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  Ethnologue report for Sudan
Southern Sudan, between Wau and Tambura; villages of Raffili, Tirga, Bazia, Ayo, Gitten, Taban in Bahr-el-Ghazal; villages of Komai, Nagero, Bangazegino, and Tambura in W. Equatoria.
Southern Sudan, Upper Nile Province, Pibor District, south of the Akobo River, Boma Plateau, and to east and north.
Southern Sudan, Torit District, eastern Equatoria Province, east and southeast of the Luluba and the Lokoya.
www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Sudan   (4938 words)

  
  Sudan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudan (officially the Republic of the Sudan or Republic of Sudan) is the largest country by area in Africa, situated in Northern Africa.
It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, and Libya to the northwest.
Southern Sudan is an autonomous region intermediate between the states and the national government.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sudan   (3855 words)

  
 Sudan - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Rainfall diminishes from south to north in Sudan; thus, the south is characterized by swampland (the Sudd region) and woodland, the center by savanna and grassland, and the north by desert and semidesert.
Sudan was cited by the UN Human Rights Commission for human-rights violations (including alleged widespread slavery and forced labor), condemned for supporting terrorism abroad, and accused by human-rights groups of "ethnic cleansing" in its offensive against the south.
Sudan and Egypt: the swing of the pendulum (1989-2001).
www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/Sudan.asp   (3182 words)

  
 Nubia 3 - Crystalinks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the southern Sudan itself, the measures of the central government met ever-increasing resistance.
In 1971 the southern Sudanese rebels, who had theretofore consisted of several independent commands, were united under General Joseph Lagu, who combined under his authority both the fighting units of the Anya Nya and its political wing, the Southern Sudan Liberation Movement (SSLM).
This measure was bound to be resisted by the Christians and animists of the southern Sudan.
www.crystalinks.com /nubia3.html   (2586 words)

  
 Medair in Southern Sudan
Medair’s overall goal within southern Sudan is to increase the access of the communities we serve to health care, safe water and, in cases of acute crisis, emergency relief services.
Southern Sudan is a region ravaged by conflict and poverty.
On the 1st January 2006 Sudan commemorated 50 years of independence, and on the 9th January celebrated the first anniversary of the CPA – but for the majority of southern Sudan’s 11 million residents, life continues to be characterised by suffering.
www.medair.org /en_portal/medair_programmes/programme_southern_sudan/index.php   (1956 words)

  
 workshop Dezentralisierung Südsudan
The writer, known by Sudan Infonet as someone very knowledgable and close to the current situation, wishes to remain anonymous to encourage open discussion, revision and broad ownership in a process to strengthen democracy and civil society development in southern Sudan.
It might be wise to make the institutions in Southern Sudan reflect the crucial role of the armed forces: to recognise their importance and to contain them within the military domain.
Whatever solution is adopted, judges in Southern Sudan on all levels would be elected in a transparent manner, and neither the civil authority nor the armed forces would be involved in the selection procedure.
members.tripod.com /~SudanInfonet/Governance_in_Southern_Sudan.htm   (1795 words)

  
 Sudan (03/07)
Sudan was a collection of small, independent kingdoms and principalities from the beginning of the Christian era until 1820-21, when Egypt conquered and unified the northern portion of the country.
Southern leaders eventually divided into two factions, those who advocated a federal solution and those who argued for self-determination, a euphemism for secession since it was assumed the south would vote for independence if given the choice.
Sudan is seeking to expand its installed capacity of electrical generation of around 300 megawatts--of which 180 megawatts is hydroelectric and the rest, thermal.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5424.htm   (6974 words)

  
 About Southern Sudan
Sudan is the largest country in Africa, encompassing one million square miles and twenty-seven million people.
We are funded by contributions from individuals, religious organizations, and civic groups that affirm our mission to share the love of Jesus Christ with the people of southern Sudan in a way that leads them towards peaceful and self-reliant living from the grassroots level, so that available resources will meet the needs of their communities.
SSFI's mission is to share the love of Jesus Christ with the people of southern Sudan in a way that leads them towards peaceful and self-reliant living from the grassroots level, so that available resources will meet the needs of their communities.
www.southsudanfriends.org /southernsudan.html   (1024 words)

  
 Human Rights Watch: Publications: Africa : Sudan
While Sudan has been involved in a civil war for much of the period since independence in 1956, claiming some 1.3 million civilians since 1983 as a result of targeted killings, indiscriminate fire, or starvation and disease, the conflict itself is deemed an inappropriate subject.
The children of Sudan, north and south, have been denied their basic rights by all parties to the conflict, and by the government of Sudan even in areas such as Khartoum where there is no war.
Southern Sudanese continue to struggle against the present regime, as they have done against previous northern-dominated regimes for all but eleven of the thirty-eight years of independence.
hrw.org /doc/?t=africa_pub&c=sudan   (2397 words)

