Darfuris say peace deal incomplete - 'We stay for 100 years in camps'

El Fasher, Sudan - The dozen men hunched inside of a small mud hut in the Abu Shouk refugee camp are yelling so loudly that a small boy retreats into the corner and begins sobbing.

The men may sound as if they are fighting, but in fact, they are all in agreement as they discuss the Darfur peace accord, which was signed by the government of Sudan and one faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army on May 5.

To hear this angry discussion, one thing is clear: Not all Darfuris think the widely-hailed peace agreement is going to solve any of their problems.

Following the refusal of Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nur's breakaway faction of the SLA to sign the agreement, Darfuris and observers have charged that the peace deal is doomed to failure. Read more >>>

Oil at root of Darfur atrocity

By Rick Stiebel
Goldstream News Gazette

Local MP Keith Martin outlines Sudan situation for Belmont students


The genocide in Darfur is directly linked to the discovery of oil in that region of Sudan, says Esquimalt-Juan de Fuca Liberal MP Dr. Keith Martin.

Speaking to about 75 Belmont Secondary School students last week, Martin said the Sudanese government is furthering its oil interests by using the profits from oil to hire rebels and troops to brutalize and kill people who just want to farm the land. Read more >>>

Darfur peace accord is expected to fail

SUDAN'S WORD, U.N. WILL TO ACT IN DOUBT
By Tina Susman

NYALA, Sudan - The tattered tents stretch as far as the eye can see on the edge of town. The narrow paths are filled with weary-looking people, bleating goats and whining donkeys hauling rickety wooden carts, a vision almost medieval in its wretchedness.

If a peace accord signed earlier this month is successful, this squalid city, actually a camp for people displaced by Darfur's civil war, will disappear and its 95,000-plus inhabitants will return to their abandoned farms. Read more >>>

Why the UN Can't Save Darfur

It has been a good few weeks for those who believe that the United Nations can save Darfur--or so it may appear. Eleven days ago, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution demanding that the Sudanese government allow a mission to enter Darfur and assess the needs of an eventual deployment of U.N. troops.
That vote came in response to repeated obstruction by Khartoum, which has long balked at allowing a U.N. assessment team to enter Darfur--even after reaching a peace agreement with one faction of the largest Darfuri rebel group earlier this month.
But yesterday, three days past the deadline established by the Security Council, Khartoum finally agreed to allow the U.N. team to enter the country. The State Department trumpeted the development as "a positive step," and a headline in yesterday's Washington Post conveyed optimism that a deployment of U.N. troops to Darfur is on the way: "DEAL ON MISSION IN DARFUR MAY PRESAGE U.N. PRESENCE: MOVE CALLED PRECONDITION TO PEACEKEEPING." Good developments all. Right? Read more >>>

POLITICS-DARFUR: Grim and Getting Grimmer

Analysis by Jim Lobe

WASHINGTON, May 26 (IPS) - Despite a recent peace accord, a new U.N. Security Council resolution, and agreement by Sudan to permit a U.N. assessment team to travel to Darfur to determine how to strengthen peacekeeping forces there, the situation in the region, as well as in eastern Chad, has continued to deteriorate, according to sources here.

Attacks on villages and refugee camps by Khartoum-backed Arab militias, or Janjaweed, have been reported throughout Darfur in the past week, while fighting between various rebel factions has reportedly intensified. More than 700,000 people scattered around the region are currently without access to humanitarian relief, according to U.N. agencies. Read more >>>

Darfur’s Peace Plan: The View from the Ground

By: Suliman Baldo

The test of the Darfur peace agreement lies in the implementation of its provisions for security and disarmament, says Suliman Baldo of the International Crisis Group.

The world greeted the signing of the Darfur peace agreement (DPA) by the government of Sudan and the largest of the three rebel movements on 5 May 2006 with a sigh of relief. But while the accord does offer a necessary first step towards ending the carnage, a lot more needs to be done if peace is to return to the beleaguered region of western Sudan. Read more >>>

Complete, Inclusive and Comprehensive Peace for Darfur

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/578741957

Sudan says no to UN force in Darfur

Sudan on Wednesday said it would not accept the deployment of UN peacekeepers in Darfur as a Security Council deadline for a UN team to be allowed into the strife-torn region expired.

"The government does not accept the deployment of foreign forces under (UN Security Council) Chapter Seven," presidential adviser Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmed told reporters. Read more >>>

The Grim Threat of Peace

Jane Wells

"I feel like even if I screamed here, no one would hear a thing. Maybe because no one would be listening but mostly because no sound would be coming from my mouth. I would be muted." An Aid Worker in Darfur.



The Darfur Peace Agreement was signed on May 5th. This should be cause for rejoicing, but history has taught us that Peace Deals do not end genocide and alas this is shaping up to be no different. Read more >>>

U.S. must be more forceful if genocide is going to come to an end in Darfur

Laura Brunelle, Hudson

The United States has been a nation that espouses human rights; many Americans tout the ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit if happiness for every person, even on a global level.

