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Nuclear
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Energy
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Politics
- "Iran
crisis a dilemma for China." ... "The first step
is to persuade China to agree to support - or not to block - an International
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) referral of Iran to the UN Security Council."
... "China's most obvious interest is energy." ... "Three years ago, when
Iran was already supplying 13 per cent of China's oil needs, the two governments
signed a major deal which included Chinese development of Iranian oil fields."
... "Chinese willingness to take sides with the US against a friend and
energy supplier like Iran could alarm some of its other suppliers, from
Sudan to Burma." -By Jill McGivering -BBC
/News
Egypt
- Sudan
- UN
- Politics
- "10
dead in Cairo protest camp clearance." ... "Ten Sudanese
refugees, including a young girl, were killed today when Egyptian police
fired water cannon and beat migrants with clubs to break up a protest camp
in Cairo." ... "Up to 2,000 refugees had lived in the camp for three months,
demanding that the UN refugee agency resettle them." ... "The sit-in began
in September after the UN high commissioner for refugees stopped hearing
the cases of Sudanese asylum seekers, a decision which followed the signing
in January of a peace accord that ended Sudan's 21-year civil war."
-Guardian.co.uk
Sudan
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Police
- "Chaos
Grows in Darfur Conflict as Militias Turn on Government."
... "The outlaws who rode into Geneina [Sudan] on camelback one recent
afternoon represent the latest grim chapter in the desert war in western
Sudan." ... "Janjaweed militias have focused their wrath on innocent villagers
for most of the two and a half years of the conflict in the Darfur region.
But on Sept. 18, in a scene that aid workers described as something out
of a Hollywood western, the militiamen surrounded the police station along
Sudan's border with Chad, roughed up the chief and freed several of their
members from jail." ... "The fact that militias trained and armed by the
government are now emboldened enough to turn their guns on the government
is a sign of trouble. It was government support of the janjaweed at the
outset that ignited the fighting in Darfur that killed tens of thousands
of people and displaced two million villagers." (1, 2)
-By Marc Lacey -NYTimes
Uganda
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- "In
Uganda, when does brash talk radio become sedition?
Radio talk show host Andrew Mwenda angered Uganda's government after controversial
remarks." ... "As political editor and columnist for the independent Daily
Monitor, and as talk show host for the paper's radio station, KFM, Mr.
Mwenda has earned a reputation as a sharp critic of Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni." ... "But Mwenda crossed a line August 10, when he blamed the
Ugandan government for the death of Sudanese Vice President John Garang,
who died last month in a helicopter crash." ... "Uganda's broadcasting
council took KFM off the air the next day, later saying his program was
likely to lead to violence. Then the government jailed him for three days.
Mwenda was freed on bail last week, but he now faces charges of sedition,
which could entail a five-year jail term." -By Blake
Lambert -CSMonitor
- "Former
Rebel Chief Sworn in As Sudan VP." ... "Southern
leader Salva Kiir Mayardit took the oath of office with his hand on a red
copy of the constitution in a large tent on the grounds of the presidential
palace." ... "After the oath, Kiir, President Omar al-Bashir and Vice President
Ali Osman Mohammed Taha raised their linked hands." ... "Kiir said reports
about his secession agenda were issued by ``prophets of doom.'' He reaffirmed
his firm commitment to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, which stresses
unity but promises southern are referendum on secession in 2011." -By
Tanalee Smith with contributions by Mohamed Osman
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
Uganda
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- "Museveni
warns press over Garang: Ugandan President Yoweri
Museveni has threatened to close down newspapers which continue to publish
conspiracy theories about John Garang's death." ... "Mr Museveni said such
speculation was a threat to national security and would not be tolerated."
... "He accused several papers of preying on the misery of others like
"vultures"." ... "Garang, the Sudanese vice-president, died on 30 July
when the helicopter he was travelling in crashed on its way back to Sudan
from Uganda." -By Sebastian Usher-BBC
/News
- "Kiir
arrives in Khartoum to become vice president." ...
"South Sudanese leader Salva Kiir arrived in Khartoum on Wednesday to be
sworn in as first vice president after his predecessor, John Garang, died
in a helicopter crash three weeks after taking office." ... "The streets
of the capital were lined with soldiers and tanks as Kiir arrived from
southern Sudan to be greeted and embraced by Second Vice President Ali
Osman Mohamed Taha." ... "Security has been tight in Khartoum since the
worst riots in decades, sparked by news last week of Garang's death. As
many as 111 people died in the violence and more than 300 were wounded."
