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Keywords: Sudan

  • INTERNATIONAL

    Sudan hiding depth of Darfur conflict

    • Ben Fraser
    • 22 January 2007

    Credible estimates put the Darfur death toll at close to 400,000. President Bashir's most recent claim was less than 10,000. Slovenian journalist Tomo Kriznar received a two year custodial sentence after trial on charges of espionage and ‘bad-mouthing’ the government of Sudan.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    There's no bacon in Adjumani

    • Bryan Pipins
    • 23 December 2006

    An Australian aid worker escapes the Sharia prohibition of pork and wine when he moves from Darfur to Northern Uganda. But his arrival coincides with the outbreak of swine fever and the drying up of the bacon supply.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Shelters protect childhood of Ugandan children

    • Matthew Smeal
    • 16 October 2006
    3 Comments

    Government-run shelters have become much more than a safe refuge for the children, but somewhere where they can actually be children. Nobody knows whether the recent ceasefire between the Government and the LRA rebels will hold.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Setbacks in the War for Simple Pleasures

    • Michael Mullins & James Massola
    • 07 August 2006

    Our 'Simple Pleasures' series is not intended as light relief from the gravitas of many of the articles in Eureka Street. Instead, they ground our more serious commentaries, providing an insight into exactly what constitutes a better world for the human beings who live in it.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Darfur's tenuous peace deal penned in blood

    • Ben Fraser
    • 07 August 2006

    Since the Darfur Peace Agreement was ratified in May, the Sudanese government has variously courted, confused and harangued the international community in an apparent successful effort to create discord in the peace process.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    On your bus

    • Grant Morgan, Anthony Ham, Matthew Albert, Steven Columbus
    • 07 July 2006

    On your bus, Kerala leads, Sudan in Australia, Coming to terms.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Surviving Africa

    • Peter Browne
    • 04 July 2006

    A remarkably peaceful change of government in Kenya could significantly improve the lives of refugees in the country’s remote camps. But Australia and other western countries must play a part.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    A shiny new regime

    • Jack Waterford
    • 01 July 2006

    We can all take it as read that various shivers have gone down various spines in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. The real question is whether one is going down ours.

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  • AUSTRALIA

    Any excuse

    • Anthony Ham, Kath O’Connor, Bruce Duncan, Clive Shepherd
    • 01 July 2006

    Any excuse, Privatise or perish, Clear and present danger, Keep left unless undertaking

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  • INFORMATION

    Letters to Eureka Street

    • Philip Mendes, John Haughey, Gavan Breen
    • 16 June 2006

    Letters from Philip Mendes, John Haughey, Gavan Breen.

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  • ARTS AND CULTURE

    Those among us: Three stories

    • John Laurie
    • 12 June 2006

    Photographer John Laurie traces three brief portraits of immigrants who have come to this country seeking work, opportunities and freedom. While their lives may not have turned out as planned, the three subjects profiled here have two things in common - lives well lived, and a love for this country, and what it has given them.

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  • INTERNATIONAL

    Cattle currency

    • Matthew Albert
    • 14 May 2006
    1 Comment

    When elders and officials in South Sudan are asked about the challenges facing peace in their region they talk of cows.

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