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As a Christ-follower wanting to be a part of local and foreign mission efforts but sometimes not quite sure what to do, I sometimes feel stuck. Stuck because there are so many valid ministries out...
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The U.S. embassy in Khartoum has warned that an al-Qaida group had threatened Americans in Sudan and the U.S. government, following the double murder of two staff on New Year's Day.
A warden message, which was dated October 2 and remains current, alerts U.S. citizens to "threats made against the U.S. government and U.S. citizens in Sudan by a group calling itself 'Al Qaida in the Land of the Two N
TUAW’s Erica Sudan… err, wait, Ars Technica’s Eric Sudan, I mean, has released yet another phenomenal book of glory.
This one, which aims especially closely to those whom are interested in learning how to program an iPhone application, is available via .PDF for now, and will soon be availble in book format.
For programming books, .PDF versions [...]
Record Refutes Palin's Sudan Claim:Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin fought to protest atrocities in Sudan by dropping assets tied to the country's brutal regime from the state's multi-billion-dollar investment fund, she claimed during Thursday's vice presidential debate.
No quite, according to a review of the public record – and according to the recollections of a legislator and others who pushed a meas
San Beda NCAA Season 84 Champions
San Beda College revealed its new basketball weapon - Sudan Daniel - a 6-8 American who had just completed his residency requirements at the school according to a report from the Philippine Star today. He will play for the Red Lions next year. His size and abilities has drawn comparison with Sam Ekwe who played his last season with San Beda this year.
“Sudan
This is what we know officially about the hostages. The Egyptians have nothing to speak about today except this incident ,which was described by many including Al Dostor newspaper as the first tourists abduction in the history of Egypt , they even used better and shocking headline “Egypt enters the tourists’ abduction era !!”
There was a chaos in the local media , in the same newspape
Sudanske vlasti su u srijedu okružile mjesto u Sahari, u blizini sudansko-egipatske granice, na kojemu je zatočeno 19 osoba, među kojima je jedanaestero europskih turista.
The government of the Sudan has unleashed its notorious janjaweed forces to kill, rape and plunder the innocent people of Darfur, but continues to claim it is the innocent victim of UN refusal to cooperate in bringing peace to the region. Sudan’s UN envoy insists the fault for any delays in deploying peacekeepers to the [...]
Hmm, Sudanese Government goes on with its imperialistic campaign…
Sudanese government troops have launched attacks on two towns in Darfur, three rebel groups in the region have said. The rebels said the troops, backed by militias, helicopters and planes, had attacked Disa and Birmaza in North Darfur state early on Saturday.
The joint United Nations-African [...]
With an order for more than 2,000 units, the first shipment comprised of 96 DKD units of Hyundai’s popular compact - the i10, recipient of the most number of ‘Car of the Year ‘awards in 2008. Read more...
(Khartoum, Sudan) Fresh off his own indictment (by the ICC) for human rights violations, Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, turned around and indicted the writer’s of the hit American TV show Grey’s Anatomy. “It does me great pain to do this,” said Bashir during a press conference. “Grey’s is my favorite show, but the writers have let me...us down.
A USAToday Editorial: Accountability in Darfur
For five and a half years, government-backed forces in Sudan have committed unspeakable acts — murder, rape, torching villages — in the vast western province of Darfur. About a quarter of a million people have died, with millions displaced.
In 2004, the U.S. government condemned this for what it is: genocide. [...]
It's déjà vu all over again. On the eve of the 13th anniversary of the massacres of some 8,000 Bosnians in Srebrenica, with the tacit connivance of the under-supported and demoralized Dutch peacekeepers, the Janjaweed, Khartoum's surrogate militia in Darfur killed seven African UN peacekeepers and wounded 19 more. The militia outgunned the peacekeepers – and escaped with impunity. No on
Sudan Leader To Be Charged With Genocide
UNITED NATIONS, July 10 — The chief prosecutor of the Internationals Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant Monday for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, charging him with genocide and crimes against humanity in the orchestration of a campaign of violence that led to the deaths of hundreds of [...]
John McCain seems to be in a constant state of confusion. John McCain misspoke and confused his African countries while talking to reporters on the Straight Talk Express today. This time, he was bailed out not by Joe Lieberman, but by his close aide Mark Salter. “How can we bring pressure on the government of Somalia?” McCain asked, which prompted Mark Salter to correct him. “Sudan,” Salte
Chief of Party - Gender Equity in EducationWinrock InternationalLocation: Juba, Southern SudanLast Date: June 30, 2008Email: cmartin@winrock.orgChief of Party – Southern SudanWinrock International is recruiting applicants for the position of Chief of Party (COP) for an on-going girls’ education and gender equity program in Sudan. See below for the description of duties and responsibilities. Su
The UN Security Council is demanding Sudan cooperate with the International Criminal Court in bringing Darfur war crimes suspects to justice.
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“The council urges the government of Sudan and all other parties to the conflict in Darfur to cooperate fully with the court … in order to put an end to impunity for the [...]
Luxury Car manufacturer Jaguar has just launched their new XF Sudan model over in the States, and they decided to launch a huge mobile advertising campaign to announce its arrival. Their campaign used mobile banner ads on places such as cars.mobi, MSN.mobi and Yahoo Mobile to bring traffic to a specially designed mobile website. And [...]
