<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Khartoum: News &amp; Videos about Khartoum - CNN.com</title><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Khartoum</link><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Khartoum from CNN.com.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Cable News Network LP, LLLP.</copyright><pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:42:41 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><image><title>Khartoum: News &amp; Videos about Khartoum - CNN.com</title><url>http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/.element/img/1.0/logo/cnn.logo.rss.gif</url><link>http://topics.edition.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Khartoum</link><width>144</width><height>33</height><description>Find stories, videos, and photos about Khartoum from CNN.com.</description></image><item><title>Football fever turns nasty in Cairo</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/20/egypt.football.fever/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/11/20/egypt.football.fever/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Areas of Cairo might as well be under martial law. This normally chaotic but otherwise peaceful city of 18 million has been wracked by football fever gone mad. The government has deployed thousands of riot police and plain-clothed cops in a part of town normally known for its fancy restaurants and upscale shops.</description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:59:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>2010 World Cup finals berths decided</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/11/18/football.world.qualifiers.preview/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/11/18/football.world.qualifiers.preview/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A dramatic final night of World Cup qualifying has seen all of the 32 places decided with European powerhouses France and Portugal going through.</description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:36:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Algeria beat Egypt to reach World Cup</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/11/18/football.algeria.egypt.sudan/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/football/11/18/football.algeria.egypt.sudan/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Algeria grabbed Africa's last qualification place for the 2010 World Cup by beating Egypt 1-0 in a tense deciding play off in Khartoum, Sudan on Wednesday, thanks to a first-half goal from Antar Yahia.</description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:13:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan releases woman convicted of wearing tight pants</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/08/sudan.journalist.tight.pants/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/08/sudan.journalist.tight.pants/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A woman who was convicted at a trial for wearing pants -- clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities -- was released from jail Tuesday after being imprisoned for a day, a United Nations spokesman said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>'Tight pants' woman jailed for not paying fine</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/07/sudan.journalist.pants.lashing/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/07/sudan.journalist.pants.lashing/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A woman put on trial for wearing clothing deemed indecent by Sudanese authorities was jailed Monday for refusing to pay a court-ordered fine, her lawyer said.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 17:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Commentary: Were Darfur promises for real?</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/02/eggers.prendergast.darfur/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/09/02/eggers.prendergast.darfur/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>We have been part of an extraordinary social phenomenon over the past four years surrounding Darfur: the development of a genuine anti-genocide people's movement. It's succeeded in cultivating a number of true champions in the political sphere, led by three former senators: Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Barack Obama.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Protests as Sudan 'tight pants' trial delayed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/04/sudan.journalist.lashings/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/08/04/sudan.journalist.lashings/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Scores of protesters gathered outside a Sudanese courtroom Tuesday as the trial of a woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing clothes deemed indecent was postponed.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>NASA captures stunning pictures of Earth</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/23/nasa.space.images/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/12/23/nasa.space.images/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>From columns of cloud streaking over the Caspian Sea in January to vast tracts of cleared forest in Bolivia in December. In 2008, the NASA Earth Observatory has captured more stunning images of the Earth.</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 17:24:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Desert Gunfight Over Abducted European Tourists</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1845292,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1845292,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Eight kidnappers of a group of European tourists and their Egyptian guides led soldiers on a high-speed desert chase Sunday</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Refugees drown in Sudan river</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/24/refugee.boat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/09/24/refugee.boat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Most of 26 refugees on board an overloaded boat which capsized in a Sudan river Wednesday are believed to have drowned, the United Nations refugee agency said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:07:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan hijackers surrender</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/27/sudan.plane.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/27/sudan.plane.hostages/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two hijackers who took over a plane flying from Sudan's Darfur region on Tuesday and diverted it to Libya surrendered to authorities Wednesday, Libyan state media said.</description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:05:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>100-Passenger Darfur Plane Hijacked</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836331,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1836331,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A man waving a knife hijacked a jetliner carrying about 100 people Tuesday in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, forcing it to land at a World War II-era airfield in the heart of the Sahara Desert in neighboring Libya</description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:25:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>UN Helicopter Hit by Gunfire in Darfur</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1831563,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1831563,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A helicopter used by the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur was hit by gunfire Monday and forced to return to its airfield</description><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>How Sudan Was Brought to Court</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825508,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1825508,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, charged a sitting president with genocide. But getting to do so was fraught with power politics</description><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan: Retaliation Against the Hague? 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822833,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822833,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>After its President is indicted for genocide, Khartoum plans an offensive to subvert the International Criminal Court</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudanese president charged with genocide</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/14/darfur.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/07/14/darfur.charges/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has filed genocide charges against Sudan's president for a five-year campaign of violence in Darfur.</description><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:58:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Choosing Justice Over Peace in Darfur
 
  
