Top of the Hour: Separating Sudan, Morning Headlines
Sudan could vote to separate into two separate countries, creating what might be the most significant political development on the African continent since the end of Apartheid.
View ArticleTensions Build as Southern Sudan Prepares for Independence Vote
On January 9th, Southern Sudan is scheduled to vote on whether to break away from the North and form a separate nation. So far over three million people have signed up to vote, with about 96 percent in...
View ArticleSatellite Program Aims to Deter Atrocities in Sudan
A partnership between Google, the U.N., Harvard University and a group led by actor George Clooney has developed a high tech plan to try and prevent large-scale violence in Sudan. Many observers fear...
View ArticleSudan Prepares for Historic Vote
Sudan is Africa's largest, and arguably, its most divided nation. Right now, Sudanese are getting ready for a historic vote that will allow them a chance to re-draw the African map. The vote happens on...
View ArticleReporter's Notebook: Covering Sudan in 2005
This Sunday, South Sudan will decide whether to split off from the North in a historic referendum that’s part of a 2005 peace deal. All week, Takeaway producer Noel King will be reporting from the...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Prepares for Independence Vote
This Sunday, South Sudan will decide whether to split off from the North in a historic referendum that's part of a 2005 peace deal. A vote for secession would re-draw Africa's map and raise innumerable...
View ArticleThe Making of a Country: Creating a National Anthem in South Sudan
On Friday night at Juba's Nyakuron cultural center, some of southern Sudan's most popular young musicians played to cheering crowds in a concert celebrating the upcoming referendum. I went to the event...
View ArticleAs Sudan Votes: Civil Wars and State Secessions
Sudan, a country devastated by civil war, prepares to split in two. Is there a comparison to be made with our own country, which survived a civil war as a whole union? We look into the tragedy of war...
View ArticleSudan Votes in Historic Referendum
On Sunday, the south Sudan began to vote in a historic referendum that may split the country in two, separating its mostly Christian South from its mostly Muslim North. Takeaway producer Noel King has...
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Generations Affected by Decades of War in Sudan
Almost all of the four million voters in Southern Sudan casting their votes on whether or not to secede from the North have been affected by decades of bloodshed and civil war in that country. Takeaway...
View ArticleCan South Sudan Gain Independence Peacefully?
It's a historic moment in African history. South Sudan will secede from the North, which is predominantly Muslim. Though Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir campaigned on a promise to maintain unity, he...
View ArticleSudan Referendum Sets Stage for Diaspora to Return Home
Many nations in North Africa and the Middle East are no stranger to election results that seem less than democratic. In 2006, Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh won re-election with seventy-seven...
View Article25 Years of Genocide Prevention
Sunday marks 25 years since the US Senate ratified the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. That convention entered into force in 1951 but the US Senate...
View ArticleSudanese Lost Boys Reconnect as Men
It has been one of the most harrowing stories to come out of Africa in the recent decades: 27,000 young boys fleeing almost certain death or forced military service as child soldiers in a steady stream...
View ArticleSouth Sudan Declares Independence
It's the first week of official business for the world's newest country. The Republic of South Sudan officially came into existence on Saturday, after gaining independence from the northern part of the...
View ArticleSam Childers: The Real-Life 'Machine Gun Preacher'
Sam Childers was once drug dealer, who dabbled in violent crime. But in the summer of 1992, he attended a church revival and decided to abandon his life of crime, and travel to war-torn Sudan to find a...
View ArticleThe 'Machine Gun Preacher' on Opening an Orphanage in South Sudan
Sam Childers was once a drug dealer whose work often turned violent, but in the summer of 1992, he attended a church revival and decided to abandon his life of crime. After traveling to war-torn Sudan...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: The World's Youngest Nation in Crisis
South Sudan gained its independence nearly three years ago, but as the country marks its third birthday, few have reason to celebrate. Violence erupted in the world's newest nation earlier this month....
View ArticleA Failure of Leadership in South Sudan
Three years ago this month, the South Sudanese people held a referendum and voted overwhelmingly for independence from the rest of Sudan. The referendum was the result of a historic peace agreement...
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'Beats of Antonov' and the Music of a Sudan in Crisis
In October 2012, hajooj kuka was documenting the human rights crisis in Sudan when some of the youth at the Yusuf Batil refugee camp took him out to an old school.There were two bands and a room full...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Africa
Elizabeth Dickinson, assistant managing editor of Foreign Policy magazine and former Nigeria correspondent for the Economist, talks about what the WikiLeaks cables have revealed about Nigeria and Sudan.
View ArticleSudanese Vote on Their Country's Future
Sudanese expat Nisrin Elamin, blogger at Stories From Darfur and coordinator of the Support Darfur Project, joins John Prendergast, co-founder of the Enough Project, to discuss Southern Sudan's current...
View ArticleBackstory: South Sudan Independence
Last month, the southern Sudanese people voted 99% in favor of breaking away from northern Sudan and creating an independent state. Oliver August, Africa correspondent for The Economist, and Jehanne...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: One Week Birthday
First, a brief follow-up on the News of World scandal and a song by Billy Bragg (read more).Then, South Sudan in one week old. Wasil Ali, deputy editor in chief of Sudan Tribune, and Jose Hulsenbek,...
View ArticleSinkane: A West African Hero Meets East African Sound
If you happened to attend any of this year's CMJ Music Marathon in New York City, chances are you came across the name Sinkane. It's the project of guitarist and singer Ahmed Gallab -- who, in the...
View ArticleMary Williams on Being Adopted by Jane Fonda
Mary Williams talks about being born into the Black Panther movement, being raised amid violence and near-poverty, and being adopted as a teenager by Jane Fonda. Her memoir The Lost Daughter is a...
