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· May, 2006

Stories about Sudan from May, 2006

Senegal: Immigration as colonization

“No Sarkozy! Immigration does not come from a vacuum,” says (Fr) Semett in a post on French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy's immigration policies. “With centuries of merciless exploitation of subsaharan...

Written by Alice Backer
25 May 2006

Sudan: Living in Southern limbo

The Passion of the Present points to two stories in Newsday on building new lives in post war southern Sudan. No work and no school and little change.

Written by Sokari Ekine
22 May 2006

Sudan: No religious freedom

Sudanese Thinker reports on the arrest of a priest for “kidnapping” a Muslim apostate who went to see him on her own. He comments that religious freedom is supposedly enshrined...

Written by Sokari Ekine
18 May 2006

Chad: What is France doing there?

Generation Consciente, Une Autre Afrique asks (Fr) “What is France doing in Chad? In Africa?” and answers: “The day before yesterday, they waved the communist threat to explain France's presence...

Written by Alice Backer
17 May 2006

Africa: Clandestine Emigration

Seckasysteme would like to see (Fr) “a summit of West African heads of state so that clandestine emigration can be uprooted and so as to find a durable solution to...

Written by Alice Backer
17 May 2006

Sudan: rebels hold out on peace deal

Some of the smaller rebel groups in Darfur region are still refusing to sign the peace deal. Sudan Watch reports that the situation is complicated by the presence of so...

Written by Sokari Ekine
15 May 2006

Sudan: The Abuja Agreement

SudanReeves writes a critical assessment of the recent Dafur agreement (Abuja Peace Agreement) …The Abuja agreement is little more than another request to trust a regime that has never abided...

Written by Sokari Ekine
10 May 2006

African Music #8

I recently had a discussion with a friend about fair trade and it threw up some deep questions about African music. Who really owns the rights to the recordings? Who...

Written by Obi
9 May 2006

Darfur: No UN troops yet.

Sudanese Thinker has three posts on the Darfur peace talks – The Sudanese government still has not given permission for UN troops in Darfur

Written by Sokari Ekine
8 May 2006

Sudan: Peace deal

Sudan Watch reports via Reuters that the Sudanese government has agreed a peace deal – in breaking news today, one rebel group has also agreed to sign.

Written by Sokari Ekine
5 May 2006

Malaysia: Silence on Darfur

Malaysian politician Lim Kit San questions the foreign ministry parliamentary secretary on why Malaysia as the current chairman of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) is not...

Written by Preetam Rai
3 May 2006

Sudan: SLA

Sudan Watch points to a op/ed in the Daily Trust that claims the SLA/JEM are not serving the people they claim to support.

Written by Sokari Ekine
2 May 2006

Sudan: Friends of Darfur

The Voice of Somaliland Diaspora-Ottawa – posts a statement from the “Darfur Friends Association”…Any peace agreement that only signed in order to silence the guns, can stop the war for...

Written by Sokari Ekine
2 May 2006

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