Israel has offered to pay African states to absorb the thousands of Sudanese refugees from Darfur and other environs who have crossed into Israel recently, Army Radio reported on Thursday.The idea arose in discussions held by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert concerning the influx of African refugees in Israel and the high costs of providing these refugees with housing, health and social services.The pro
Reports from Sudan say dozens of people were killed when a Sudan Airways Airbus 310 veered off a runway at Khartoum's airport and burst into flames, Voice of America reported Wednesday. At least 120 people were feared dead last night after a Sudan Airways plane carrying more than 200 passengers burst into flames shortly after landing at Khartoum airport. The flight, which had stopped at Amman e
AP/Yahoo! News reports: A Sudan Airways jetliner veered off a runway late Tuesday amid thunderstorms and burst into flames, killing about 100 people, Sudanese television reported. An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the plane arriving from Amman, Jordan left the runway as it landed in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. There is an active thread at airliners.net discussing...
PHNOM PENH, May 30 (Xinhua) — Cambodia will send 139 soldiers to clean mines in Sudan under the UN mission, Cambodian National Defense Minister Tea Banh announced here on Friday.
PHNOM PENH, May 30 (Xinhua) — Cambodia will send 139 soldiers to clean mines in Sudan under the UN mission, Cambodian National Defense Minister Tea Banh announced here on Friday.
The town of Abyei which lies in the heart of the Sudan was once a prosperous community of 30,000 people boasting a hospital, a marketplace and a bar, but it no longer exists due to the recurrence of violence as the civil war appears to be once again ready to tear apart the nation. The [...]
Ben Affleck was so worried his views on the crisis in the Sudan would not be enough to spark change in the region he jetted off to Africa to get a closer look.[...] Read more!
Sudan is coming apart at the seams. A new wave of violence in central Sudan has observers fearing the possibility of a return to civil war between north and south, and fighting between the government and rebels in Darfur is reaching new extremes.
Last week, clashes in the town of Abyei in central Sudan between government forces and the SPLA sent around 25,000-30,000 people fleeing and caused t
The sale on Wednesday came after The Associated Press questioned the investments in light of calls by John McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, for international financial sanctions against the Sudanese leadership. She needs to release her tax returns so we can find out what other scams she has going. Remember, John McCain got in trouble for his involvement with banker Charles Keati
During the past several years the government of Sudan has employed deadly force in Darfur which has led to the death of over 200,000 people and the displacement of over a million. It has encouraged rebel forces to invade neighboring Chad in an effort to overthrow its government. Several days ago, rebels, undoubtedly supported by [...]
The Sudan government is seeking about $6 billion in aid from the world to help rebuild its devastated nation, particularly Darfur, where 200,000 have died and 2.5 million been displaced. Yesterday, a Sudan Antonov plane hovered over the village of Shegeg Karo for several minutes, surveyed the scene, and then dropped bombs on the [...]
As I've noted here, Sudan's census is provoking conflict in the south and in Darfur. Today that trend continued:
Up to 170 census monitors in southern Sudan have been told to return to the capital, Khartoum, after being accused of interfering with the count. Southern officials said the monitors were not approved and were mostly from the north of the country.
[snip]
Officials in Khartoum say [the census] is going well despite some people in Darfur refusing to take part.
The BBC's Amber Henshaw in Khartoum says these problems in themselves will not stop the census continuing, but the fear is that the results will be rejected by anyone who does not like them, which could spark more disputes further down the line.
More here.
This just isn't looking good. High-profile but poorly run is a bad
News coming out of Sudan this week, as is often the case, has not been encouraging:
Sudan's census, thrice-delayed, is now underway. The BBC offers the grim conclusion that "whatever the outcome of this census, the results are only going to spark further disputes down the road at a time when relations between north and south are already looking extremely shaky." Tensions are running high throughout the south, as evidenced by recent ethnic violence and clashes between the south's army and northern tribes.
The New York Times calls attention to a theme I frequently harp on - how the conflicts between Chad and Sudan are making matters worse in Darfur.
On a slightly more positive note, "An international coalition of 29 human rights groups has called for the arrest of two Sudanese suspects indic
This week two disputes are running simultaneously about population figures in Sudan: one for the living and one for the dead. For someone like me, who has little faith in statistics even for the US (quick question: how many people live in the US? Are you sure?), the idea of accurate measurements coming out of a warzone is even dicier.
First comes a census. Simple, right? They have 60,000 enumerators, 200 observers, and $100 million plus. What could go wrong? Well, in a move meant to "cement the 2005 peace deal" and "determine wealth and power-sharing," distorted measurements could bring drastic consequences for religious and racial minorities in the country. Recognizing this, southerners and westerners are already speaking out:
The underdeveloped south has refused to be bound by the result
Senior Election Program ManagerManagement Systems InternationalLocation: Juba, SudanLast Date: May 17, 2008 Senior Election Program ManagerJuba, SudanCompany Profile: Management Systems International is an international development consulting firm based on the D.C. waterfront with offices around the globe. For over 25 years, MSI has worked to improve the daily lives of people in many of the most impoverished and conflict-ridden places of the world through partnerships with domestic and foreign government agencies, corporations, and non-governmental organizations. For more information on MSI, please visit our website at www.msiworldwide.com.Project Summary: At the end of 2007, MSI was awarded a three-year contract with USAID/Sudan. MSI is tasked with responsibility for executing many functi
Küresel ısınmanın dünyayı tehdit ettiği günümüzde bir damla suyun bile boşa gitmemesi için iki ilköğretim öğrencisi, ilginç bir buluşa imza attı. Ayakla açılan musluk geliştiren öğrenciler, fotoselli musluklardan daha fazla tasarruf sağlamayı başardı.
