Sudan

Image of the Week: A phone pic of protestor Alaa Salah will define the end of Omar al-Bashir’s iron-fisted rule

The Quebecois filmmaker talks about working with Reese Witherspoon and how to go Hollywood without abandoning your vision

Abousfian Abdelrazik seeks $500,000 in damages

Asha el-Karib, a Sudanese feminist and activist, doesn’t think ten-year-old girls should marry, or that all women be required to have a male guardian. She’s presented some 120 articles of “alternative legislation” to the Sudanese public that would change these and other family and marriage laws now in effect in Sudan. For this, she’s been branded anti-Islamic and a tool of foreign states.

Paul Koring obtains new documents related to the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik.

A few months ago, Conservative MP Brad Trost was boasting that the government had “defunded” Planned Parenthood. But after more than a year of public waffling, the CBC reports that the government is about to approve funding for the group.

The capital is booming, but infrastructure is non-existent and tensions are mounting

World’s newest country plagued by social, economic challenges

Thousands flee as villages bombed, churches burned in central Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

Glen Pearson deals with defeat.

Hope comes to the U.S. economy, while a suicide attack devastates Russia

Independence for the South may not bring peace, or an end to grinding poverty