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  • 6
    Dec
    2012
    3:15pm, EST

    Yannis Behrakis / Reuters

    Deep scars left by racist attack in Greece

    Reuters reports: Hassan Mekki, a 32-year-old immigrant from Sudan, shows scars on his back in Athens on Dec. 5, 2012. Mekki, who fled conflict in his country in hopes of a better life in Europe, said he was attacked by a group of men holding Greek flags and left with the deep wounds on his back, throat and neck in August 2012, about five months after he illegally entered Greece. Mekki was walking in Athens with a friend from Mauritania when black-shirted men on motorcycles holding Greek flags and shouting "Go home black!" and other racist insults knocked him out with a blow to the head. He was covered in blood when he regained consciousness and only later realized that his attackers, which he says were likely tied to the far-right Golden Dawn party, had left large gashes resembling an "X" across his back. "I don't have the right papers, so I can't go anywhere to ask for help," Mekki said. "I can't sleep. I'm scared, maybe they will follow me and my life is in danger now."

    Editor's note: Picture made available Dec. 6.

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    Man's inhumanity to Man.........

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  • 8
    Oct
    2012
    12:25pm, EDT

    Dramatic images of wreckage from plane crash in Sudan

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    People look at the remains of a Sudanese military plane after it crashed at the North Korodofan State border near the capital of Khartoum, on Oct. 8, 2012. The Antonov 12 transport plane, carrying personnel and equipment to the strife-torn Darfur region, crashed near Khartoum on Sunday, killing 15 people on board, the army said.

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    The remains of a Sudanese military plane on Oct. 8.

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  • 17
    Sep
    2012
    1:43am, EDT

    Scenes from Yida refugee camp in South Sudan

    Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP

    A man watches over his cattle and goats as they graze in Yida camp, South Sudan, Sept. 16. Yida refugee camp is home to thousands of people who have fled recent fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan state and around the border of Sudan and South Sudan.

    Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP

    Boys gather to wrestle, a traditional sport practiced in many parts of South Sudan, on a sandy patch of ground in Yida camp, South Sudan, Sept. 16.

    Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP

    Tasmin, a mother of six, stands with her children outside her house in Yida camp, South Sudan, Sept. 16.

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  • 23
    Aug
    2012
    6:23am, EDT

    Albert Gonzalez Farran / UNAMID via AFP - Getty Images

    A faith healer's brew

    A Faki (religious healer) from Abu Shouk, North Darfur, Sudan, holds a smoking pot during the preparation of the Bakhra, a traditional treatment for mental illness. The patient has to inhale the smoke that comes up from a piece of paper (with lines from the Koran written on it) fired with charcoal and roots.

    EDITOR’S NOTE: This image, taken on June 21, 2012 and made available to NBC News on August 23, was handed out by the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

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    #1 my understanding is that anything south of the U.S. has a lower cost of living. Panama is on my radar.

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  • 16
    Jul
    2012
    7:41pm, EDT

    North Sudanese refugees moved due to flooding

    A sick Sudanese girl waits for transport to the MSF (Doctors Without Borders) field hospital on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    By Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Up to 16,000 refugees are being moved due to flooding in the Jamam refugee camp in South Sudan. The rainy season has caused problems with flooded fields around the tents. The Jamam refugee camp is approximately 50 miles from the border of North Sudan and there are currently three refugee camps in the Upper Nile area housing 107,000 refugees from the Engassana region coming from North Sudan.

    Over the past year repeated conflict with North Sudan, corruption scandals and economic difficulties have plagued the new country. Further problems caused by the shutdown of its oil production have led to a sharp decline in its currency and a rise in the price of food and fuel.

    A camp sits near mud and water, a constant problem in the refugee camp, while many are moved to a different location on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees are directed by a UNHCR staff to a medical checkup area before heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    A Sudanese girl rests outside her tent as her mother stands nearby on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sinara holds her grandson Karum Bashir while his mother is away getting water on July 16, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees wait in line to get a medical check before heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 15, 2012 in the Jamam camp of South Sudan.

    Sudanese refugees crowd into a truck heading to the Batil refugee camp on July 15, 2012 in the Jamam refugee camp of South Sudan.

    The violence that has followed last year's division of Sudan has spawned a refugee crisis that aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen. Jonathan Miller, Channel Four Europe reports.