Why then are so many Americans ignorant about the atrocities occurring in Sudan? Why has the American media afforded so little time and energy to the genocide of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Sudanese by government-sponsored militants? Read more >>>

Khartoum Clamps Down Hard on News Access to Darfur

What do the regime’s genocidaires wish to obscure from international view?

Eric Reeves

The May 18, 2006 Reuters dispatch from Khartoum, by the superbly well-informed Opheera McDoom, offers a telling picture of newly imposed and severe restrictions on the ability of journalists to travel to and report from Darfur: Read more >>>

Militias kill dozens despite Darfur peace-rebels

KHARTOUM, May 20 (Reuters) - Dozens were killed in a major attack by government-backed militias on Shearia town in Sudan's Darfur region, the latest in a wave of raids since a peace deal was signed earlier this month, rebels said on Saturday.

A spokesman for the main rebel faction group who signed the deal in the Nigerian capital Abuja on May 5 told Reuters from the field in Darfur that despite the agreement, heavy attacks have continued on the ground. Read more >>>>>

Experts Discuss the Sudan Crisis

Journalist Nicholas Kristof and Sudan expert John Prendergast talk about the continuing crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur in Africa. Listen to the entire discussion >>>>

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'AU needs to enforce Darfur peace deal'

Johannesburg -
A South African peacemaker who participated in the negotiations for last week's peace deal in Darfur has warned that the agreement is very fragile and could collapse unless the African Union finds the "political stomach" to enforce it robustly.

Most fighting forces did not sign the accord and those which did had repeatedly broken ceasefires before and the African Union lacked the strength to enforce it, warned Laurie Nathan, a research fellow at the University of Cape Town and the London School of Economics. Read more >>>

Complete, Inclusive and Comprehensive Pease for Darfur

To African Union, Unite Nations, European Union, President Obasanjo and People of Nigeria, USA, Canada, Safe Darfur and All Civil Society and Human Rights organizations and Individuals concerned about Darfur, we undersigned are representatives of Darfur and other Sudanese civil society organizations and Sudanese experts...Read more >>>>>>>

Controversy surrounds peace deal for Sudan's Darfur

By Noel King

Controversy continues to swirl around Sudan's Darfur peace accord, which entered into effect this week despite the refusal of two factions to sign up to the deal.

The African Union has extended the deadline for the dissenting factions until 31 May, threatening sanctions if the groups continue to refuse to sign. Read more >>>

THE FUTURE OF DARFUR.

For Suad Abdalaziz, prospects are bleak. A Zaghawa from the Tawilla area of Northern Darfur, Suad was raped repeatedly by three Janjaweed militiamen in February 2004. The Janjaweed were ferociously active that month in the Tawilla region; in a single assault, led by the notorious Musa Hilal, they burned to the ground more than 30 villages, killing more than 200 people and raping more than 200 girls and women--some by up to 14 assailants and in front of their fathers, who were later killed. The men who raped Suad told her, "We want to change the color of your children." And they did: Nine months later, she bore a daughter. Now she is unlikely to get married, because, as she put it, "I have lost my honor." Read more >>>

Can Darfur's peace survive?

No-one was expecting Darfur's peace agreement to bring about an immediate transformation on the ground.

But the short time since the deal in Abuja have shown the size of the challenge ahead.

The Sudan Liberation Army, the region's biggest rebel movement is split in two.

One faction lead by the wiry Minni Minnawi has signed the deal while the other faction under Abdul Wahid Mohammed al-Nur demands further concessions from the Sudanese government.

In Gereida and Kalma - two of Darfur's biggest camps - the impact of the deal on the rebels and their supporters could be immediately seen. Read more >>>

Complete, Inclusive and Comprehensive Pease for Darfur

UN, EU, AU, USA, UK, Civil Society, H Rights, International Community

The door for comprehensive and complete peace in Darfur should be left open.

We, the undersigned, are Darfurians, other Sudanese and concerned non-Sudanese who sincerely believe that the agreement that was signed on May 5, 2006 in Abuja, between one faction of SLM/A and the National Congress Party, does not address the root causes of Sudanese Conflict in Darfur and it is therefore unacceptable. We believe it will lead to more destruction of Darfurians and their region.
Join those who are for genuine and everlasting peace for Darfur.

QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: May 13, 2006 (Part 2)

Current data for total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease
Eric Reeves

Part 1 of this mortality assessment (April 28, 2006), surveying all relevant extant data, concludes that since the outbreak of major conflict in Darfur (February 2003), over 450,000 people have died from violence, disease, and malnutrition (see http://www.sudanreeves.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102). Moreover, despite the “peace agreement” reached in Abuja (Nigeria) last week, there is little reason to believe that the current mortality rate for disease and malnutrition (based on UN data) will decline from a level of almost 7,000 deaths per month (see Part 1). Read more >>>

'Creative death' in Darfur, The cure may be as deadly as the crisis

In Darfur, things have fallen apart terribly, and putting them back together again won't be easy -- no matter what treaties are signed or peacekeeping forces sent in.