This photo by Kevin Carter won the “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 and became a symbol of the Sudan famine at the time. The picture depicts stricken girl crawling towards an United Nations camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat her.This picture shocked the whole world. No one -including the photographer- knows what happened to the child.Here is the story behind the picture: In 1993 Carter headed north of the border with [his colleague] Silva to photograph the rebel movement in famine-stricken Sudan. To make the trip, Carter had taken a leave from the Weekly Mail and borrowed money for the air fare. Immediately after their plane ) touched down in the village of Ayod, Carter began snapping photos of famine victims. Seeking relief from the
The government of the Sudan has done more to destabilize northern regions of Africa than any other nation on the continent. Its brutal policies in Darfur have left hundreds of thousands dead and wounded or refugees in other lands. The government of Chad reports tht thousands of rebels, who were trained and armed by the [...]
El actor fue asaltado por un grupo de niños soldado con fusiles AK-47 en Darfur, en un viaje como embajador de la ONU.
Londres, Inglaterra.- Parecía el guión de una
película, pero era real: el actor George Clooney fue asaltado por un
grupo de niños soldado con fusiles AK-47 cuando se encontraba en
Darfur, Sudán, en un viaje como embajador de la ONU, según relató el
astro de Hollywood a la
DEBKA -- After Russia, China and Libya froze arms sales to Sudan over the horrors of Darfur, Tehran stepped in last month with a string of military pacts signed on March 8 by Iran’s defense minister Gen. Mostafa Mohammad Majjar and his Sudanese counterpart, Gen. Abdul Rahim Mohammad Hussein.For Sudan, they open up a new source of weapons and the promise of defense systems for its strategic sites, including the controversial White Nile dams, which are creating a new refugee crisis.Iran has gained a foothold on the Suez and Red Sea coasts, access to Chadian uranium and a hook-up with anti-American terror groups in northern and central Africa.
Meet the Toposa people. These traditional herdsmen live in a remote area on the shared borders of Uganda, Kenya and Sudan. Their tribe is called "Karamojong" in Uganda, "Turkana" in Kenya (an area stretching from the Rift Valley to Lokichoggio) and "Toposa" in Sudan (from Lokichoggio to Narus and Kapoeta, in the eastern Juba).They live the life as it once was. Clothing is optional in their "country". If they have a cloth, serves the whole village, used when travelling outside the community. Their life is centered in function of their cattle. Their cattle is their life. Traditional diet is cow blood mixed with a sort of cassava.The family and tribe has a patriarchical system: Toposa men take decisions on behalf of the family or tribes in meetings where women and children are kept at a dista
Igual que pasó con Timor Oriental y el régimen islámico indonesio de Suharto, cuya brutalidad se dirigió también contra los comunistas, la ONU (uff, por fin ha hecho algo útil... aunque digamos que un poco tarde) ha reconocido que el gobierno sudanés está directamente implicado en las violaciones colectivas en Darfur. Y quien lo ha dicho ha sido la impresentable de la Alto Comisionado de la ONU para los Derechos Humanos, Louise Arbour, que se ha mostrado muy reacia a hablar en contra de los múltiples abusos cometidos por los países musulmanes en relación a los Derechos Humanos, pero en llevar una cuenta muy detallada de los que comete Israel. Hace poco apoyó la Carta de Derechos Humanos de los países islámicos, esa que dice que se respetarán siempre que no vayan en contra d
If you needed final confirmation on connections between the Janjaweed militias in Darfur and the Sudanese government in Khartoum, here it is:
For the first time, the commander of one of the biggest and most important Janjaweed groups has gone on the record claiming his men received direct orders and heavy weaponry from the government.
Extraordinary footage to be broadcast on Britain’s Channel 4 on March 14 shows an interview with Mohammed Hamdan, leader of 20,000 Janjaweed who control most of southern Darfur. It’s the closest thing yet to hard evidence that Khartoum has used Janjaweed as proxy forces to crush rebel groups and sow misery in Darfur. Hamdan claims he met Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir twice - once at Bashir’s home - to receive orders to carry out campaign
I’d like to kick off this week’s edition of Tales From the Road with a quote from the stellar travel journalist Robert Kaplan, from a speech originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review:
“Journalism desperately needs a return to terrain, to the kind of firsthand, solitary discovery of local knowledge best associated with old-fashioned travel writing. [...]
A Sudanese senior official, on a trip to Japan, claimed critics had completely exaggerated the situation in Darfur and that only a fraction of those claimed to have been killed really got killed. Sudanese presidential adviser, Nafie Ali Nafie, said “Our estimate is not more than 10,000… quite a difference number from 200,000. I dare [...]
(TIA) - This is Africa. War left and right. We’re good at one thing - and only one thing - killing our own kind. And killing them in great numbers.