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822529,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1822529,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>War-crimes charges may hold Sudan's leader accountable, but it could make ending the conflict even more difficult</description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 18:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur diary: Gearing up for war</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/27/darfur.diary5/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/27/darfur.diary5/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>After visiting Al Fasher, and when the airport finally opened for U.N. traffic we took the air long UNAMID flight to Al Geneina in west Darfur, about 40 minutes drive from the border with Chad.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur diary: Things are getting worse</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/darfur.diary3/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/darfur.diary3/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Over the next few days, as we waited for the government to decide whether or not to let us into Darfur, we did the rounds of aid agencies -- UNHCR, WFP, OCHA.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur diary: Rattled by red tape</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/darfur.diary1/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/26/darfur.diary1/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>When we got our visas for Sudan I was excited. We'd been trying for 10 months to be let into the country. I hadn't been for two years and these days it's rare any journalist gets access to what I think is becoming one of the most under reported big stories of the decade: Darfur.</description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:18:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>14 still missing after air crash blaze</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/11/sudan.plane/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/11/sudan.plane/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Fourteen passengers are still missing after a plane burst into flames after landing in Sudan's capital Khartoum on Tuesday, killing 29 people.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan Investigates Jet Crash</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813464,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Investigators searched for a passenger list and examined the scorched hull of a jetliner Wednesday to determine what caused the plane to veer off a runway and burst into flames after landing in a thunderstorm in Sudan's capital</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan Plane Crash: Dozens Killed</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813224,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1813224,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>A Sudanese jetliner landed in a thunderstorm and veered off the runway late Tuesday, bursting into flames and killing dozens of people, Sudanese officials said</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:55:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Weatherford makes amends in Sudan</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/14/news/international/walt_sudan.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2008/05/14/news/international/walt_sudan.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>All too seldom is a Fortune story about corporate misbehavior transformed into feel-good news. But for the Texas oil-services company Weatherford International, our revelation last July that the company was operating in embargoed Sudan looked to be just such an opportunity. Weeks after we uncovered Weatherford working out of a two-story suburban villa in Khartoum, despite decade-old U.S. sanctions against Sudan, the company filed an SEC report announcing that it was pulling out - not only from Sudan, but also from Iran, Syria and Cuba. Those are all countries where Americans are forbidden to do business. By the end of March the company had closed its offices in all four countries.</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:59:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan: 200 Dead in Darfur Rebel Raid</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1779339,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1779339,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>More that 200 people were killed in fighting around Sudan's
capital over the weekend, the defense minister announced Tuesday in the
first official comment on casualties during the assault by Darfur
rebels</description><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 15:15:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan cuts ties with Chad after attack</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/12/sudan.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/12/sudan.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sudan sought support Monday from the U.N. Security Council in its escalating conflict with Chad, which shut down the border and shut off trade between the two countries earlier in the day.</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 01:47:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur Rebel Leader Vows: More War</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739598,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739598,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Darfur's most-wanted rebel leader vowed Monday to keep up his offensive against the Sudanese government, saying he can exhaust the military by fighting it all across Africa's largest nation</description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan threatens Chad after rebel attacks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/11/sudan.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/11/sudan.chad/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sudan cut ties with neighboring Chad and threatened retaliation on Sunday after accusing it of helping train the rebels who attacked a suburb of Khartoum.</description><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 04:21:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudanese government defeats rebels, source says</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/10/sudan.clashes/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/10/sudan.clashes/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The Sudanese government said Saturday that it had defeated members of a rebel group in fighting outside the capital of Khartoum, and Sudanese television broadcast pictures of dead rebel fighters and torched vehicles, said sources in the northern Darfur town of El Fasher.