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By Luka Biong Deng* It seemed the moderates within Sudan’s ruling NCP eventually prevailed over the hardliners, allowing for president Omar el-Bashir’s visit to Juba to go ahead. This is a positive sign. However, the visit was also necessitated by … read more »
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Tagged Abyei, Barack Obama, Bashir, IndepthAfrica, Juba, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, South Sudan, Sudan
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By Suzanne Jambo The South Sudanese economy been set back by severe austerity measures for close to two years now; almost since our Independence in July 2011. Much of the real causes of these austerity measures maybe of high(est) speculations, … read more »
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(Reuters) – A Sudanese court sentenced nine army officers to prison terms of up to five years on Sunday for their role in an alleged coup attempt against President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, a lawyer said. In November, Sudan arrested its … read more »
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Tagged IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, Libya, National Congress Party, Omar al-Bashir, Reuters, Salah Gosh, Sudan
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By David Bosco, Almost 15 years ago, delegates from more than 100 countries gathered in a crowded conference room in Rome, cheering, chanting and even shedding a few tears. After weeks of tense negotiations, they had drafted a charter for … read more »
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Tagged African Union, Central African Republic, Fatou Bensouda, Indepth Africa Magazine, International Criminal Court, Kenya, Omar al-Bashir, Uhuru Kenyatta
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by Katie Jessup Established in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is a permanent tribunal created to hold perpetrators of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes accountable for their actions. Located in The Hague, Netherlands, the ICC has led … read more »
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Seven political prisoners have been freed in Sudan a day after President Omar al-Bashir ordered the release of all political detainees. Relatives embraced the prisoners as they walked out of a prison in the capital, Khartoum. They included Abdul Aziz … read more »
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It’s the beginning of the end for Sudan’s Omar Al Bashir, who said that he’s gracefully withdrawing from office after more than two decades in the presidential palace. He’ll be gone by 2015, he claims. Few will mourn his departure, … read more »
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KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan’s president says he intends to step down in 2015 after more than 20 years in power. In an interview published in several Sudanese dailies on Wednesday, Omar al-Bashir says the people of Sudan need “fresh blood … read more »
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Jubilee supporters celebrate outside State House in Nakuru [Photo: Boniface Thuku/Standard] By Alex Kiprotich, Steve Mkawale and Antony Gitonga Kenya: They thronged the streets, estates with twigs and horn blaring-the chilly morning did not matter to them-what was important … read more »
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NAIROBI: Uhuru Kenyatta has won Kenya’s presidential election despite facing an international crimes against humanity trial, provisional results showed on Saturday, as his main rival refused to concede, raising tensions following the key poll. While supporters of Kenyatta, son of … read more »
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The leading candidate in Kenya’s presidential election, Uhuru Kenyatta, saw his percentage of the vote yo-yo just below the 50 percent mark early Saturday, a race too tight to call with only a few votes outstanding. The election commission said … read more »
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Simon Tisdall, The Guardian Presidential frontrunner must stand trial for crimes against humanity at The Hague in July. Presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta has promised to attend his trial for human rights abuses – just not all the time. Photograph: Simon … read more »
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Celebration is underway at Jubilee Media Centre at the Catholic University in Nairobi following indication that its presidential candidate Uhuru Kenyatta might be announced the winner in the hotly contested 2013 general election. With only results from 22 constituencies left … read more »
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13: 12 With 226 constituencies reporting: Kenyatta 4,867,683; Odinga 4,335,488. Rejected votes 94.020. 13:10 Kenyatta 4,849,194; Odinga 4,323,153. 225/291 constituencies have filed returns. 13:00 Amani coalition presidential candidate Musalia Mudavadi (right) addressed a press conference in Nairobi where he conceded … read more »
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Tagged Amani, Bashar Al-Assad, Daily Nation, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Irwin Cox, Kenya, kenya's election date, kenyan election 2003, kenyan election act, kenyan election candidates, kenyan election crisis, kenyan election dates 2013, kenyan election news, kenyan election opinion polls, kenyan election polls, kenyan general election 2013, kenyan presidential candidates 2013, kenyan presidential election 2012, Kenyatta, margaret wanjiru gakuo, Martha Karua, Musalia Mudavadi, Nairobi, Odinga, Omar al-Bashir, President, Raila Odinga, Syria, Uhuru Kenyatta, uhuru kenyatta biography, uhuru kenyatta children, uhuru kenyatta education, uhuru kenyatta wealth, United States, when are kenya's elections, when are the next kenyan elections, when is kenya's next election, when is the next kenyan presidential election
