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Susan Rice
Name: Susan Rice
Position:United States Ambassador to the United Nations
Background
In December 2012 Sudanese officials and pro-government newspapers expressed relief over Ambassador Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw her name from consideration for the post of US Secretary of State.
Rice told President Barak Obama in a letter that Senate confirmation hearings for her would have been overly contentious. She has came under heavy fire from Republicans in Congress for remarks she made in the aftermath of a September 11 attack on the US mission in Benghazi, Libya, in which four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Khartoum believes that Rice has maintained a hostile attitude to the government led by president Omar Hassan al-Bashir since her days as US assistant Secretary of state for African Affairs in the 1990’s.
Obama instead promoted the Democratic Party’s 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry from his position as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Videos
Al Jazeera English | UN Security Council weighs Sudan sanctions | 18 April 2012
Sudan and South Sudan have accused each other of launching attacks on a new front near the border. It follows talks by the UN Security Council on possible sanctions against both countries. Al Jazeera’s Sherine Tadros reports from Khartoum.
Friday 25 January 2013 January 25, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has called for international support to end hostilities between the Sudanese army and rebels in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states. U.S. Ambassador to the (...)
Monday 22 October 2012 October 21, 2012 (JUBA) - South Africa on Sunday pledged its resolve to support a peace proposal by the African Union High Level Implementation (AUHIP) which aims to end the long-running dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over the (...)
Tuesday 4 September 2012 By Tesfa-Alem Tekle
September 3, 2012(ADDIS ABABA) – The US government is committed to further deepen its partnership with the new leadership of Ethiopia, the US permanent representative to the United Nations (UN), Susan Rice has said. (...)
Sunday 27 May 2012 May 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations filed a new complaint on Saturday accusing the South Sudan of carrying attacks on its territory in Darfur and South Kordofan and providing support to rebel (...)
Monday 24 December 2012 December 23, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese government hailed the decision by United States president Barack Obama last week to nominate Senator John Kerry to become the next Secretary of State. President Barack Obama announces the (...)
Monday 3 September 2012 September 2, 2012 (JUBA) - The Republic of South Sudan last week appointed Ambassador Francis Meding Deng, an experienced diplomat, as its Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Francis Deng (Photo U.N.)
Deng, who hails from (...)
Sunday 7 October 2012 October 6, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan is ready to accept Abyei’s partition, to end the dispute over this region with South Sudan, said Mikhail Margelov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for cooperation with African countries. (...)
Wednesday 18 April 2012 April 17, 2012 (WASHINGTON) – The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is considering imposing sanctions on the governments of Khartoum and Juba amid continued military fighting along the poorly defined borders. United States (...)
Sunday 29 April 2012 April 28, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese foreign minister, Ali Ahmed Karti, on Saturday rejected the involvement of United Nations Security Council in the resolution of outstanding issues with the South Sudan. Sudan’s FM minister Ali Ahmed (...)
Saturday 4 February 2012 February 3, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – The US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, has strongly condemned the bombing of a school in Sudan’s southern region of South Kordofan by the country’s military. Photo of the school building destroyed by Sudan (...)
The better approach to reconciliation2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar
May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan?2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai
May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
The misapprehension of peace in the context of conflict resolution2013-05-16 11:40:39 By Ngor Arol Garang
May 16, 2013 - Political leaders and citizens with an interest in politics within the Bahr el Ghazal region will come together for a one week conference on Wednesday, where (...)
Wau Dialogue W. Bahr el-Ghazal state 13-15 May 20132013-05-13 14:41:35 South Sudan Law Society
13th-April-2013
Citizen of Western Bhar el-Ghazal State calls for limitations of President Powers and the Independence of Executive, Legislature and Judiciary and (...)
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom2013-05-04 10:53:49 Human Rights Watch
Sudan: Stepped-Up Assault on Media Freedom
Newspapers, Other Media Censored, Confiscated, Shut Down
MAY 3, 2013
(Nairobi) – Sudan should immediately stop censoring (...)
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom2013-05-03 03:23:16 Committee to Protect Journalists
CPJ calls on African Union to uphold press freedom
New York, May 2, 2013
The Committee to Protect Journalists asks Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, chairperson of the (...)
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The better approach to reconciliation 2013-05-17 06:07:06 By Zechariah Manyok Biar May 16, 2013 - Some of you who might have read my previous articles know that I promised some weeks ago to write separately on the topic of peace and reconciliation that (...)
OIL: is it a curse or a blessing in South Sudan? 2013-05-17 06:04:54 By Jacob K. Lupai May 16, 2013 - In the late 70s when for the first time oil was discovered in Southern Sudan there was euphoria that poverty would be a thing of the past, replaced by a high (...)
The misapprehension of peace in the context of conflict resolution 2013-05-16 11:40:39 By Ngor Arol Garang May 16, 2013 - Political leaders and citizens with an interest in politics within the Bahr el Ghazal region will come together for a one week conference on Wednesday, where (...)
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