[Toronto, Canada] On March 14, 2011, George Galloway (former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow and before that Glasgow Kelvin and Glasgow Hillhead; nominating Officer of the Scottish the Respect Party) spoke to a packed Trinity-St-Paul’s Centre in Toronto, Canada. He spoke of being banned from Canada during a previous speaking engagement when he was [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Sudan’
Southern Sudan Referendum Results & report from Bentiu, Unity State: Podcast
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -12°C] Yesterday, February 7, 2011, official final results from the self-determination referendum were released by the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission and the Southern Sudan Referendum Bureau, with the details outlined on the Southern Sudan Referendum 2011 graphic below: As expected, a near unanimous choice for independence was cast by the more than [...]
Unresolved Issues between Northern & Southern Sudan: Podcast
[Montréal, Québec, Canada -8°C] On the third day of referendum voting by the Southern Sudanese, to decide whether or not they want independence for the southern region of Africa’s largest country, issues still remain unresolved between the Sudanese NCP government and the semi-autonomous SPLM Government of Southern Sudan. According to the Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, [...]
Fi al Mizan Team Defy Censorship in Darfur
[IWPR] More than a million people in Darfur and Chad tune in to weekly justice radio programme. Amid a crackdown on press freedom by the Sudanese government, a radio programme on justice issues, co-produced by IWPR and Dutch-based Radio Dabanga, continues to provide a rare source of impartial news to Darfuris and refugees in eastern [...]
Are journalists being respected by politicians in Sudan?
by Bonifacio Taban courtesy SudanVotes How are our journalists and our children being treated? It has taken quite some time for us to dig any information from our local politicians all over the country. Sudan in general is a special case, since the country has two ruling systems of governance. That is to say the [...]
