Sunday, November 14, 2004

U.S. activists pressing public pension funds to divest $91 billion in Sudan

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Full Story and more from the Sudan Campaign

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Displaced Sudanese children pray Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004, in the Kalma refugee camp near Nyala town in Sudan's western Darfur region. The children were saying special morning prayers marking Eid al-Fitr, the feast that marks the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Ramadan was deemed by clerics in Sudan to be over Saturday. (AP).
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JANJAWEED 'LEADER' DENIES GENOCIDE

Panorama documentary The new killing fields will be broadcast on television in the UK at 22:15GMT on Sunday, November 14 on BBC One.
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UK BAND AID SONG RE-LAUNCH FOR DARFUR

Today, after 20 years, a new version of the Band Aid 1984 hit, Do They Know it's Christmas? is being recorded in England.

The single will be released on 29 November to raise money for famine relief in Darfur.

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