There are so many ruined lives in Darfur, especially of women raped and impregnated, of children without parents, of witnesses to the slaughter of loved ones. Eric Reeves, the inspired American activist who has done so much to call attention to the plight of refugees and victims of state-sponsored Janjaweed violence in Darfur, writes in the New Republic that "it will be a long time before life in Darfur returns to normal -- if it ever does." Read more >>>

Violence follows Darfur peace, Sudanese unhappy

By Opheera McDoom

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Violent demonstrations and angry proclamations against a Darfur peace deal have marred the agreement hailed by the international community as a first step to end the violence that has killed tens of thousands.

Anger in the miserable camps where more than 2 million have sought refuge over three years of rape, killing and looting, has boiled over into violent protests throughout all three Darfur states and Khartoum.

Many Darfuris say they reject the deal, signed by only one rebel group faction on May 5 in the Nigerian capital Abuja. Two other factions, including one led by a member of Darfur's largest tribe, have refused to sign.

"It is a big mess," said Bashir Adam Rahman, political officer in the opposition Popular Congress Party. Read more >>>

Phony Peace

May 11, 2006: In the wake of the "partial" peace deal in Darfur, the US is once again urging the United Nations to provide troops for a Darfur peacekeeping operation. The UN wants to deploy a "robust" UN force, which some have interpreted to mean a force of at least 20,000 troops. The government has indicated that it would reconsider it position on a UN-sponsored peacekeeping force. What that means precisely ("reconsider") isn't clear. Read more >>>

UN rights chief urges ICC to act on Darfur

By Richard Waddington

GENEVA (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court must act more decisively to bring to trial those guilty of war crimes in Darfur because Sudanese officials have so far proved incapable of doing so, the top U.N. human rights official said.

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, just back from a visit to Sudan, said on Thursday that despite government promises no official had been tried and punished for any of the serious human rights violations committed in the vast western region of Africa's largest state. Read more >>>

Complete, Inclusive and Comprehensive Pease for Darfur

The door for comprehensive and complete peace in Darfur should be left open.

Peace in Darfur?

Our Sunday Visitor (www.osv.com)

The people of the Darfur region of Sudan in recent years have become the "poster children" for the horrors of starvation, famine and even genocide. They are the end result of an old, all-too-familiar story that has been revisited time and again over the past several decades in various parts of the African continent: civil war, rebel factions, atrocities against civilians, ethnic cleansing, displaced refugees, international apathy and humanitarian aid that arrives too little and too late for too many. Read more >>>

Cracks appear in main rebel group over Darfur peace deal

Abuja, Nigeria

Divisions emerged on Tuesday in the Darfur rebel group that signed a peace deal with Khartoum last week, with the top adviser to the movement's chairperson urging the United Nations to freeze its implementation.

Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim, top adviser to Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) leader Minni Arko Minnawi, sent a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan charging that his boss had been pressured into signing Friday's peace agreement. Read more >>>

Darfur: Back to Business as Usual

By: Anne Bartlett, Chicago, USA

Only hours after the ink has dried on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), the Government of Sudan has revealed its contempt for the peace process and humanitarian norms.

In a show of what can only be described as “business as usual” Jamal Muhammad Ibrahim put paid to suggestions that a UN force would automatically be allowed into the region. Speaking to Reuters he argued that the idea of an immanent UN force was untrue: "This is not accurate. I don’t know who made this statement. ... It has to come after an assessment by the Sudan government. If the need arises then Sudan may decide to do so. Otherwise no one has the right to impose foreign forces on Sudan," Read more >>>

Darfur refugees fear peace deal leaves them vulnerable

CBC News
Riots erupted in Sudan on Monday during a senior UN humanitarian official's visit to a camp for displaced people in Darfur.

A Sudanese interpreter was killed by the angry demonstrators.

Tensions are increasing in the camps as refugees learn details of the peace deal signed on Friday between the Sudanese government and the main rebel groups in Darfur. They fear the deal doesn't do enough to protect them from government-backed militia, the Janjaweed. Read more >>>

Darfur refugees wary of peace deal

By Claire Soares

GAGA, Chad, May 6 (Reuters) - Darfuri refugees sheltering in crowded camps in arid eastern Chad might have been expected to celebrate a long-awaited peace deal but they say they are in no rush to pack bags, load mules and begin the trek back home.

Many are wary of the agreement struck on Friday because it does not include all rebel factions, while others are highly sceptical the Sudanese government will keep its side of the bargain.

"I'm all for peace, but the deal has to be a realistic one or we'll end up back home facing the same violence that caused us to flee in the first place," said Adam Dingila, a community leader at the Gaga refugee camp, who has lost 15 members of his family to the conflict in Darfur. Read more >>>

Sudan denies reports that it will allow UN troops in Darfur

Khartoum -

Sudan's government has denied reports that it will allow United Nations peacekeepers to enter the war-torn Darfur region.

'Either I have been misquoted or someone else has made an erroneous statement,' Foreign Ministry Spokesman Jamal Ibrahim told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Sunday, as the UN's top humanitarian official Jan Egeland was due in the region. More >>>

Video rouses students

By JANESE HEAVIN of the Tribune’s staff

Darfurians are dying daily, and some Rock Bridge High School students want to do something about it.

