official name: Sudan
capital: Khartoum
independence: 1956 (From Egypt and UK)
president:Marshall Umar Hassan Ahmad al-BASHIR
population: 40.1million
language: Arabic ( official ), Nubian, Ta Bedawie
currency: Sudanese dinar
religion: 70% Muslim, 5% Christian
homosexual status:Illegal

Sudan

Gay Africans and Arabs come out online

18 Feb 2007- Khartoum, Sudan - When Ali started blogging that he was Sudanese and gay, he did not realize he was joining a band of African and Middle Eastern gays and lesbians who, in the face of hostility and repression, have come out online...more

Archbishop fears gay 'rupture' of Anglican church

05 Mar 2006- The Archbishop of Canterbury has said he fears that divisions over gay priests and gay bishops may tear the Anglican Communion into two irreconcilable factions

Dr Rowan Williams warned that it may take decades to re-establish relations if there was a split...more

Love or war

Nyarau aged 22 gives us a story on how worse it has become in sudan and narrating how brutal soldiers have become. It is believed not to be just war but behind it all there’s all sorts of horrible things happening. Young girls are being raped and disappear everyday later found married to the soldiers that are claiming to protect them.

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