Today, Haile Menkerios, SRSG for Sudan, briefed the Security Council on the current situation in the country, emphasizing the historical significance in recognizing the validity of the referendum outcome in a peaceful manner.
With UN Headquarters hanging over a major New York City thoroughfare, why would Congress withdraw funding to secure the UN building from a car bomb attack? UPDATE: Bill failed.
Despite the Egyptian governments best efforts at co-opting the protest movement, the crowd in Tahrir square is as big as it has been since the #jan25 protest began. Bonus: a new hop hop anthem for the global #Jan25 movement.
The results of last months' South Sudan independence referendum are being officially announced today. Still, once independent, South Sudan will beset by problems of a failed state. UPDATE from Maggie Fick in Juba