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  • 6
    Jul
    2012
    7:12am, EDT

    Sudanese refugees face growing health crisis

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    A Sudanese family rests along a road they have been walking for the past three days, on July 6, 2012 along the border road inside South Sudan. Many refugees have been walking for 4 to 5 days from inside Sudan to get to Yida refugee camp from the Nuba mountain region where they have no food and are fleeing the on-going conflict.

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    People wait in line for hours to receive medical treatment at the CARE medical clinic at the Yida refugee camp on July 5, 2012 in Yida, South Sudan.

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    A Sudanese woman sits outside her hut on a rainy afternoon at the Yida refugee camp on July 5, 2012.

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Bolis Jamal, 3, stands near his temporary shelter suffering from malnutrition at the Yida refugee camp on July 1, 2012.

    Refugees in South Sudan are facing a nutrition and disease crisis as conflict and hunger in the neighboring Blue Nile State of Sudan continue to drive people across the border.

    See more of Paula Bronstein's images of the Yida refugee camp, which has a swelling population of over 60,000 people.

    Jonathan Miller has spent the last week in Jamam, another camp nearby, and reports below on the looming health disaster which many blame on the United Nations' failure to act sooner. 

    Channel 4 News: Sudanese refugees tell of their flight from persecution

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    The violence that has followed last year's division of Sudan has spawned a refugee crisis that aid workers say is the worst they have ever seen. Jonathan Miller of the UK's Channel Four News reports.

    10 comments

    Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson Are far to comfortable where thay are to get involved, and this is one more reason to blame it on the honk -y , and say thay dont care. Thay would prefer to instagate ritious behaviour amonug black youth on a national scale and perpetuate hatered here in America.

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  • 4
    Jul
    2012
    4:41pm, EDT

    Yida refugee camp flooded with North Sudanese

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    A girl is measured at a field hospital for malnourished children at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan on July 4 in Yida, South Sudan.

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    A girl's arm is measured at a field hospital for malnourished children at the Yida refugee camp on July 4 in Yida, South Sudan.

    Getty Images reports: Yida refugee camp in South Sudan grows each day and now has swollen to 64,317, as the refugees continue to flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan. The numbers of refugees arriving from North Sudan vary from 500 to 1,000 a day.

    Many new arrivals walked from 3 to 5 days to reach the camp without food. The rainy season has increased the numbers suffering from diarrhea and severe malnutrition and 95% of the field hospitals' patients are children under the age of five.

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    New arrivals crowd together living in makeshift shelter at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan.

    • Sudan opposition calls for strikes, protests

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    Heart breaking - poor little children, no one deserves to suffer in this way. They flee their homeland and still have nothing - no homes, food, water, medical care. Very sad.

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  • 2
    Jul
    2012
    7:34pm, EDT

    Yida refugee camp swells to 60,000 North Sudanese

    Kaka Sauirs sits at her temporary shelter after arriving two days earlier to the Yida refugee camp of South Sudan, close to the border with North Sudan, on July 02, 2012.

    Photos and text by Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    The Yida refugee camp in South Sudan has swollen to nearly 60,000 as refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan. Refugees are arriving at 300-600 a day, some walking five days and some walking two weeks or more to reach the camp.  The rainy season has increased the number of sick children suffering from diarrhea and severe malnutrition, as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population. Most have arrived with only the clothes they were wearing.

    Sudanese refugees walk along the border road after crossing from North Sudan, carrying what they can, on July 2, 2012 in Jaw, South Sudan.

    New arrivals sit on the ground with no shelter at the Yida refugee camp on July 2, 2012.

    Sudanese refugees pray at a makeshift church at the Yida refugee camp on July 1, 2012 in Yida, South Sudan.

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    Arab militant Muslin extremists will kill you if you don't support them and their beliefs ....

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  • 30
    Jun
    2012
    11:52pm, EDT

    Crisis grows at Yida refugee camp in South Sudan

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    Sudanese girls jump rope as many look on at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan June 30, 2012 in Yida, South Sudan.

    Paula Bronstein / Getty Images

    New arrivals wait in long lines to register with UNHCR at the Yida refugee camp along the border with North Sudan, June 30, in Yida, South Sudan.

    Water has been a precious resource with which aid agencies have struggled. Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000, as the refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan with new arrivals at 300-600 a day.  The rainy season has increased the numbers of sick children suffering from diarrhea and severe malnutrition as the international aid community struggles to provide basic assistance to the growing population, as most have arrived with only the clothes they are wearing. Many new arrivals walked from 5 days up to 2 weeks or more to reach the camp.