Africa - a continent of continuous bloodshed. Where generations are wiped out over night. If you have been paying attention to the news lately, you can [...]
What: Cup of African Nations, Group CWho: Sudan vs ZambiaWhen: Tuesday 22 January 19:30 GMTWhere: Baba Yara Stadium, KumasiLive: and VTC3, VTV3 , VTC1 @ www.vietnamitv.com Out to prove a pointThe Chipolopolo of Zambia will be looking forward to today’s encounter, knowing they are the only team in the 'group of Champions' not to have lifted the African Cup of Nations before.The Zambian team, which only a few weeks ago silenced the crowd at Rades in a pre-tournament friendly match beating their hosts Tunisia 2-1, came through the qualifiers for this tournament without losing a single away fixture, putting them in good stead for the tournament. The squad defeated the highly-rated South Africans in Durban in their final group 11 qualifying game by 3-1. But there home games where not as imp
Holders Sudan overcame hard-fighting Burundi 2-1 to reach the
final of the East and Central Africa Senior Challenge Cup at the
National Stadium in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday.
UN seeks aid for Somalia, Sudan refugees(AP)AP - The U.N. humanitarian chief warned that terrible atrocities and urban warfare were engulfing Somalia's capital and called for a large increase in aid to handle a burgeoning population of refugees fleeing Mogadishu.
Rwanda genocide court: life sentence on ex-governor(Reuters)
Reuters - A U.N. court trying masterminds ofRwanda's 1994 genocide on Friday sentenced a former provincialgovernor to life imprisonment for his role in the killings,including helping soldiers kill refugees in a church.
Germany puts Zimbabwe in spotlight over rights abuses(Reuters)
Reuters - German Chancellor Angela Merkelchallenged European and African leaders on Saturday to confronthuman rights abuses in Zimbabwe, putting the country'spresident Robert Mugabe in the spotlight at an EU-Africasummit.
Srebrenica survivors, Mia Farrow protest over Darfur(AFP)
AFP - Srebrenica massacre surviours joined US actress and activist Mia Farrow in a torch-lightin
PIcture from citizen.co.zaPresidents of Sudan Sovereignty Council, 1956-1958Abdel Fattah Muhammad al-MaghrabiMuhammad Ahmad YasinAhmad Muhammad SalihMuhammad Othman al-DardiriSiricio Iro WaniPresidents of Sudan, 1958-1964Ibrahim Abboud: 18 November 1958 - 16 November 1964Sirr Al-Khatim Al-Khalifa (acting): 16 November - 3 December 1964Sovereignty Council, 1964-1965Abdel Halim MuhammadTijani al-MahiMubarak ShaddadIbrahim Yusuf SulaymanLuigi AdwokSovereignty Council, June-July 1965Ismail al-AzhariAbdullah al-Fadil al-MahdiLuigi AdwokAbdel Halim MuhammadKhidr HamadHeads of State, 1965-1993Ismail al-Azhari: 8 July 1965 - 25 May 1969Gaafar Nimeiry: 25 May 1969 - 6 April 1985Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab: 6 April 1985 - 6 May 1986Ahmad al-Mirghani: 6 May 1986 - 30 June 1989Omar al-Bashir: 30 June
The grade-school teacher who was jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad was met at London’s Heathrow Airport this morning by her son John and daughter Jessica.
Gillian Gibbons was released a week early thanks to an intense British diplomatic effort led by two Muslim members of Britain’s House of Lords, who met with Sudanese President Omar al Bashir.
Gibbons also sent the president a statement saying she didn’t mean to offend anyone with her class project.
Some Sudanese protesters, however, demanded far more punishment, such as lashes or even death.
Gibbons only had kind words about the country and the Sudanese people.
“It has been an ordeal but I’d like want you to know that I was well-treated in prison and everybody was very kind to me,” she said. “I was very sorry to leave Sudan. I had a fabulous time there. It’s a really lovely place, and I managed to see some of the beautiful countryside while I was
The English school teacher who was imprisoned for allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" is back home from Sudan.Gillian Gibbons is relieved, but in a rather low-key English way.Asked if she had been shocked by the punishment handed out to her, she said: "I am just an ordinary middle-aged primary school teacher. I went there to have a bit of adventure and got a bit more than I bargained for." One group who was not happy about Gibbons' escape from Sudan was B.A.I.R. (Bruins Against Islamic References).As was reported yesterday, BAIR spokesbruin, T.D. Bear, was still angry over Gibbons escaping with what he called "light punishment". He had call for Gibbons to be eaten by members of his group.No word yet on BAIR's reaction to Gibbons making it home to the U.K. safely.by Mondoreb[notes & graphic: RidesAPaleHorse][top photo: AP]Sources:CNN - "Toy Row Teacher Speaks of Ordeal"DBKP - "Teacher Pardoned: Unbearable Punishment Averted"Death by 1000 Papercuts Front Page.
Sudan Teddy Cartoon.
Apologies for the lack of cartoons over the last couple of weeks. Two reasons. I've just upgraded the computer, so it's taken a while for that to get sorted out, but moments after doing so, I've also realised that I need to move house. The new computer is fantastic. No longer will I have to struggle with an aging laptop, now I have a machine with enough power to do all I want it to, and best of all a widescreen monitor - which is ideal for Photoshop. Once settled in the new house, the cartoons will continue, but for the time being expect the occasional quick sketch cartoon to appear.
