Dozens of protesters are feared to have been killed as the Sudanese army cuts off the internet and cracks down on those involved.
In the summer of 2012, VICE correspondent Aris Roussinos travelled to Sudan’s Blue Nile region where he spent a month making friends, playing checkers and getting bombed with the guys from SPLA-N (Sudan People’s Liberation Movement) – a group of rebels that fight to keep President Omar al-Bashir from turning Sudan into an Arab Islamist state. The article below and the video above are his account of that month.
Protesters angered by a film made in the US and mocking Islam attack US embassies in Tunisia and Sudan as demonstrations escalate and the US deploys antiterrorism units to Egypt and Yemen
They call Guor Marial an athlete without a country, but that couldn’t be further from the truth – he is running for South Sudan
Guor Marial, an athlete from South Sudan, will be participating in the London 2012 Olympics, but not under his country’s flag. Marial will be competing in the longest race of the Games – the men’s marathon – as an independent.