    Related story: Sudan agrees to allow aid in rebel-held border areas
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    15 comments

    birth control Africa has been revieveing Cood Aide for DECADES ! ! ! birth control It absoluetly bores me when the 'uninformed' say "we need to send more Aide. More FREE... birth control ...FREE Medicine, more FREE Food. The facts are clear.... the World has birth control given hundreds on Billion …

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  • 28
    Apr
    2012
    9:02pm, EDT

    Fleeing violence, Sudanese make homes amid rocks

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A couple stands in front of their shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, Sudan, April 28.

    Fleeing aerial bombardment by the Sudanese air force thousands of people have abandoned their homes and made make-shift shelters between the rocks and boulders.

    According to the Sudan Tribune, the UN is to open a new camp in Kenya for refugees from both Sudan and South Sudan.

    Related content - On assignment: Ann Curry's photographs from Sudan's Nuba Mountains

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman walks towards a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A Nuba woman, injured during a raid by Sudan's air force, sits in a makeshift hospital in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A SPLA-N soldier walks next to fresh graves of Nuba people killed during raids by Sudan's air force in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Nuba people carry their belongings to be loaded in a truck as they flee to the South Sudanese Yida refugee camp, in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman stands in a cave next to her bedridden mother in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Children sits in a cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman stands in front of her shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman holds her child in a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Women stand in front of a cave in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman sits in front of her cave shelter in Bram village in the Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, April 28.

    When the aid organization Ryan Boyette worked for urged him to evacuate Sudan's dangerous Nuba Mountains last summer, he politely quit his job. For the last nine years, Boyette has called the region home and the people there have become his family. The American man married a Nuba woman and learned to speak the local language. Now, he's mounting a video campaign to shed light on the growing conflict between Nuba rebel forces and the Sudanese government. The conflict has sent thousands of Nuba people into makeshift camps. Sudan's government says it's stopping an insurgency. The Nuba people say they have been the victims of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape and kidnapping at the hands of the Sudanese authorities. NBC News anchor Ann Curry reports.

     

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    The Arabs are consuming Africa from the north little by little as they slaughter anyone in their way or around their newly controlled land mass .... This has been going on for years now with minimal global concern .... The Arab Muslims are gaining real land mass and African control with little resis …

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  • 23
    Apr
    2012
    5:33am, EDT

    South Sudanese run for cover as Sudan bombs border area

     

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army looks up at warplanes as he lies on the ground to take cover beside a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona, near Bentiu, South Sudan, on April 23, 2012.

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A woman runs along a road during an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012.

     

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    Smoke rises after the Sudanese air force fired a missile during an air strike in Rubkona on April 23, 2012.

    Reuters reports — Sudanese warplanes carried out air strikes on South Sudan on Monday, killing three people near a southern oil town, residents and military officials said, three days after South Sudan pulled out of a disputed oil field.

    A Reuters reporter at the scene, outside the oil town of Bentiu, said he saw a fighter aircraft drop two bombs near a river bridge between Bentiu and the neighboring town of Rubkona. 

    Sudan leader says he will teach independent South a 'final lesson by force'

    Weeks of border fighting between the two neighbors have brought the former civil war foes closer to a full-blown war than at any time since the South seceded in July. Read more.

    Video: George Clooney calls crisis in Sudan 'real disaster'

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    A soldier in South Sudan's SPLA army walks in a market destroyed in an air strike by the Sudanese air force in Rubkona on April 23, 2012.

    Michael Onyiego / AP

    A South Sudanese soldier has a bullet removed from his leg in the Rubkona Military Hospital on April 22, 2012.

     

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    What a damn shame! If South Sudan had Mega Oil, the U.S. and/or NATO would be there protecting them.

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  • 7
    Mar
    2012
    9:02pm, EST

    Sudanese woman builds a life without hands

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her foot to pour coffee which she prepared for neighbours at her home in a rural area near Khartoum, Sudan, on March 7, 2012. The 45 year old was born without hands.

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her foot to hold a spoon of sugar as she makes coffee for neighbors.

    Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah / Reuters

    Hokom Al, a disabled woman, uses her mouth to hang clothes to dry in a rural area in Khartoum on March 7.

    Slideshow: International Women’s Day

    Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters

    Observed since the early 1900s, International Women's Day is used to celebrate the progress of women, or to point out inequalities that still exist throughout the world.

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