Put Democratic Ethics on the Agenda for the African Leaders’ Summit
(Freedom House) As next month’s U.S.-Africa Leaders’ Summit in Washington approaches and the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI) rapidly ramps up to scale, the Obama administration’s focus on the importance of leadership in Africa is evident. Its main message is that trade, investment in Africa, and entrepreneurship are vital. While…
Sudan -Asylum Seekers are entitled to Protection not Detention
Fear of Torture and Deportation HRLHA Appeal and Urgent Action Feb 18, 2012 His Excellency Lieutenant General Omar Hasan Al-Bashir president of the Republic Sudan, President’s Palace, PO Box 281, Khartoum, Sudan Fax: (00 249) 11 771651, (00 249) 11 787676, (00 249) 11 783223 SUDAN Dear Honorable President, First…
Sudan closes Darfur radio, rights group offices
By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM, Nov 2 (Reuters) – Sudan shut the Khartoum office of Radio Dabanga, whose reports on Darfur have angered it, and arrested 13 staff from the radio station and a rights group that shares its offices, the group’s chairman said on Tuesday. U.S. ambassador to the United…
Sudan arrests nine Darfur activists-civic leader
Mon Nov 1, 2010, Mokhtar said the arrests began on Saturday but continued until last night. President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s government forced many prominent human rights activists to flee Sudan in 2009 after the International Criminal Court indicted him for war crimes in Darfur. The court added genocide to the…
South Sudan’s referendum should be held on time – UN envoy
August 27, 2010 (JUBA) – The United Nations remains committed to conducting of south Sudan’s forthcoming referendum on time and full implementation of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Haile Menkerios, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Sudan said on Saturday. Haile Menkerios UN Special Representative to Sudan (UN)…
Sudan bars aid groups from huge Darfur camp: UN
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Sudan has barred aid groups from the huge Kalma refugee camp in Darfur in the wake of clashes between groups for and against the peace process, the United Nations said on Friday. “No humanitarian (groups) have been allowed to Kalma and Bilal,” the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…
South Sudan prepares ‘national anthem’
Juba – Sudan (AFP) – South Sudan is preparing a national anthem, a military spokesman said on Thursday, less than six months ahead of a crucial referendum that could lead to the partition of Africa’s largest country. “We have asked southern Sudanese musicians, writers and artists to help us write…
Darfur JEM to demand self-rule if conflict goes on
KHARTOUM (AFP) – Darfur’s most active rebel group said on Wednesday it would demand self-determination for the devastated Sudanese region if conflict with the government continues, a spokesman told AFP. Justice and Equality Movement spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam said the group, which withdrew from peace talks with Khartoum in May after renewed…
African nations divided over Bashir genocide charge
By Barry Malone KAMPALA, July 25 (Reuters) – African countries are divided about whether they should arrest Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on suspicion of genocide, diplomats at a summit told Reuters on Sunday. Bashir was indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes in Darfur last year….
SUDANESE SECURITY SERVICE CARRIES OUT BRUTAL CAMPAIGN AGAINST OPPONENTS
19 July 2010 “I was planning to kill myself that night… Every hour I was at risk. I knew it was a matter of time until they [the security service] reached me”* The Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) is carrying out a brutal campaign of arbitrary detentions, torture,…
SUDAN: Clashes and demos in Abyei
Photo: Timothy Mckulka/UNMIS A past redeployment of SPLA soldiers from the Abyei area: On 5 July, Abyei town residents took to the streets to call for border demarcation and protest the non-formation of the Abyei Referendum Commission (file photo) JUBA, 7 July 2010 (IRIN) – Tension over the future of…
