30 June 2009
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http://www.state.gov/s/sudan/rem/125021.htm
Obama administration special envoy for Sudan Scott Gration gives a briefing in advance of talks next week on the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
"What we see is the remnants of genocide. What we see are the consequences of genocide, the results of genocide. We still have thousands of people living in camps as IDPs. We have women who are still afraid to go out and collect firewood.
The level of violence that we're seeing right now is primarily between rebel groups, the Sudanese Government, and as you know from the news, we've had some violence between Chad and Sudan. The violence still exists where bandits and Janjaweed and warlords and those kinds of folks do conduct terrorist activities on these folks and do increase terror. But it doesn't appear that it is a coordinated effort that was similar to what we had in 2003 to 2006."
Jun 10, 2009 - National Union of Somali Journalists (Mogadishu), "Journalists Stop Work to Mourn and Condemn 'Savage' Killing of Colleagues", AllAfrica.com (Published Jun 09, 2009)
http://allafrica.com/stories/200906090822.html
Journalists downed their tools and shut down their broadcasting stations to mourn and to protest the latest killing of Radio Shebele director, Muktar Mohamed Hirabe. 15 senior radio journalists of editors, producers, reporters, and anchors held a press conference at Hotel Sahafi today and announced the work stoppage.
Muktar Hirabe who was in the company of his colleague Ahmed Omar Hashi, was on Sunday (7 June) shot five times by a gunman at Bakara market in Mogadishu. Ahmed Omar who described the attack and killing as "vindictive and barbaric" was also injured in the attack. Muktar is the fifth journalist to be killed in Somalia by gunmen this year alone.
AfricaFocus Bulletins - June 2009
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http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/ugan0906.php
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http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/cc0906.php
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http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/nig0906a.php
Jun 12, 2009 Nigeria: Delta Violence Past & Present
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/nig0906b.php
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http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/tax0906.php
Jun 1, 2009 Africa: Economy and Human Rights, 2
http://www.africafocus.org/docs09/hr0906b.php
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