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Sudan accused of ‘ethnic cleansing’ in border region
Channel 4 News obtains the first video evidence of Sudanese forces attacking rebels in the Nuba mountains, as the country’s president vows to ‘cleanse’ the region.
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Sudan on the brink: up to 80,000 flee Abyei
Just weeks before Sudan’s partition, up to 80,000 people flee Abyei after it was seized by the North. The UN’s Force Commander in Sudan tells Channel 4 News of his “great concern” at the suffering.
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The regional imperatives that might just offer hope to Sudan
The charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have all offered dire predictions about the outcome of the referendum in southern Sudan on secession from the north. But out International Editor Lindsey Hilsum believes there are grounds for optimism
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Sudan's first poll for 24 years confuses voters
Presidential and parliamentary elections. Polls for state governors and state legislatures. Some by the first-past-the-post system, some by proportional representation, and don’t forget the women’s quota.
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Sudan: Bashir travels, defying ICC
Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir must be on Red Bull – or maybe it just takes an indictment from the International Criminal Court to give you wings. Eritrea on Monday. Yesterday, embraced by President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo. Today, it was reported he was off to Ethiopia, before he actually turned up in Libya for…
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Sudan: was al-Bashir indictment worth it?
Make preparations,” the second-in-command of al-Qaida said today, “for a long guerrilla war, because the modern-day Crusade has bared its fangs at you.” Ayman al-Zawahiri was addressing President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court in The Hague three weeks ago. I interviewed the ICC’s chief…
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‘There’s a strong evidential basis’ for ICC to grant arrest warrants for Netanyahu, says criminal law expert
We spoke to barrister Toby Cadman, who specialises in international criminal and human rights law.
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How Hamas funds its $1 billion war chest
Iran is thought to support Hamas financially to the tune of 100 million dollars a year. But most of the one billion dollar war chest the group is thought to have accumulated, comes from investments. From tower blocks in Turkey to copper mines in Sudan, Hamas’ financial network spreads far and wide, carefully constructed to…
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The MSF doctors treating refugees in the UK
Normally Medecins Sans Frontieres, otherwise known as Doctors Without Borders, operates in the world’s war-torn trouble spots such as Gaza and Sudan.
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Escape from Khartoum ‘terrifying’, says British national
We were joined by Amal Osman – a British national who was evacuated from Sudan with her parents on Wednesday.
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MPs have spent the day debating and voting on the Illegal Migration Bill
On a day where the government was keen to claim credit for helping people escape the fighting in Sudan, it insisted that its highly controversial illegal migration bill was compassionate.
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Youth activists lay out demands for a greener future and ‘real action’ on climate change
We sat down with a group of young activists from India, Pakistan, Argentina, Sudan and Moldova, and started by asking them how climate change is already affecting their own countries.
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Ethiopia Blue Nile dam has neighbouring countries fearing for their water supplies
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam looks set to revolutionise life in the country, providing reliable power to a population long plagued by blackouts.
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Thousands killed and injured amid fighting in Ethiopia
Concerns are mounting for the welfare of tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray into neighbouring Sudan.
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Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed resists calls for peace talks amid Tigray conflict
Government forces are fighting regional next leaders in the northern region of Tigray, which borders Eritrea and Sudan.