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		<title>Sudan&#8217;s Deputy Chief Justice Wants Judges to Carry Out Amputations</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/03/18/sudans-deputy-chief-justice-wants-judges-to-carry-out-amputations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kharunya Paramaguru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice caused alarm among human rights campaigners last week when he announced at a press briefing that Sudanese judges may receive special training to perform amputations on convicts should doctors refuse to do so. The pronouncement comes a month after doctors at al-Rhibat hospital in Khartoum followed a court order to amputate the right hand and left foot of 30-year-old Adam al-Mutha, who was found guilty of an armed robbery in 2006. Mutha’s conviction of armed robbery falls under article 167 of the 1991 Sudanese Penal Code – a sentence that he attempted unsuccessfully to appeal through higher courts, including the constitutional court. His punishment was met with condemnation from both within Sudan as well as from international human rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights. The Sudanese Doctors Union, a campaign group based in the U.K., has reportedly also sent a letter to the Sudanese Medical council stating that the amputation was against the ethics of the medical profession. It is against this criticism that the Deputy Chief Justice Abdul Rahman Sharfi made his controversial comments regarding training judges to carry out amputations. “We cherish the book of Allah and not the Hippocratic Oath,” he said of the judiciary. Sharfi also suggested that doctors who refused to carry out such punishments could themselves face prosecution. Sudan’s President Omar al Bashir has recently affirmed that he wishes to make the country a ‘hundred percent’ Islamic state, noting that doctors should have no shame in implementing Shar’ia law. He added that more than 16 cases of similar amputations had been carried out since 2001. Amnesty International believes that Sharfi’s comments suggest that the punishment of amputation may be more pervasive, or at least underreported, than first believed. It was initially thought that Mutha’s amputation in February was the first documented case since 2002. Sudanese lawyer Kamal al-Jazouli, in an interview with Reuters, claimed that the government is once more using amputations as a tool to silence people over issues such as corruption and<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=74963&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does the Future Hold for the Sudans: An Assessment by America’s Envoy</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/26/what-does-the-future-hold-for-the-sudans-an-assessment-by-americas-envoy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 03:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Princeton Lyman continues to be troubled by the question of whether he could have done more to foresee and prevent a recent conflict that broke out in Sudan and says he will be for a long time. The U.S. special envoy to the country stepped down from his post in January — an assignment he began in 2011 — but the fighting in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan regions has been going on for more than a year, displacing over half a million civilians and killing hundreds as separatist rebels fight for autonomy from Khartoum. The soft-spoken 77-year-old veteran diplomat told TIME that the conflict “has been a terrible, terrible impediment to the process of peace.” That will sound like an understatement to his critics, who suggest that Lyman did not apply nearly enough pressure on Khartoum to cease military action in these areas. Though he oversaw the independence of South Sudan from the regime in Khartoum, Lyman may also regret his decision to step down before the two Sudans have successfully become fully functioning, independent entities. The relationship between Juba and Khartoum is volatile — north and south fought a bitter civil war for decades, and, today, each still waves evidence of the other&#8217;s support for local rebels. Though both signed on to several agreements in September last year, nothing has been implemented, raising concerns that the economies of both countries will collapse, and war between them will erupt once more. (PHOTOS: Displaced by War, Sudanese Refugees Face Worsening Crisis) Following South Sudan&#8217;s official secession, in 2011, border disputes remain. Despite an accord to demilitarize the contentious areas, little progress has been made. Lyman said this is one of his biggest concerns and a major risk for a return to all-out war. “The longer the armed forces are right up against each other, the potential for armed clashes is very great, so I think that delay is particularly worrisome.” Khartoum is insisting on even further assurances from South Sudan that Juba’s forces are not assisting rebels fighting the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=71458&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>French Family&#8217;s Cameroon Kidnapping Stokes Fears of a Pan-African Islamist War</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/20/french-familys-cameroon-kidnapping-stokes-fears-of-a-pan-african-islamist-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce Crumley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Updated: Feb. 21, 2013, at 6 a.m. EST France began holding its breath Feb. 21 amid unconfirmed news that a French family of seven kidnapped two days earlier in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamist extremists had been recovered unharmed. Confusion surrounding the accounts heightened when a French Cabinet minister on Thursday confirmed, then backed away from swirling reports that the vacationing family &#8212; including four children &#8212; had been found in what French media described as an abandoned cabin in northern Nigeria, about 60 miles (95 km) from the Cameroon border region where the abduction occurred. Around the same time, a member of Cameroon&#8217;s government denied the reports before the French Foreign Affairs Ministry also distanced itself from what it termed unsubstantiated &#8220;rumor.