Links
related to southern Sudan
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Links
related to southern Sudan
This page summarizes a tiny fraction of the information that is available on the web about Sudan in general, the suffering in Southern Sudan, and efforts at healing and reconciliation. If you know of a site that would interest SSFI supporters, please send us the link.
News, geography, history, people, government, economy, weather. Extensive links to other Sudan-related pages, including home pages of organizations and individuals. Search capability. You can also go directly to their page of reports from various news services.
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/Sudan.html
University of Pennsylvania African Studies Department site devoted to the Sudan. Lots of links.
Stanford University Sudan page
Another wealth of information, from the Stanford library system.
This link points to the archives of the email discussion group about Sudan hosted by Emory University. LOTS of email, search capability, and a link that allows you to join the discussion group if you want to.
Lots of links, invitation to submit more.
Directory of everything Sudanese.
This site describes itself as follows: "contains concise and current Sudan information directly from U.S. Senators and other primary sources."
Hotbot's index of information about Sudan
Yahoo's index of information about Sudan
This site has news about all of Africa, including information about Sudan.
This map is provided by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. It shows where refugees are living in the Horn of Africa, including Sudan.
Map of the Sudan (large, it may take several minutes to download), plus links to information on geography, people, govenment, etc
RightsMaps.com provides maps and other geographic information for human rights groups. Their Sudan maps are excellent.
One-paragraph summaries on geography, climate, natural resources, population, and so on. Unfortunately most of the graphics were broken the last time I visited.
Map based on a satellite image, plus links to geographical information, and a search engine.
US weather service site will display current weather conditions in Khartoum. Other locations may be available in the future.
Wikipedia page on GOSS and the politics of southern Sudan
The page is a stub. You can contribute to it.
Bureau of African Affairs page
The link above takes you into the section on political conditions in Sudan. It is part of an extensive background paper on Sudan published by the US State Department.
Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs, GOSS
Projects, documents and contact information.
Ethnologue lists 134 languages that are spoken in the Sudan. Dinka and Nuer are two of the most important in southern Sudan.
Dinka (Ethnologue treats "Dinka language" as a family of five related languages)
The Bible in Sudanese languages
It is difficult to get the Bible in Dinka or Nuer in the US and Europe. The Khartoum Bible society lists a paper-mail address. Worldscriptures.org has some information about the history of the Bible in languages all over the world. Enter the site, and click Search.
This page offers two translations of Luther's Small Catechism into Nuer.
Discussions at Gurtong
Several interesting email discussion threads deal with languages spoken in southern Sudan.
Commercial translation services
Links to these services are provided simply as a convenience for visitors to our web site. SSFI has no connection with any of these services, and we make no statements about the quality of their work. These links DO NOT constitute any kind of endorsement of these services.
This CD includes four songs sung in Nuer, by the choir of the Southern Sudan Christian Mission Church of Portland, Maine. All of the purchase price goes to provide food, shelter, and medicine for southern Sudanese refugees.
Nuer songs on CD. Contact Tut Yat for more information.
News, links, and discussion groups on a site dedicated to advocating for an independent southern Sudan.
Introduction to the crises in Sudan and Uganda
Testimony of Jemera Rone, Human Rights Watch, before the U.S. House Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights and the Subcommittee on Africa July 29, 1998. Survey of the groups fighting in southern Sudan and northern Uganda, human rights violations, famine, slavery, abduction and abuse of children. Includes recommendations for the United States and other governments considering aid programs.
Christianity Today article, August 10, 1998
Background on the war, with an emphasis on religious persecution.
This site describes its mission as "to provide a non-sectarian one-stop resource center for anyone fighting the GOS (Government of Sudan) by any means necessary."
Information and photos about ongoing wars and conflicts around the world. This link is to their page about the Sudan.
Information on the Sudan, with a strong emphasis on peace initiatives. Lots of pictures and information on the Nuer-Dinka peace conferences that Wal has been involved in recently. Funded by the Presbyterian Church (USA).
InterGovernmental Authority on Development, consisting of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, and Uganda. IGAD's peace initiative for Sudan might be the way to a peaceful settlement of the civil war.
Gurtong Diaspora Peace Project
Gurtong says that its mission is "to establish a South Sudanese Diaspora coalition for promoting peace and stability in South Sudan. [Its] website is to provide information on cultural, social, political and humanitarian issues and developments. It is to facilitate constructive discussions on issues of concern to the people of South Sudan and to link the members of the Diaspora in a spirit of reconciliation and sincere love for the homeland. The Gurtong-project aims at bridging the gap between different cultures and allow the Sudanese Diaspora to make a significant contribution to the search for unity and peace. Knowledge of the people living in South Sudan and respect for their cultural identity is a major objective of the Gurtong project."
Society for Threatened Peoples (GFBV)
This site is mostly in German, but there is some information about southern Sudan in English. They are planning a campaign to convince oil companies to resist the temptation to profit from the Sudanese oil fields until the war is settled.
Francis M. Deng, a Brookings Institution Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy Studies, has written extensively about the roots of the conflicts in Sudan and ways to approach peace.
