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Satellite Sentinel Video Coverage Round-Up

Follow the links below for video coverage of the Satellite Sentinel Project, including interviews with board members George Clooney and John Prendergast.

 

-Clooney to ABC's 'This Week': 'Our job is to stop it before it starts' (Satellite Sentinel blog)

 

-Track 180 Spotlight: George Clooney (Track180)

 

-Putting Sudan on the Six O'Clock News (Satellite Sentinel blog)

 

You can likewise visit www.satsentinel.org for a full overview of the project, as well as daily updates.

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‘Good News for the New Year’: Round-up of Satellite Sentinel Project Coverage

The launch of the Satellite Sentinel Project captured the attention of national and international news media last week, and has been prominently featured in dozens of countries. Anticipation is running high about what will be revealed by the first satellite images to be released later this week along with expert analysis from UNOSAT and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Less well publicized have been our plans to roll out significant additional resources -- such as crowd-sourced reports from eye witnesses on the ground, and a series of video dispatches from Tim Freccia which bring in local voices, adding necessary and revealing human context to the tantalizing, high-tech photography.

 

Follow the link for a round-up of initial Satellite Sentinel Project coverage, and visit www.satsentinel.org for a full overview of the project, as well as daily updates.

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NEWS

last updated september 9th, 2009

september 9th, 2009

Zimbabwe Sanctions 'Should End'

"Southern African leaders have ended a regional summit by calling on the international community to lift all sanctions on Zimbabwe."

september 9th, 2009

Wash. Post Op-Ed: "An 'Election' Burma's People Don't Need"

U Win Tin, a founding member of Burma's leading Democratic opposition party, the National League for Democracy, has written an op-ed in the Washington Post addressing the upcoming 2010 elections in Burma.

 

Follow the jump for the full text of the article.

september 8th, 2009

Burma Pro-Democracy Party Wants Offices Reopened

"The pro-democracy party of detained Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi called on the ruling junta Tuesday to allow it to reopen its branch offices, which would be crucial for taking part in next year's planned national elections."

september 8th, 2009

Southern African Grouping Proposes Extraordinary Summit on Zimbabwe

"Leaders of the SouthernAfrican Development Community assembled for a summit Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo decided not to examine progress by Zimbabwe's national unity government and discuss issues that continue to trouble power-sharing in Harare, but will hold an extraordinary summit in a few weeks focused exclusively on Zimbabwe."

september 8th, 2009

Member of Zimbabwe PM's Party Murdered for Song: Party

"A member of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party has been beaten to death by soldiers for playing a song praising the premier, his Movement for Democratic Change said Tuesday."

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