&#8221; Still, hopes linger in France that officials may yet be able confirm the end to what might turn out to be a bungled or aborted snatch &#8212; a yearning born of considerable concern. On Feb. 20, French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told TV station France 2 the crime was believed to be the work of the notoriously violent Nigerian radical group Boko Haram. Le Drian speculated the kidnapping of the family marked Boko Haram&#8217;s long record of  “terror giving way to horror” as the group “begins kidnapping children.” But even if the happy news of the hostage recovery is confirmed &#8212; and allegations of Boko Haram&#8217;s involvement reviewed &#8212; the kidnapping raises fears of renewed aggression against French and other Western targets as the ongoing push against Islamist fighters in Africa continues. During his television appearance Wednesday, Le Drian dismissed suggestions that the family’s seizure was directly linked to France’s military intervention against Islamist fighters in Mali — where a new major offensive on Feb. 19 led to the deaths 20 militants as well as that of a second French soldier in the monthlong campaign. But despite Le Drian&#8217;s assurances that the Mali operation wasn&#8217;t directly responsible for the abduction, French security officials say the kidnapping is just the kind of aggression they feared from revenge-bent radicals in Africa<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70074&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan: Is Bashir&#8217;s Regime Crumbling?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/11/24/sudan-is-bashirs-regime-crumbling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 22:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George / Kigali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly after midnight on Thursday a column of tanks drove slowly down one of the main boulevards of Khartoum. Although residents of Sudan&#8216;s capital of Khartoum awoke hours later to what seemed like another normal day, something significant had taken place during the wee hours. Amid a flurry of conflicting reports and wild rumors, information minister Ahmed Belal Osman announced Thursday that 13 suspects &#8212; among them senior officials &#8212; had been arrested for plotting against the state. &#8220;The government has decided to abort this plot just before the zero hour as a preventive measure to avoid entering the country into chaos,&#8221; Osman said. The news of a coup attempt would have come as little surprise to countless Sudan watchers, who for months have watched storm clouds gather around the regime of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. Facing armed resistance from restive ethnic groups in all corners of the country, as well as unrest on city streets from a population resentful of the state&#8217;s repressive tendencies, the regime has shown signs of losing it&#8217;s grip on power. The regime&#8217;s problems are exacerbated by delays in the flow of oil from South Sudan, sinking the Sudanese pound to an all time low. As economic woes deepen, many observers suspect that Bashir, subject of a war-crime indictment at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, will face an internal power struggle that he may not survive. (MORE: Wishful Spring Thinking or the Beginning of the End for al-Bashir?) Although discontent has been simmering within the regime for some time, the catalyst for the latest plot appears to have been a disagreement during a conference held last week for the Islamic Movement &#8212; an organisation supposedly created to guide the ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Some ministers and religious leaders had hoped to use the conference to push for reforms in the NCP, but were thwarted by Bashir&#8217;s allies. Several delegates walked out of the congress even before it ended. &#8220;This is a clear sign that something was brewing, says Dr. Alhajj Hamad, a Khartoum based<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=56142&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Israel Bomb a Sudanese Ammunition Depot?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/25/did-israel-bomb-a-sudanese-ammunition-depot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late on Oct. 23, an enormous explosion erupted around a government-run ammunition factory on the outskirts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Terrified residents in the area reported a blackout, the whizz of a rocket, then a huge blast that sent white sparks into the night sky and matériel flying in all directions. While the first official report suggested it was due to an accidental explosion in a storage room, Khartoum later blamed Israel for launching the attack. &#8220;We believe that Israel is behind it,&#8221; said Information Minister Ahmed Belal Osman, adding that the planes had approached from the east. The Sudanese government claims that four Israeli strike planes launched the attack, which partially destroyed al-Yarmouk ammunition factory and killed two civilians. “The main purpose is to frustrate our military capabilities and stop