by Bradford Phillips and Matt Chancey While the world’s attention has been preoccupied on the fall of Libya’s Gaddafi, and the growing violence in Syria, and the continuing turmoil in Egypt, there has been more strategic and significant events happening in the Arab world of the Republic of Sudan. The last few weeks have seen […]
By Eric Reeves [Editor’s note: The war of ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan State in Sudan has predictably spread to the other ethnic African-dominated Blue Nile State. Long-time Sudan expert Eric Reeves wrote an excellent commentary on this latest development, excerpts of which we have reprinted with permission for […]
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on September 27th, 2011
By Matt Chancey On September 25th, I spoke to a missionary friend at church who was recently evacuated from the war-torn Blue Nile State in Sudan. He confirmed to me the reports I had heard that weekend about the NCP government bombing the state capitol of Kurmuk. One of the targets in the attack was […]
After sending out an emergency appeal for $25,000 to help PPF receive a large medical consignment valued at $2.2 MILLION, you gave– and gave generously. After only a couple of weeks, PPF raised $28,581.34. Praise the Lord! And it gets better. While awaiting the arrival of the shipment in question, one of our partners, Voice […]
On the evening of September 1, 2011, around midnight, the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) attacked the residence of Blue Nile State Governor Malik Agar. This initial attack was quickly followed by a full scale invasion and aerial bombardment of multiple locations in Blue Nile State. The result is yet another NCP-manufactured humanitarian crisis in the Blue […]
By Brad Phillips and Matt Chancey The Republic of Sudan has a turbulent history. Since its independence from the British in 1956, it has been in an almost constant state of war. The causes of wars can sometimes be hard to pin down. But the wars in post-independence Sudan have essentially arisen from the long-standing […]
The Washington Times’ Amanda Read interviewed Brad last week following his testimony during an emergency congressional hearing convened by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “There is no justification in my mind for bombing Libya, while doing nothing in the Nuba Mountains,” said Phillips in his testimony, as he provided evidence of genocide against the Nuba […]
On August 4th, 2011, the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa held an emergency meeting to discuss the ongoing attacks by the Khartoum government against the people living in the Nuba Mountains of Southern Kordofan, North Sudan. Persecution Project Foundation President, Brad Phillips, was a key witness in providing testimony of the atrocities being committed […]
The following is a very important article written on June 24, 2011 by Elizabeth Kendal of Religious Liberty Monitoring (http://elizabethkendal.blogspot.com/) regarding the current war in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan in Southern Kordofan State. We have received permission to reprint it in full. PPF’s Brad Phillips and Matt Chancey just returned from a 12-day journey […]
A Long Road to the Beginning The story of South Sudan has not yet been written, but it is already one of the more gripping histories in our modern times. On January 1, 1956, the nation of Sudan officially became independent of British rule, and the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum immediately began a campaign of […]