Sudan: Clooney stands up for the Nuba Mountains

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Actor George Clooney addresses the Council on Foreign Relations regarding to the situation in Southern Sudan, Mar. 13, 2012 in New York.
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New recruits for the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) train in a secret camp in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan in preparation for what they call a long war against Khartoum on July 11, 2011. High up in Sudan's Nuba mountains, hundreds of men train to join fighters aligned to the ex-rebel army of the south, the SPLA, jogging along mountain paths singing its battle songs.
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Sudanese women from the Nuba Mountains region walk through the small town of Kauda in the South Kordofan state on Jan. 15, 2011.
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US actor George Clooney sits next to human rights activist John Prendergast (L) during an interview with AFP about South Sudan's secession referendum at a hotel in Juba on the eve of the vote on Jan. 8, 2011.
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Actor George Clooney (L) and co-director of ENOUGH Project John Prendergast (L) speak to reporters at the White House after a meeting with US President Barack Obama about Sudan's referendum on Oct. 12, 2010.
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