Category: Sudan


700 People Rescued from Slavery Since February

  In two separate liberation actions in February 2015 and April 2015, underground networks in North Sudan supported by CSI have rescued 700 people from slavery, and repatriated them to their homeland of South Sudan! Among the slavery survivors are: Ayel Gau Wany – “I was captured with my mother and three sisters when I… Read more »

Over 300 People Freed from Slavery Before Christmas

On December 6 and 7, 329 people were freed from slavery in Sudan through CSI’s underground slave liberation network, and returned to their homeland in South Sudan. The enslaved people were either abducted during Sudan’s Islamist regime’s genocide against South Sudan from 1983-2005, or born into slavery. This brings the total number of people freed… Read more »

400 People Freed from Slavery!

On September 26 and 27, 400 people were freed from slavery in Sudan through CSI’s underground slave liberation network, and returned to their homeland in South Sudan. The enslaved people were either abducted during Sudan’s Islamist regime’s genocide against South Sudan from 1983-2005, or born into slavery. Thanks to CSI’s donors, they are all free!

Father and Son Reunited After Years in Slavery!

Michael Yom Malit was rescued from slavery in North Sudan through CSI’s underground slave liberation network in 2008.  In February 2014, we visited him at the church where he serves as a catechist, and he told us his story: I was a slave in Da’en, in Darfur, for many, many years.  My wife and our… Read more »

In South Sudan, CSI is Still Liberating Slaves!

Despite the tragic fighting affecting large areas of South Sudan, in North Bahr el-Ghazal state, where CSI operates, there is peace, and CSI is continuing to free people from slavery in North Sudan and bring them home. 700 people have been freed so far in 2014! Abuk and Angom, sisters, were separated for fifteen years… Read more »

An Update on the Current Conflict in South Sudan

Dr. John Eibner, CEO, Christian Solidarity International (CSI-USA): Violent political power struggles are currently creating humanitarian disasters throughout the north of sub-Saharan Africa from Nigeria and  Mali in the west, through Central African Republic to Sudan and Somalia in the East. The sudden eruption of a headline-grabbing armed rebellion in South Sudan just before Christmas… Read more »

Slave Rescue Mission in Progress!

Dear Friends, As you read this, my team and I are in South Sudan meeting with a group of people who have been rescued from slavery by CSI’s underground network. Learn More about our slave redemption program here These people are returning home with nothing but the clothes on their back.  Many of them have illnesses and severe wounds from… Read more »

Rabbi Joseph Polak: A Seder Among Former Slaves

Deep in the southern Sudan, my wife and I found ourselves interviewing recently liberated women-slaves who showed us how their limbs had been maimed by their masters’ machetes, who described how their genitals had been mutilated, and how their masters had taught their own children to be contemptuous of them because they (the mothers) were… Read more »