-By Opheera McDoom -Reuters
via -AlertNet.org
- "Sudan's
Salva Kiir Has Scant Experience." ... "He battled
the northern government through 21 years of civil war, founded the southern
rebel movement at the side of the beloved John Garang and strategized many
military successes in the long fight for autonomy." ... "On Thursday, [Lt.
Gen. Salva Kiir Mayardit,] the commander of the Sudan People's Liberation
Army will be inaugurated as Sudan's first vice president and president
of the new, autonomous southern government, part of a peace deal power-sharing
arrangement between north and south." ... "He also was a key player in
early peace negotiations, leading the southern team to Machakos, Kenya,
in 2002 and signing a protocol under which the south was granted the right
to hold a referendum on self-determination six years after the signing
of a peace agreement -- an event finally happened in January." -By
Tanalee Smith -AP
via -Newsday.com
- "Sudan
launches Garang crash probe: A Sudanese committee
has been formed to investigate the death of vice-president and southern
rebel leader John Garang, the government says." ... "President Omar al-Bashir
has asked for an initial report by the start of September, says Sudan's
news agency." ... "The committee includes aviation experts, government
officials and members of Mr Garang's former rebel SPLM group, the agency
says." -BBC
/News
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- "Official's
death threatens Sudan peace." ... "The death of Sudanese
Vice President John Garang threatens a new peace deal between north and
south Sudan and could hurt efforts to end conflict in the devastated Darfur
region." ... "Garang, 60, who died in a helicopter crash Saturday en route
to Sudan from Uganda, had been sworn in July 9 under an agreement negotiated
with U.S. help. The accord aimed to redress demands by southern Sudanese
for greater self-government and a share of revenue from oil wells in the
south." ... "A graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa, Garang earned a doctorate
in economics from Iowa State University. He was a member of the Dinka tribe
in southern Sudan." -By Barbara Slavin with contributions
by Noel King
-USATODAY
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- Religion
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- "Sudan
turns violent after VP's death." ... "Grief-stricken
supporters of a former Sudanese rebel leader rioted in the capital Monday,
smashing cars and shops and angrily blaming the government for their hero's
death in a helicopter crash." ... "Police stand by a car burned by southern
Sudanese in response to news that their hero, Vice President John Garang
de Mabior, died." ... "Despite doubts among the rioters, the southern rebel
movement dismissed talk of a plot against Vice President John Garang and
sought to keep alive the fragile north-south peace deal he championed for
Sudan." ... "Garang was the dominant voice of the south since 1983. A colonel
in Sudan's army, he was sent south to quell a rebellion but deserted to
form a rebel movement that fought the Muslim government in Kharoum for
a share of wealth and political power for the mostly Christian and animist
south. More than 2 million people died in the conflict."
-AP via-USATODAY
- Netherlands
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- "Second
Sudan aid worker arrested: An aid official has been
detained in Sudan's Darfur region, a day after his director was charged
with spying and spreading false information." ... "Vince Hoedt, Darfur
co-ordinator for the Dutch section of Medecins Sans Frontieres has not
yet been charged." ... "MSF Sudan director Paul Foreman was arrested on
Monday and later released on bail, over a report on rape." ... "The Sudanese
authorities deny accusations that they back the Arab Janjaweed militias
alleged to have committed widespread atrocities, such as mass killings
and mass rape." -BBC
/News
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- "U.N.
Security Council to prosecute Sudanese war crimes."
... "The U.N. Security Council approved a resolution Thursday to prosecute
Sudanese war crimes suspects before the International Criminal Court, after
the United States reversed policy and agreed not to use its veto." ...
"The United States won significant concessions, including ironclad guarantees
it sought that Americans working in Sudan would not be handed over to either
the ICC or any other nation's courts if they are accused of crimes in Sudan."
-AP via -USATODAY
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- "Report:
Darfur Death Toll Nears 300,000." ... "The death
toll in Darfur has been underestimated and is likely to be near 300,000,
British lawmakers said Wednesday, calling the international response to
the human tragedy ``scandalously ineffective.''" ... "While British members
of Parliament dramatically raised the estimated death toll, an official
in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government said it remains unknown." ...
"Earlier this month, the United Nations estimated that since October 2003,
about 180,000 people had died as a result of the upheaval, with about 2
million people displaced." -By Thomas Wagner
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
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- "No
Mullah Left Behind." ... "By adamantly refusing to
do anything to improve energy conservation in America, or to phase in a
$1-a-gallon gasoline tax on American drivers, or to demand increased mileage
from Detroit's automakers, or to develop a crash program for renewable
sources of energy, the Bush team is - as others have noted - financing
both sides of the war on terrorism. We are financing the U.S. armed forces
with our tax dollars, and, through our profligate use of energy, we are
generating huge windfall profits for Saudi Arabia, Iran and Sudan, where
the cash is used to insulate the regimes from any pressure to open up their
economies, liberate their women or modernize their schools, and where it
ends up instead financing madrassas, mosques and militants fundamentally
opposed to the progressive, pluralistic agenda America is trying to promote.