Sophomores in Matt Cone’s and Heather Hadley’s world studies classes have spent the past week talking about the situation in the region in western Sudan after having watched MTV’s "Translating Genocide." The documentary follows three college students to Sudan, where they talked to refugees. Read more >>>

Violence against Darfur women worsens - rights chief

By Kamilo Tafeng

KHARTOUM, May 4 (Reuters) - Sexual violence against women in Darfur is worsening amid a general deterioration in security and human rights in Sudan's vast west, the top U.N. human rights official said after touring the region.

"The situation (in Darfur) is poor, bad and very alarming and what is particularly sad is to see no progress and a deterioration of the situation," said Louise Arbour, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights.

"I am absolutely persuaded that the sexual violence against women ... is worsening every day," Arbour told Reuters in an interview in Khartoum on Wednesday. Read more >>>

Government offensive raises fears of attack on Gereida

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks

Observers fear the town of Gereida, which provides refuge to an estimated 90,000 displaced persons, might come under siege following a series of attacks on rebel-controlled villages in South Darfur.

"We have received unconfirmed, unilateral reports that there might be an attack on Gereida town - meaning that the town could be under fire - if we do not take immediate steps," said Gemmo Lodesani, the United Nations deputy humanitarian coordinator in Sudan, said by telephone on Tuesday. Read more >>>

Janjaweed Attack in Chad Causes Panic Among Sudanese Refugees

By Lisa Schlein
Geneva

The U.N. refugee agency says fear among thousands of people who fled to Chad from Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur is growing in the wake of fatal attacks by janjaweed militiamen on Monday. The agency says the attack occurred near the village of Dolola, in southeastern Chad ,just a few kilometers from a refugee camp at Goz Amir.

The refugees were not the victims of this attack but the U.N. refugee agency says it was too close for their comfort. The rest >>>

Darfur rebels right to reject agreement

Reporter: Mark Colvin

MARK COLVIN: There's been another deadline extension in talks aimed at ending the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan. As Australia's Ambassador to the UN Robert Hill floated the possibility of Australian troops possibly being deployed to a possible peacekeeping mission there.

The Sudanese Government says it's ready to sign a draft agreement but Darfur rebel groups don't feel they've got enough out of the deal. Read more >>>

Why are we Muslims so silent on Darfur?

TAREK FATAH

The remark by a prominent Muslim refugee-rights activist troubled me greatly: "Zionists [are] abusing this issue," he announced curtly when he said he would not be joining me and hundreds of other people on Sunday at a "Scream for Darfur" rally at Queen's Park in Toronto.

This line of thinking, that Jews have somehow stolen the issue of Darfur's genocide by actively campaigning against it, has been making the rounds in cyberspace and needs a rebuttal.

The fact that more than 200,000 Darfurians, almost all of them Muslims, have been killed in an ongoing genocide; the fact that more than a million Muslim Darfurians are displaced refugees living in squalor and fear, appears not to have registered with the leadership of traditional Muslim organizations and mosques in this country. Read the full story >>>

QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: April 28, 2006 (Part 1)

Eric Reeves


Currently extant data, in aggregate, strongly suggest that total excess mortality in Darfur, over the course of more than three years of deadly conflict, now significantly exceeds 450,000. As Rwanda marks a grim twelfth anniversary, we must accept that while vast human destruction in Darfur has unfolded plainly before us, we have again done little more than watch, offering only unprotected humanitarian assistance while some 450,000 people have perished as a result of violence, as well as consequent malnutrition and disease. Human destruction to date, however, certainly does not mark the conclusion of the world’s moral failure in responding to genocide in Darfur---on the contrary, this massive previous destruction is our best measure of what is impending. Read more >>>

Ending the Darfur silence

THE MOST compelling humanitarian challenge of these times is to stop the genocide in Darfur. In the past three years, more than 400,000 people have been annihilated and more than 2 million driven from their homes by the National Islamic Front regime that rules Sudan and its proxies, Arab militias known as Janjaweed. And all that time -- while helicopter gunships were strafing villages, soldiers were raping women and girls, and Janjaweed raiders were smashing babies' skulls -- the nations of the world did little more than bemoan the complexities standing in the way of a life-saving mission. Now, they are even forcing cuts in United Nations food aid for lack of funding. Read more >>>

Holocaust On People's Minds At Darfur Rally

WASHINGTON

In the words of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, "for the sake of our humanity, save Darfur."

Wiesel was among the thousands who turned out in Washington Sunday to urge the Bush administration to help end the genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.

The crowd chanted, "Not on our watch" as speakers took turns on the National Mall.

Wiesel said while families are being uprooted and starved and children tormented and slaughtered, the world is "indifferent to their plight."

He said he won't remain silent because "silence helps the killer, never his victims." Read more >>>

Express your outrage about genocide

By TRUDY RUBIN

Today, the Save Darfur coalition will hold a mass rally in Washington to focus public outrage on the genocide in Darfur. But, although the rally will be large, it appears the numbers won't be sufficient to make a truly powerful statement -- unless more demonstrators travel to Washington at the last minute.

