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Khartoum’s State of Denial

Blake Evans - Pritchard

Worrying signs that Omar al-Bashir’s regime is not taking the south’s bid for independence seriously.

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Thousand-Year-Old Wedding

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Pir-e Shalyar celebrations in Iranian Kurdestan.

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IWPR-trained reporter in Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan.

I was born on April 4, 1978 in Dehdadi district of Balkh province into a middle- class family. My father sent me to the local high school, Shahid Balkhi, in 2005 despite his own financial problems because he was keen that other members of his family should be given chances he never had. I had left school in 1996 with average grades.

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