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Sudan: End Rights Abuses, Repression

By: chnarendra

The Sudanese government should end attacks by its armed forces on civilians in Darfur and make the major human rights reforms envisioned in the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Human Rights Watch said in a report issued today. Special Envoys to Sudan, concerned governments, and United Nations and African Union officials meeting in Moscow ...

about 1 month ago

Dr. Ismail: American Sanctions will Never Affect Sudan even if they ...

By: naserdawi

Presidential Advisor, Dr. Mustafa Osman Ismail, said that the current situation of the Sudanese economy is much better than that in the past. He said that the American sanctions on Sudan will never affect Sudan even if they lasted for 50 years.   In a statement after his meeting in Cairo with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Dr. Ismail ...

28 days ago

Saudi Arabian air force hits rebels in Yemen

By: arboofti

November 06, 2009 RIYADH (Reuters/AFP) - Saudi Arabia has launched heavy airstrikes on rebels in northern Yemen and is moving troops nearer the border after a raid into its territory by the insurgents, a Saudi government adviser said on Thursday.Saudi government officials said only that the air force had bombed Yemeni rebels who had seized ...

24 days ago

The Waziristan Affair

By: Changez

North and South Waziristan are now the new battle grounds in the war on terror, not havens or safe spots anymore, but true battle grounds in the first sense of the word. Prior to this, the areas had been charged as havens for the Taliban, as ungovernable borderland wildernesses and as no go areas for any armed forces. From the ...

about 1 month ago