Sudan

Newly arrived refugees at a camp along the volatile South Sudan-Sudan border say renewed fighting between rebels and Sudan’s military is likely to send thousands more people to an expanding camp here filled with refugees of war and hunger.

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"The Batil camp residents left Blue Nile, over the border in Sudan, after they say government planes bombed them and the Sudanese army attacked them. The Sudanese government denies the claims. But more than 100,000 people have arrived in South Sudan's Maban county over the last few months."

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Save the Children has warned of an escalating refugee crisis in the border region between Sudan and South Sudan. The charity said that fighting along the disputed border had led to a huge influx of refugees, with about 2,000 children arriving at crowded camps in South Sudan every day.

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"Amid claims of declining violence and wider regional transformations, the Darfur conflict has all but vanished from the international agenda since 2010. Virtually unnoticed by the international community, the conflict has moved into a new phase, in which the Government of Sudan has shifted away from using Arab proxy militias only to rely on newly formed (and newly armed) non-Arab proxies."

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"Nine children are dying every day from preventable illnesses like diarrhea in an overcrowded, swampy refugee camp in South Sudan, and United Nations officials said Friday that they were stepping up efforts to evacuate people as fast as they could...Heavy rains, overflowing latrines and a ceaseless influx of sick and hungry people have conspired to create an epidemiological disaster at the Jamam refugee camp, with death rates now nearly twice the emergency level, said the aid group Doctors Without Borders."

Many in the West are unaware that Sudan – despite its horrific history of authoritarianism and violence in recent decades – also has a history of largely nonviolent pro-democracy civil insurrections which pre-date not just the recent revolts of the “Arab Spring,” but the pro-democracy uprisings in Africa during the early 1990s that brought down dictatorships in Mali, Benin, Madagascar and elsewhere in the continent.

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"Thousands of unaccompanied children are streaming out of an isolated, rebellious region of Sudan, fleeing a relentless aerial assault and the prospect of famine...Sent by their parents on harrowing odysseys across battlefields and malaria-infested swamps, the children are repeating one of the most sordid chapters of Sudanese history: the perilous flight of the so-called Lost Boys during the civil war in the 1990s, who wandered hundreds of miles dodging militias, bombers and lions."

"Preliminary studies reveal mortality rates nearly double the emergency threshold in a refugee camp in South Sudan’s Upper Nile State, currently home to a quarter of the roughly 120,000 refugees who have fled Sudan’s Blue Nile State since late last year, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) warned today."

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"More than 200,000 refugees from South Kordofan and Blue Nile have crossed into South Sudan and Ethiopia, and thousands more "in a desperate state" are following each day, UN emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos said last week.  She said she was "deeply concerned by the deteriorating humanitarian situation", and added hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped in the conflict zone with little access to food, water, shelter and medical services."

"Gration's appointment was greeted with widespread optimism that Obama was getting tough on Sudan. But in that role, Gration was regarded by many to have brought an incredibly naïve approach to negotiations. Of the genocidal regime operating out of Khartoum, he infamously told the Washington Post, "We've got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries--they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement."

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"Stumbling over the border into South Sudan, the refugees told of a scorched-earth offensive by the Khartoum government in Blue Nile state, a remote rebel-held area in Sudan. The refugees described months of terror in the war zone, culminating in a government offensive in May in which the Sudanese army stormed into their villages, torched homes, destroyed fields, poisoned their wells and killed whoever did not escape. Resting under a tree, Hassan Musa sat tall and taut as he described the attack on his hometown, Kukur."

Usamah Mohammed Ali, a prominent cyber-activist, was taken from a protest on Friday and has yet to be released, according to his brother. The blogger Maha el-Sanosi has been detained twice. Mohamed Hassan Alim, known as 'Boushi', , a youth opposition leader, was reportedly seized from his house, and a Bloomberg news correspondent, Salma el-Wardany, was deported after she was arrested near Khartoum University.

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"Refugees say Sudan's armed forces are attacking villages in the Blue Nile border state with warplanes, helicopters and troops, killing civilians and torching settlements, in a counter-insurgency campaign that rights activists say could include war crimes.  Sudanese army and civilian officials, who strongly deny the allegations, in turn accuse the rebels of using civilians as human shields and as pawns to win international sympathy."

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"As the world remembers the UN World Refugee Day on the 20th of June, we take you to a camp in South Sudan were thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in Sudan's Blue Nile region have found refugee. This year's theme is "Dilemmas" depicting some of the tough choice these refugees have had to make."

"A group of 70 Holocaust scholars has sent a letter urging the Obama administration to support a congressional amendment that would halt U.S. foreign assistance to countries that host visits for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir."

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