On march 16th George Clooney, a film star, was arrested for picketing the Sudanese embassy in Washington, dc. His aim was to highlight the brutal campaign by Sudan's government to suppress a rebellion in the Nuba Mountains, close to the border with newly independent South Sudan. Sudanese forces have blockaded Nuba villages, bombing them from Antonov transport planes. The un says that, with the planting of crops interrupted, 400,000 are in need of food aid.
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