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  • Sudan Tribune: Activists urge UN to waive Bashir’s immunity as diplomats express doubts over his arrival

    September 24, 2013 (WASHINGTON) An American advocacy group has urged the UN chief not to insist on Washington’s obligation to grant a visa to the Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir as international diplomats expressed doubts on his arrival to New York. The Sudanese foreign ministry has previously reiterated its demand that a visa is issued…

  • Activists petition UN for imposition of additional sanctions on Sudan

    Today a group of international organizations delivered to Secretary General Ban Ki Moon and Members of the UN Security Council a petition regarding the dire humanitarian situation in Sudan, and specifically in Nuba Mountains/South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and Darfur. The petition was signed by 74 organizations and calls for international pressure on the NCP-led government…

  • Sudan Tribune: SPLM-N regrets statements by UN chief over Sudanese rebel alliance

        A US based advocacy group, formed by American activists, Sudanese diaspora and a representative of Sudanese rebels, said today that the UN has to condemn Khartoum before because it used to aggress the Sudanese people.   “In condemning the new rebel alliance and calling for more fruitless talks, Secretary General Ban and the…