Freedom For Sudan

Sudanese security officers seized the print runs of 13 newspapers today in one of the most sweeping crackdowns on the press in recent years, a media watchdog said.

A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom.

Something was missing when thousands rallied at a Khartoum-area football field for the Communist Party's first outdoor meeting in years - there was no tear gas, and there were no beatings.

Almost three decades after peaceful Muslim activist Mahmoud Muhammad Taha was hanged for apostasy, his daughter plans to revive his Republican Party and spread his notion of "true Islam".

Thousands of African migrants, many holding banners demanding freedom for compatriots jailed by Israel, protested on Sunday in a Tel Aviv square against a new open-ended detention law which allows migrants to be sent to a desert prison.

Philip Geng Nyuol started fighting for independence with his hands.He eventually graduated to a machete, then Molotov cocktails, then a gun."I crossed rivers full of crocodiles," he said. "And slept in camps in Congo. And ate wild fruits in the bush."That was nearly 50 years ago -- Mr. Nyuol was on the ground floor of southern Sudan's independence ...

Sudanese security officers seized the print runs of 13 newspapers today in one of the most sweeping crackdowns on the press in recent years, a media watchdog said.

A Sudanese judge on Thursday sentenced a Christian woman to hang for apostasy, despite appeals by Western embassies for compassion and respect for religious freedom.

Something was missing when thousands rallied at a Khartoum-area football field for the Communist Party's first outdoor meeting in years - there was no tear gas, and there were no beatings.

Almost three decades after peaceful Muslim activist Mahmoud Muhammad Taha was hanged for apostasy, his daughter plans to revive his Republican Party and spread his notion of "true Islam".

Thousands of African migrants, many holding banners demanding freedom for compatriots jailed by Israel, protested on Sunday in a Tel Aviv square against a new open-ended detention law which allows migrants to be sent to a desert prison.

Philip Geng Nyuol started fighting for independence with his hands.He eventually graduated to a machete, then Molotov cocktails, then a gun."I crossed rivers full of crocodiles," he said. "And slept in camps in Congo. And ate wild fruits in the bush."That was nearly 50 years ago -- Mr. Nyuol was on the ground floor of southern Sudan's independence ...