Sudan
A Roadmap for Peace in Darfurfeedproxy.google.com | 16 Feb 2011In the aftermath of a successful referendum process in South Sudan which will likely lead to the emergence of two new states – North and South Sudan – from one, and against the backdrop of sweeping changes throughout the Middle East and North Africa, violence in Darfur appears to be on the rise. In...
Sudan | Food Security | Governance | Poverty Reduction Sharing Views on AfricaAfrica News | 28 Jan 2011The internet search engine giant - Google - is digitalizing yet to be seceded South Sudan after a smooth January 9 referendum. According to Google, the Satellite Sentinel project would aid humanitarian agencies to quickly respond to crisis without having to go through difficulties of locating unmapped areas as exists now.
Sudan | Access to Information | Environmental Awareness Sudan: South Expects New Oil Finds to Boost Its EconomyAllAfrica.com | 14 Jan 2011Khartoum — South Sudan government expects that new oil finds in the region by European operators would increase its revenue and help to cover important expenditures for the new state which might proclaim its independence next July. The semi-autonomous region is conducting nowadays a referendum on self-determination which would lead to the establishment of a new African state devoid of infrastructure and ravaged by war.
Sudan | Economics and the Environment | Fossil Fuels Africa: Will an Independent South Trigger More Secession?AllAfrica.com | 13 Jan 2011As Southern Sudan prepares to vote in the secession referendum on January 9, the question on the lips of most observers is whether a vote for secession would spur more secessionist tendencies on the continent. According to a brief by the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) "Secession and Precedent in Sudan and Africa" written by Jon Temin, a senior programme officer in USIP's Centre for Mediation and Conflict Resolution, such a scenario is unlikely.
Sudan | Food Security | Poverty Reduction How Kenya was left stranded with tanks meant for S. SudanDaily Nation | 09 Dec 2010The US last year threatened to impose sweeping sanctions against Kenya if it delivered 32 Russian-made tanks to the government of Southern Sudan, according to leaked embassy cables. The cables prove that the government did not tell the truth when it claimed that the tanks were meant for the Kenyan military. Not only were the tanks, now lying at the Kahawa Barracks, meant for Southern Sudan, but a further 67 had already passed through Kenya.
Kenya | Sudan | Trade and Environment | Transport SUDAN: Food the key to resettlement in SouthIRIN News | 12 Nov 2010The influence of Northern Sudan on Aweil in Bahr el-Gazal state of Southern Sudan is everywhere - from food deliveries to the truck-loads of returnees. You see the lorries – full of people, returnees, says Omwenga Kinanga, project manager for Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team, a local NGO. Traders do not bring much cargo these days.
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