World Peace Foundation Sudan Project
The World Peace Foundation describes itself this way: "the World Peace Foundation was created in 1910 by the imagination and fortune of Edwin Ginn to encourage international peace and cooperation. The Foundation seeks to advance the cause of peace through study, analysis and the advocacy of wise action."
European Coalition on Oil in Sudan
ECOS says this about their work, "We, a coalition of European organizations working for peace for Sudan are calling for action by European governments and oil companies to ensure that Sudan's oil wealth ceases to fuel war. Oil should bring peace and prosperity to Sudan, but it causes massive human suffering. We invite the oil companies operating in Sudan to become a force for the good and to suspend their operations until there is peace. We urge the European governments to actively discourage investment in Sudan's oil sector as a necessary step towards peace in the country."
The South Sudan Liberation Movement, formed in January, 2000, has SSFI co-founder and former director Dr. Wal Duany as its chairman. SSLM summarizes its mission as restoring "unity and democratic civic order among a people that have been devastated by lawlessness, overlooked by the outside world since 1991, and politically neutralized." People interested in peace building may be especially interested in these SSLM documents:
Common Sense 3 - Call for South-South dialog and sustainable peace in south Sudan (Common Sense 1, 2 and 3 are PDF files - to view them you will need Adobe Reader, also known as Acrobat Reader - click the Get Adobe Reader icon for a free download)
Common Sense 2 - Call for a more inclusive peace process
Common Sense 1 - Call for reconciliation, peace, and unity
We must unite to protect ourselves, Andrew Kuong's response to an email about the aftermath of the SPLA/SPDF Unity Declaration.
The Sudan People's Democratic Front is an armed, predominantly Nuer organization opposed to the Khartoum government. Led by Dr. Riek Machar, the SPDF has entered into unity agreements with both SPLA and SSLM.
The Sudan People's Liberation Army is the largest and best-known armed opposition group in southern Sudan. Led by Dr. John Garang, it is predominantly Dinka.
Relief and Economic Development
This organization describes itself this way, "Sudan Care Foundation, Inc., is dedicated to relieving poverty and distress and to rehabilitating displaced Sudanese. SCF acts as an intermediary between donors, both individual and corporate, and organizations that are actually providing services to Sudanese in need."
This group says that its mission is: "to assist the people of Southern Blue Nile to become economically, educationally, physically and intellectually self-sufficient." Blue Nile province is in south-eastern Sudan, east of the Nuba mountains.
CARE has been operating in southern Sudan since 1979. This page has facts about Sudan (the statistics apply to all of Sudan, even though the page is titled "South Sudan"), links to summaries of CARE's projects in the south, and links to similar pages about CARE's work in other countries, including North Sudan.
Is a Swedish Christian NGO that started with a focus on Sudan in 1990. They have since broadened their scope to include other East African countries. Scroll down a little ways on their home page, and you'll find the South Sudan Info Center, a new organization that provides information on the situation in southern Sudan.
A group of local organizations: the New Sudanese Indigenous NGOs (NESI-Network). The group says its objective is a just and fair Sudan for all regardless of ethnicity, gender, or religion. They concentrate on improving living conditions in areas that have been harmed the most by the war.
January 2000 report on relief efforts by the U. S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance.
ViTrade Research describes itself as a "non-affiliated, non-religious, independent financial risk analysis and research company with global expertise as international commodity traders, fraud investigators, economists, bank regulators and examiners, and global risk managers and consultants." This site has huge numbers of links, with a strong emphasis on the effect of Sudan's oil on the political situation.
International coalition to stop the use of child soldiers
This site is dedicated entirely to child-soldier issues. This page is their summary of the situation in Sudan.
This page is part of Human Rights Watch's campaign to stop the use of child soldiers world-wide.
The SPLA says it will demobilize its child soldiers.
Abductions and forced labor as an aspect of the civil war.
This organization's purpose is to abolish slavery everywhere in the world. They pay special attention to Sudan and Mauritania.
The Congress on Modern Pan-African Slavery (COMPAS) is a ministry of Loveland Church in the Los Angeles area.
Response to Touched by an Angel episode of 9/26/99
SSFI's reaction to the television show, including links to other sources of information.
Links to articles from a mixture of human-rights and religious viewpoints. Includes Chalcedon reports by Peter Hammond, and news articles from the Frontline Fellowship's Gospel Plow site.
Trinity Lutheran Church-Southern Sudanese Page
This page belongs to a Lutheran church in Des Moines, Iowa, and emphasizes their work in resettling hundreds of Nuer refugees. Several biographies of refugees, links to other pages on Sudan, even two Nuer translations of Luther's Small Catechism.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees - Sudan situation
This page is somewhat out of date (February 1997) because it pre-dates the Peace Agreement. However, it contains a lot of useful background information on the history of north/south conflicts.
US Committee for Refugees - Sudan reports
Here you can find the last several years' country reports on Sudan, information about USCR's special campaign for Sudan, photos, articles, and audio.