One has to ask: Why is there so little public passion about the massive Darfur killing? Read the full story >>>

A Loss of Hope Inside Darfur Refugee Camps

Over Two Years, a Genocide Comes Into View
By Emily Wax
Washington Post


NAIROBI -- On a stretch of the austere desert in Chad, just across the border from the Darfur region of Sudan, signs of tragedy came into full view: tattered clothing caught on the branches of thornbushes, carcasses of camels and goats that died on the long journey out.

Then the people began to appear: haggard young girls with siblings on their backs, old men riding atop donkeys piled high with cooking pots, water jugs and mats, and elderly grandmothers, some with gunshot wounds, being pushed through the sand in wheelbarrows. Read more >>>

U.N. Food Agency Cuts Rations in Darfur

By SAM CAGE

GENEVA Apr 28, 2006 (AP)— The U.N. food agency said Friday it is cutting rations in half for about 3 million refugees in Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur region because of a shortage of money, calling it "scandalous" that it has to stretch out supplies while it pleads for funds. Read more >>>

Act Now to Stop Genocide in Darfur, Sudan

Baltimore -- Lutheran World Relief joins more than 160 humanitarian agencies in the Save Darfur Coalition to co-sponsor the Rally to Stop Genocide in Washington, D.C. this Sunday, April 30 to draw attention to the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. Concurrent rallies will be held in cities across the U.S.

“This genocide has been tragically under the radar screen for too long,” said LWR President Kathryn Wolford. “It’s time that we collectively raise our voices and insist on an end to the violence.” Read more >>>

Students travel to Capitol to protest genocide

By Aliza Appelbaum

More than 400,000 people have died in genocide in the Sudanese Darfur region. The violence between Arab Muslims and black Muslims has displaced another 2.5 million from their homes, forcing them to go without food, water or shelter for months. Read more >>>

Sudan: Government Offensive Threatens Darfur Civilians

By: Human Rights Watch


The Sudanese government has launched a new military offensive in South Darfur that is placing civilians at grave risk, Human Rights Watch said today.

An April 24 attack on a village in rebel-controlled territory used Antonov aircraft and helicopter gunships indiscriminately in violation of the laws of war, and displaced thousands of civilians who had sought safety there. The attack occurred just a week before an April 30 deadline for peace talks to end in Abuja, Nigeria. Two other villages in the area have also been attacked in the past 10 days. On April 25, the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution placing four Sudanese individuals involved in the armed conflict on a sanctions list for international travel bans and asset freezes. Read more >>>

Darfur up close

Column by Nick Clooney

President Bush has called it genocide. Colin Powell has used the same word. Journalist Elizabeth Rubin described it as "slow-motion genocide." They are all talking about Darfur

Darfur is the westernmost region of Africa's largest nation, the Sudan. Darfur is also, by all accounts, the most miserable and dangerous place to live on the face of the planet. The full story >>>

UNICEF: Malnutrition Rising in Darfur

By ERICA BULMAN

GENEVA - Increased fighting, violence and a lack of funding are eroding progress in Darfur and malnutrition is on the rise again, the U.N. children‘s fund said Wednesday.

"We need to raise the alarm bell," said Ted Chaiban, head of UNICEF ‘s mission to Sudan. "We‘re losing ground. We need to stop this deterioration. Read more >>>

Darfur: Genocide Without Witnesses

By Jacky Mamou
Libération

Khartoum is deliberately hindering international humanitarian action.

While the international community commemorates the twelfth anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda - and, hand on heart, swears "Never again!" - murders, rapes, pillages and the forced displacement of black African populations, the Fur, Massalit, and Zaghawa, have continued for over three years in western Sudan. Read more >>>

Speaker recounts horrors of Darfur genocide

Eyewitness to Sudan conflict says U.S. should help region
Behnaz Abolmaali

A group of about 100 students heard first-hand accounts of rape, murder and torture in Darfur, Sudan, during a talk Friday by Brian Steidle, a former Marine captain and U.S. representative to the African Union's peacekeeping mission. Steidle presented photographs and poignant accounts of individuals caught in what he said is regarded as the worst humanitarian conflict today.

"I saw villages of up to 20,000 people burned to the ground. I saw government looting, burning," said Steidle, who is on a nationwide tour to speak about his experiences. "I saw people who had their ears cut off, their eyes plucked out, simply because of who they are." Read more >>>

Darfur on the brink

The United Nations Security Council was told last week that the humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of the Sudan is growing worse because of government interference with the delivery of food and other aid. Yet two permanent members of the Security Council, Russia and China, have signaled opposition to using sanctions to change the behavior of the Sudanese government. If they carry out their veto threat, the consequences will be even more tragic. Read more >>>

Children's art gives insight into Darfur

Violence, warfare part of normal life
By Mike Dawson

The children in the Kalma displacement camp in Darfur know their shapes.

Triangles, for instance. Many can aptly draw one long narrow triangle then connect another to its wide end.

Add a bending rectangle to the bottom and you have an AK-47.

Looking through the dozens of crayon pictures drawn and colored by 25 children living in the Darfur camp, one is at once embraced by innocence and smacked with horror. The full story >>>

A voice against genocide

By KELLY ROUBA

PRINCETON BOROUGH -- In a photo captured by pediatrician Jerry Ehrlich while providing medical care in Darfur, Sudan, a 2-year-old boy lies on the ground. His eyes are sunken and every bone can be counted.

