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Sudan’s Spreading Conflict (II): War in Blue Nile is the second report in a series that analyses the roots of the conflicts that continue in Sudan’s peripheries despite the secession in 2011 of South Sudan. The Blue Nile fighting resumed two months after South Sudan’s independence and shows no sign of ending anytime soon.

See our full slideshow for more photos by analyst Jérôme Tubiana.

One Million Bones by The Art of Revolution Last weekend the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was covered in one million handcrafted human… View Post
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joyreads2013: In Progress: Book 31 of 80. South Sudan - The Good Braider by Terry Farish. In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family s journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South Sudan while she tries to navigate the strange world of America a world where a girl can wear a short skirt, get a tattoo or even date a boy; a world that puts her into sharp conflict with her traditional mother who, like Viola, is struggling to braid together the strands of a displaced life. Terry Farish’s haunting novel is not only a riveting story of escape and survival, but the universal tale of a young immigrant s struggle to build a life on the cusp of two cultures.
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In Progress: Book 31 of 80. South Sudan - The Good Braider by Terry Farish.

In spare free verse laced with unforgettable images, Viola’s strikingly original voice sings out the story of her family s journey from war-torn Sudan, to Cairo, and finally to Portland, Maine. Here, in the sometimes too close embrace of the local Southern Sudanese Community, she dreams of South Sudan while she tries to navigate the strange world of America a world where a girl can wear a short skirt, get a tattoo or even date a boy; a world that puts her into sharp conflict with her traditional mother who, like Viola, is struggling to braid together the strands of a displaced life.

Terry Farish’s haunting novel is not only a riveting story of escape and survival, but the universal tale of a young immigrant s struggle to build a life on the cusp of two cultures.

I now give our brothers in South Sudan a last, last warning that we will shut down the oil pipeline forever if they give any support to the traitors in Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday threatened to close the oil pipeline to South Sudan if the government in Juba continues to support rebels in the north. (via kaliem)

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TFI Daily News: A Wild Country Grows in South Sudan

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By Patrick Symmes, Outside Magazine, April 9, 2013
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DAY ONE is Thursday, and we roll out of Juba, South Sudan, in the ambassador’s official ride, a Toyota Land Cruiser in spotless white. The driver’s door is showered with gold stars across a familiar sky blue flag and…

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troposphera: Students attend a lesson at a public school in Gudele, on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital Juba, April 8, 2013. The literacy rate in South Sudan is about one in four adults, according to local media. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu
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Students attend a lesson at a public school in Gudele, on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital Juba, April 8, 2013. The literacy rate in South Sudan is about one in four adults, according to local media.

REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu

 
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