Sudan: The Passion of the Present

Still More Additions to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds" and "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"--Plus an Additional Note

A couple more blogs (including, yes, Drima's) have just been added to the very, very big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds.

In addition, GI-Net has issued a new press release highlighting nine regions that it believes currently have targeted mass atrocities against civilians; in addition to Darfur, the highlighted regions are Burma (Myanmar), Kenya, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Chad, CAR, Iraq, and DR Congo.  Tied in with the new release is the recent revamping/relaunching of GI-Net's "Darfur News Brief" (which is now the "Genocide Monitor"). - EJM

(Updated originally to note that feeds from South Africa's Moneyweb [and the affiliated Politicsweb] have now been added to the really big batch of feeds of news from Africa; updated further to add direct links above to the various region pages on the GI-Net site; updated still further, on Friday, to note that the Africa-news feed from "TalkZimbabwe"/the "Zimbabwe Guardian" has also now been added.)

Even More Additions to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds" and "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"--Plus an Additional Note

Search-based (and ad-supported) feeds from Moreover have now been added to both the really big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds and the even-bigger batch of RSS feeds of news from Africa; in addition, Nathan Kleinman's blog has been added to the former.

Also, if you haven't already, you may want to look at these recent items (among others) from Refugees International: "Central African Republic: Fragile Gains" (policy recommendations), "Central African Republic: Hope and Cynicism" (related "WorldBridge" post), "Darfur: Time to Uphold the Arms Embargo" (separate policy recommendations), "Sudan Continues to Outfox the West" (semi-related "WorldBridge" post by RI President Ken Bacon), "South Sudan: Mission to Assess Progress in Areas of Return" (field-mission announcement). - EJM

(Updated originally to note that the feed for Pambazuka's "Action Alerts" now reflects a newer, alternate section; updated further, on Wednesday, to note that the site "News from Africa" has also just been added.)

Yet Another Addition to "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"--Plus a Couple of Additional Notes

Alex Halperin's blog has just been added to the really big batch of widget-based RSS feeds of news from Africa.

In addition, if you haven't already, you may want to read Nathaniel Myers' "Christian Science Monitor" op-ed from late last week, entitled "Darfur's best hope: the ballot box -- A regime-ousting election could help more than peacekeepers" (also reprinted here, here, here, here, here, here, and here; thanks to "God's Politics").  And, Monday marks the final scheduled day for the current i-ACT trip, although it may continue for another few days. - EJM

(Updated, on Monday, both to add more links to reprints of the CSM op-ed and to note the possible continuation of i-ACT's current trip.)

Still More Additions to "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"--Plus an Additional Note

Feeds from Chatham House and the Heritage Foundation have just been added to the really, really big batch of widget-based RSS feeds of news from Africa--along with several additional/alternate feeds (largely tied in with sub-sites and sections) from allAfrica, Pambazuka, the BBC, and AfricaNews (with Pambazuka moving from the fourth widget to the top one, as a result). - EJM

(Updated originally to note that the feed for USINFO has now been changed to reflect its new URL; updated further, on Thursday, to note that Pambazuka's "Letters" feed has also now been added; updated still further, also on Thursday, to note that Nicholas Kristof's column in today's "New York Times" [his second since returning from book leave] is on China and Darfur [see also the related comment post on his official blog, as well as a post from about a week ago concerning his return].)

Yet More Additions to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds" and "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"

The blog for Team Darfur (which recently merged with Joey Cheek's "Where Will We Be?") has been added to the very, very big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds--as have a couple of tag-based feeds from South Africa's "Thought Leader" (a blog site affiliated with the "Mail & Guardian").  In addition, a similar "Thought Leader" feed and some additional, specialty feeds from African Path have been added to the equally big batch of RSS feeds of news from Africa--along with a new widget dedicated to business-news feeds from African sites. - EJM

(Updated originally to note that a feed for Miraya 101 FM [the UNMIS-operated radio station] has also now been added; updated further to note that the Sudan-related "Thought Leader" feeds were messed up briefly within the widgets, but have since been fixed; updated further, on Thursday, to note that BlogAfrica [affiliated with allAfrica and Global Voices] and Afrigator have also now been added.)

Even More Additions to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds"--Plus a Few Additional Notes

Canadian Friends of Sudan and search-based MarketWatch feeds have just been added to the really, really big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds. - EJM

(Updated to note that "Bloggers for Darfur" and search-based press-release feeds from the Earth Times site [separate from its feeds of news stories] have also now been added.  On a semi-related note, Nathan Kleinman recently launched a humanitarian-news blog [largely, but not primarily, about Sudan].  Also, there's a blog following the Charles Taylor trial [thanks to allAfrica].  And, if you haven't already, you may want to check out Ushahidi.com, a site designed to map incidents of post-election violence in Kenya.)

More Modifications to "RSS Feeds of News from Africa"

The very, very big batch of widget-based RSS feeds of news from Africa has been updated largely to note that the "Business in Africa" site has been down for the past several days (possibly since last Wednesday). - EJM

Still Another Modification to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds"

The coding error in Stop Genocide Now's feed (mentioned in the previous post) has been resolved; therefore, the feed has been re-added to the very, very big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds. - EJM

More Modifications to "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds"

The extremely big batch of widget-based, Sudan-related RSS feeds has been updated to reflect both OurPledge/Americans Against the Darfur Genocide's new, FeedBurner-based feed and the fact that Stop Genocide Now's feed has been plagued with a coding error that prevents it from displaying correctly (although the feed itself is being updated with new content).

In addition, the various MSN/Windows Live news searches in that batch have been revised to reflect an overall revamping of MSN's international sites.  (Most, if not all, of the old URLs--regardless of which country's site they represent--now show the same results; however, the Windows Live site's regional settings allow for the same type of country-based searches.)  On a related note, there are three new countries/regions represented in the searches: Australia, New Zealand, and "Arabia". - EJM

(Updated to note that search-based Jurist feeds have also now been added.)

New Additions to "RSS Feeds of News from Africa" and "Sudan-Related RSS Feeds"

Various feeds from the AfricaFiles site have now been added both to the very big batch of widget-based RSS feeds of news from Africa and to the equally big batch of Sudan-related RSS feeds. - EJM

(Updated originally to note that an additional Sudan-related blog from MSF-Canada ["A South African Doctor in Darfur"] has also been added; updated further to note that Nick Wadhams' blog has been added as well [thanks to Mr. Crilly].)