Writer speaks of courageous journey from Sudan to America Jan 31, 2009
Media Credit: Speaker Ayuek Leek escaped from the Sudanese Civil War as a refugee ... More than 27,000 boys, some as young as seven, became refugees in the 1980s when thousands of villages were destroyed in the Sudanese Civil War. (University News, MO)
"The Delivery Room," by Sylvia Brownrigg ; the Sudanese speak in "Out of Exile" Dec 14, 2008
In the past 50 years, the Sudanese civil war and the conflict between the north and south has claimed more than 3 million lives and displaced 8 million people. Many of those who do survive escape with nothing but their story, something this essential collection of oral testimony records and, in a realistic way, celebrates. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Sudan: The Next Darfur? [press release] Oct 22, 2008
Conditions like those that produced the Darfur conflict exist today in Southern Kordofan state where prospects of a new Sudanese civil war are real. the latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines the deteriorating situation in this strategic region between North and South, where both members of the Government of National Unity, the Sudan People s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the National Congress Party (NCP), have been dangerously engaged in ethnic polarisation in advance of... (allAfrica.com)
Study Shows How Civil War Refugees Cope With The Unknown Oct 3, 2008
3, 2008) A new study in the journal Family Relations focuses on the experiences of the Sudanese refugees who were separated from their parents during the Sudanese civil war. See also. (Science Daily)
Refugees fleeing Sudanese civil war land in Postville Aug 31, 2008
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U.S. flag bearer's personal story one of peril, survival and triumph Aug 9, 2008
He didn't know about the Second Sudanese Civil War, which pitted Muslim-dominated northern Sudan against the more diverse south. He played and enjoyed childhood. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Sudanese find refuge, jobs in Anchorage Jul 28, 2008
For hundreds of Sudanese civil war refugees, Anchorage has become a city of hope. Story tools. (Anchorage Daily News)
'Lost boy' ran for his life may run to Games Jun 6, 2008
From a village in Sudan to a horrific prison camp as a pawn in the midst of the Sudanese civil war. From an escape across the wilds of Africa to a decade spent in a Kenyan refugee camp. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Civil War Threatens Sudan, Again May 31, 2008
Southern frustration at the perceived northern domination of the post-colonial government in Khartoum spilled over quickly into the First Sudanese civil war, which lasted from 1955 to 1972. Whereas then the hostility focused on land and water southern Sudan has more water than the north, on the edges of the Sahara today that has been reinforced by oil. (Time.com)
Sudanese refugee will attend GW Apr 10, 2008
In the second Sudanese civil war Joseph De Mabior Deng, lost his family and found himself among 4 million other displaced refugees. This fall Makwei will enroll as a freshman at GW. He is a recipient of the University's first Banaa scholarship, a full scholarship awarded to an individual who has experienced war in Sudan. (GW Hatchet, Washington DC)
B Karkaria: Pedestrians for chalta hai Mar 9, 2008
But last week in Mumbai it seemed as if merely standing by the roadside was far more dangerous than joining the Sudanese civil war or being caught in the crossfire of the Democratic party nomination. My deepest sympathies to the victims families. (India Times, India)
Rice discusses African conflicts Dec 7, 2007
Rice also said she wanted to tackle elements of the Darfur conflict and bolster the peace deal that ended a 20 year Sudanese civil war in 2005. Great Lakes conflicts. (Aljazeera.Net)
The cinematic stretch run is upon us Nov 9, 2007
16) looks at six people in the Sudanese civil war hell and in its far-flung diaspora, including actor-activist Don Cheadle. With Love in the Time of Cholera (Nov. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Darfur Now ** Nov 9, 2007
For instance, instead of a thorough background in the Sudanese civil war, an Arab-African conflict that has been going off and on since 1955, we get, for long stretches at a time, Adam's Story. We see Adam leafleting uninterested shoppers at a market; Adam knocking on the doors of skeptical politicians; then, later, Adam seeking solace from his dad when his quest looks most hopeless. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Packaging a tragedy Oct 27, 2007
Before Darfur, evangelical groups had worked hard to try to end the Sudanese civil war, which pitted northern Muslims against southern Christians. This enabled them to puttheirlegislative contacts to good useduring the lobbying for the genocide resolution. (MSNBC -- International)
John Bul Dau, a Lost Boy of Sudan, Shares His Heartbreaking and Inspiring Journey of Survival on Wednesday, Oct. 10 at the Detroit Film Theatre Sep 26, 2007
In 1987, John Bul Dau was only 13 years old when the Sudanese Civil War brought northern soldiers to his village in a nighttime raid, Dau fled into the bush to save his life. War ravaged his village and shattered his age-old society, a life of herding and agriculture marked by dignity, respect and the simple virtues of Dinka tribal tradition. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Brown and Sarkozy pledge to visit Darfur on peace mission Jul 21, 2007