  
 SudanTribune topics - Latest articles on Southern...
June 15, 2007 (WAU) — Southern Sudan’s Minister of Roads and Transport, Rebecca Garang Nyandeng, said that her Ministry intends to construct major roads connecting Western Bahr el Ghazal State to other parts of the Sudan.
June 12, 2007 (JUBA) — Authorities in Akobo, Southern Sudan, and Tiergol in the Gambella region of Ethiopia are planning talks to defuse tensions between communities living in the border region, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ethiopia reported.
Sudan’s Magwi County is a victim not protector of LRA
www.sudantribune.com /spip.php?mot36   (1876 words)

  
 SudanTribune article : China must stay out of Southern Sudan
In my opinion, Southern Sudan government should cut all its bilateral relations with China until the Darfur issue is solved and brought to an end.
Southern Sudan government must condemn and confront any Chinese present in Southern Sudan; the Chinese must be expelled out of the oil field if there are some of their oil companies operating in the region, and their officials should not have any contact with officials in our government.
I urge all Southerners to condemn China’s role in Southern Sudan.
www.sudantribune.com /spip.php?article20252   (608 words)

  
 Sudan: Southern Sudan
In the southern genocide, one hospital was bombed five times; children were beheaded in front of their parents; the hungry were strafed as they gathered to await food drops.
Women in Southern Sudan are generally not allowed to inherit land under customary law.
The accord aimed to redress demands by southern Sudanese for greater self-government and a share of revenue from oil wells in the south.
www.lycos.com /info/sudan--southern-sudan.html?page=3   (368 words)

  
 Economy of sudan,business in sudan,southern sudan sudan travel sudan investment
Sudan is the largest country in Africa, with an area of 2.5 million sq.
Over three-quarters of the population are concentrated in the north of Sudan, mostly in the rural areas.
The bulk of Sudan's exports are directed towards the European Union and the Arab countries.
www.southern-sudan.com /economy-sudan.htm   (426 words)

  
 Main index - Canadian Aid for Southern Sudan
Canadian Aid for Southern Sudan is a human rights and development organization.
anadian Aid for Southern Sudan (CASS) is working to help the people of southern Sudan rebuild their lives and communities after decades of brutal war.
CASS is engaged in projects to accomplish this and has met with the Prime Minister to discuss Canada's role.
www.web.net /cass   (194 words)

  
 allAfrica.com: Sudan
THE death of Sudan's First Vice President, Dr John Garang de Mabior in July 2005 in a plane crash took a new twist at the weekend with the widow claiming that her husband was assassinated.
Sudan finally endorsed a deal by the United Nations and the African Union over the command of a 23,000-strong peacekeeping force proposed for Darfur.
Sudan's Government has agreed to support unconditionally the deployment of a hybrid United Nations-African Union (AU) peacekeeping force in the Darfur region following talks in Khartoum with a delegation of the Security Council, which said that it would seek funding for the operation from the UN budget.
allafrica.com /sudan   (1157 words)

  
 Why War? With Garang's Death, Southern Sudan May Secede
More than 2 million Africans from the country's southern region have died in the civil war that began in l983 between the north and south.
Southern Sudan's population has lost two generations to war, the first from 1958–72 during the Anya-Nya liberation struggle, the second from 1983 to the present.
Sudan is Africa's largest geographical state, nearly a third the size of the United States, with a small population of only 30 million.
www.why-war.com /news/2005/08/08/withgara.html   (1129 words)

  
 Sudan - SOUTHERN AND WESTERN SUDAN
The first rebellion began in 1955 as a mutiny of southern troops who believed that the departure of the British would be followed by northern efforts to force arabization and Islamization on their region.
The harsh treatment of southern civilians by northern armed forces and police caused a number of better educated southerners who served in government posts or were teachers to go into exile.
The Addis Ababa accords eventually were undermined by the same factors that had fueled southern rebellion in the 1960s: fears that the north was determined to force arabization and Islamization upon the south.
countrystudies.us /sudan/66.htm   (1355 words)

  
 www.savethechildren.se
During a children's rights workshop in Malualkon, southern Sudan, children gathered and formulated their own messages to forward to the state government.
The Children's Bill of the Government of Southern Sudan is being edited and finalised.
Aldo Omwony, 30, returned to his home in Sudan a year ago after almost a decade in a refugee camp in neighbouring Uganda but he is not yet convinced it is safe enough for his wife and four children to join him.
ecaf.savethechildren.se /East_Central_Africa/Latest-news/In-depth/Southern-Sudan   (427 words)

  
 Slavery in the Modern World
Modern-day slaves can be found laboring as servants or concubines in Sudan, as child "carpet slaves" in India, or as cane-cutters in Haiti and southern Pakistan, to name but a few instances.
Animist tribes in southern Sudan are frequently invaded by Arab militias from the North, who kill the men and enslave the women and children.
In a detailed article by Charles Jacobs for the American Anti-Slavery Group (ASI), Jacobs recounts how a 10-year-old child was taken in a raid on her village in southern Sudan, and branded by her master with a hot iron pot.
www.infoplease.com /spot/slavery1.html   (1012 words)