Now how smart is that?" -By Thomas L. Friedman
-NYTimes
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- - "South
Sudan's unlikely capital." ... "With no multi-storey
buildings or paved roads and a population of under 100,000 - the ramshackle
town of Rumbek has been chosen by Sudan's former southern rebels as the
unlikely administrative capital of the south." ... "Under the terms of
the peace deal, the government of southern Sudan will share oil revenue
equally with the mainly Arab government in the north." -By
Jonah Fisher -BBC
/News
- "Aid planes
due to leave for Sudan: The government has defended
its efforts over the Sudan crisis, as UK aid planes prepare to leave for
the country." ... "Oxfam planes will fly from Manston Airport in Kent on
Friday, for the western region of Darfur." ... "An estimated million people
face famine and disease after Arab militias forced them from their homes.
Some 10,000 are already thought to be dead."-BBC/News
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- "US
increases pressure on Sudan." ... "The US secretary
of state, Colin Powell, today said he expected the UN security council
to threaten sanctions against Sudan over the humanitarian crisis in Dafur."
... "More than one million refugees there face the threat of famine, disease
and attacks by pro-government militia." ... "A draft resolution, circulated
by the US yesterday, called on Khartoum to prosecute the leaders of the
predominantly Arab Janjaweed militia, and advocated an immediate embargo
on weapons to the region." ... "The refugees, mainly from Darfur's black
African tribes, have fled their homes after being attacked by the Janjaweed.
They now live in tent cities, where overcrowding a shortage of rations
are leading to deaths from hunger and disease."
-Guardian.co.uk
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- "Sudanese
slam genocide resolution." ... "Sudanese Arabs have
criticised a U.S. congressional resolution declaring genocide in the Darfur
region, while Darfuris asked what Washington would do to make it safe for
them to go back home." ... "hey do not understand anything," said Ismail
Gasmalseed on Friday, a 34-year-old driver in Khartoum." ... "The U.S.
Congress approved the resolution on Thursday and its supporters hope it
will help mobilise the international community to protect Africans in Darfur
from Arab militias." ... "But the accusation of genocide is highly controversial.
The United Nations has declared the situation in Darfur the world's worst
humanitarian crisis but has not called it a genocide, which would force
it to take action." -By Nima Elbagir-Reuters
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- "U.S.
[Proposes UN] Gives Sudan 30 Days to Arrest, Prosecute Militia (Update2)."
... "The U.S. proposed giving Sudan's government 30 days to arrest and
prosecute leaders of the Janjaweed militia that has attacked people in
Darfur or face the threat of United Nations sanctions." ... "The demand
for action and threat of sanctions are included in a draft resolution given
today to UN Security Council members. The text, a revision of a measure
first distributed last month, also imposes an arms embargo on the Janjaweed
designed to prevent its resupply by Sudan's government."-By
Bill Varner ed. by Paul Tighe -Bloomberg
- "Who Are the Janjaweed?
A guide to the Sudanese militiamen." [MSN explainer] ... "The word [Janjaweed],
an Arabic colloquialism, means "a man with a gun on a horse." Janjaweed
militiamen are primarily members of nomadic "Arab" tribes who've long been
at odds with Darfur's settled "African" farmers, who are darker-skinned.
