The International Monetary Fund has announced that South Sudan has become the institution’s 188th member country, giving it access to IMF loans and technical assistance.
South Sudan’s oil minister, Stephen Dhieu, claims that Khartoum has been constructing an illegal pipeline to extract oil from South Sudan’s Unity State, amid bombing raids.
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It’s never been a better time to be an activist.
This weekend I am attending Indiana’s first-ever Genocide Prevention Summit. In light of continuing violence along border regions in Sudan and the daily brutality of the Assad regime in Syria, the summit aims to strengthen the genocide prevention activists in the United States and empower diaspora communities.
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By Comms Blogger Roberta Barnett
You’ve probably seen it, read numerous blog posts about it, thought about it, and maybe even discussed it with your chapter. And no matter how you feel about Invisible Children, the campaign, or its intermediate goals, it’s important to bring it full circle to realize that the end goal, putting an end to atrocities perpetrated by the LRA on children and families in Central Africa, is pretty much the same.
Only moments after STAND’s Student Director Daniel Solomon spoke earlier today, George Clooney, UEG President Tom Andrews, Enough Project’s John Prendergast, NAACP President Ben Jealous, and U.S. Repesentative McGovern (D-MA) were arrested for crossing a police line outside of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington D.C.
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In the New York Times, an American aid worker reports on the fear inspired by government rocket fire in the Nuba Mountains.
Perhaps you’ve watched the Kony 2012 video, or at least seen it posted tens of times on your Facebook newsfeed, blasted across the Twitterverse. The energy surrounding Invisible Children’s campaign is unprecedented. The Kony 2012 documentary film has ricocheted around the globe, accumulating over 77 million views on Youtube and more than 13 million on Vimeo since its launch. Millions have shared the video on Facebook and the Twitter hashtag #stopkony has been trending worldwide.