</description><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 02:53:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur Rebels Surround Capital</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739072,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1739072,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>An Associated Press reporter in Khartoum said security forces ordered residents to clear the streets Saturday</description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 17:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Al-Jazeera cameraman held six years at Gitmo is freed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/01/gitmo.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/05/01/gitmo.journalist/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Hajj arrived home in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum early Friday after nearly six years in the U.S. Navy prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.</description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 14:41:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Group claims responsibility for killing U.S. diplomat in Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/04/sudan.diplomat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/04/sudan.diplomat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A group calling itself the Partisans of Monotheism in Sudan claimed responsibility Friday for the shooting death of an American diplomat and his driver early New Year's Day.</description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:42:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>FBI to probe U.S. diplomat death</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/02/sudan.diplomat/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/01/02/sudan.diplomat/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>The FBI is sending a team to Sudan to assist investigators there in their probe of the shooting death of an American diplomat, the agency confirmed Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 16:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Teddy Bear Tumult's Legacy</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690280,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1690280,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>The British teacher's ordeal shows Sudan's government must tread warily when dealing with their Islamic fundamentalists</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 20:05:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Grudge sparked teddy bear crisis</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/03/sudan.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/03/sudan.school/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>In an effort to shut down Khartoum's Unity High School, a disgruntled former employee alerted Sudanese officials that a British teacher had allowed her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed," a British source and Sudanese presidential palace source told Time magazine's Sam Dealey.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 18:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan protesters: Execute teacher</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/30/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/30/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce a teacher whose class named a teddy bear "Mohammed" -- some calling for her execution.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2007 17:45:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan president to meet British lawmakers over teddy bear case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/02/sudan.teacher/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/02/sudan.teacher/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir on Monday morning will meet with two British lawmakers to discuss a possible pardon for a British teacher convicted of insulting religion, presidential palace sources told Time magazine's Sam Dealey on Sunday.</description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:03:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>UK lawmakers meet teddy bear teacher</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/01/sudan.teacher/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/12/01/sudan.teacher/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Two British Muslim lawmakers are reported to have met a British teacher jailed in Sudan for allowing her students to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" and they said she was in good spirits. </description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:57:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Outrage in Sudan Over British Teacher</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689769,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1689769,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>As protesters in Khartoum call for tougher punishment of Gillian Gibbons for her "blasphemous" classroom teddy bear, the Sudanese government is hamstrung</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 21:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>'Teddy bear' teacher gets 15-day prison term in Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/29/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/29/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A Sudanese court found a British teacher guilty of insulting religion and sentenced her to 15 days in prison Thursday for allowing a teddy bear to be named "Mohammed," British authorities and her lawyer reported.</description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:14:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Teacher charged in teddy bear case</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/28/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/28/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>A British teacher arrested in Sudan after allowing her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed" has been charged by authorities with offending religion, British officials say.</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:08:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Bid to stop whipping over toy bear</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/27/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/27/sudan.bears/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Tuesday that officials were working to secure the early release of a British teacher who faces being whipped in Sudan after she allowed her class to name a teddy bear "Mohammed."</description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:53:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Reports: Sudan arrests UK teacher for teddy bear blasphemy</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/26/sudan.bear/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/26/sudan.bear/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>Sudan has arrested a British teacher for insulting faith and religion, the British Foreign Office said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:21:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>The Blasphemous Teddy Bear 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687755,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1687755,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Miss Gibbons' class named their stuffed toy Muhammad, after the most popular boy in class. Now she's in a Sudanese jail for insulting Islam's prophet</description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:00:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Where Sudan Is Booming</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1678524,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1678524,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Oil-rich southern Sudan has survived war with the central government. But Khartoum may not want to cede control</description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 22:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Who Was Behind the Darfur Raid? 