Once full of life, Ehrlich said the toddler had become so weak that all he could do was lie still. "His immune system is shot due to malnutrition. This is what happens to most of the kids in Darfur," Ehrlich said. Read more >>>

Will we watch as atrocities continue?

JONATHAN GURWITZ
"Every day our families are killed and raped. We are waiting for your help."

Maryam Adam a Darfur refugee

A great mystery of theology surrounds the parable of the good Samaritan.

As recounted in the Gospel of Luke, robbers attack a traveler on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and leave him to die. A priest and then a member of the priestly class pass by the wounded traveler on the side of the road.

A Samaritan - a foreigner - stops and renders aid, bandaging his wounds and taking on the expense of sheltering and caring for the victim.

What would the Samaritan have done if he arrived as the robbers were attacking the traveler, not afterward? How you answer that question will indicate quite a bit about your view of the world - about whether we who are fortunate to live in peace and tranquility should simply pass down the other side of the road as horrific events transpire.

With regard to Darfur, this is more than a fanciful inquiry. A genocidal campaign by the government of Sudan against black Africans in the western part of the country has, over two years, taken as many as 400,000 lives and created more than 2 million refugees. The atrocities committed by the Sudanese military and its Janjaweed allies defy comprehension: torture and execution of civilians, castration of men, rape of women and girls, all on a massive scale. The full story >>>

Holocaust tribute to focus on Darfur

GRAHAM FRASER
NATIONAL AFFAIRS WRITER


The phrase "never again," long applied to the commemoration of the Holocaust, is taking on new meaning. Today, thousands of green ribbons will be given to federal and provincial legislators to be worn Tuesday to draw attention to massacres in Darfur. Read more >>>

As the genocide in Darfur goes on, chaos and killing spread to Sudan's neighbours

By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor

It has been called a genocide in slow motion, its gruesome details unfolding while the world looks the other way. And it is spreading.

There are pictures, there are witness accounts, there are the Western visitors who go home with harrowing tales of rape, scorched earth and horseback attacks on helpless villagers. The entire story >>>

Darfur crisis is 'as bad as ever'

The humanitarian situation in Sudan's Darfur region is as bad now as....

Jan Egeland told the BBC that aid workers in Darfur were "in retreat" from attacks by armed groups, a funding shortfall and government obstacles.

He said that 500,000 people of the 3m who needed help were "out of reach".

The US says a genocide is being committed against Darfur's black African population. Read more >>>

Darfur 'too deadly for aid work'

Fighting has made it impossible to reach large areas of the Sudanese region of Darfur, the Red Cross says.
International Committee of the Red Cross Sudan spokesman Paul Conneally told the BBC that its vehicles are being systematically looted.

He said tens of thousands of people had been forced from their homes around the rebel bases in the Marra mountains.

Aid workers are trying to help more than two million people, in what the US says is a genocide. The full story >>>

'Time is running out for Darfur'

BY TIM LOUIS MACALUSO

Mohamed Yahya doesn't know if his parents are still alive. While he was attending school in Cairo, his village in Darfur --- Koka --- was repeatedly attacked by the Arab militia operating in Sudan. Read more >>>

Posturing on Genocide in Darfur and Eastern Chad

The UN Takes Its Turn at Posturing on Genocide in Darfur and Eastern Chad
Posted by: ereeves

US and Britain offer a token Security Council sanctions resolution, which is promptly rejected by China, Russia, and Qatar
The international community seems to have an inexhaustible capacity for disingenuousness, expediency, and bad faith in responding to resurgent genocide in Darfur and eastern Chad. Even as all humanitarian indicators strongly suggest that human mortality and displacement are rapidly accelerating, there is no action in prospect---diplomatic or military---that might address the acute insecurity that threatens civilians and continues to attenuate humanitarian capacity and operations. This growing insecurity ensures that the deaths of huge numbers of innocent children, women, and men will continue through the coming rainy season and hunger gap (May through September)---and well beyond. The full story >>>

Darfur Gets More Violent

The number of "no go" areas in Darfur ("no go" due to violence) has increased since December 2005. The current situation appears as bad as it was two years ago. The government denies this is the situation. From the Sudanese perspective, these complaints are part of an organized political drive to put the UN in charge of the current (failing) African Union-led peacekeeping effort. However, since mid-2003, the most trusted reports have come from NGO aid groups and UN observers in Darfur. Read more >>>

Bush is right: Darfur genocide must be stopped

By NAT HENTOFF

On March 25, at Freedom House in Washington, D.C., George W. Bush -- who has been more outspoken on the mass murders in Darfur than any world leader -- said: "When we say genocide, we mean genocide must be stopped!" The African Union's small force, he added, is not enough. "There should be a NATO overlay" of support. Read more >>>

The World And Darfur

On March 25 at a speech at Freedom House, President George Bush became the only world leader to state plainly that the atrocities in Darfur amount to genocide.

