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Last Friday, the St. James Episcopal Church auditorium was the place to be if you wanted to hear, see and taste the traditions of Sudan. The New Sudan Education Initiative (NESEI) was the focus of the night, and Africa inspired the colors: bright tablecloths, orange roses on each table, and a quilted map of the continent on one wall. Church youth served up Sudanese dishes: salty beef and cabbage, thick and pasty red beans, brown rice. Some church members donned African clothing, such as bright purple dresses and neon green shirts, in solidarity.... Read more

BURLINGTON - As international pressure mounts on the African nation of Sudan to end years of genocide against the people of Darfur, the University of Vermont is nearly fully divested of companies that support the Sudanese government in Khartoum.... Read more

BURLINGTON -- It's been a long time since Achier Mou, a senior at the University of Vermont, heard good news about his native country of Sudan. Since he began college nearly four years ago, more than 400,000 of his fellow countrymen have been killed in the ongoing genocide. Another 3.5 million have been driven from their homes, and 90 percent of their villages have been looted and burned. Four million others, most of whom reside in Sudan's Darfur region, still live under the daily threats of disease, starvation, rape, torture and murder.... Read more

VERMONT -- By all accounts, Sudan is facing the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Since the country's brutal dictator, Omar al-Bashir, seized power in a 1989 coup, his regime has been accused of killing more than 2 million innocent civilians -- 400,000 in the last two years alone -- and displacing 4 million others. In 1997, President Clinton made it illegal for American companies to do business in the East African nation. And last year, the Bush administration finally described the ongoing violence in Sudan's Darfur region as "genocide."... Read more

At 10 o'clock Friday morning, August 20, in the Williston studios of Vermont Interactive Television, Matt Holland was waiting for his first face-to-face encounter with genocide. An engineer in the control room asked Holland to test his audio levels, so he recited a snippet from an Abraham Lincoln speech. In front of him, two TV monitors and a video camera would soon put us in the middle of a refugee camp in eastern Chad, just across the border from Darfur, Sudan.... Read more