Positive news from Sudan
Sudan And Chad Sign Peace AgreementDakar, Senegal - The Presidents of Chad, Idriss Deby, and of Sudan, Omar Al-Bashir, signed a new peace agreement in Dakar on Thursday night, intended to put an end to years of hostilities, fed by each government accusing the other of supporting rebel forces in its territory. |
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Clooney Group Makes Donation For DarfurRome, Italy - George Clooney's humanitarian organization has donated $500,000 to a U.N. food aid agency to help it continue flights in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the agency said Thursday. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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How Tuaregs, Hausas Are Avoiding Another DarfurKup-Kup, Niger - On the southern fringe of the Sahara Desert herders and farmers with a bitter history of fighting over dwindling resources are now working together to stop a common enemy: the desert's increasingly rapid advance. |
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Ugandan refugee camp to shutThe United Nations refugee agency and the Ugandan government are due to close down a camp for internally displaced people for the first time. |
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Massive Animal Herds Flourishing Despite Sudan War, Survey RevealsVarious Locations, Southern Sudan - New aerial surveys have revealed that staggering numbers of elephants, gazelles, and antelope survived Southern Sudan's ruinous 25-year civil war virtually unknown to the outside world. |
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UN food agency airlifts supplies to Sudanese in Central African RepublicSam Ouandja, Central African Republic - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced the launch of an operation to airlift emergency food supplies to over 2,600 Sudanese refugees who recently crossed into the the Central African Republic (CAR). |
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Huge Wildlife Migration Discovered in AfricaSudan - More than a million animals, including elephants, buffaloes, ostriches, lions, giraffes and a rare type of stork, have been unexpectedly seen living and migrating across Southern Sudan, where no surveys of wildlife had been conducted for the past 25 years due to civil war in the region. |
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Peace process improves humanitarian conditions in Northern Uganda – UNAdjumani, Uganda - The peace process in Northern Uganda has fostered improved conditions for beleaguered civilians there, according to a senior United Nations official, who called for continued efforts to bring stability to the region which has been torn by a violent rebellion for some two decades. |
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