He then said it must be stopped and proposed allowing NATO to help support the African Union’s small force there.
Since that time, the world, the United Nations, the Muslim nations and the African nations have done … nothing.

In fact, a few days after the president’s speech, NATO head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that "Africans feel very strongly" that they should take care of problems on their own continent. So, he added, one "should be careful" about imposing oneself on them. "There is not yet the need for declaring a willingness for [NATO] to participate."

No doubt Africans should take care of their own problems but, as columnist Nat Hentoff notes, more than 300,000 Darfur Africans have been killed in the conflict and more than 2 million displaced, so there does appear to be something lacking in the African response. Read more >>>

The world fails to act on another slaughter

But the same nightmare of genocide that descended upon Rwanda has now come to the Darfur region of Sudan -- and the world's response is exactly the same as it was 12 years ago: silence, foot-dragging and stunning ineptitude. More than 400,000 people -- about the population of Oakland -- have died so far. The dithering continues, even as Darfur chokes on its own blood. It almost feels like the United Nations and the great Western powers are waiting for the granite memorials to go up and the Sudanese national holidays to be established before they demonstrate that the routine slaughter of innocent people in Africa is an issue worth caring about. Read more >>>

Genocide in Sudan begs for attention

Tim Nonn

I used to be a dedicated bystander. Whenever I caught a glimpse in the media of the genocide in Sudan, I turned away.

One night, I stopped -- and heard the story of a young Sudanese mother who had walked for days through the desert with her children until they reached the safety of a refugee camp. Her village had been destroyed and her husband killed by government-sponsored militia. She saved her children, and changed my life.

I asked my church to contribute funds for the refugees in Darfur. A few months later, my tranquil existence as a husband, father and editor of technical journals was turned upside-down when I was asked by national church leaders to form a grassroots interfaith campaign called Dear Sudan. Our goal, as part of a larger movement, is to stop the genocide. Read more >>>

Darfur's children deserve our protection

By William Hague

We've seen the evidence of ethnic cleansing. We must act now or be condemned for our inhumanity

'We send our grandmothers to collect the firewood. We know they will be beaten. But we have no choice; if we send our men, they will kill them. If we send our women or our girls, they will rape them.' I could see the bitterness and despair on the young woman's face as she described the cruel choice that her family is forced to make every day. We were standing in Abu Shouk displaced persons' camp in Darfur, Sudan, in front of the flimsy tent that she called home. The full story >>>

Darfur Video Diary by shadow foreign secretary William Hague

William Hague's
Three years of conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan has created one of the worst humanitarian crises the world has seen. Shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague has visited the area with the charity Oxfam. Watch the video diary for Sky News >>>

Bush Administration Darfur Policy: Incompetence or Disingenuousness?

Eric Reeves


The Washington Post editorial (full text of this important statement at http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR2006041001535.html) has asked the essential question of the Bush administration; tragically, the preponderance of evidence suggests that “two-faced” and disingenuous is the better description. What follows from this ugly reality is a lack of meaningful US policy for Darfur and eastern Chad, with the bleak diplomatic prospect that US leadership will be lacking as the Darfur region enters its period of greatest and most remorseless human destruction. Despite various posturing comments by Mr. Bush about a significant NATO role in Darfur (“NATO stewardship” was his phrase in February), statements from senior NATO officials in Brussels indicate that the role of the Alliance will in fact be highly limited. It is all too clear that senior Bush administration officials, at both the State Department and Pentagon, have failed to communicate effectively with NATO allies in Brussels, leaving a gaping disparity in public statements. The Bush administration has not invested the political and diplomatic capital necessary to sway the Alliance, which moves by notoriously slow consensus. Read more >>>

In the dark on Darfur

Black leaders need to shine a light -- and raise a ruckus

The situation in the Sudanese region of Darfur, where more than 2 million people have been displaced due to violence and some 400,000 have thus far died, forces us to look at the lack of interest or discussion of an ongoing genocidal operation imposed on black Africans by Arab Muslims.
Our civil rights establishment, which might have shouted itself hoarse, has been remarkably quiet, or at least they have made very little noise of the sort that draws a crowd of people from the media. Fore more >>>

While Darfur burns

It is enormously distressing to watch the sausage-making that passes for the world's attempt to do something about the carnage in Darfur.
The United Nations is still dawdling over plans to replace the African Union force currently there with a well-armed UN peacekeeping force. An attempt last week by the United Nations' top official on humanitarian issues, Jan Egeland, to visit Darfur was rebuffed by the Sudanese government. The full story >>>

Violations of African Union troops in Darfur

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/253272944?ltl=1143819150

Putting an end to Darfur genocide

Brian Steidle has seen it all: Bayonets used like toothpicks to pluck up babies; villages torched; people maimed; women and girls who have been raped; children who are orphaned. The former Marine captain spent six months in Darfur in the west of Sudan with an African Union peacekeeping mission, monitoring the genocide taking place there because Arab raiders, called janjaweed and supported by the Sudanese army, are victimizing black Darfurians.

