Sudan

An SU alum's journey from fighting to freedom
By Zoe Mintz
November 4, 2011 - 12:44am
As Paul Ariik dragged an AK-47 on Sudanese soil, he never imagined he'd one day earn both a bachelor's and a master's degree in America.

Weeks after 9/11, a plane landed in New York City. On board was Paul Ariik, a 21-year-old Sudanese Lost Boy. As the plane began its descent, Ariik looked out the window. It was nighttime and he thought he was seeing fireflies on a river. The fireflies were in fact the New York City skyline. Ariik had never been in a plane or even a city before. In fact, the first time he saw a telephone, refrigerator or even traffic lights was hours after this very flight.

Hear no evil
By Mackenzie Reiss
April 20, 2011 - 8:42pm
A Sudanese refugee living in Syracuse escaped the violence in his home country, but remains haunted by the horrors he witnessed.

To live in Sudan is to live at war.

Guerilla soldiers draw their battle lines through towns, homes and human lives; lines that tear the country apart.

Fifty years of civil war have split the country in two. In half a century, the war has taken two million lives and left more than four million others homeless.

On Jan. 9, 2011, the Sudanese had the chance to break that cycle of violence.

Southern Sudanese officials to visit Central New York
By Amy Khuu
February 28, 2011 - 4:16pm
Sudanese officials set to speak at local colleges to explain current state of country.

A group of high-ranking Southern Sudanese officials will be in central New York this week for a tour. The group of officials will consist of one of Southern Sudan’s 10 state governors and the state’s ministers of heath, finance, trade and industry, housing and physical infrastructure, according to The Post-Standard.

Southern Sudan votes on separation from north
By Stephen James M...
February 7, 2011 - 12:56pm
Country gets closer to splitting into two nations.

The African nation of Sudan, a country plagued by national conflict, is close to breaking into two different nations, according to CNN.

The African country has been in conflict for the past two decades because Arab Muslims in the north disagree over government issues with black Christians in the south.

Funk, waffles, and sign language
By Christine Mehta
November 5, 2009 - 7:07pm
After a yearlong job search, Bail Chol, a deaf Sudanese immigrant, has found a home at Funk 'n Waffles.

Hands have been whirling about for the past two months in a kind of frenzy at Funk 'n Waffles, and not because they were making food.

Those hands belong to Bail Chol, a Sudanese immigrant who was born deaf.

Since Funk 'n Waffles opened almost three years ago, the co-owners, SU alumni Adam Gold and Kyle Corea, have had 20 employees that fit the relaxed, funky style of their restaurant.  Chol is the first with a disability, they said.