Blog posts tagged "Sudan"

April 12, 2012 4:14 pm 4 Comments

The birth of a new nation has not dispelled the old ways of violence in South Sudan, writes Lindsey Hilsum.

July 7, 2011 12:33 pm 1 Comment

"In Sudan, where 84% of women are illiterate, only six percent of girls complete their schooling. Even in primary schools, boys outnumber girls three to one."

July 5, 2011 6:35 pm No Comments

From the Grand Hotel, Bentiu, Lindsey Hilsum blogs that South Sudan needs to harness the potential of its oil wealth if the new country is to realise its potential.

5:39 pm 1 Comment

International Editor Lindsey Hilsum blogs on a peculiar problem of a person's worth in cows in southern Sudan.

July 4, 2011 9:00 am 1 Comment

South Sudan will be born poor and troubled. People’s lives of aching poverty and hardship will not improve quickly. The danger of war, either with the north, or between southern Sudanese, is ever present.

July 2, 2011 10:59 am No Comments

Lindsey Hilsum reports from south of the Nuba mountains, a disputed border region that is threatening to derail the peaceful separation of North and South Sudan.

June 30, 2011 8:53 am 3 Comments

There's plenty of cows, but no milk industry - Lindsey Hilsum, writing from the southern Sudanese capital, says it's a sign of the problems Africa's newest nation will face.

May 27, 2011 3:35 pm 2 Comments

With uprisings sweeping the Middle East, and fugitive killers like Osama bin Laden and Ratko Mladic captured, this is a historic year. Lindsey Hilsum looks at the historic stories that are being missed.

January 7, 2011 6:58 pm 2 Comments

The charities and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have all offered dire predictions about the outcome of the referendum in southern Sudan on secession from the north. But out International Editor Lindsey Hilsum believes there are grounds for optimism

April 12, 2010 10:16 pm No Comments

Presidential and parliamentary elections. Polls for state governors and state legislatures. Some by the first-past-the-post system, some by proportional representation, and don’t forget the women’s quota.