any development there and ultimately weaken our national sovereignty,&#8221; Osman said, adding that “Sudan reserves the right to strike back at Israel.” Meanwhile, the spokesperson of the Sudanese army (SAF), al-Sawarmi Khalid Saad, suggested there could be spies within the SAF as well; the military had had plans to relocate the factory. He also said that Israel had previously voiced its concern about the factory but acted on false information that it was producing heavy weapons. The strike could be the latest incident of a long-standing clandestine war between Sudan and Israel — spurred by the latter’s desire to thwart the alleged supply of weapons from or via Sudan to Hamas, the Islamist group ensconced in the Gaza Strip. It’s believed that, with a growing number of seaborne arms shipments from Iran, a Hamas ally, being seized and confiscated, Tehran has used Sudan as a staging ground to supply Hamas’ fighters overland. Still, analysts have voiced skepticism over Khartoum’s latest accusations. “The Sudanese officials&#8217; accounts seem a bit far-fetched,” Richard Cochrane, a Sudan expert at Jane&#8217;s Intelligence, tells TIME. “If the aircraft were supposedly radar-evading, then how did they know there were four?” Cochrane also highlights the possibility that it was an accidental explosion in the storage room, as<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=51858&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sudans’ Fragile Peace: Will Economic Necessity Create Brotherly Love?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/10/09/the-sudans-fragile-peace-will-economic-necessity-create-brotherly-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sudden spurt of activity involving the still-contentious border and oil prices has been inspired by the almost certain economic cataclysm in the event of war. So how long will this peace last?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=48734&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Furor in Khartoum: The Siege of the Western Embassies</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/09/15/western-embassies-come-under-attack-in-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 16:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Lloyd George / Addis Ababa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Enraged by Innocence of Muslims, an amateur film mocking the Prophet Muhammad, thousands of protestors took to the streets of Khartoum, Sudan on Friday after weekly prayers to demand the United States ban the film. They started by demonstrating outside the German and British embassies in downtown Khartoum. The protestors then stormed the compound of the German embassy and tore down flags to replace them with Islamic banners, smashed windows, and set parts of the embassy on fire. Following the burning of the German embassy, protestors blocked the road to deny access to firemen, according to local journalists. They then made their way to the U.S. embassy down the street, where security forces fired shots to repel protesters. At least five people died during protests &#8212; state media claims two of these fatalities were due to a car crash &#8212; and dozens were injured. While initial reports suggested that there was a widespread breach of the U.S. embassy perimeter, this was not the case. Some U.S. government property was damaged. But U.S. officials maintained control of the embassy compound and accounted for all mission personnel. As it was Friday, the weekend in the region, Western embassy staff were not on their compounds, and most embassies had already increased security following protests across the region on Wednesday. (PHOTOS: Protests Rage in Middle East, Sparked by Mysterious Anti-Islamic Film) The unrest began following the broadcasting of the controversial film on an Egyptian talk show. Afterwards, protestors took to the streets in Cairo, and stormed the US embassy. Videos of protesters tearing down the U.S. flag quickly went viral. Soon afterward, protestors stormed the U.S. consulate in Benghazi leading to the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other employees. On Thursday, the protests spread to Yemen, where four people were killed. Protests continued in Egypt and ignited across the region, and beyond. Many youth were fired up by images beamed through the region and calls from religious leaders demanding the film be banned. &#8220;We felt it was the right thing to<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=45241&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Displaced by War, Sudanese Refugees Face Worsening Crisis</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/17/displaced-by-war-sudanese-refugees-face-worsening-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:06:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year after achieving its independence, South Sudan is wracked by instability and concerns over the frailties of its fledgling government. A refugee crisis, sparked by neighboring Sudan&#8217;s brutal crackdown on rebel militias north of the border, has led to tens of thousands fleeing to shoddy, makeshift camps in an impoverished, war-torn land.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=36059&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Year After Freedom: How to Heal South Sudan?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/07/11/international-aid-in-sudan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kari Collins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One year after its independence, the fledgling nation of South Sudan is torn by feuding factions, burdened by a sclerotic, likely corrupt government and forever in the shadow of war with Sudan to the north. All the while, its institutions lag: in a country of 8 million, there are only 120 doctors. Dependent on oil revenues and the efforts of international donors and agencies, the country will struggle—if not find it wholly impossible—to stand up on its own feet in years to come.