the Chad
president said attempts by a group of French citizens to fly more than 100
African children out of Chad were "shocking,'' and promised that all those
found involved would be punished.
Deby traveled Friday to an eastern city where 103 children
were being cared for after...
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"We are trying to determine the cause of the
accident," spokesman Maj. Felix Kulayigye said after a truck transporting
more than 100 soldiers and their families crashed. The accident took place on
Monday in the eastern part of Uganda,
Kampala, after
the truck hit the concrete side railing. The cause of the event is...
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 The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted on Tuesday a resolution to create a peacekeeping force of up to 19,555 soldiers in Darfur. They will be aided by 3,772 police, alongside 19 police units of 140 people each. The peacekeeping force will be made up mostly of peacekeepers from Africa with backup from Asian troops.The resolution...
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 A recent UN report reveals that almost 22 per cent of children under five years living in Kenyan refugee camps suffer from malnutrition.The level of malnutrition reached “crisis level” according to the international organization, who urged the assignment of 32 million dollars to redress the dramatic situation.“One in every five children...
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 After a long period of negotiations with African Union and United Nations representatives, Sudan finally gave the green light for a joint peacekeeping force to enter the conflict-torn Darfur.Tuesday, a new round of talks took place at the African union administrative center in Addis Ababa, Sudanese, AU and UN officials discussing the...
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 Sudan’s
economy is starting to cripple under heavy sanctions imposed by the United
States after the Sudanese government failed
to comply with international requirements regarding Darfur’s
situation.
“For too long, the people of Darfur
have suffered at the hands of a government that is complicit in the bombing,
murder, and rape...
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China should work more closely with the European Union to boost development and stability in Africa, EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels on Monday said.
Both the EU and China play a growing role in Africa, and "in this new context, it would seem advantageous to coordinate the EU's and China's efforts more closely around...
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Five Chinese oil workers kidnapped in Sudan have been slain by their abductors, the Chinese embassy in Khartoum said.
Sudanese authorities told the embassy Monday that five of nine Chinese workers abducted on October 19 were killed, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.
Two more of the abducted workers were missing,...
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Nine Chinese oil workers have been kidnapped by an unknown group in Sudan, state media said on Monday.
The nine workers were seized at an oil field in Southern Kordofan State close to Sudan`s strife-torn Darfur region, the official Xinhua news agency quoted Chinese embassy officials as saying.
No group has claimed responsibility...
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After 17 years of strained relations, Kuwait and Sudan are to resume their direct flights within the next couple of weeks, the Pan Arab newspaper Al Sharq al-Awssat reported, citing Sudanese civilian aviation sources.
Ties between Kuwait and Sudan had been strained especially since the 1991 Gulf War in which Sudan supported Iraq's...
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 The foreign ministries of Russia and China denied Tuesday a report by Amnesty International, which accused Russia and China, both UN Security Council members, of supplying millions of dollars of weapons and aircraft which have been used by the Sudanese Government to attack civilian villages in Darfur.The Amnesty International report...
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Representatives of major wheat producing countries have called for urgent coordinated action to prevent and control the wheat stem rust disease strain Ug99, a United Nations agency said Wednesday.
The fungus is capable of causing heavy damage to wheat crops and is a major threat to food security, the Rome-based Food and Agriculture...
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Omar bin Laden, son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, on Thursday distanced himself from his father's violence on appealing against Spain's decision not to grant him political asylum.
Omar bin Laden was a "man of peace" who rejected his father's "activities," bin Laden, 28, and his British wife Zaina al-Sabah,...
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Omar Osama bin Laden, 27, one of the 19 children of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, has sought political asylum in Spain, Interior Ministry sources said Tuesday.
Omar bin Laden arrived on a flight from Cairo to Casablanca in Morocco, which made a stopover in Madrid on Monday.
Bin Laden, who was carrying a Saudi passport, was...
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Former Botswana president Festus Gontebanye Mogae received the 5-million dollar Mo Ibrahim award, recognizing his achievements in African leadership.