(The labels Arab and African are rather misleading, given the complexity
of the region's ethnic history. For simplicity's sake, Explainer will stick
with these inelegant terms.) Until last year, the conflicts were mostly
over Darfur's scarce water and land resources—desertification has been
a serious problem, so grazing areas and wells are at a premium. In fact,
the term "Janjaweed" has for years been synonymous with bandit, as these
horse- or camel-borne fighters were known to swoop in on non-Arab farms
to steal cattle." ... "Both victims and international observers allege
that the Janjaweed are no longer the scrappy militias of yore, but rather
well-equipped fighting forces that enjoy the overt assistance of the Sudanese
government." -By Brendan I. Koerner -Slate.com
via MSN
- "Sudan:
New Darfur Documents: Ties Between Government and
Janjaweed Militias Confirmed." ... "In a series of official Arabic-language
documents from government authorities in North and South Darfur dating
from February and March 2004, officials call for recruitment and military
support, including “provisions and ammunition” to be delivered to known
Janjaweed militia leaders, camps and “loyalist tribes.” " ... "A particularly
damning February directive orders “all security units” in the area to tolerate
the activities of known Janjaweed leader Musa Hilal in North Darfur. The
document “highlights the importance of non-interference so as not to question
their authority” and authorizes security units in a North Darfur province
to “overlook minor offenses by the fighters against civilians who are suspected
members of the rebellion….”" ... "Another document calls for a plan for
“resettlement operations of nomads in places from which the outlaws [rebels]
withdrew.” This, along with recent government statements that displaced
persons will be settled in 18 “settlements” rather than in their original
villages, raises concerns that the ethnic cleansing that has occurred will
be consolidated and that people will be unable to return to their villages
and lands." ... "Human Rights Watch called for Sudan government officials
implicated in the policy of militia support to be added to the U.N. sanctions
list included as part of a pending U.N. resolution. It also called for
international monitoring of the disarmament of the militia groups and the
establishment of an international commission of inquiry into the abuses
committed in Darfur by all parties to the conflict." -HRW.org
- "Darfur
Documents Confirm Government Policy of Militia Support:
A Human Rights Watch Briefing Paper, July 20, 2004." ... "Since February
2003, the government of Sudan has used militias known as “Janjaweed”3
as its principal counter-insurgency ground force in Darfur against civilians
from the Fur, Zaghawa, Massalit and other ethnic groups from which two
rebel groups known as the Sudan Liberation Army/Movement (SLA/M) and the
Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) are drawn. The government-backed Janjaweed
militias are derived from the “Abala,” camel-herding nomads who migrated
to Darfur from Chad and West Africa in the 1970s, and from Arab camel-herding
tribes from North Darfur.4
With government aerial support, arms, communications, and other backing,
and often alongside government troops, the Janjaweed militias have been
a key component in the government’s military campaign in Darfur; a campaign
that has resulted in the murder, rape and forced displacement of thousands
of civilians.5"
... "If genuinely concerned with bringing peace and stability to Darfur
and ending the cycle of violence and impunity in the region, the Sudanese
government should suspend key government officials who bear responsibility
for recruiting, arming or otherwise supporting the Janjaweed militias from
official duties, pending official investigation of their responsibility
for abuses." ... "In addition, the international community must recognize
that the government-backed militias and government forces are clearly indivisible—they
are utilized as one entity. Those officials for whom there is evidence
of implication in the policy of militia support should be included in any
forthcoming international measures, including international travel sanctions,
arms embargoes, and investigation by any future international commission
of inquiry." -HRW.org
- "Bodies lined
up in the desert of Darfur: Witness to ethnic cleansing."
... "I saw numbing evidence of the ethnic cleansing campaign pursued by
the government of Sudan in this Muslim region, which is populated by Arabs
and non-Arabs. In response to a rebellion begun by primarily non-Arab groups
in early 2003, the regime armed the Janjaweed militia, giving them impunity
to attack. Burned villages confirmed harrowing stories we had heard from
Darfurians who were lucky enough to make it to refugee camps in Chad."
... "In village after village that I visited, the painstakingly accumulated
wealth of the non-Arab population - their livestock, their homes, their
grainstocks - had been abruptly destroyed. About 1.5 million people have
been left homeless, and as many as 300,000 may be dead by year's end."
... "It is time to move directly against regime officials who are responsible
for the killing. Accountability for crimes against humanity is imperative,
as is the deployment of sufficient force to ensure disarmament and arrangements
to deliver emergency aid." -By John Prendergast -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
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- "U.S. says 7
nations sponsor terror: Iraq still on list;
Syria mentioned ahead of Powell’s visit." ... "The United States again
has branded seven countries — Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Syria
and Sudan — as sponsors of terrorism. The annual report by the State Department
also says that international terrorist attacks, including anti-U.S. attacks,
declined sharply in 2002. Secretary of State Colin Powell issued the report
on Wednesday, only days before he will visit Syria, which has frequently
protested its designation as a sponsor of terrorism." -Betsy
Steuart with -AP
and -Reuters via -MS-NBC
911
Lawsuit - "$116
trillion lawsuit filed by 9/11 families." ... "Acknowledging
the odds are against them, relatives of the September 11 attacks filed
a 15-count, $116 trillion lawsuit Thursday against the company run by Osama
bin Laden's family, Saudi Arabian princes and Sudan." ... "Co-lead counsel
for the lawsuit is attorney Allen Gerson, one of the attorneys who negotiated
a $2.7 billion settlement between the Libyan government and families of
270 people killed when Pam Am Flight 103 was blown up over Scotland in
1988." -CNN
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