KHARTOUM, Sudan (Reuters) — About 40 southern Sudanese soldiers and civilians were killed when tribal fighters ambushed boats carrying food aid, the latest in a string of ethnic attacks threatening a fragile peace deal, officials said Sunday.
Members of the Jikany Nuer group opened fire Friday on 27 boats loaded with emergency rations destined for an area controlled by the rival Lou Nuer tribe, the United Nations World Food Program said.
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CHICAGO, IL (August 22, 2008) – CHIC 2009 organizers have announced that the offering taken at next year’s event will benefit Covenant World Relief projects and Evangelical Covenant Church missionaries in Thailand.
The specific projects in Thailand will be announced at a later date.
In 2006, CHIC attendees gave $100,000 to a school in Sudan. The money funded the construction and operation of a new school, health clinic, and food program.
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KHARTOUM, April 14 (Reuters) - Sudan’s former north-south foes avoided a collision over a national census and agreed on a new date of April 22 after crisis talks which ran late into the night, a former southern rebel official said on Monday.
Sudan’s south withdrew from the census, due to begin on Tuesday, at the last minute saying they wanted millions of southerners to return home first and questions on ethnicity and religion to be reinserted in the questionnaire.
The north sharply criticised the move. The census, a key part of a 2005 north-south peace accord, will be used to help define wealth and power-sharing ratios and to mark out constituencies ahead of Sudan’s first democratic elections in 23 years due in 2009.
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By Opheera McDoom
GENEVA, March 28 (Reuters) - More than 100,000 people who fled civil war in southern Sudan have now returned home from neighbouring countries under United Nations auspices, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.
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