Ok the teddy Bear fuss was ended hopefully in Sudan after the order of Omar El-Bashir to realise the British teacher after a whole week of a media circus I am afraid the Islam was harmed and Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" was harmed more in the way how the Sudanese government handled the case Already I have the feelings that it is a political game used by the Sudanese government to gain some pressure against the UK due to the later's position from the Darfur case , seriously Look as a Muslim I refuse totally any disrespect what so ever to Prophet Mohammed "PBUH" but as far as I read and I understand the lady did not name or choose by herself the name of the teddy bear ,it was a choice made by one of her students called Mohammed in the class and was welcomed by most students due to the popularity of the name of Mohammed in Sudan and in any Muslim society , so as you see the kids are the one who really started this fuss just like the famous Egyptian proverb says "The kids dig it and the grown
LONDON, Dec. 3 -- Sudan's president on Monday pardoned a British school teacher sentenced to two weeks in jail for allowing her students to name a teddy bear Muhammad, ending a delicate diplomatic tangle with what Prime Minister Gordon Brown called a victory for "common sense."President Omar al-Bashir pardoned Gillian Gibbons, 54, of Liverpool, after meeting with two Muslim members of Britain's House of Lords, Nazir Ahmed and Sayeeda Warsi, who had traveled to the predominantly Muslim African nation to lobby for her release."This is a case which is unfortunate, unintentional, innocent misunderstanding," Ahmed told reporters in Khartoum after the decision was announced. He said Gibbons was to be released Monday.Gibbons's case caused international outrage and strained relations between Britain and Sudan, whose government is under intense international pressure over the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. Government officials and many British Muslim leaders said they believed Sudan's pr
There are two places where the Muslim Brotherhood exercises governmental power-Sudan and the Palestinian territories. That is, where it controls the levers of the state. It seems to me it is worth looking at these states to see how the Brotherhood would govern if given the chance, and to see the real agenda of the organization that claims to represent moderate, modernizing and tolerant interpretations of Islam. For an excellent summary of why the Muslim Brotherhood is such an important topic, see...(read more)
British teacher Gillian Gibbons has been convicted of inciting religious hatred for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Muhammad and sentenced to 15 days in prison and deportation from Sudan, one of her defense lawyers said. Read More... [Source: Breaking News: CBSNews.com - Posted by alexa]
A seven-year-old Sudanese student today defended the British teacher accused of insulting Islam saying he had chosen to call a teddy bear Mohammad because it was his own name.Gillian Gibbons, a 54-year-old teacher, was arrested on Sunday after complaints that she had insulted Islam's Prophet by allowing the bear to be named Mohammad.She is facing a third night in jail without being formally charged.The boy said: "The teacher asked me what I wanted to call the teddy. I said Mohammad. I named it after my name." He said he was not thinking of Islam's Prophet when asked to suggest a name, adding most of the class agreed with his choice.Described as “timid and polite,” Ms Gibbons - facing 40 lashes for the 'offence' - had told friends how she was loving her life in the country.She was said to be “deeply distressed” in a police cell last night after learning she faces the barbaric lashing under the Muslim state’s strict sharia law.More...Via Drudge Report
Sigh. It is just a teddy bear. But then again it was just a cat cartoon…
See “mo cat links below’
‘Muhammad’ teddy teacher arrested
Gillian Gibbons is described as “a talented and able teacher ”
A British schoolteacher has been arrested in Sudan accused of insulting Islam’s Prophet, after she allowed her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
Colleagues of Gillian Gibbons, 54, from Liverpool, said she made an “innocent mistake” by letting the six and seven-year-olds choose the name.
Ms Gibbons was arrested after several parents made complaints.
The BBC has learned the charge could lead to six months in jail, 40 lashes or a fine.
Ms Gibbons, who joined the school in August, asked a seven-year-old girl to bring in her teddy bear and asked the class to pick names for it, he said.
