Emmanuel Jal on Child Soldiers, Music and Peace
"Faith is what gives me hope for tomorrow, but my music is the painkiller for today."
"Faith is what gives me hope for tomorrow, but my music is the painkiller for today."
Shadi Bushra | Posted 04.17.2012
Jake Townsend | Posted 10.16.2011
National identity provides foundational strength for a country, for it defines that unique metaphoric construct for collective belief in the nation not only as a physical place, but as a collectively held idea.
AP | Posted 09.08.2011
WASHINGTON -- The United States on Saturday recognized the Republic of South Sudan, the world's newest nation, as a sovereign and independent state. ...
Kimberly Abbott | Posted 08.02.2011
The northern Sudanese army has occupied Abyei, a disputed territory that sits on the north-south Sudanese border, forcing thousands of residents to flee, increasing antagonism between North and South, and risking renewed conflict.
Lee Bycel | Posted 07.11.2011
I am here to witness and understand what will happen here in the months to happen -- and to try and grasp what it will take on a human and political level.
McClatchy | Shashank Bengali | Posted 05.25.2011
JUBA, Sudan -- As world capitals go, this surely would rank among the more modest. No grand boulevards; only a few two-lane roads. No commanding monum...
Catholic Relief Services | Posted 05.25.2011
A borrowed compound of non-descript, low-slung buildings that surround a hardscrabble courtyard would not win many converts were it on a college tour of high school juniors in the US. But to a few hundred Sudanese, it looks like Harvard yard.
Maria Burnett | Posted 05.25.2011
Several members of congress support a bill that would oblige the White House to develop a detailed strategy to protect civilians from the brutal Lord's Resistance Army in east and central Africa.
Joanne Offer | Posted 05.25.2011
This is a crucial time for Southern Sudan. Just four years after the peace agreement, progress has all but stalled, as conditions remain disastrous for the population at large.
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 04.04.2012