  
 Project Education Sudan - Building Schools and Hope in Southern Sudan
For families that remained in Southern Sudan during the internal conflict, there is an entire generation of uneducated or undereducated people.
Education is key to the rebuilding of self-esteem and the capacity of families and individuals to become economically and socially self-reliant.
She journeyed to Southern Sudan in 2005 with Isaac Khor Bher to reunite him with his family and to assess firsthand the need and opportunities for new schools.
www.projecteducationsudan.org   (1228 words)

  
 USAID Sudan: Southern Sudan Agriculture Revitalization Project
Southern Sudan has bountiful natural resources and the potential to be a major producer of a wide range of agricultural commodities.
The Southern Sudan Agriculture Revitalization Project is a direct result of the visit to northern and southern Sudan in early July 2001 by Andrew Natsios, USAID Administrator and Special Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan.
The Southern Sudan Agriculture Revitalization Project will be managed by the USAID Regional Economic Development Services Office (REDSO) in Nairobi and implemented by a consortium (for the training, information unit, and commodity networks components), a contracting agency (for the agriculture enterprise finance component), and a technical support agreement with the USDA.
www.usaid.gov /locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/agriculture.html   (463 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Africa | 'Hundreds killed' in Sudan battle
A BBC correspondent in Sudan says the clashes are the most serious breach of a 2005 deal to end two decades of war.
High-level delegations from the capital, Khartoum, and the southern capital, Juba, as well as UN peacekeepers have been sent to defuse the situation and a ceasefire has now been agreed, with all forces returning to their original positions.
There are 10,000 UN peacekeepers deployed in southern Sudan at a cost of $1bn a year.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/6158121.stm   (629 words)

  
 U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The near-genocidal war in Sudan, which has raged on for eighteen years and is fueled by a systematic campaign of Islamization and Arabization, has resulted in 2 million dead and twice that many displaced.
Situations in Southern Sudan, Burundi, and Rwanda testify to the ways that ethnic and cultural identity can be employed to cultivate a culture of deep suspicion and hatred between different ethnic groups, which can lead to genocide.
Likewise, in southern Sudan, oil exploration has led to the forcible displacement of large numbers of people and is fueling the government's cruel war against the south.
www.usccb.org /sdwp/africa.htm   (9100 words)

  
 Returning hope to Southern Sudan
Ms Sawa is one of thousands of returning southerners - some estimates suggest half a million will return this year alone - who are in need of land, a livelihood, clean water, health care and schooling for their children.
Under an FAO seed project near the southern capital of Juba, participating farmers have produced 48 tonnes of the 117 tonnes of sorghum and groundnut seeds that FAO distributed to farmers across three southern states this year.
As returnees pour in to Southern Sudan, FAO is working to ensure that emergency relief and longer-term development of agriculture go hand in hand so that those who have made the long journey home can begin to rebuild their lives.
www.fao.org /newsroom/en/field/2005/108008/index.html   (874 words)

  
 IRIN Africa | Sudan
JUBA, 12 June 2007 (IRIN) - Authorities in Akobo, Southern Sudan, and Tiergol in the Gambella region of Ethiopia are planning talks to defuse tensions between communities living in the border region, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ethiopia reported.
JUBA, 18 June 2007 (IRIN) - Teenage pregnancies are contributing to the high drop-out rate for girls from education in Southern Sudan but government ministers and agencies are working on initiatives to encourage girls to remain in school.
NIMULE, 11 June 2007 (IRIN) - Nimule, a town at Sudan's southern tip, has gained from being just a few metres from the Ugandan border, which provided a safety valve whenever the town was cut off from the rest of Southern Sudan by war.
www.irinnews.org /frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=East_Africa&SelectCountry=Sudan   (564 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Africa | Southern Sudan faces food crisis
There are increasing signs of serious food shortages in southern Sudan, putting pressure on a region which is only beginning to emerge from Africa's longest civil war.
In an effort to cut costs the WFP has become Sudan's biggest road builder, planning 2,000km (1,200 miles) of roads connecting the major towns in the south.
The tragedy of all this is that southern Sudan has huge oil reserves, which it should now be benefiting from as the war has ended.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4316304.stm   (934 words)

  
 Sudan: Remembering, Responding and Rebuilding
CRS is one of the largest agencies working in southern Sudan, where it has worked in coordination with local partners since the early 1970s.
CRS is known as a pioneer member of Operation Lifeline Sudan, a consortium of United Nations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) founded in 1989 to provide ongoing relief to southern Sudan.
To support the grassroots peacebuilding activities of Justice and Peace Committees throughout southern Sudan, and to facilitate advocacy at regional and international levels on issues relating to peace and justice.
sudan.crs.org /responds_southern.htm   (560 words)

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