“They came up with eight names including Abdullah, Hassan and Muhammad,” Mr Boulos said, adding that she then had the children vote on
5/11/2007 İSTANBUL - Fenerbahçeli Roberto Carlos, takımının 2-1 mağlubiyetiyle sona eren Kayserispor maçında yardımcı hakem Hüseyin Fidan'a kasıtlı olarak su fırlattığı şeklindeki iddiaların doğru olmadığını söyledi.Brezilyalı yıldız, kulübün internet sitesine yaptığı açıklamada olayı şöyle anlattı: "İkinci yarıydı. Sanırım bir sakatlık nedeniyle oyun durmuştu. Ben de yedek kulübesinden su istedim. Suyu içtikten sonra, oyunun başladığını görünce, bir anda elimdeki şişeyi geriye doğru savurdum. O sırada önümde bulunan yardımcı hakem, arka tarafıma geçmiş ve savurduğum su hakemin yüzüne gelmiş. Görüntülere daha sonra dikkatlice baktım. Ben su içerken, sağımda olan hakem ben arkamı dönerken soluma geçmiş ve arkama bakmadan attığım su hakeme gelmiş. Hakemin orada olduğunu görmedim bile. Bu durumda hakeme kasıtlı olarak su attığımı ileri sürmek insafsızlık olur. Kafamın arkasında da gözler
A girl stands in front of a camp in Sudan for Internally Displaced Persons (IDP's). The camp is so large that only part of it is shown and seems to never end. (Photo by: REUTERS/Stuart Price/AMIS/Handout (SUDAN)). After forcing their citizens into camps, the Sudanese government is now trying to drive them out of those camps. 2.5 million people or more are Internally Displaced Persons (IDP’s) from Sudan and most of these people end up in humanitarian camps. In October, the United Nations reported that the Sudanese government was forcing hundreds of families from the camp at Otash, near Nyala. The camp is home to 60,000 displaced persons in Southern Darfur. The United Nations has denounced the practice but human rights groups are calling it a violation of international law. John Holmes, under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs said, “Given that security forces were threatening the displaced with sticks and rubber hoses at Otash camp, the involuntary
President Bush will meet in Washington with Sudan's Vice-President Salva Kiir. The President will discuss with Sudan's leader how to reenact peace in the suffering African country. The Comprehensive Peace Agreement was signed in 2005, but peace has rarely and minimally existed there since. Reports BBC, "Mr Kiir has said the CPA is 'staggering like a drunk person' but had not yet collapsed."
Sudan
I just came across an amazing story from the Associated Press regarding wildlife returning to the Sudan.
"Sudan's 22-year north-south civil war — Africa's longest and bloodiest conflict, killed some two million people. It also drove out large numbers of animals."
"Now after two years of relative peace, they're dramatically back. Wildlife services estimate 7,000 elephants have returned, along with some 1,500 giraffes and about 500 oryx antelopes, both thought to have left Sudan forever. Lions, leopards and a wide variety of gazelles, some of them unique to Sudan, are being spotted, too."
"In a February aerial survey, the U.S.-based Wildlife Conservation Society estimated herds of antelope and gazelle numbered 1.3 million."
"It could well be the largest mammal migration on Earth," said Pau
I just came across an amazing story from the Associated Press regarding wildlife returning to the Sudan.
"Sudan's 22-year north-south civil war — Africa's longest and bloodiest conflict, killed some two million people. It also drove out large numbers of animals."
"Now after two years of relative peace, they're dramatically back. Wildlife services estimate 7,000 elephants have returned, along wit
:: Kommentar görs med fördel på svenska :: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~PRAYER ITEM 6 OCTOBER: The Berta people in Ethiopia and Sudan. 30daysfire.net praying for Muslims through 30 days of Ramadan. . . One week more to go... until 12 October Technorati tags: The Berta people Berta Ethiopia Berta Sudan Ramadan -- Andra bloggar om: Ramadan, Berta-folket Sudan, Berta-folket i Afrika ::
Day 24 for 6th October, coinciding with Ramadan 2007 / 1428
Berta is one of several names for a people group who live on both sides of the Ethiopian and Sudanese borders. Some 160,000 Berta live in Ethiopian side. On the Sudanese side of the border there are probably about the same number. Most of them live in rural areas and not in the cities and towns. Just 9.7% of the people are considered literate.
Up until 30 years ago visitors to the region wrote that Islam was very superficial, basically just in name only. However, today most Berta Muslims take their religion quite seriously although it is mixed with indigenous beliefs and practices. A handful of Christians live scattered throughout the area. Bible translation began with some Old Testament passages but unfortunately that work stopped two years ago when the Muslim translators were forbidden to help more on the project. Witnessing among the Berta has proven difficult - more prayer is needed!
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The “African Union” forces are paid for by Paris, Berlin and Washington DC.
As Europe and the USA and the UN work furiously to present to the world the polystyrene reasoning for massive military entry in Sudan, it is clear that there are a heap of lies.
Six decades ago, titan sociologist and [...]
Sudan will accept Palestinian refugees from Iraq, the BBC reports:
The offer came after Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir received a letter from the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas.
The UN refugee agency has expressed concern over the deteriorating conditions for the hundreds of Palestinians in camps on the borders. They have tried to leave Iraq, but have been refused entry by Jordan and Syria…The UNHCR estimates about 34,000 Palestinians currently live in Iraq. Between 200 and 300 have been killed since the US-led invasion in 2003.
Sudan’s actions are perhaps commendable on the surface. But in light of the refugee crises within Sudan involving actual Sudanese people, the government’s actions appear both strange and hypocritical. Is the Sudanese government only willing to help fellow Arabs? Are they attempting to curry favor in the Middle East? Whatever their motivation, it seems that even gestures such as these will do little to boost their image in the eyes of the
The International Criminal Court seeks the arrest and trial of Sudan militia leader Ali Kosheib and Ahmed Haroun, Secretary of Humanitarian Affairs, for instituting genocidal attacks upon the people of Darfur. Sudan President Omar al-Beshir rejected the demands stating: “I swear by God the great that we will never hand over a Sudanese to be [...]
