This Article is From Oct 12, 2010

George Clooney makes peace mission to Sudan

George Clooney makes peace mission to Sudan

Highlights

  • Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney is visiting the war-torn country of Sudan in a bid to attract global attention to the human suffering in the African country.
  • The 49-year-old actor travelled to the far-reaching, war-torn areas of Sudan's south with John Prendergast, the founder of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide advocacy group, reported Daily Mail online.
  • US news reporter, Ann Curry, who met Clooney during the trip blogged about her meeting with the 'Ocean's Eleven' star.
  • "'If you knew a tsunami, or Katrina or a Haiti earthquake was coming, what would you do to save people?' Clooney said," wrote Curry.
  • A photo posted by Curry showed Clooney pointing over a field that Curry wrote was the site of a mass grave from 2008.
  • The town was Abyei, which was largely burned to the ground after southern and northern armies fought, prompting an estimated 60,000 people to leave.
  • This is Clooney's third trip to the area. He was last there in the fall of 2008 with his dad, veteran US newsman, Nick Clooney.
  • Clooney, visited the town of Malakal, where portions of Sudan's northern and southern armies have had uprisings twice since the end of the north-south civil war in 2005.
  • A independence vote in Sudan in January 2011 could result in one of Africa's largest countries dividing because of civil unrest.
  • The vote and the possibility of a new north-south war because of it, are the reason that Clooney and others feel the need to put the spotlight on this area that is less well-known than Darfur.
London: Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney is visiting the war-torn country of Sudan in a bid to attract global attention to the human suffering in the African country.

The 49-year-old actor travelled to the far-reaching, war-torn areas of Sudan's south with John Prendergast, the founder of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide advocacy group, reported Daily Mail online.

US news reporter, Ann Curry, who met Clooney during the trip blogged about her meeting with the 'Ocean's Eleven' star.

"'If you knew a tsunami, or Katrina or a Haiti earthquake was coming, what would you do to save people?' Clooney said," wrote Curry.

A photo posted by Curry showed Clooney pointing over a field that Curry wrote was the site of a mass grave from 2008.

The town was Abyei, which was largely burned to the ground after southern and northern armies fought, prompting an estimated 60,000 people to leave.

This is Clooney's third trip to the area. He was last there in the fall of 2008 with his dad, veteran US newsman, Nick Clooney.

 Clooney, visited the town of Malakal, where portions of Sudan's northern and southern armies have had uprisings twice since the end of the north-south civil war in 2005.

A independence vote in Sudan in January 2011 could result in one of Africa's largest countries dividing because of civil unrest.

The vote and the possibility  of a new north-south war because of it, are the reason that Clooney and others feel the need to put the spotlight on this area that is less well-known than Darfur.


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