South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has been in China, in part, to solicit that country’s help in financing an oil pipeline to Kenya. Kiir is cutting his visit short, apparently, because the country to his north – Sudan – appears to be stepping up its bombing campaigns. Via Sudan Tribune: Sudan resumed its bombing of […]
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Muslims torch Catholic Church in Khartoum, Sudan
With the Christian South and the Muslim North already on the brink of war, a Catholic church in Khartoum was torched by Muslims. Via the AP: A Muslim mob has set ablaze a Catholic church frequented by Southern Sudanese in the capital Khartoum, witnesses and media reports said on Sunday. The church in Khartoum’s Al-Jiraif […]
Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir declaring War against South Sudan
We have been monitoring the situation in the Sudan closely for the last couple of months and war continues to look increasingly likely. In July of 2011, South Sudan officially seceded when devout Christian president Salva Kiir was inaugurated. In the months since, the issue of oil, the majority of which is in South Sudan […]
Sudan’s National Assembly designates South Sudan “an Enemy”
Well, that didn’t take long. South Sudan declared its independence when an overwhelming majority of its citizens voted for Salva Kiir to be the president of their new nation last January. Last July, Kiir was inaugurated. Now, Muslim Sudan is declaring South Sudan (Christian) an enemy. Via the Sudan Tribune: The Sudanese national assembly on […]
Act of War? Home of South Sudan’s Vice President raided in Khartoum
Imagine if Vice President Joe Biden owned a home in Mexico. Then imagine that home being raided in the middle of the night while members of his family were staying there. An equivalent situation has just transpired in the Sudan. Sudan is essentially broken up into three regions. Sudan (Northern Sudan) is ruled by Omar […]
South Sudan mobilizing for possible War with the North?
In January of 2011, the people of South Sudan overwhelmingly voted for Independence from Sudan when it elected a devout Christian named Salva Kiir to lead them. The official inauguration took place last summer and South Sudan was finally free. That doesn’t mean they won’t have to soon fight to keep that freedom. The youth […]
Report: Sudan cancels Summit, bombs South Sudan Oil fields
The situation in Sudan is growing increasingly precarious. South Sudan, headed by a devout Christian named Salva Kiir was scheduled to meet with Sudan’s Muslim Brotherhood-backed president Omar al-Bashir in Juba – South Sudan’s capital – early next month but Bashir cancelled the trip after clashes were reportedly taking place in the border region. Via […]
Video: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir doesn’t like being singled out by U.S.
On March 14th, as Hollywood actor George Clooney was testifying in front of a Senate committee about the genocide being perpetrated by Sudanese president and Muslim Brotherhood-backed Omar al-Bashir, Bashir was speaking to al-Jazeera television; he didn’t seem to be all that happy about being singled out. Bashir is listed as a war criminal with […]
Why the Sudan is so Important Geopolitically today
The Sudanese region has been in the news quite a bit lately. The viral video Kony 2012 highlighted the atrocities committed by a man – Joseph Kony – who has been funded for years by Northern Sudan’s leader, Omar al-Bashir. Bashir was drawn into the news this week as well, when Hollywood celebrity George Clooney […]
Hollywood Actor George Clooney Arrested while protesting Muslim Brotherhood leader
Yes, you read that headline correct. Not only was George Clooney arrested after storming the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. but so were various Democratic congressmen. The man Clooney was protesting was none other than Omar al-Bashir, Northern Sudan’s leader. Bashir is also responsible for funding Joseph Kony, the subject of the viral Kony 2012 […]
Video: University of Washington professor of African Studies on Kony 2012
Yesterday, we posted Sam Childers’ video response to the viral video, Kony 2012. He said that while getting Kony is a good thing, Omar al-Bashir in Northern Sudan is the much bigger problem. Childers has credibility because his boots have been on the ground over there, on and off, for fourteen years. Now enter University […]
Video: Machine Gun Preacher responds to Kony 2012
Over the course of the last week, a video called Kony 2012 has gone absolutely viral (nearly 70 million views in just five days). Joseph Kony is about as evil as it gets. For years his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has raided Christian villages in northern Uganda / South Sudan. Young girls are turned into […]
The Islam Your Politicians and Media Choose to Ignore
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