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84Oil in the Sudan
Oil in the Sudan--the Sudan is extemely rich in oil, yet so many of the people on whose land the oil was found are now displaced, homeless, starving...why? Is it oil or Islam that compelled this genocide?
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79Making a Monster Famous
An example of one of the several campaign signs devoted to finding and arresting Kony in 2012. Knowledge of the atrocities committed by Joseph Kony and the Lord's Resistance Army is over 20 years old. Therefore, he and is army aren't news. However,...
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78PMESII Analysis: Darfur, Sudan
Sudan is an essentially land locked nation surrounded by nine other countries. border region between Sudan and Chad & the Central African Republic, which seems comparable to the FATA in Afghanistan/Pakistan
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78Documentary - 'Sand and Sorrow'
It would perhaps be fair to say that one of the first great tragedies of the 21st century passed by almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. Sand and Sorrow covers the displacement, and attempted genocide, of the indigenous Sudanese people by the...
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74Intelligence Operations in Darfur, Sudan
The situation in Darfur bears a striking resemblance to the condition in Afghanistan and Pakistan today. There is an ongoing insurgency and there has been Al Qaeda influence over the years. The border is insufficiently patrolled and locals cross it regularly without resistance. While these are different geographic locations, many of the lessons learned in Afghanistan will apply.
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75After the Fire: Eggers What is the What
Eggers, Dave. What is the What. McSweeney's, 2006 Dave Eggers unabashedly sources his fiction in the lives and experiences of real people. Recently, one of the sources for his fiction is in the news for crimes unrelated to the heroism he...
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72World Refugees 2009 - Lord, I AM My Brother's Keeper!
This article represents a small overview of the results of research I have been doing on the world's refugees - who they are, where they are from, how many of them there are, where they are living, why they have been forced into their refugee status, who is helping them, what conditions they are living in, and what their prospects are.
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73Africa can solve their own problems...or can they?
The issues Africa is currently facing can no longer be ignored, especially by the African leaders themselves. These are global issues that have long-passed a critical state of emergency. The main issues are...
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72Contemporary Activists Autographs
As an event videographer for Columbia University, C-SPAN and others in New York City from 1999 until 2008 (and a few times since then), I was assigned to help cover hundreds of the education, business, literary, political, media, law and medical...
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72Rape in Darfur: The Destruction of a Region
http://www.americansforunfpa.org/NetCommunity/view.image?Id=756 Rape is being used as a systematic weapon of war as a means to humiliate, ostracize, and degrade females in the Darfur region of Sudan. It...
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