The "Lost Boys" - settling teenaged refugees
If you want to help, try one of these sites:
- The Church World Service "Lost Boys" web site
- The World Relief "Lost Boys" web site
- Siloam Health Care, if you are a doctor or nurse
Books about the "Lost Boys" have been published, including
- The Lost Boys of Sudan: An American Story of the Refugee Experience, by Mark Bixler
- Lost Boy No More: A True Story Of Survival And Salvation, by Abraham Nhial and DiAnn Mills
Background: The first of an expected 3,500 teenage refugees from the Sudan arrived in Seattle in mid-November 2000. Here is a much shorter story with a slightly different total from the Chinese news service Xinhua. GOS claims that these teenagers are not refugees at all, but prospective recruits for the US Marine Corps! This story covers some of the arguments for and against the program, including a provision of the plan that commits refugees to eventually pay back the costs of resettlement.
More about these young men (most of them are men, not boys, and many quite understandably dislike the name "lost boys"):
- What about orphaned young women at Kakuma?
- The CBS News 60 Minutes II story. This story was originally scheduled to air on September 11!
- The Red Cross page.
- UNICEF's page.
- The "Lost Boys" web site.
- Profile of one of the refugees who is being settled in Richmond, VA.
- US News story about refugees now living in Fargo, ND.
- Lost Boys in Massachusetts site
- Arizona Lost Boys center
Dedicated to education and service to the Lou Nuer community and southern Sudanese people in general, both in the US and in Sudan.
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 18:
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
Genocide Warning from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This information about the catastrophe in southern Sudan is the museum's first display about a situation outside of Europe. The museum's Committee on Conscience states that "organized violence is underway that threatens to become genocide or related crimes against humanity."
Human Rights Watch Sudan Report for 2001
This report summarizes the human rights situation in Sudan as "grim". Most of the report deals with abuses by the government. It also describes the SPLA's human rights record as "far from acceptable", and mentions human rights abuses by Riek Machar's forces. The 2000 report describes the people-to-people peace process as one of the bright spots.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws
WLUML describes their work as follows: [we are] an international Network that provides information, solidarity and support for all women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam. The Network aims to increase the autonomy of women by supporting the local struggles of women from within Muslim countries and communities and linking them with feminist and progressive groups at large; facilitating interaction, exchanges and contacts and providing information as well as a channel of communication.
International Coalition for Religious Freedom - Sudan Report
The Coalition's assessment of violations of religious freedom in Sudan.
Article on religious persecution in southern Sudan
From The Oregonian, 10/27/98
Government Takeover of Episcopal Church Compound
Long letter from Bulus Idris Tia, Bishop of Khartoum Diocese, on GOS efforts to confiscate the headquarters of Khartoum Diocese. Posted to the Emory Sudan discussion group.
a song by Curry Kenworthy
paintings by Helen Broadfoot
New web sites about southern Sudan are being created constantly. We support these efforts and pray that they will grow and thrive and help to spread the truth. These sites, most of them suggested to us through our guest book or other contacts, are under construction. If you find one that you particularly like, or try one of these links and discovered that the site has disappeared (that happens sometimes with new sites), please let us know. Thanks to the webmasters for their efforts.
Poetry, articles, politics, women's issues, history, South Sudan Youth homepage.
Documents, photos, massacres, oil, discussion, links.
This foundation aims to "integrate the voice of all those who speak before God on behalf of humanity."
This site describes itself as a place "where Dinka people of Sudan and friends come together to access information, news and issues concern Sudan, the east African region and discuss them in their own websites."
Map, links, photos.
History, language, links, photos.
This site defines its purpose as building a global network of south Sudanese people and their friends and supports, and helping "south Sudanese people come together and work for greater understanding, tolerance and co-existence."
ACHA stands for "The African Centre for Human Advocacy." The web site says that the organisation is "non-political and non-profit which aims at catering for the needy people in the war affected regions of Africa especially in the Sudan. The areas of concentration include: health, education, relief, water and sanitation."
The South Sudan Development & Relief Agency was founded by southern Sudanese people in Minneapolis, MN, in 1998. Their web site mentions an education scholarship program with funding for elementary and high school scholarships channeled through a partner agency based in Nairobi, Kenya. SSDRA also provides assistance to newly arriving South Sudanese refugees, including translation, information, referrals, and advocacy for the needs of Sudanese with social service and government organizations.
SEPNet describes its purpose this way: "the Sudan Emancipation & Preservation Network has a two-part purpose and meaning. First, it was created to set free, liberate, and release the people of Sudan from an oppressive and corrupt system. And secondly, it was created to then protect, guard, and keep safe the people of Sudan from falling prey to corruption in the future. The people of Sudan cannot have peace until they are given the rights that they deserve, the right to self-determination. These include human rights, rights to their land, the right to vote in a democratic state, and the right to pursue a safe future for their children."
News, commentary, and discussion. According to its webmaster, Peter Wankomo, the site "is dedicated to promote and inform the world about independence and the realization of a free South Sudan nation, and to encourage Southerners to think of secession as the final solution to the problem."