View ArticleMary Williams, Jane Fonda's Adopted Daughter
Mary Williams talks about being born into the Black Panther movement, being raised amid violence and near-poverty, and being adopted as a teenager by Jane Fonda. Her memoir The Lost Daughter is a...
View ArticleTrying to Make it News
For years the Sudanese government has been waging a bombing campaign against civilians in Nuba, a region in the country's South. The conflict has gone unreported by most media outlets, except one: Nuba...
View ArticleHow the Case Against BNP Paribas was Pieced Together
The French bank BNP Paribas pled guilty to criminal charges Monday to making deals with Iran, Cuba and Sudan, in violation of U.S. sanctions against the three countries. The wrongdoing went on for...
View ArticleThis architect says the most important feature of a mosque is its...
Mosques have huge variations in their designs and decorations. But when it comes to designing new mosques in the US, one architect wants to focus on sustainability instead of ornate designs and big...
View ArticleCoping With War in Sudan, Using Music
Sudanese filmmaker hajooj kuka discusses his POV documentary, “Beats of the Antonov.” When the border was drawn between South and North Sudan, many people living in Blue Nile and Nuba Mountains—who had...
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How do the new U.S. visa rules work?
A U.S. visa appears inside of a U.K. passport. Photo by Getty ImagesWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is tightening travel restrictions on Europeans and others who have visited Iran, Iraq, Syria or...
View ArticleU.N. Accuses South Sudan of Crimes Against Humanity
The president of South Sudan, Salva Kiir, often wears a black cowboy hat that President George W. Bush gave him. The two men met multiple times at the White House back when Kiir was vice president of...
View ArticleUncovering Blackwater CEO Erik Prince's Plan to Build a Private Air Force
Matthew Cole, a reporter at The Intercept, discusses the investigation that exposed former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince and his plan to create his own private air force to use in parts of Africa. In...
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News Wrap: GOP will be absent from Calif. Senate race; Eritrean migrant...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioGWEN IFILL: Good evening. I’m Gwen Ifill.JUDY WOODRUFF: And I’m Judy Woodruff.On the “NewsHour” tonight:HILLARY CLINTON (D), Presumptive Presidential Nominee: Oh, I...
View ArticleBernie's Legacy, Unrest in South Sudan, Anna Deavere Smith
Coming up on today's show:The Democratic Primary officially ended today as Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced his support for Hillary Clinton. Will the movement Sanders started still have legs in...
View ArticleAnother Civil War? Fighting Escalates In South Sudan
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.Just five years ago, South Sudan became the world's newest nation. But the hope and promise that came with independence became mired in...
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News Wrap: Lynch urges end to cop-community divide, ceasefire takes hold in...
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioJUDY WOODRUFF: Good evening. I’m Judy Woodruff. GWEN IFILL: And I’m Gwen Ifill. JUDY WOODRUFF: On the “NewsHour” tonight: FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: These slain...
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Obama ends U.S. economic embargo on Sudan
A child wearing a T-shirt with a graphic of U.S. President Barack Obama is pictured in Alashu, a village located about 15 km north of Shangil Tobaya, North Darfur on March 27, 2011. REUTERS/Albert...
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Confusion, questions and handcuffs met this Sudanese scholar at the airport
Student Nisrin Elamin of Sudan describes what was different this time when she arrived at JFK airport in New York late Friday night.Sudanese-born Nisrin Elamin, a Ph.D. student studying anthropology at...
View ArticleNavigating the Immigration Ban
Camille Mackler, director of legal initiatives at the New York Immigration Coalition, reports on what it was like when JFK was flooded with lawyers seeking to help immigrants and takes questions from...
View Article#3944: Immigrant Songs
Listen to music from Yo Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (Japan, China, Syria, Iran), along with music from The Nile Project (Ethiopia, Rwanda, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi & Egypt), as well as...
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Pope repeats ‘bridges not walls’ after Trump travel ban
Pope Francis leads his Wednesday general audience at Paul VI auditorium hall in Vatican City. Photo by Tony Gentile/ReutersVATICAN CITY — Pope Francis repeated his appeal for people to build bridges of...
View ArticleSinkane Live In-Studio
Brooklyn-based Afropop band Sinkane is here to remind us that “we’re all gonna be alright.” Blending a wide range of musical influences, their sound is a mix of 60s funk, Sudanese pop, and...
View ArticleDesperate Chaos Engulfs South Sudan
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. The world's youngest country faces even more devastation as its civil war continues. Just two months after the United Nations declared a...
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WATCH: After proposed travel ban, this Sudanese singer found her voice again
Salma Hagag, stage name Salma Al Aasal. Credit: KQED ArtsSalma Hagag, 51, learned to sing in Sudan as a child, before she moved to Egypt and, eventually, the United States. But nobody in her adopted...
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Sudan’s president risks overshadowing Trump’s Muslim speech
File photo of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir by Tiksa Negeri/ReutersWASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is hoping the Muslim world’s leaders join him in confronting extremist ideology when he attends...
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Block against Trump’s travel ban upheld by appeals court
People protest President Donald Trump’s travel ban outside of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington. Photo by David Ryder/ReutersWASHINGTON — A federal appeals court dealt another blow to...
View ArticleIn South Sudan, An Independence Day Marked by Chaos
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview.For the second year in a row, civil war, violence, and famine led South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit to cancel celebrations for the...
View ArticleSudan, Haiti and US politics
In this week's podcast: As southern Sudan votes in a referendum on independence we hear from our correspondent in the region, Katrina Manson, about the huge exodus of people from the North to the South...
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