The announcement of the awarded, the second of its kind, was made MOnday by former UN secretary general Kofi Annan in London.
The prize, which is endowed with 5 million dollars over...
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NATO is to deploy up to seven warships off the Somali coast to defend UN ships delivering food aid from attacks by pirates, alliance officials said Thursday.
The decision, taken by NATO defence ministers meeting in Budapest, follows a specific request from United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a similar initiative agreed by...
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A tense calm reigned Monday in the southern Spanish town of Roquetas de Mar after immigrants rioted for the second consecutive night.
A total of eight Africans have been detained and at least four police officers slightly injured.
Riots initially broke out early Sunday after a Romani Spaniard allegedly stabbed a 28-year-old...
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul met Tuesday with his visiting Sudanese counterpart, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and urged his guest to make every effort to end the suffering in the crisis region of Darfur.
The meeting took place within the framework of a Turkey-organised African summit in Istanbul, but to the backdrop of criticism of...
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 The Amnesty International Group, a United
Kingdom human rights group has made a public
warning ob Tuesday stating that imminent attacks on the eastern part of Darfur
would soon come if care is not taken to prevent the ongoing danger in the area.
This comes after the group said it received reports
suggesting that Sudanese armed...
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 In the longest ever Olympic torch trip, aimed to reflect China’s economic and political power, the flame arrived in San Francisco, its only stop in North America, on Tuesday morning and was treated like a head of state.The torch was accommodated in a hotel downtown as it waits to begin its march through San Francisco. The route of the...
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 George Clooney was appointed U. N. messenger of peace on Thursday, by U. N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. He has been involved in a campaign about Sudan’s Darfur for years. He has recently returned from a two-week trip to Africa.
Like many other celebrities, Clooney has been using his fame to draw attention upon international...
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 Health officials in Uganda say they have identified a strain
of the deadly Ebola virus as the likely killer of at least 16 people in the
west of the country since late August. But as VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu
reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, officials are baffled and
worried by what they believe is a new strain of...
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 US President George W Bush wrapped up his eight-day Middle East tour on
Wednesday with a lightning visit to Egypt, where he said he was pleased
with the drive for peace and progress in the region but warned Iran and
Syria against obstructing efforts to end the political standoff in
Lebanon.
Speaking in the Red Sea resort of Sharm...
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 After one of the major leading rebel groups pulled out of
the negotiation meeting meant to end the four-year conflict in the Darfur
region of Sudan mediators from around the world struggled late Friday to salvage
talks and find a way to end the conflict.
A dozen other armed blocs in Darfur's
splintered rebel movement have...
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After attacking an African Union base last week and killing
around 10 peacekeepers, apparently the rebels blamed for the action have razed
the city in an act of retaliation.
The United Nations Mission in Sudan
(Unmis) yesterday confirmed that Haskanita had been "burned down, except
for a few buildings". The mission...
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday
efforts to end the ethnic conflict in Sudan's Darfur region have been
disappointing as the warring parties have chosen confrontation rather
than dialogue. 'I am deeply disappointed by the lack of
progress that has been made towards resolving the Darfur conflict,' Ban
told the UN...
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 China expressed its concern on Tuesday regarding
the accusations made by the International Criminal Court related to Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir over
state-backed acts of genocide in the country’s beleaguered region of Darfur. However, there was no clue that it would take
measures in order to postpone the progression of...
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 The Global Peace Index brought up a report which ranks each nation in terms of “peacefullness”. It took in consideration factors as a nation's
relations with its neighbors, arm sales, troop organization, respect for human
rights and number of homicides per 100,000 people. It is the second year when
the index was conducted and it rates...
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the 120th day of 2008 with 246 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include publisher William Randolph Hearst in 1863; bandleader and composer Edward Kennedy "Duke"...
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 The Economist Intelligence Unit published with international businessman Steve Killelea a report on Wednesday called Global Peace Index, which ranks 121 countries according to their peacefulness. The ranking system used 24 indicators, such as the number of external and civil wars fought, the level of respect for human rights and the...
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