First, a powerful photo essay at Foreign Policy of Somalis fleeing the carnage of Mogadishu for the safer northern parts of the country, including Puntland and Somaliland.
One of the pictures from Somalia by ROBERTO SCHMIDT
Second, a piece by Bec Hamilton in The New Republic on “why aid for Darfur’s rape survivors has all but disappeared.”
Third, Jim Zogby reports on Arabs and Jews coming together in Washington for peace.
And finally, breaking news from Sudan’s Second Vice President Ali Mohamed Osman Taha, ”The devil (has been contained) in Darfur”! He made this declaration after a reconciliation meeting yesterday between two Darfuri tribes, the Misseriya and the Rizeigat. One tribe agreed to pay the other tribe the traditional blood money – and both agreed to peaceful relations going forward. For Taha, this was evidence that the devil’s doings may finally be stifled in Darfur. Its convenient of course to blame the six years of chaos on the devil – and not, of course, Taha’s friends in the Sudanese government.
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