In this piece from National Public Radio, the Rev. Gloria White-Hammond, a pastor and medical doctor who chairs the Save Darfur Coalition, explains why she's determined to keep Darfur's plight on the minds of U.S. policymakers and the American people....
From the AP: KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Some 40,000 civilians have been displaced in Darfur in the last two months by fighting between Sudanese government forces and rebels in the northern and central parts of the wartorn region, said the...
So: Literally poisonous air. Almost daily examples of government repression. Somebody remind me why it was a good idea to let China host the Olympics? But here's a bright spot, courtesy of the US Olympic team: Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) --...
From the Washington Post: President Bush's special envoy to Sudan, Andrew S. Natsios, resigned yesterday amid continuing frustration in Congress, the administration and the human rights community over the slow pace of deployment of international peacekeepers to war-ravaged Darfur. Natsios...
Contributing to the civil discourse in the world, a publicity-seeking Christian preacher responded to the Sudanese persecution of a teacher whose class named its teddy bear Muhammad by naming a pig likewise. He did that, unlike the teacher, knowing that...
Ibrahim Hooper is the spokesman for CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. It's a DC-based lobbying group. As as is true with pretty much all DC-based lobbying groups, it's hard to tell how broad its support is. But it's well-known...
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