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=35047&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan&#8217;s Blue Nile Offensive: Is This the Next Darfur?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/28/sudans-blue-nile-offensive-is-this-the-next-darfur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Boswell / Kilo 18, South Sudan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took weeks of walking on raggedy flip-flops and crusty bare feet, over wooded mountains and across muddy plains, before news of the atrocities could reach the outside world. Stumbling over the border into South Sudan, the refugees told of a scorched-earth offensive by the Khartoum government in Blue Nile state, a remote rebel-held area in Sudan. The refugees described months of terror in the war zone, culminating in a government offensive in May in which the Sudanese army stormed into their villages, torched homes, destroyed fields, poisoned their wells and killed whoever did not escape. Resting under a tree, Hassan Musa sat tall and taut as he described the attack on his hometown, Kukur. &#8220;They came in 25 cars,&#8221; he said. &#8220;They burned everything: the sesame fields, the peanuts, the sorghum, the homes. They killed many people. Some they shot to death, others they beat and hacked. The elderly, they burned in their houses.&#8221; Journalists are banned from visiting Blue Nile and it is impossible to verify such accounts first hand. But the credibility of the refugees&#8217; descriptions are strengthened by their consistency and the sheer size of the exodus: by early June, 40,000 had suddenly amassed together around the border town of El Foj. TIME spent a day at one refugee transit point known as Kilo 18 and gathered eight in-depth accounts, then compared those accounts with eight more testimonies recorded by an aid organization on the ground. The Dutch branch of Doctors Without Borders (known internationally by its French initials, MSF) has been providing medical care and water for the refugees and says the situation in Blue Nile appears “very serious.” &#8220;We are not there, so we can&#8217;t verify,&#8221; said Arjan Hehenkamp, the head of MSF-Holland. But he added that his staff has heard repeated accounts of &#8221;homes being burnt, sometimes with people inside.” (PHOTOS: Inside South Sudan: Pete Muller Photographs Yida’s Refugees) Few governments in the world have worse human rights records than Sudan&#8217;s under the leadership of President Omar al-Bashir. The refugees pouring in from Blue Nile describe<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=33032&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wishful Spring Thinking or the Beginning of the End for al-Bashir?</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/25/sudan-wishful-spring-thinking-or-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-bashir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a bunker hidden by camouflage from Sudanese bombers roaming overhead at a secret rebel base in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, Major General Izzat Kuku outlined the plan to overthrow Sudanese dictator Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his Islamist government in Khartoum. The acting battle commander of the Nuba rebels said his fighters would link up with insurgent comrades from two other southern Sudanese states, Darfur and Blue Nile, that likewise accuse Khartoum of autocracy, religious hate and genocide. The united rebel force — called the Sudan Revolutionary Front — would then march on Khartoum. That advance would be the signal for opposition forces inside Khartoum to stage a popular uprising against the government. And al-Bashir would fall. The rebels were acting, said Izzat, because after 23 years of al-Bashir&#8217;s rule they had learned that they could not count on the international community. Despite an International Criminal Court indictment for war crimes against al-Bashir for his murderous campaign in Darfur and the provocation that his National Congress Party sheltered Osama bin Laden for five years in the 1990s, the world had failed to remove, reform or sufficiently restrict the Sudanese regime. But even if the rebels were alone, added Izzat, &#8220;we are confident. We all want the same thing: to change the regime in Khartoum.” That was in April. Some parts of the plan were already being enacted. The Nuba rebels had notched up a string of advances. They had also linked up with fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) from Darfur. And a few days after Izzat spoke, JEM teamed up with Khartoum&#8217;s old enemy, the government of South Sudan, to invade Sudan and briefly capture the oil field of Heglig. But elsewhere, Izzat&#8217;s vision seemed far-fetched. The rebels in Blue Nile state, far from advancing, were being pushed into the hills by a scorched-earth campaign by Khartoum&#8217;s forces. Even more unlikely sounding were Izzat&#8217;s hopes for an uprising in Khartoum. Sporadic antiregime protests erupted in the Sudanese capital early last year as popular revolution swept North<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=32501&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Africa: Israel Confronts a New Generation of &#8220;Infiltrators&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/06/01/out-of-africa-israel-confronts-a-new-generation-of-infiltrators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karl