In an earlier post, I wrote about a leaked UN report accusing the Government of Sudan transporting weaponry into Darfur, disregarding UN security resolutions.New pictures released last week, showed once again Antonov military planes and Russian-supplied Mi-24 military helicopters at an airport in Geneina, a town in Sudan's Darfur region... I wonder how the Government of Sudan will deny this, yet again.Picture courtesy Washington Post
The fifth batch of materials for humanitarian aid provided by the Chinese government for Sudan was shipped on Friday at north China’s port of Tianjin. The 40 million yuan (5.2 million U.S. dollars) worth materials include cross-country vehicles, ambulances, medical instruments, and mobile houses.
A container is loaded to a ship at the Tianjin Port in Tianjin Municipality, north China, Aug. 24, 2007. The fifth batch of aid materials worth 40 million RMB yuan (5.2 million US dollars) provided by the Chinese government for Sudan’s Darfur region were shipped to Sudan from Tianjin Port on Aug. 24. The humanitarian aid included SUVs, ambulances, sphygmomanometers and temporary houses. (Xinhua/Zhang Zewei)
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China had sent four batches of materials to help residents in the Darfur region improve their living conditions.
In 2004 the Chinese government pledged five batches of humanitarian aid to Darfur to ease the humanitarian problems
Ehud Olmert has said that he'll absorb 500 refugees from Darfur, but expel the rest. But look at what he called them:In a decisive move to address the African refugee crisis, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Sunday that Israel has agreed to absorb 500 refugees from Darfur among the 2,800 Africans that have illegally entered into Israel."Those who have entered Israel illegally from Egypt will be returned to Egypt," government spokesman David Baker said, according to the Jerusalem Post. "These people are illegal economic migrants and will be returned."Is that implying that they're literally illegal immigrants looking to take advantage of state welfare and jobs like those infiltrating the US? These are people who've fled from the Islamic massacres against the black natives of Sudan, and are really here to find safety. They certainly haven't found it in Egypt, where police once massacred many refugees. They all deserve to find some safety from the barbarism they've been forced
Displaced women sit inside a temporary home in a camp in North Darfur. Photo by REUTERS/Michael Kamber. At the beginning of George W. Bush’s presidency he read a report on the Rwandan genocide. In the margins of that report he wrote the words, “Not on my watch”. It has been over three years since the beginning of the genocide in Darfur and nothing has been done. President Bush is, of course, not the only one responsible for not acting in the Darfur region to stop the genocide there. After the Holocaust we said, “never again”. After Rwanda in 1994 we said, “never again”. Why is it taking so long for Americans and the rest of the world to demand that their leaders do something about the atrocities that are occurring there? So far since the conflict began in 2003, over 400,000 people have died and more than 2.5 million civilians have been forced to flee their homes. These refugees now live in displaced camps in Sudan or in refugee camps in the neighb
By Arshad MohammedReutersSunday, June 24, 2007; 8:30 AM PARIS (Reuters) - Sudan must stop trying to "scale back" a hybrid international force for Darfur, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said as she flew to Paris for talks on the humanitarian crisis in the western Sudanese region.The aim of the force is to stop the violence in Darfur, where international experts estimate 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been expelled from their homes in more than four years of strife. Sudan says 9,000 people have died.Sudan on June 12 agreed to a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 troops and police but many diplomats doubt Khartoum will keep its word. moreTo stay up to date on the crisis in Darfur please visit The Blog Coalition for Darfur
Here is Cyp as we know him... As he describes it:"Using the WiFi coverage provided to the Rumbek/Sudan airport from the UNHAS office, we were in the waiting lounge in transit to Juba from Aweil. In the background the immigration building."I love this picture. It gives an excellent snapshot of Africa, our work in Africa: one of our senior telecoms engineers, working off WiFi in the field, sitting in an old tractor tyre, waiting for a plane to go from no-where to any-where.Tnx for the picture, Cyp!
From the BBC:Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has agreed unconditionally to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur, diplomats have said. South Africa's ambassador at the UN, Dumisani Kumalo, said Mr Bashir backed the move after a meeting with Security Council envoys in Khartoum. Sudan agreed to allow the 19,000-strong force earlier in the week but ultimate control has been a sticking-point. Violence in Darfur has killed more than 200,000 people and made 2.5m refugees. An existing AU force of 7,000 troops has struggled to contain the conflict. Much of the violence has been linked to clashes between government-sponsored Janjaweed militias and Darfur's rebel groups. moreI'm not at all inclined to believe he'll keep his word given the history. So pardon me for not rejoicing. Hopefully this time will be different but I doubt it.
Conservationists surprised to find species thriving after civil warBy Andrea ThompsonUpdated: 2:57 p.m. ET June 12, 2007NEW YORK - More than a million animals — including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork — have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region.Decades of war wrought significant damage to the region, along with excessive hunting, desertification of the land and periodic droughts, so wildlife numbers were declining in the stricken country. Based on observations in other war-torn nations, conservationists thought the wildlife in Southern Sudan would be wiped out, but it wasn't.REST OF THE STORY AT MSNBC!!!!Go Check out this story.. The photos are very good and the story is very well written.Huntinglife.com is a project I am taking on to create a resource to match outfitters and hunters
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ReutersTuesday, June 5, 2007; 8:56 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives urged China on Tuesday to use its influence and economic leverage to stop what President George W. Bush has called the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.The lawmakers charged that China, which buys much of Sudan's oil, has stood in the way of halting bloodshed in the western Sudanese region, but stopped short of joining calls to boycott the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing made by some politicians, activists and celebrities."China should act consistently with the Olympic standard of preserving human dignity in Darfur, Sudan and around the world," said the resolution passed by the House on a vote of 410-0.The resolution urged China to stop selling Sudan arms and suspend economic cooperation with Sudan until Sudan "stops its attacks on civilians" in Darfur and engages in negotiations with Darfur rebels to achieve a peace deal. moreTo stay up to date on the crisis in Darfur please visit Sudan Wat
Sanctions this week on the Sudanese government mark a much-needed victory for the Bush administration. The on-going violent situation in Sudan's Darfur has been declared a genocide. The world and popular media has paid little attention, except when "pop" stars like Angelina Jolie make a comment about it in Hollywood. President Bush announced the sanctions last Tuesday from the White House.