</title><link>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1667153,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</link><guid>http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1667153,00.html?xid=feed-cnn-topics</guid><description>Analysis: African peacekeepers appear to have been killed not by those accused of genocide, but by those claiming to fight on behalf of the victims
</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. oil firm pulls out of Sudan</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/12/magazines/fortune/walt_khartoumfolo.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/09/12/magazines/fortune/walt_khartoumfolo.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Two months after Fortune revealed that a Houston-based oil-services company was operating in Khartoum despite a tight U.S. embargo against Sudan, the company announced on Monday that it was withdrawing from the country, as well as from Cuba, Iran, and Syria (all of which are under U.S. sanctions). In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Weatherford said it would not sign any new contract in those countries, and that it would soon begin "an orderly discontinuation and winding down of our existing business" there.</description><pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur peace talks to resume in Libya</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/09/06/sudan.UN.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/09/06/sudan.UN.ap/index.html#cnnSTCText</guid><description>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said Thursday that new peace talks to end the four-year conflict in Darfur will start October 27 in Libya.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 06:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Khartoum boom, courtesy of China</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/news/international/Sudan_khartoum.fortune/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/06/news/international/Sudan_khartoum.fortune/index.htm</guid><description>Late last year Adam Ibrahim Ali and his two teenage sons fled their ravaged village in Darfur and headed for Sudan's capital, Khartoum, riding on trucks and walking for days under the blistering desert sun. When they arrived in this dusty city on the Nile, Ali fashioned a small mud shelter on the riverbank and hung up his most cherished possession, a small transistor radio.</description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:34:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>A Texas company in Sudan</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100156743/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100156743/index.htm</guid><description>The house on a side street in Khartoum, like others in Sudan's capital, is newly built, with a wall blocking its occupants from view. But these occupants - no name outside - need more privacy than others. The red logo inside is of a major American oilfield-services company, Weatherford International, based in Houston, in a state whose legislature recently voted to divest its pension funds from companies operating in Sudan.</description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 01:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Africa's forgotten conflicts</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/11/13/africa.conflicts/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/11/13/africa.conflicts/index.html</guid><description>United Nations humanitarian chief Jan Egeland was in Uganda on Sunday to meet Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a rebel group responsible for an insurgency that has cost tens of thousands of lives and displaced nearly two million people.</description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 10:15:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Highlights from the world's press</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/06/tbr.newspapers/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/10/06/tbr.newspapers/index.html</guid><description>The New York Times is one of many international papers to call on North Korea to refrain from testing nuclear weapons, saying "the Bush administration, and other critical players, need to do a lot more to talk North Korea back from the nuclear ledge -- and to keep it there."</description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur free falls as the world dithers and Sudan balks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/09/16/btsc.labott/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/09/16/btsc.labott/index.html</guid><description>In what has become a well-known anecdote among activists trying to stop the catastrophe in Darfur, President Bush, shortly after taking office, reads a report on the Clinton administration's failure to act in Rwanda. Afterward the president writes in the margins: "Not on my watch!"</description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:35:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S.: U.N. forces are needed to stop Sudan 'genocide'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/25/un.darfur/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/africa/08/25/un.darfur/index.html</guid><description>A U.N. force is critical to prevent a "planned offensive" on Darfur by the Sudanese government, the U.S. State Department's top diplomat on Africa said Friday while accusing Sudan of committing genocide.</description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:23:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Curfew in Sudan after clashes</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/01/sudan.garang/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/08/01/sudan.garang/index.html</guid><description>Rioting between Christian and Arab gangs that erupted in the wake of the death of Sudan's top vice president, former rebel leader John Garang, has ended, a Sudanese official said Monday.</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 10:31:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Bringing justice to Darfur</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/mariner.darfur/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/mariner.darfur/index.html</guid><description>Just two weeks ago, the International Criminal Court's prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, announced that he was opening an investigation into atrocities in Darfur. His decision to investigate comes after the March 31 resolution of the U.N. Security Council that referred the situation in Darfur to the ICC.</description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:28:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Historic Sudan peace accord signed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/01/09/sudan.signing/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/01/09/sudan.signing/index.html</guid><description>After nearly three years of negotiations, Sudan's government and main rebel group Sunday have signed comprehensive peace accords to end more than 21 years of civil war.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2005 10:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Darfur rebel group rejects talks</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/12/23/sudan.group/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/12/23/sudan.group/index.html</guid><description>A Darfur rebel group said Thursday it refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks and rejected the pan-African body as lead mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.</description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2004 15:50:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. presses Sudan over cease-fire</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/12/20/sudan.darfur/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/12/20/sudan.darfur/index.html</guid><description>The Bush administration has expressed grave concern over a recent increase in violence in the Darfur region of Sudan and called on both sides to honor a cease-fire.</description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2004 22:35:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Prospects for peace in Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/24/sudan.peace/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/11/24/sudan.peace/index.html</guid><description>The war in southern Sudan has gone on for 21 years -- and caused the deaths of some 2 million people. Now it may finally be over. But will that help end another war in western Sudan -- one that has killed up to 70,000 and displaced many more in the past two years?