Vick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israeli immigration enforcers do not work on the Jewish sabbath and so, on a Saturday afternoon, tattered southern Tel Aviv can look like nothing so much as an African city. Having slipped into  Israei, young men from Sudan, Eritrea and other impoverished nations wander the streets of a country that physically borders Africa but where the citizens live like Europeans. Most of the locals do not like the migrants, referring to them as “infiltrators,” a term that evokes a security risk associated with Palestinian trying to reclaim their land, or mount an attack. Dusk was approaching in Levinsky Park, a tidy square of green in Tel Aviv that at any hour of the day or night is dotted with African men waiting out the day. “No work, no food, no home,” says Solomon Mendasha, 41, who arrived from Eritrea four years ago with the help of smugglers to whom he paid $3,400. He gestured to the grass beneath his feet. “Sleep here.” Most of the Africans are legally forbidden to work in Israel. Most do anyway, in an underground economy that pays a fraction of the minimum wage for jobs Israelis refuse to do, like hauling garbage and cleaning homes.  The wives of cabinet ministers often make headlines for employing illegal immigrants as nannies or housekeepers. Of the 62,000 African who have sought asylum in Israel since 2006, an unfortunate number are homeless. There is also much crime blamed on the foreigners&#8211;including a pair of alleged rapes that took place in late April and mid-May. Some complaints cite unanchored statistics that 40% of crime are linked to Africans (there appear to be no published studies to support the allegation). On May 24, a demonstration was held in south Tel Aviv to protest against the perceived rise in crime attributed to Africans. “The Sudanese are a cancer in our body,” said Miri Regev, a member of the Israeli parliament from the Likud party, who spoke before the gathering of perhaps 1,000 people. “There are rapists and harrassers here,” said lawmaker Michael<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=28859&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads Around the World, May 9, 2012</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2012/05/09/must-reads-around-the-world-may-9-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 11:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME.com</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warring Words &#8211; China&#8217;s state-run Global Times issues its most threatening commentary yet on the continuing standoff with the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Under the headline &#8220;Peace Will Be a Miracle if Provocation Lasts,&#8221; the op-ed accuses Manila of exploiting the situation to cement its rule and worryingly warns: &#8220;Under the circumstances, the Philippines needs to be taught a lesson for its aggressive nationalism.&#8221; Darfur Revisited &#8211; Online-only Global Post launches an in-depth series exploring aspects of the conflict in Sudan&#8217;s South Kordofan region near the border with South Sudan, asking whether the escalating fighting will turn the area into the next Darfur. &#8220;The situation is fast becoming another humanitarian crisis to equal Darfur, but the international community has barely responded,&#8221; it writes. Birth Defects &#8211; Der Spiegel takes a revealing look at newly released German government documents showing that many in (former leader) Helmut Kohl&#8217;s Chancellery had strong reservations about the introduction of a European common currency. &#8220;First and foremost, experts pointed to Italy as being the euro&#8217;s weak link. The early shortcomings have yet to be corrected,&#8221; the news magazine says. Economy Reigns – Ahead of the speech by Queen Elizabeth in which she&#8217;ll announce the government’s legislative plans for the next parliamentary session, the BBC says the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition leaders will likely be more focused on the economy than other reforms in the coming year, suggesting “there is nothing” they regard “as absolutely central” other than “getting its message right on the economy.” Feisty Lady – In the aftermath of François Hollande winning the French presidential election, The Independent praises his partner, French journalist Valérie Trierweiler, whom it describes as “a feisty, educated, ambitious female.” The British daily also expresses the hope that the President-elect’s “chuntering powers-that-be” are unable to succeed in “clipping her wings.” Correct the Right – The Washington Post criticizes Mitt Romney, the presumptive U.S. Republican presidential candidate, for being unwilling to “confront the darker forces of the right,” and suggests he lacks “the strength of character<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=25976&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads From Around the World: April 25, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 11:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preventing Atrocities Overseas - Scrutinizing the mandate of President Barack Obama’s newly created Atrocities Prevention Board, tasked with developing strategies to prevent mass killings abroad, the Christian Science Monitor wonders if it will lead to more Libya-style action. The Atlantic applauds the body&#8217;s intentions, but explores the potential risks of greater global intervention. “No one wants more mass atrocities,” the author Trevor Thrall writes, “but many do question the extent to which preventing them is actually a core national-security