After a Franco-British mini-summit in Paris, the Prime Minister and the President announced a new diplomatic and economic initiative to try to halt the Sudanese civil war. If the initiative succeeded, they said they would go to Darfur,the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, and to neighbouring Chad to ensure the "peace process is moving forward". (Independent)
They're Fighting Over The Oil Already? Jun 27, 2007
Of course, we are aware that production of oil in any country can lead to corruption; the destruction if traditional patterns of economic production, and social dismemberment, including civil war (Biafran civil war, Nigeria, 1967-70; the just-ending Sudanese civil war). But at least we are going into it with our eyes wide open. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Millions of Missing Animals Found Alive in Africa Jun 15, 2007
After Southern Sudan was granted autonomy by the Sudanese government in January 2005, (bringing a tentative end to the two-decade Second Sudanese Civil War), scientists were finally able to conduct aerial surveys of the savannahs for wildlife. (Story continues below). (Fox News)
Lansing residents win home renovations Jun 15, 2007
Born in Sudan, Ajak was forced to flee his home and migrate to Ethiopia as a refugee when the Second Sudanese Civil War broke out in 1983, ravaging his country. He was forced to leave Ethiopia because of the nation's own civil war in 1990. (The State News, MI)
Sudans migrating wildlife wows scientists Jun 13, 2007
After Southern Sudan was granted autonomy by the Sudanese government in January 2005, bringing a tentative end to the two-decade Second Sudanese Civil War, scientists were finally able to conduct aerial surveys of the savannahs for wildlife. To their surprise, they counted more than 1. (MSNBC -- Technology)
more » Jun 3, 2007
Cheadle and Clooney are linked off-screen by their work to inform the public about the Darfur crisis, the Sudanese civil war that is killing hundreds of thousands and displacing millions. Cheadle co-wrote a book about it, and his foundation, Not on Our Watch, has raised $7 million in aid. (CTNow.com)
JONAH GOLDBERG: Who says it's wrong to take sides in a civil war? May 18, 2007
Every liberal foreign policy do-gooder in Christendom wants America to interject itself in the Sudanese civil war unfolding so horrifically in Darfur. The high-water mark in post-Vietnam liberal foreign policy was Bill Clinton's intervention in the Yugoslavian civil war. (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
- Jason Cowley on the world of the boy soldier Apr 29, 2007
That was during what is now known as the second Sudanese civil war, from 1983 to 2005. (As for what is happening now in Darfur, western Sudan - the violence, the expulsions, the mass killing - if it is not a continuation of the same civil war, it is certainly genocide. (Guardian Unlimited)
Harrowing 'Lost Boys' film depicts grim Sudanese plight Apr 16, 2007
The film follows three of the more than 30,000 Lost Boys as they flee their homelands during the Sudanese civil war on their barefoot plight through the African wilderness and as they form refugee camps, waiting for their hardship to end. The three boys featured in the film are one of the few chosen to be sent to the United States. (Daily Orange, NY)
Community calendar Apr 12, 2007
Valentino Achak Deng, one of the ``Lost Boys'' from the Sudanese civil war and subject of Eggers' latest book, What Is the What, will join Eggers. Free. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Living)
Just a couple of staggering geniuses Apr 11, 2007
The book highlights the life story of Valentino Achak Deng, who was dispossessed from his village during the 1980s as a refugee of the Sudanese civil war. One of some 20,000 "lost boys," Deng eventually made his way to the United States, where Mary Williams met him and first wrote to Eggers regarding his story. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
The Reel Critic: God Grew Tired of Us Mar 22, 2007
After the Sudanese Civil War restarted in 1983, 27,000 homeless, young boys (known as the Lost Boys) spent the next decade fleeing violence and staying in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya. The documentary's main characters are the fortunate ones who procured flights out of Kenya and pursue working permits in the United States - many of these men have been attending benefit screenings and speaking about their experiences. (Middlebury College -- The Campus, VT)
A BOOK OF MIRACLES Mar 11, 2007
In 1999, the U.S. State Department started allowing refugees from the Sudanese civil war to come to America. Dau was one of about 3,600 refugees selected to be resettled in the states. (Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, VA)
Sudanese man rocks Rincon; former refugee survived civil war Feb 15, 2007
The decades-long Sudanese civil war between the northern Muslim-dominated government and rebels in the Christian and animist south wound down after a 2005 peace treaty was signed. But a separate conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan continues. (North County Times)
