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Video: A lost boy returns home as violence looms in Sudan.

Violence looms as Sudan votes. One Sudan's "Lost Boys" returns home to... more

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Turnout for Sudan referendum passes 60% threshold

History being made. Do you believe Bashir will let the South go peacefully?

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Online USA News: South Sudan vote continues smoothly

Despite some 30 deaths in the Abyei border region, southerners are confident that... more

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George Clooney in Sudan

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Dozens killed in Sudan election clashes

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A Scarred South Sudan Sees Its Dream of Freedom at Hand

On Sunday, after decades of war and more than two million lives lost, southern Sudan will get the moment it has been yearning for, a referendum on independence. All signs point to the people here voting overwhelmingly for secession, and the largest country on the continent will then begin the delicate process of splitting in two.

The United States government has played a pivotal role in bringing this moment to fruition, pushing the northern and southern Sudanese to sign a peace treaty in 2005 that set the referendum in motion. A proud, new African country is about to be born, but it will step onto the world stage with shaky legs. As it stands now, southern Sudan is one of the poorest places on earth.

Most people here scrape by on less than 75 cents a day. More than three-quarters of adults cannot read. Decades of civil war and marginalization have left the economy so crushed that just about everything is imported, down to eggs. According to Oxfam, a teenage girl has a higher chance of dying in childbirth than finishing elementary school.

Tens of thousands have flocked back to take part in the referendum, and some analysts, possibly reinforcing stereotypes of Africa as always teetering on the edge, warn south Sudan could be the next Somalia, awash in violence. Already, aid agencies are ringing the alarm about a lack of food, water, health care and sanitation.

“We have an unfolding humanitarian crisis, layered on top of an existing and forsaken one,” said the International Rescue Committee, an American aid organization that works in Sudan.

But this is a land of shared sacrifice, and that may be a cohesive force that helps hold southern Sudan together. After all the years of guerrilla warfare and hardship, oppression and persecution at the hands of the Arabs who rule Sudan, people here are deeply invested in holding a peaceful referendum and building the world’s newest nation.

“We are underdeveloped, yes, but we will do it,” said Gideon Gatpan Thoar, the information minister of Unity State, near the north-south border.

United Nations officials here say something remarkable has already happened. In 2009, ethnic fighting swept the south, with several thousand people killed in military-grade attacks, fueled by longstanding ethnic rivalries and a sudden, suspicious increase in high-powered weaponry. Many southerners suspected that the government in Khartoum, Sudan’s capital, was instigating the violence, just as it had in the past when Khartoum fomented a civil war within a civil war.

But in the past six months, there has been almost no major ethnic violence. One of the last holdouts, a renegade general who had been leading a revolt deep in the bush, recently agreed to a cease-fire. “What we are seeing is a real effort for reconciliation,” said a United Nations official in Juba, who was not authorized to speak to the news media and spoke anonymously. “All eyes are on the referendum. They’re all trying to get along now.”

But the official added, “Everybody knows these issues will come up in the future.”On Sunday, after decades of war and more than two million lives lost, southern Sudan... more

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Southern Sudanese making 'Final Walk to Freedom'

The referendum is known as 'The Final Walk to Freedom' - a symbolic journey... more

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Nearly 4 million Sudanese to vote on independence

Almost 4 million southern Sudanese, or roughly half the souths population, have... more

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Clooney, Google, U.N. watch Sudan using satellites

Groups including the United Nations, Harvard University, Google Inc and an... more

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For Egypt, new Sudan state threat to Nile River control

The expected emergence of a new state in southern Sudan following a January... more

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Woman flogged in Sudan by laughing policeman cause outrage

Sudan's judiciary has launched an investigation into the public flogging of a... more

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Sharia in Sudan: Woman brutally lashed.

Good thing Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange made Oklahoma safe for Sharia, eh?

The penalty for fornication or sodomy, according to the Shafi'i Sharia manual 'Umdat al-Salik:

If the offender is someone with the capacity to remain chaste, then he or she is stoned to death (def: o12.6), someone with the capacity to remain chaste meaning anyone who has had sexual intercourse (A: at least once) with their spouse in a valid marriage, and is free, of age, and sane. A person is not considered to have the capacity to remain chaste if he or she has only had intercourse in a marriage that is invalid, or is prepubescent at the time of material intercourse, or is someone insane at the time of marital intercourse who subsequently regains their sanity prior to committing adultery.

If the offender is not someone with the capacity to remain chaste, then the penalty consists of being scourged (def: o12.5) one hundred stripes and banished to a distance of at least 81 km./50 mi. for one year. [...]

An offender is not scourged in intense heat or bitter cold, or when he is ill and recovery is expected (until he recovers), or in a mosque, or when the offender is a woman who is pregnant, until she gives birth and has recovered from childbed pains. The whip used should be neither new nor old and worn-out, but something in between. The offender is not stretched out when scourged, or bound (O: as his hands are left loose to fend off blows), or undressed (O: but rather an ankle-length shirt is left upon him or her), and the scourger does not lay the stripes on hard (O: by raising his arm, such that he draws blood). The scourger distributes the blows over various parts of the body, avoiding the vital points and the face. A man is scourged standing; a woman, sitting and covered (O: by a garment wrapped around her). If the offender is emaciated, or sick from an illness not expected to improve, then he or she is scourged with a single date palm frond (O: upon which there are a hundred strips, or fifty. If a hundred, such an offender is struck once with it, and if fifty, then twice), or with the edge of a garment.Good thing Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange made Oklahoma safe for Sharia, eh? The... more

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US waiving penalties for use of child soldiers

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move criticized by human rights organizations, the Obama... more

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Kenya, African Union defend Bashir visit

Kenya and the African Union are defending a visit by Sudanese President Omar... more

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19 Men Publicly Lashed for Gay Wedding Party in Sudan - Towleroad | #gay #news

A Sudanese court ruled that 19 men violated Sudan's morality codes after being... more

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Sudan to monitor movements of UN peacekeepers

Sudan says it has instructed UN peacekeepers in Darfur to inform Khartoum of all their... more

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Hundreds Killed in Darfur Fighting

Violence has been increasing in Darfur in recent months. The United Nations says that... more

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Sudan Accused of Brutal War on Dissent

Amnesty International is accusing Sudan’s government of running a brutal... more

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The President of Sudan is a wanted man

The International Criminal Court or ICC has issued yet another arrest warrant for Omar... more

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Blackwater Escapes Charges for Sudan Sanctions Busting

Blackwater Worldwide tried for two years to secure lucrative defense business in... more

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