interest or moral responsibility of the United States.” Home Schooled in Afghanistan - In a tale of despair and hope, the Washington Post reveals that while Taliban insurgents have stepped up their efforts to close down girls&#8217; schools in many parts of eastern Afghanistan, their edicts and threats have given birth to a thriving network of “underground schools,” run secretly by Afghans themselves, for the education of girls. Sudan vs. South Sudan - As violence between the rival Sudans intensifies, the war rhetoric has also been dialed up a notch. According to the New York Times, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir claims Sudan has “declared war” on his country. In an effort to broker peace, the African Union has asked both nations to stop all attacks and pull out of the disputed area of Abyei, near Heglig, within two weeks, the BBC reports. Rupert The Bearer Of Blame– As media mogul Rupert Murdoch takes to the witness box at the Leveson Inquiry Wednesday into the relationship between press, police and politicians, the Independent strays from the common view that he will follow his son in seeking revenge against Britain’s politicians, as outlined by the Daily Mail, instead painting the 81-year-old as “massively diminished,” who will be made a “human punchline” at the inquiry, the unconscious aim of which is about “systematically and exhaustively humiliating Rupert Murdoch and his minions.” French-Jewish Challenges – Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz analyses the impact the French presidential election result could have on the nation’s relationship with its Jewish community and with Israel, weighing up Nicolas Sarkozy’s “strong links” with French Jews and “deep sympathy” for Israel, with the “anti-Zionism” of French<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=24604&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, Rebels Make Gains — and Talk of Marching on Khartoum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 09:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Perry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the shade of a thorn tree on a plain of cracked earth and yellow grass, Brigadier General Namiri Murrad lays out how the rebels of southern Sudan plan to unite and overthrow President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his Islamist regime in Khartoum. “Right now, our work is to clean our house,” he tells TIME in the embattled region of South Kordofan on April 6, flanked by four captured tanks and pickups that are mounted with heavy machine guns and missile launchers. “The Darfuris are going to clean their house, and the rebels of Blue Nile will clean their house. Then we will move together on Khartoum, and we will finish them. I cannot say when. But I can tell you it’s easier this time — Khartoum is running. They realize they are fighting for the wrong reason. They do not have heart. We are fighting with our hearts. It will be easy to finish them.” There are reasons to share Namiri’s optimism. Slipping into territory held by Nuba insurgents in South Kordofan, a region of Sudan that borders the newly independent nation of South Sudan, it becomes apparent that a major rebel advance is under way. In the past two months, Nuba fighters from the Sudan People’s Liberation Army–North (SPLA–N) have notched a string of strategic victories, capturing the border town of Jau, the former northern administrative center of Trogi, and pushing back government troops in pitched battles involving thousands of fighters at Korongo, Tess and El Dar. Rebel commanders talk of killing hundreds, even thousands, of Sudanese troops, leaving the plains strewn with bodies — a boast given credence by the number of graves of government soldiers that now mark the sites of recent battles. (VIDEO: Villages Caught in the Crossfire of Sudan&#8217;s Ongoing Battles) Crucially, the fleeing northern soldiers have left behind an armory of weapons: several tons of shells, mortars and mines; thousands of AK-47s and millions of rounds; artillery and anti-aircraft guns; and 127 pickup trucks in Jau alone, plus four tanks. Major General Izzat<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=23510&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: April 4, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perilous Path &#8211; The Independent of London reports on how the already dangerous journey for refugees fleeing the violence in Syria has become even deadlier in recent weeks as President Bashar al-Assad attempts to tighten control of the country&#8217;s borders with fresh landmines, according to the paper&#8217;s interviews with aid workers and fleeing refugees. Indian Intrigue &#8211; The Indian Express reports two army units that moved towards New Delhi on a January night without notifying the authorities raised an alarm in the capital. &#8220;This is a story you would tell with extreme care and caution. But it so starkly characterises the current state of top-level politico-military relations that it is a folly to keep it under wraps, as the entire establishment has tried to do for a full 11 weeks now,&#8221; begins its account. Warring Neighbors &#8211; Despite the formal peace that supposedly exists between Sudan and its new neighbor South Sudan, Germany&#8217;s Der Spiegel looks at the brutal war raging in the border province of South Kordofan. &#8220;Civilians are the primary victims of President Omar Bashir&#8217;s fragmentation bombs, but the world has taken little notice of the violence,&#8221; writes the magazine. In the Closet &#8211; Swiss newspaper Le Temps (via Worldcrunch) documents the danger that gay and lesbian youths face in Iraq. Due to public death