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The modern effort to build a global system of international justice based on universal human rights is usually dated to the Nuremberg trials, after the Second World War, and the ratification of the Geneva Conventions. In the decades since then, … read more »
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By Mahmoud A. Suleiman This article comes against the backdrop of the tenth anniversary by 26 February 2003 when the two Darfuri rebel groups the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) had to take up arms … read more »
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Tagged Blue Nile, Darfur, IndepthAfrica, Justice and Equality Movement, Khartoum, NCP, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, Tutsi
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By Emily L. Hauser,thedailybeas Haaretz reported on Tuesday that Israel deported at least 1,000 Sudanese refugees to North Sudan via a third county, without informing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and despite the fact that “[Sudan] has … read more »
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Tagged Aharon Barak, Darfur, Eli Yishai, IndepthAfrica, International Criminal Court, Israel, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
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By Justice Deng Biong Two will never differ in concluding that the fugitive (Indicted by the ICC since 2009) President Omar Bashir of Sudan is known for saying something here and contradicting the same in the next venue. His diplomats … read more »
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Tagged Abyei, Addis Ababa, African Union, Bashir, IndepthAfrica, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, SouthSudan, Sudan
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By Stephen Lamoney As Côte d’Ivoire takes a major step towards ensuring accountability for grave crimes by joining the International Criminal Court (ICC), Chad is once again failing to live up to its obligations as a member of the Court … read more »
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Eritrean president Isaias Afewerki on Friday spoke for first time about last month’s mutiny incident in Asmara after remaining silent for three weeks. On 21 January around 200 mutinous soldiers with two tanks stormed the information ministry and forced the … read more »
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At the Sheraton Addis Ababa, in the Ethiopian capital, Heads of State, diplomats and government officials exchanged pleasantries, talking about issues, as those at diplomatic loggerheads busily avoided each other. Indulging in the padded lobby of the Sheraton Hotel … read more »
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By Luka Biong Deng As expected, the summit between presidents Salva Kiir and Omar el-Bashir on January 25 did not produce any results. The term summit, which usually refers to a high-level meeting, is losing its meaning in the context … read more »
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Tagged Abyei, African Union, IndepthAfrica, IndepthAfrica news, Khartoum, National Congress Party, Omar al-Bashir, Salva Kiir Mayardit, SouthSudan, Sudan
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Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir held talks with his Eritrean counterpart Issaias Afeworki on Saturday, official media reported, on a visit to Asmara just days after a protest by mutinous soldiers there. Troops demanding political reform briefly seized the information ministry … read more »
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Tagged African Union, Asmara, Eritrea, eritrea rthiopia, Horn of Africa, Isaias Afewerki, Khartoum, Omar al-Bashir, Sudan
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By Reporters Without Borders In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, making 2012 the deadliest in history for the country’s media. The Horn of Africa state was the … read more »
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Efforts to end conflict across Africa, especially in Mali, dominated the African Union summit opening on Sunday. “Much still needs to be done to resolve ongoing, renewed, and new conflict situations in a number of countries,” AU Commission chief Nkosazana … read more »
The leaders of Sudan and South Sudan will hold their second summit in a month on January 24, a Sudanese official said on Tuesday, in a fresh bid to defuse tensions over oil, territory and other disputes. The neighbors came … read more »
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Khartoum — A number of Sudanese opposition party leaders are in custody following the signing of an accord, dubbed the ‘New Dawn Charter’, under which they agreed to overthrow the government of President Omar al-Bashir and institute a federal system … read more »
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Medieval and contemporary human histories, are awash with instances whereby, cultural imperatives and narratives, have been politicised, to achieve exclusive comprehensive advantages, in favour of powerful minorities, or majorities, to the determined of others within the same societies. Militarily powerful … read more »
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Tagged Cultural relativism, Indepth Africa Magazine, indepthafrica sudanese news, Norm (social), Omar al-Bashir, SouthSudan, Sudan, Sudan news, Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement, United States
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by ASSIST News Service Sudanese authorities rang in the new year by bulldozing a church building outside Khartoum because it belonged to Christians of South Sudanese origin and lacked a permit, a source said. According to a story by Morning … read more »
Intolerable human insecurity and threats to humanitarian operations in Darfur remain largely invisible; an overview in three parts: South Darfur By Eric Reeves January 11, 2013 -In assessing human security in West Darfur (December 27, 2012, http://www.sudanreeves.org/?p=3684), I began by … read more »
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