[Montréal, Québec, Canada 26°C] In just 4 days, the Republic of South Sudan will be born, six and a half years into the post-war interim period after the end of a 21-year civil. The self-determination referendum results gave overwhelming support for independence and on July 9, 2011, when the world’s 186th nation will be born. [...]
Posts under ‘reports’
VIDEO: Crisis in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan
Rebecca Hamilton, Special to The Washington Post, discusses the violence targeted against the Nuba people of South Kordofan. Hamilton’s Sudan reporting is supported by funding from the Pulitzer Center. —– Sudan: Crisis in the Nuba Mountains
VIDEO: Abyei hotspot escalates tensions between northern and southern Sudan
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 19°C] On July 9, 2011, The Republic of South Sudan will be born, creating the world’s 196th sovereign country . It will not be an easy split. Serious military conflict between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the southern Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) has erupted along border states with particular intensity in [...]
Maps Help Understand Regional Differences During Sudan Referendum
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -9°C] As Southern Sudanese vote during the second day of the week long self-determination referendum to determine whether or not southern Sudan becomes Africa’s newest independent country, maps help understand the differences between the north and the south other than the most often used and limited descriptions: “mostly Arab and Muslim north [...]
Sudanese Election Monitors Publish Detailed Report
[Montréal, Québec, Canada 13°C] On April 24, 2010, the National Democratic Institute released a 29-page Election Statement by the Sudanese Group for Democracy and Elections (SuGDE) and the Sudanese Network for Democratic Elections (SuNDE), which conducted the only coordinated Sudan-wide non-partisan election monitoring effort for the April 2010 elections. Together, SuGDE in the north and [...]
