Claire Budd

The Sudan Government has once again reverted to type as protests persist in the capital Khartoum. Students have been shot with rubber bullets and the US Government has expressed concern at the actions of Bashir’s thugs http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2012/06/193359.htm#.T-Fp9OOJKWc.twitter
Perhaps that concern should be a bit louder? Perhaps they’d like to mention the thousands dying in the Nuba Mountains . . . → Read More: PROTESTS MOUNT AS SUDANESE ANGER INCREASES – IS THE SUDAN SPRING FINALLY ON ITS WAY?

An update on the situation inside the Nuba Mountains by Ryan Boyette from www.Nubareports.org Broadcast on the BBC World Service 13th . . . → Read More: THE SITUATION FOR THE NUBA HAS BECOME CRITICAL

The international community has ignored Khartoum’s attack on the Nuba people for too long – now humanitarian disaster looms

In the early 1900s, a young Winston Churchill, then a soldier in north Africa, described how a group of Sudanese troops requiring target practice were sent to attack those living in the Nuba mountains. A century later and . . . → Read More: We must act now to stop the genocide of Sudan’s Nuba people

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Published: June 9, 2012

IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan

WHEN a government devours its own people, as in Syria or Sudan, there are never easy solutions. That helps explain President Obama’s dithering, for there are more problems in international relations than solutions, and well-meaning interventions can make a crisis worse

Read More  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/opinion/sunday/kristof-from-peace-prize-to-paralysis.html?smid=go-share

‎”When governments turn to . . . → Read More: From Peace Prize to Paralysis

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, Sudan

I’d like to introduce a valiant woman here, Mariam Tia, to President Obama and other world leaders, so she could explain how they’re allowing Sudan’s leaders to get away with mass atrocities that echo Darfur.

Once again, in Sudan there are starving children, tens of thousands of refugees, rapes and racial . . . → Read More: If Only Our Leaders Had Mariam’s Guts