</description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2004 23:51:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Straw: 'More to be done' in Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/24/sudan.straw/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/24/sudan.straw/index.html</guid><description>"More needs to be done" to end the humanitarian crisis in Sudan, Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said after visiting a refugee camp Tuesday.</description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 08:50:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>World push to settle Darfur crisis</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/23/sudan.straw/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/23/sudan.straw/index.html</guid><description>Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said his government is prepared to help fund an enlarged African Union force to monitor the situation in the troubled western Sudan region of Darfur.</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2004 11:22:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rwandan troops land in Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/15/sudan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/15/sudan/index.html</guid><description>A contingent of Rwandan troops is in Sudan to protect about 80 African Union cease-fire monitors in the crisis-torn Darfur region.</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2004 04:01:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. envoy pessimistic on Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/11/sudan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/11/sudan/index.html</guid><description>The United Nations' envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, is pessimistic the government in Khartoum will be able to meet is commitments to relieve the country's growing humanitarian crisis.</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:00:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan offers Darfur 'action plan' </title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/08/sudan.darfur/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/08/sudan.darfur/index.html</guid><description>The Sudanese government has devised a "plan of action" to allay world fears over the increasingly desperate humanitarian situation in the African nation's Darfur region.</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2004 02:08:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.N. team to help Sudan security</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/04/sudan.au/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/08/04/sudan.au/index.html</guid><description>U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is sending a U.N. security team to Addis Adaba to assist the African Union (AU) with the security situation in the Darfur region of Sudan, where armed gangs known as the Janjaweed have driven thousands from their homes.</description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:19:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. wants Sudan militias disarmed</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/29/sudan.aid.resolution/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/29/sudan.aid.resolution/index.html</guid><description>A U.S. draft proposal to the United Nations on the Sudan crisis drops the word "sanctions" but calls on the Sudanese government to disarm Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed.</description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2004 04:40:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan 'will fight foreign troops'</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/27/sudan.main/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/27/sudan.main/index.html</guid><description>Sudan will retaliate against international troops if they are sent to intervene in the troubled Darfur region, Khartoum's foreign minister has said.</description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:39:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan: No talks says rebel group</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/25/sudan.rebels/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/25/sudan.rebels/index.html</guid><description>A rebel leader from Sudan's troubled Darfur region says his group will not talk to the Sudanese government until it disarms Arab militias, casting doubts on U.N. hopes of fresh peace talks.</description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2004 08:30:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>U.S. calls for sanctions on Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/23/sudan.darfur.un/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/23/sudan.darfur.un/index.html</guid><description>The United States is calling for U.N. sanctions against Sudan if the Khartoum government does not stop militia attacks in the Darfur region.</description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2004 04:38:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Annan urges more action on Sudan</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/21/sudan.annan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/21/sudan.annan/index.html</guid><description>United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has called on the international community to do more to avert a looming humanitarian tragedy in Sudan.</description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2004 01:56:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>70 dead in Sudan, talks on troops</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/07/africa.darfur/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/07/07/africa.darfur/index.html</guid><description>Fighting between Arab and African tribes has killed at least 70 people and displaced thousands more this week in the Darfur region of western Sudan, a member of parliament for the area said  Wednesday.</description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:03:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Powell visits Sudan to urge peace</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/06/29/powell.sudan/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/06/29/powell.sudan/index.html</guid><description>Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Khartoum, Sudan, Tuesday, where he will urge the Sudanese government to bring a quick resolution to the crisis in the Darfur region.</description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2004 23:44:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Sudan off U.S. 'non-cooperating' list</title><link>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/18/sudan.terror/index.html</link><guid>http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/africa/05/18/sudan.terror/index.html</guid><description>Despite concerns over its government's involvement in an aid crisis, the United States Tuesday removed Sudan from its list of countries that are not cooperating in the war on terror.</description><pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2004 23:10:00 EDT</pubDate></item><item><title>Smart Savers If these five real people found relatively painless ways to save more and spend less, you can too</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/12/01/354959/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2003/12/01/354959/index.htm</guid><description>A little more each month Tara Brettholtz, 26, Clifton Park, N.Y. </description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item><item><title>Financing Terror The underground network that funds the terrorist activities of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda is complicated and im</title><link>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/11/01/312709/index.htm</link><guid>http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/moneymag_archive/2001/11/01/312709/index.htm</guid><description>TERRORISM IS CHEAP </description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2001 05:01:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>