March 18, 2010
In much of the developing world, women spend more time fetching water than any other activity in their day. For more than a billion people, the water they do get is unsafe. Some 2.6 billion must make do without functioning toilets.
March 3, 2010
An internationally brokered peace treaty in 2005 ended decades of civil war between the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum and the black African southern region. The accord called for national elections, now set for this April, and for a...
February 28, 2009
As rhetoric grows around a new U.S. strategy on Darfur with the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudan's president Omar el-Beshir, this unique report gives a behind the scenes look at UNAMID's (United Nations-African Union...
July 1, 2008
Northern Sudan is a region that has largely been ignored, eclipsed by rebellion in Darfur and a civil war in the south that lasted two decades. But in villages along the Nile in the Nubian desert, far from the conflicts in other parts of the...
April 18, 2008
Two rounds of civil war have engulfed Sudan for the last half century, killing two million people and displacing four million others. A fragile peace agreement signed in 2005 that gave autonomy to the south for six years is currently keeping...
May 21, 2007
Gabriel Deng, Koor Garang and Garang Mayuol, Southern Sudanese “Lost Boys” in the U.S., were forced to flee Sudan as children when their villages were attacked in 1987, finding safety for a time in a refugee camp in Ethiopia until...
March 2, 2006
As the world watches Darfur to the West, government harassments in East Sudan have forced hundreds of thousands from their homes. Like their counterparts in Darfur, eastern rebels complain that successive governments in Khartoum have left their...
January 15, 2006
Pulitzer Center Executive Director Jon Sawyer traveled in early 2006 to Sudan. He spent a week with African Union peace monitors in Darfur, staying with soldiers in their camps and traveling by AU helicopters from the regional capitals of El...
