Sudan's SUNA news agency reported that [Nuala Lawlor] and a European Commission diplomat were expelled for meddling in Sudan's internal affairs. Sudan has summoned the envoy of the European Commission and the Canadian charge d'affaires and informed them they were considered persona non grata because they interfered in Sudanese affairs," foreign ministry spokesman Ali al-Sadek told SUNA. Relations between the Canadian and Sudanese governments have not always been smooth. A section on Sudan on the Foreign Affairs Department website says that "in response to the deteriorating human rights and humanitarian situation in Sudan, Canada suspended its government-to-government development program.
Sudan is suffering through arguably the world's worst humanitarian crisis. War in its western regions has displaced millions of people. Millions more throughout the country remain mired in chronic hunger. While staples such as wheat, sugar and corn are harder to come by due to a global shortage of food, Sudan enjoys an almost endless supply of the world's most famous soft drink which, under current U.S. trade rules, is essentially classified as food aid. This is a crisis decades in the making. And when Coca-Cola syrup can be imported to a trade-embargoed, food-starved country under rules governing humanitarian aid, clearly the world's wealthiest nations need to rethink how they manage the world's food supply.
...Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Apr 28, 2008Provided by ProQue...
From Kenya to Sudan to Pakistan, riots, assassinations and murders filled the news reports. Guess not, because when the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba raised it as a policy concern in last spring's election, the electorate yawned and then nodded to the NDP.
[Adre] is situated on the border of Sudan in the sub-Sahara. MSF has been here since 2004. The current MSF team is quite diverse. We are 12 people, a mix of medical, logistical and administrative staff from all over the world: Ivory Coast, Guinea, France, Uzbekistan, Switzerland, Italy and Canada. Christmas here will probably be a mix of everyone's traditions. We have already started a ration of cheese, wine, chocolate and foie gras and will all certainly be awaiting parcels from home. As most of the population is Muslim, the local festivities will take place shortly before Christmas. So if security permits and there are no urgencies at the hospital, we plan to have a picnic, including the traditional feast of sheep cooked in the ground with a couscous stuffing and a good game of petanq...
...Jen =). Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Dec 21, 2007Provided by ProQue...
The government of Sudan is persecuting hundreds of thousands of blacks in Darfur, and China is Sudan's No. 1 trading partner. Approximately 80 per cent of Sudan's crude oil is sent to Beijing, according to the Bank of Sudan. Isn't Africa "our home" too? In this country we demand to be called "African-American" to demonstrate our lineage to the continent. How, then, can we forsake our brothers and sisters in Darfur today? While some of us will be watching the Olympics over the next couple of weeks in Beijing, I would hope that true "African" Americans will remember what's going on in Darfur and think about what the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once said.
...Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Aug 7, 2008Provided by ProQues...
FLN has done the same in the Darfur, in Sudan, equipping locals to produce radio releases to their own people, and in the Andes mountains of Peru, equipping Quechua broadcasters. From studios in Elmwood, FLN produces a Spanish program, Encuentro, that is distributed to nearly 1,000 stations throughout North and South America; Arabic programs that are sent via satellite and the internet to North Africa and the Middle East; and Low German releases, sent to radio stations in Canada and Central and South America. It provides the hosts for Sunday evening's GodTalk on CJOB. One could say much more about this innovative organization and its approach to communicating a Christian message. It is only one of scores in this province of what are usually known as "para-church" organizations, all of ...
...Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limited Partnership Mar 22, 2008Provided by ProQue...
PCC news - Presbytery of Calgary-Macleod; alleged involvement of corporation in human rights violations in Sudan - Brief Article
For instance, cows are a lot more expensive in Sudan than they are here in Canada. He has just arranged for the first 85 cattle to be transferred to his wife's family in southern Sudan, a good start on a dowry commitment that is negotiated in dollar figures but made good in cattle. They were married in a traditional ceremony last year, complete with the feasts and the investigation of each other's family history -- he can trace his father's side back 12 generations; that is real currency in matrimonial bartering -- and then married again in an Episcopalian church in Kampala, Uganda. She doesn't like coming here, but she will come," Mr. [Kon] says. This is the difficult part, then, of living in Canada, for him. He sees parenting here as a no-win, harrowing proposition. In Sudan, he was ...
...1 living in Winnipeg, he says. There is news to report about Mr. Kon, also known as Chol Kelei ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan -- Sudan charged a British teacher Wednesday with inciting religious hatred -- a crime punishable by 40 lashes -- after she allowed her students to name a teddy bear [Muhammad] in a class project, seen as a reference to Islam's prophet. The country's top Muslim clerics pressed the government to ensure the teacher, Gillian Gibbons, is punished, comparing her act to Salman Rushdie's "blasphemies" against the Prophet Muhammad. Each student then took the bear for a weekend to write a diary entry about what they did with the bear, and the entries were compiled into a book with the bear's photo on the cover and the title "My Name is Muhammad," in what teachers in Britain said was a common exercise to involve pupils.
... from participating because newspapers in their countries ran caricatures of Prophet Muha...
KABKABIYA, Sudan -- Former U.S. president Jimmy Carter confronted Sudanese security services on a visit to Darfur Wednesday, shouting "You don't have the power to stop me!" at some who blocked him from meeting refugees. Carter, 83, flew to the World Food Program compound in the North Darfur town of Kabkabiya, where he was supposed to meet with refugees. The Marburg virus, earlier killed two other workers at the gold mine in Kitaka, 180 kilometres west of the country's capital, Kampala. The second victim died in June.
.... -- from the news services. Copyright F.P. Canadian Newspapers Limit...
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