World Over Aftershow: The Worsening Crisis in Sudan with Bishop Macram Gassis
Raymond Arroyo
Raymond Arroyo is an internationally recognized, award-winning journalist, producer, and bestselling author, seen each week in more than 100 million homes around the globe on EWTN. He has worked for the Associated Press, the political columnist team of Evans and Novak, and as a Capitol Hill Correspondent.
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On the World Over Aftershow this week, longtime friend of program, Sudanese Bishop Macram Gassis and I continued our discussion on the worsening situation there just weeks before the South gains its independence. Renewed fighting over an oil rich region has many concerned about a potential resumption of the two-decade civil war that ended in 2005. That war claimed the lives of more than two million people. More than one-hundred have been killed in recent weeks, and as many as 100,000 have fled the border region after President Umar al-Bashir’s Sudanese army seized the disputed region of Abyei, late last month. Media coverage has been scant and a new humanitarian crisis is emerging, and Bishop Gassis is warning that the situation is becoming most desperate for the people of his diocese and Southern Sudan.
