Mobile Phones Ring in South Sudan's New Era
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RUMBEK, Sudan  - The town of Rumbek in southern  Sudan is getting used to a sound never heard before -- the  ringing of a mobile phone.
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Conflict seems to have become a way of life for Sudan that has struggled to find peace and stability since its independence in 1956.
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In the Kenyan slum of Kibera these days, the ancient cadences of the Muslim call to prayer compete with election propaganda blaring from loudspeakers.
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BELIEL CAMP, Sudan -- Dinka men once danced in a green field here in Darfur. A weave of drum rhythms would rise with the smoke of their twilight bonfires. The men would form a tight line with their spears, honoring their lost homeland in war-scattered southern Sudan and chanting praise for the peace they had found as refugees.
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Two more mobile carriers are expanding into Africa, as countries gear up to fund projects.
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They've gone without food  or clothing just to make that call: a university survey has  found that some Australians are mobile phone junkies.
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The U.N. refugee agency is  alerting more than 33,000 vulnerable Iraqi refugees in Damascus  through text messages on cell phones, which many of them use to  keep in touch with family and friends.
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NAIROBI As concern has continued to grow around the world at the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the western Darfur region of Sudan, the stream of high-profile visitors to Sudan over the past few months has been accompanied by increasingly angry language from
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Mobile phones are expected to generate greater revenue this year than traditional land lines with the nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America driving growth, a U.N. agency said Thursday.
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While many Sudanese displaced by three years of fighting in the Darfur region are living on handouts in refugee camps, the country as a whole is in the midst of an economic boom.
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By Colin Stewart, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Jun. 19--Editor's note: Second of two columns on new uses of mobile  phones. Last week: an info-on-demand service for cell phones.
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Mobile phone users have outstripped traditional landline connections in India, according to the industry, marking a major lifestyle and communications milestone for the rapidly changing country.
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Terrified Sudanese by the thousands are again straggling into refugee camps in the Darfur region, driven from their villages by fresh violence that illustrates the challenges of ending the conflict here.
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Since civil war erupted in southern Sudan in 1983, more than 2 million people have died and at least 4 million have been driven from their homes.
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The wireless service provider seeks growth in emerging markets.
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Supporters slaughtered a bull and sang praise songs when south Sudan leader John Garang arrived in his southern bastion on Saturday for the first time since a peace accord ended Africa's longest-running civil war.
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JUBA, Sudan  - Semi-autonomous south Sudan has taken its first steps toward drafting a formal defence policy as part of a process to turn the rebel-dominated southern army into a conventional force, officials said.