threats and increasing violence from militias, many are choosing to flee the country. The government offers little help as constitutional law is overshadowed by religious proclamations in Iraq and &#8220;contradictions between the two often lead to ambiguous and dangerous legal vacuums,” an Iraqi senator tells the newspaper. Election 2012 - The Daily Telegraph reports that more than 1 million of France&#8217;s 2.5 million expatriates may have the right to vote in this month&#8217;s presidential election. The expatriate vote, along with a popularity boost from Nicolas Sarkozy&#8217;s response to the threat of radical Islamists, could help the incumbent overtake Socialist Party candidate François Hollande. On Wednesday, Hollande outlined his first 60 days in office, if elected. Reuters details his plans calling for frozen fuel prices, a 30% increase in welfare<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=23299&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Must-Reads from Around the World: February 20, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dennis Wong</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changing China — The announcement that Foxconn, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and others, will raise salaries from 16 to 25% at its Chinese factories signals a fundamental shift in the Chinese economy, the New York Times writes. Meanwhile, Fair Labor Association, a watchdog monitoring working conditions at makers of Apple products, told Bloomberg that its inspection has uncovered “tons of issues” at a Foxconn plant in Shenzhen, China. Rebel City — Sixteen days of continuous bombing and rocket attacks, as well as dwindling access to medical aid, have transformed the Syrian city of Homs into a death trap, CNN reports. But this is not the city’s first tryst with violent rebellion. Foreign Policy explores Homs’ place in the history and the culture of the region, highlighting its centuries-old status as a bastion of resistance. Pitiable Predicament — The New York Times reports on the plight of dark-skinned southern Sudanese, particularly women, who continue to live in the north, a land suddenly hostile to them. They lack jobs and opportunities, and have become the target of police brutality and violence. Read more about South Sudan here. &#8220;Chollywood&#8221; Calling &#8211; The Atlantic explores the growing relationship between China and Hollywood. Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping ended his recent U.S. tour with a stop in the movie mecca and is expected to soon announce a &#8220;major deal&#8221; between DreamWorks Animation and the Shanghai Media Group. Media mogul Bruce Wu also recently created an $800 million fund to support Chinese-Hollywood projects, while &#8220;The Flowers of War,&#8221; the most expensive Chinese film ever made, starred Oscar winner Christian Bale. But will a few Hollywood deals increase China&#8217;s global profile in the creative industries? More than Aid &#8211; The World Bank will select a new president in April when Robert Zoellick steps down at the end of his five-year term. The presidency has always been held by an American, but China and Brazil are pushing for revised election procedures that could lead to a shake-up, Bloomberg reports. As the global institution prepares for a new leader,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=19205&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sudan: Kidnapping of Workers Highlights Risk for Chinese Businesses Abroad</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Austin Ramzy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The capture of Chinese workers by rebel troops in Sudan is putting added pressure on Beijing to protect its citizens and investments abroad. China’s Foreign Ministry says that a Chinese company operating in South Kordofan, the province that borders newly independent South Sudan, was attacked on Jan. 28. While some Chinese employees have reportedly been freed, the whereabouts of the rest remain unclear. China has called on Sudan to “launch vigorous search-and-rescue operations” and to “strengthen the protection of Chinese workers and projects in Sudan.” The Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement-North told China’s state-run Xinhua news service that it was holding 29 Chinese nationals after a clash with government forces. “The Chinese workers have been transported to a safe area, and they are in good health and in safe hands,&#8221; a rebel spokesman said, according to Xinhua. On Monday Sudanese officials said that 14 of the Chinese workers had been freed, the Associated Press reported. Update: On Tuesday China denied that any of 29 the workers had been released. Chinese state media said the kidnapped personnel were part of a road crew working for Sinohydro Corp., a state-run hydropower giant. Their disappearance only adds to Beijing&#8217;s concerns in the volatile region. Last year, South Sudan split from Sudan following a 2005 peace deal that brought an end to more than half a century of civil war. But since the South declared independence the two states have teetered on the brink of renewed war, driven by lingering disputes including how much Sudan should be compensated for using its pipelines to transport oil from South Sudan. China is the largest buyer of oil from Sudan and a major investor in oil fields there and in the south. Beijing, worried that any escalation of the conflict could harm its investment and crimp oil imports, has attempted to negotiate a settlement between the two sides. Last year it welcomed Sudan&#8217;s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on charges including genocide, on a visit to China that was criticized by<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=16222&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from East Timor for South Sudan: Three Things Nation #193 Can Learn from #191</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/07/08/lessons-from-east-timor-for-south-sudan-three-things-nation-193-can-learn-from-191/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Krista Mahr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The verdict, it seems, is already in. Many are already calling South Sudan, which will become the world&#8217;s 193rd nation on July 9, a soon-to-be failed state. Indeed, the prognosis is grim: as its secession from Sudan has drawn near, nearly 2000 people in the south have been killed in inter-militia fighting.  