STAND Conflict Update: June 2019
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan In the two months since the fall of Omar al-Bashir, demands for civilian rule have been brutally denied by the military generals ruling Sudan. After… Read more…
Sudan and South Sudan Sudan In the two months since the fall of Omar al-Bashir, demands for civilian rule have been brutally denied by the military generals ruling Sudan. After… Read more…
This week’s conflict update covers events of April 2019 in STAND’s key focus areas: Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Yemen, Burma, Syria, and the escalating… Read more…
As an organization founded during the height of the movement to end genocide in Darfur, STAND celebrates the removal of Omar al-Bashir from the presidency, while continuing to support Sudanese… Read more…
This week’s conflict update covers events since the beginning of 2019 in STAND’s key focus areas: Sudan, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Yemen, Syria, Burma,… Read more…
STAND’s Weekly News Briefs are compiled weekly by members of the STAND Education Task Force. This week’s news brief focuses on the Central African Republic (CAR), Nigeria, South Sudan, Democratic… Read more…
Syria Last Thursday, a mortar attack on the University of Damascus killed at least 12 and wounded several others. The Assad regime and rebel groups blame each other for the attack. The increased… Read more…
Syria Syrian state media reported two mortar shell explosions near a presidential palace on Tuesday. The palace, one of three in Damascus, hosts visiting dignitaries but is not a residence of President Assad…. Read more…
By Media Coordinator Alix Neenan
I’m a very opinionated person. So perhaps this was why my African studies teacher assigned me to be the Sudanese government in a Darfur simulation. Or maybe she just hates me and enjoys seeing eighteen other students yell at me asking why I was allowing the Janjaweed to murder the citizens of Darfur.