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Wednesday Jul 8 | AlertNet

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Sudanese security services have pinpointed the area where armed men are holding two abducted female aid workers in Darfur, but have yet to contact the kidnappers, a government minister said on Wednesday.

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Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Jewish Journal

Day Two: A Meeting and a Funeral

Jewish Journal columnist David Suissa is in Israel for 10 days, studying at the esteemed Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

Philly.com News

Darfur crisis is palpable to them

Ibrahim Hamid's village is no more, all but scrubbed from the map of his homeland.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

NewsBlaze

Darfur Kick Offs Hearings to Identify Causes of Conflict

Public hearings got underway across Darfur over the weekend to examine the root causes of the conflict in the war-torn western region of Sudan, the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation in the region, known as UNAMID, announced today.

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Mon Jun 22, 2009

The Huffington Post

Susan Morgan: Obama's Darfur Promise

During the campaign, when asked about the genocide in Darfur, Candidate Obama said , "We can't say 'never again' and then allow it to happen again.

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Sat Jun 20, 2009

GlobeNewswire

Photo Release -- Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP Pro Bono...

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP greeted the reunified Darfuri refugee family of Mr.

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Thu Jun 18, 2009

PR-inside.com

US advocates for Darfur want clear Obama policy

Human rights groups working to end the dying in Darfur fear for the survival of 2.5 million people huddled in refugee camps if the Obama administration doesn't put on record its plans to bring security to them.

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Wed Jun 17, 2009

My Fox NY

Girl from Darfur Reunited with Parents in New York

A four-year old girl from the civil war-torn Darfur region of Sudan who lived in a displaced persons' camp most of her life due to legal complications was reunited with her parents this week.

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Fri Jun 12, 2009

National Public Radio

National Review Online: Addressing Genocide

Washington police investigator George Klein Jr. examines bullet strikes in one of the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded.

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Wed Jun 10, 2009

Sojourners

Listening to the Women of Darfur

Few biblical figures stand out for their bravery as Esther does. Faced with a looming order for the systematic extermination of her people, she risked her life and broke the silence.

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Mon Jun 08, 2009

LA Daily News

$150,000 raised to aid Darfur refugees

People walk across DeSoto Ave. on Victory Blvd. at the begining of the march. More than 2,000 people from local synagogues, schools and community groups joined with members of the Darfuri community in a Walk for Darfur, sponsored by the Jewish World Watch.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

Wonderland or Not

Silence is the Enemy

A rare cross posting from Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth . There is clearly a debate as to whether all publicity is good publicity.

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Fri Jun 05, 2009

The Oregonian

The duty to remember genocide

This 2007 photo shows a boy eating an apple supplied by aid workers at a camp in Darfur.

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Wed Jun 03, 2009

New Republic

How Obama Can Save Darfur--In Egypt

Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East is one from which few concrete results are expected.

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Here and Now

Read Save Darfura s Statement in response to Mamdania s critique

Ugandan-born Mahmood Mamdani is a professor of political science and anthropology at Columbia University and in his new book "Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror" he argues that the situation in Darfur is not a genocide and that the advocacy of the group ' Save Darfur ' has generated outrage in the U.S. without providing ...

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Daily Kos

Health Care Tuesday

Inspired by reporting by Nick Kristof, a blog coalition is taking on gang rape as an instrument of war.

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Sun May 31, 2009

CNN

Darfuri women live 'nightmare,' Harvard-backed study says

An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime." Sudanese women in a refugee camp in southern Chad in March.

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The Washington Post

Doctors group: Rape is common against Darfur women

In this Nov. 2008 picture provided by Physicians for Human Rights, Darfuri female leaders listen to Physicians for Human Rights researchers surveying the prevalence of rape in members of their community both in Darfur and at the camps in a UN refugee camp near Farchana, Chad.

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Sat May 30, 2009

Deseret News

1/3 of women from Darfur raped?

A survey of dozens of women who fled violence in Darfur found that a third of them reported or showed signs of rape, and revealed a widespread fear of sexual violence in their refugee camp in Chad, a human rights group reported Sunday.

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Wed May 27, 2009

New York Times

Sudan: Clashes Near Chad's Border

Twenty Sudanese soldiers and 43 Darfurian rebels were killed in fierce clashes over a Sudanese Army base near the Chadian border, the army said Monday.

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