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1.	It takes more than a law to stop the cut
	Author: IRIN, Kadugli	Date Written: 5 January 2009
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Women, gender, health, FGM, culture
	Summary & Comment: "Attitudes and misinformation will have to be overcome for a law passed in November 2008, prohibiting FGM in Southern Kordofan, to translate into genuine abolition."
2.	SPLM discussed asking Bashir to step down
	Author: Sudan Tribune	Date Written: 5 January 2009
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article29768
	Key Words: ICC, SPLM, war crimes, Al-Bashir
	Summary & Comment: "The southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement contemplated urging president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir to step down in the event of the issuance of an arrest warrant, a newspaper reported today."
3.	South Sudan: The tears of an old man
	Author: Ruach Chuol Bol	Date Written: 4 January 2009
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com
	Key Words: South Sudan, CPA
	Summary & Comment: This article by a Southern Sudanese man (whose written English is not perfect) now living in the U.S. reflects on expectations among grassroots southerners at the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement four years ago and the disappointment over its current status.
4.	Darfur enmeshed within Sudan’s broadening national crisis Part 1 of 3
	Author: Eric Reeves	Date Written: 1 January 2009
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Eric Reeves
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudanreeves.org
	Key Words: Darfur, genocide,
	Summary & Comment: "As Darfur’s humanitarian crisis deepens, potential intra-national conflict reveals the broader failures of the National Islamic Front regime - and the ultimate threats to international humanitarian and development assistance throughout the country." (Part 1 of three-part overview)
5.	Rauda Ayub, Life will improve when we have roads and a hospital
	Author: IRIN, Karkaraya	Date Written: 16 December 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IRIN News
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.irinnews.org
	Key Words: Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, displaced persons, IDPs, development, security
	Summary & Comment: "Rauda Ayub, 28, returned to her village in Karkaraya...after spending most of her life in the Nuba mountains, also in the state, during the civil war. South Kordofan is a region characterised by a lack of development, poor infrastructure and restricted access to healthcare or basic services. Ayub, a mother of four, talked to IRIN about her ex . . . [expand]
6.	Undeniable genocide by the executive; what about the judiciary?
	Author: Mahgoub El-Tigani	Date Written: 15 December 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: Sudan Tribune
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.sudantribune.com
	Key Words: Darfur, genocide, judiciary
	Summary & Comment: "It appears that after five consecutive years of the killing and destruction of the Darfuri humans and societies by the government’s military and militias, the Sudanese criminal justice, in turn, continues to condemn hundreds of Darfuris with death penalties...It is...the duty of all those interested in the due process of law to voice the “Big . . . [expand]
7.	Dinka and Misseriya build peace along border
	Author: Skye Wheeler, Juba	Date Written: 9 December 2008
	Primary Category: Sudan	Document Origin: IPS
	Secondary Category: Eastern Region	Source URL: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa
	Key Words: Sudan, Dinka, Misseriya, peace, border,
	Summary & Comment: The Dinka and Misseriya peoples are trying to build peace along border. There's a history of trade, mutual pastoralist struggle, battles, grief, and fear between the two groups. In 2011 there will be a long-desired referendum on separation in the South. The border between the north and south will pass through resource-rich areas. DN