No passport, no country; Guor Marial makes it to London Games
3 min readConcord Monitor –
By Megan Doyle / Monitor staff When Guor Marial was a teenager, his adopted mother Zainab Mohagir would send him to run her errands in the neighborhood. Mohagir and Marial’s aunt Ana Batalu would sit together and wait for him to return.
Oneindia –
London, Jul 25: Here is an athlete who ran for his life to escape a Sudanese child labour camp and has finally got a chance to run at the Olympics. The Sudan athlete has no country and no passport yet, he has got an opportunity to participate in London …
SBS –
Guor Marial, a refugee from the South Sudan, will be the first athlete to represent his country in London 2012, but he won’t be running under his nation’s flag. Guor Marial, a refugee from the South Sudan, will be the first athlete to represent his …
Christian Science Monitor –
Conflict and poverty stand in the way of perhaps 40000 South Sudanese whose bags were packed a year ago but are now stranded in squatter camps of the north. By Scott Peterson, Staff writer / July 25, 2012 People gather as South Sudanese surrounded by …
Chicago Tribune –
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Sudan will revise its transit fee demand for South Sudan’s oil exports when the African neighbors resume talks to end an oil dispute for the first time since border fighting escalated in April, a Sudanese official said on …
Mmegi Online –
JUBA: Sudan has turned down South Sudan’s proposal of a higher oil transit fee and an $8.2 billion or (P63 billion) financial deal, ruling out any comprehensive settlement of outstanding issues by the August 2 deadline. The offer and its refusal come …
Huffington Post (blog) –
After promising but hesitant initial steps, the Republic of South Sudan is at a crucial point in its one-year-old existence. It has thus far benefited from sustained international attention, which has encouraged it to protect fundamental freedoms.
Pakistan Daily Times –
KHARTOUM: Darfur rebels wounded in the latest fighting with Sudanese troops have gone to South Sudan for treatment, the army said on Tuesday, as Khartoum pushes Juba to end alleged backing for rebels. The army and insurgents gave conflicting accounts …
Haaretz –
By Zohar Blumenkrantz | Jul.25, 2012 | 1:55 AM Israel continues to keep a low media profile regarding the weekly flights of deportees to South Sudan. The next flight will take place on Wednesday from Ben-Gurion International Airport, aboard an aircraft …
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