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For Jason of x360, a tiny grass hut is paradise on a hot Sudan afternoon (watch the video). Reminds me how happy I once was to find a dilapidated old bus in the Mojave desert.
DownloadThis is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.What exactly is genocide? The word was invented by Raphael Lemkin, a Jewish lawyer who fled Poland at the start of World War Two and came to the United States. He lost almost every member of his family to the Holocaust carried out by Nazi Germany.Sudanese women in a refugee camp in Chad in July 2004 protesting the violence in DarfurIn a nineteen forty-four book, Raphael Lemkin wrote that by "genocide" he meant the destruction of a nation or an ethnic group. But not necessarily the immediate destruction. It can also describe a plan of actions taken against groups with the aim, in the end, to destroy the groups themselves.His efforts led in nineteen forty-eight to a United Nations treaty against the crime of genocide. It took effect in nineteen fifty-one. It defines genocide as actions taken with the goal to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.The acts listed include killing or causing serious phys
Denying Genocide in Darfur -- and Americans Their Coca-ColaBy Dana MilbankThursday, May 31, 2007; A02The Iraq war gave us Baghdad Bob, the Iraqi information minister who, while American troops patrolled nearby streets, held a defiant news conference to proclaim that there were no U.S. forces in the city.Baghdad Bob, whose real name is Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, earned a place among the ranks of colorful propagandists such as Hanoi Hannah and Tokyo Rose. Now, the genocidal Sudanese government has an entry in this category. Let's call him Khartoum Karl.Karl -- a.k.a. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington -- held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to respond to President Bush's new sanctions against his regime. In his hour-long presentation, he described a situation in his land that bore no relation to reality.Genocide in the Darfur region? "The United States is the only country saying that what is happening in Darfur is a genocide," Ukec shouted,
C'è chi dice che Gérome Delafosse assomigli a Dan Brown ma che scriva meglio. Per scoprirlo non vi resta che leggere "Il cerchio nel sangue" (Le cercle de sang") opera prima di questo scrittore 34enne francese che di professione fa il fotografo naturalistico.
Abituato sin da bambino a girare il mondo in lungo e in largo e l'incarnazione vivente di quanto sostengo anche io: muoversi, girare, vedere è un ottimo mezzo per smuovere la fantasia e riuscire a scrivere degli ottimi libri.
Di certo non era d'accordo come me Emilio Salgari, mio illustre concittadino che scrisse pirati della Malesia e di Corsari delle Bermuda tranquillamente seduto nella sua casetta torinese di borgo Po. Ma questa è un'altra storia...
Torniamo a Delafosse e al suo "Il cerchio nel sangue", questa è la trama:
In un ospedale norvegese Nathan Fahl, membro di una spedizione polare, si risveglia dal coma dopo un incidente duran
Bush Intensifies Pressure on SudanBy Michael Abramowitz and Debbi WilgorenWashington Post Staff WritersTuesday, May 29, 2007; 12:10 PMPresident Bush today announced broader sanctions on the government of Sudanese president Lt. Gen. Omar Hassam al-Bashir in an effort to halt violence in the troubled Darfur region, nearly three years after the White House described the conflict there as genocide.In a brief address that included sharp criticism of Bashir, Bush said the Treasury Department will step up efforts to squeeze the Sudanese economy by targeting government-run ventures involved with its booming oil business, which does many of its transactions in U.S. dollars.(snip)The United States will also seek new U.N. Security Council sanctions against Khartoum, including a provision preventing the Sudanese government from conducting military flights in Darfur, Bush said. The United Nations has accused Sudan's government of bombing Darfur villages.(snip)Bush and his aides say Bashir and oth
“Stop the Darfur Genocide Act” Garners Unanimous SupportAUSTIN, TEXAS (May 15, 2007) – Senate Bill 247, the “Stop the Darfur Genocide Act”, passed the Texas House of Representatives unanimously today. The bill has already cleared the Texas Senate and is on its way to the Governor’s desk, pending a procedural vote tomorrow. Governor Perry endorsed the targeted divestment legislation in his inaugural address and State of the State speech.The bipartisan legislation, led by Rep. Corbin Van Arsdale (R – Tomball) and Senator Rodney Ellis (D – Houston), has over 85 co-authors and enjoys tremendous support from both ends of the political spectrum. Religious conservatives and liberal activists found common ground and formed an alliance to pass the legislation in Texas. The bill is similar to legislation that has already passed in 12 states and is currently pending in 15 others.SB 247 would require the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS) and the Employee Retirement System of
