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At least 43 killed in violence in Sudan’s Darfur (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Peacekeeping soldiers of the UN-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on a patrol in the Nyala area of South Darfur. A Darfur rebel leader said seven people were killed in clashes with Sudanese police in two camps for displaced people in the war-ravaged region of western Sudan.(AFP/File/Jennie Matthew)AP - Clashes in a refugee camp in Sudan’s restive Darfur region left six people dead, U.N.-African Union peacekeepers said Saturday, days after violence elsewhere in the area claimed the…

Sudan’s north-south faultline worries about war (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

In this photo of Saturday, Aug.14, 2010, Residents of Agok in the contested border zone of Abyei gather under a tree for a session of traditional court, which occurs three times a week in this town, which is largely populated by the Ngok Dinka people. Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border with allegations the central government is using violence and ethnic cleansing to sway the vote. The central Sudan region of Abyei is the subject of a tug-of-war between leaders in Sudan's north and south. The border zone is home to some of Sudan's richest oil fields, worth hundreds of millions of dollars.(AP Photo/Maggie Fick)AP - Four months before Southern Sudan is scheduled to hold an independence referendum, tensions are already rising in this oil-rich region that sits on the expected future border, with…

Was a Swedish Oil Company Complicit in Sudan’s Civil War? (Time.com)

July 4th, 2010

Time.com - After an NGO accuses Swedish oil company Lundin of being complicit in war crimes in Sudan, prosecutors open an investigation

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Voting begins in Sudan’s historic elections (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Election officials post the list of eligible voters at a poling station set in a restaurant in Juba, southern Sudan, Sunday April 11, 2010. The people of southern Sudan will cast ballots in a national election for the first time in more than two decades as a three-day election begins Sunday. Despite the first-in-a-generation vote, most people are already looking past the elections to a vote next January considered far more significant: a referendum on independence that could signal the birth of a new African nation, if final negotiations with Khartoum over oil rights and the location of the border are worked out peacefully. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)AP - Voting has kicked off in Sudan’s first competitive elections in nearly a quarter century despite repeated opposition calls to delay the vote.


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South Sudan’s main party pulls out of elections (AP)

April 1st, 2010

In this photo taken late Wednesday, March 31, 2010, Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) presidential candidate Yassir Arman speaks at a press conference at the Friendship Hall in the capital Khartoum, Sudan. Southern Sudan's main political party, the SPLM, has withdrawn its candidate from the country's upcoming presidential elections and announced it will not contest parliamentary polls in Darfur, threatening to to undermine the credibility of the April 11 vote, Sudan's first multiparty election in decades. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)AP - Southern Sudan’s main political party withdrew its candidate from the country’s upcoming presidential election and said it will not contest parliamentary and local polls in Darfur, a move…

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