Hundreds more are dead after a month-long campaign by Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir to clear South Kordofan, a disputed state in the north, of rebels who fought with the south for independence. (See pictures of the conflict in South Kordofan.) The development challenges of the new nation are also daunting, to say the least. As United Nations General Ban Ki-Moon wrote in a July 8 editorial in the International Herald Tribune, “On the day of its birth, South Sudan will rank near the bottom of all recognized human development indices. The statistics are truly humbling.” There is a big job to be done in the shiny new Republic, and thousands of miles away on the other side of the planet, the recent history of a much different nation may offer some guidance in how to do it. In 2002, East Timor became Nation No. 191 (Montenegro is 192). It faced similar predictions of failure as it prepared to secede from the massive and powerful state of Indonesia. Like South Sudan, after decades of unrest, residents had voted overwhelmingly for independence. And like South Sudan, nobody thought they could pull it off. Yet today East Timor — while certainly not without problems — is a functioning state that has successfully held democratic elections, maintained a healthy opposition in the process, and avoided the resource curse to manage its vast oil revenues with reasonable success. “It proves that most of the skeptics were wrong,” says Geoffrey Robinson, a professor at UCLA who worked as a U.N. adviser in East Timor in 1999 in the run-up to independence. “All of the pundits said it will never work, [saying] ‘It’s too poor. It’s too small. There’s no infrastructure.’ Things you would<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=6871&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Sudan</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://world.time.com/category/africa/sudan/</primary_category_link>
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			<media:title type="html">Krista Mahr</media:title>
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			<media:title type="html">APTOPIX Southern Sudan Independence</media:title>
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		<title>Tragic Deaths Underscore the World&#8217;s Worst Humanitarian Crisis</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2011/07/07/tragic-deaths-underscore-the-worlds-worst-humanitarian-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Everett Rosenfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[197 mostly Somali migrants died when their overladen boat capsized in the Red Sea. Escaping a world desperately short of water, they met their end by drowning. That sad irony underscores the collective misfortune of those enveloped by the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis in the world: they were fleeing the parched Horn of Africa, which is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. Somalia and Ethiopia have been the worst hit. Fleeing drought and hunger, refugees have poured into nearby Sudan and Kenya, creating a tense political situation and stresses on their host countries as well. Large tracts of arable land in Somalia have gone six full years without rain, and the past two seasons have been dire for the entire region. Yet Mother Nature was only the catalyst for this problem, which finds its roots just as much in nationwide impoverishment and a lack of investment as the recent rain shortage. And now, approximately 12 million people are suffering the devastating affects of high food prices, according to Oxfam. Hungry and desperate Somalis are fleeing by the thousands to Kenya where Dadaab, the largest refugee camp in the world, is 290,000 people over capacity according to UNICEF. About 10,000 more refugees are streaming in every week. Recently, NGOs have begun to organize aid for the affected areas: Oxfam plans to raise $80 million, which would make that aid its largest ever for Africa. Additionally, the United States government has tentatively pledged to get involved beyond the meager $14.5 million it has already donated this year. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Wednesday that she would coordinate a response to try to prevent widespread famine. But more factors than political will stand in the way of alleviating the hunger crisis. Although Somalia is largely lawless, the powerful Islamist group al-Shabab lifted its ban on foreign aid in response to the United Nation&#8217;s declaration of &#8220;pre-famine&#8221; conditions. It remains to be seen, however, if the group will accept U.S. aid. &#8220;Anyone with no hidden agenda will be assisted&#8230; and those who<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=6782&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Somali refugees seek refuge in Kenya after fleeing a drought</media:title>
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