Now Steidle is spreading word about his experiences there and trying to create awareness and demand that the world do something about it. Read the full editorial >>>

Darfur crisis intensifies

New York

Efforts to stop atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region are unravelling, with a new peacekeeping force uncertain, relief aid under attack and UN sanctions stymied, UN officials and analysts say.

"The situation is spiralling downward on the ground and retreating backwards on a daily basis in New York, Washington and Brussels," home of Nato, said John Prendergast of the International Crisis Group think-tank.

"A fragile consensus has collapsed under the weight of the Sudan government's artful diplomacy campaign," Prendergast told Reuters.

"It played chicken with the broad international community, and once again the international community drove off the road."

The main bulwark against abuses is the cash-strapped African Union which, under pressure from its Arab members who often side with Khartoum, is hesitating to merge its 7 000 troops with a UN force. The full story >>>

Ending Genocide in Darfur

Editorial

A time for quick actionEnding genocide requires more than slow-motion intervention. The United States and the United Nations must act much more aggressively and quickly to protect civilians trying to escape violence in Sudan's Darfur region.

The U.S. government has labeled the violence in Darfur, which began in 2003, as genocide. That's appropriate: The militias that have been trying to erase the population there are backed by the government in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.

Sudan's president, Omar el-Bashir, responds to such charges with a "Me? No, never." But then government helicopters buzz overhead to strafe villages and camps for the displaced, who number 2.5 million. Read more >>>

Darfur violence crosses border into Chad

By Shashank Bengali
JANJAWEED ARE FREE TO RAID AND ATTACK REFUGEES, CIVILIANS


The war in Sudan's Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have been killed in what the Bush administration calls genocide, is growing deadlier and more complicated.

Since the beginning of the year, militias backed by the Sudanese government are crossing over almost daily into neighboring Chad and freely attacking Darfur refugees and Chadian civilians in villages along the lengthy, desolate border. Read more >>>

Rescuing Darfur

By Juan E. Mendez

Twelve years ago this month, Rwanda experienced some of the most brutal crimes in memory. Up to 1 million persons were massacred, literally butchered with machetes, for merely being ethnic Tutsis or Hutu political moderates.
As images of mutilated bodies beamed across the globe, the international community stood idle. As we reflect on the lessons of that horrific episode, we must renew our commitment to take bold, decisive measures to ensure genocide does not take place in our times. We cannot claim to have learned the lessons of the 1994 Rwandan genocide if our action in the face of genocidal violence remains half-hearted.
Action is particularly needed in Darfur, where the threat of genocide continues to loom large. For more >>>

World fails in finding lasting solution to Darfur crisis: UN

NAIROBI, April 7 (Xinhua) -- A top United Nations relief official said on Friday the world has failed to provide a lasting solution to the crisis in Sudan's volatile region of Darfur where a three-year fighting has killed thousands of people and displaced million others.

Addressing a news conference in Nairobi, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland said the world has failed to put pressure on Khartoum and rebels to reach a solution at the negotiation process. For the full story >>>

End slaughter in Darfur: The United States must lead in halting genocide

The United Nations calls Darfur the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world," and for good reason.

Three years ago, Sudan began massacring ethnic African villagers in its western region of Darfur. As many as 400,000 people have died so far of murder, starvation and disease. Another 2.2 million have become refugees and are teetering on the brink of extermination. For more >>>

The catastrophe in Darfur

By: Ailise McMahon

The United Nations's top humanitarian official in Sudan, Jan Egeland, was prevented from entering Darfur on Monday. He told The New York Times, "[The Sudanese government] said I'm not welcome ... My interpretation is that they don't want me to see what I was planning to witness in South and West Darfur, which is renewed attacks on the civilian population." Read more >>>

Khartoum Sharply Accelerates War on Humanitarian Aid in Darfur

Eric Reeves

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are directly threatened with genocidal destruction by the National Islamic Front

Jan Egeland, the UN’s chief humanitarian official, was this week brazenly and contemptuously denied access to Darfur by leaders of Khartoum’s National Islamic Front (“National Congress Party”). Not only was Egeland refused entry to South Darfur and West Darfur, but he was informed through the NIF’s UN mission in New York that he “would not be welcome in Khartoum.” As if to underscore their contempt for UN humanitarian operations, Khartoum’s genocidaires the next day denied Egeland use of Sudanese air-space as he sought to travel to Chad to see Darfuri refugees and the rapidly deteriorating conditions along the Darfur/Chad border. The full story >>>

Sudan: UN Concerned for 90,000 Displaced People After Aid Group Asked to Leave

UN News Service (New York)

Living conditions for 90,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the conflict ridden Darfur region of Sudan are likely to get worse after Sudanese authorities asked the Norwegian non-governmental organization that was coordinating the largest IDP camp to leave, the top United Nations relief official said today, just a few days after authorities banned him from visiting the impoverished region.
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U.N. envoy: Crisis in Darfur getting worse

Fox News and Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — The conflict in Sudan's western Darfur region has worsened, with 200,000 additional people being forced from their homes, a top U.N. envoy barred from visiting the zone by Sudanese authorities said Tuesday.

Jan Egeland, U.N. under-secretary-general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, said Sudanese government officials had denied his U.N. aircraft permission to overfly Darfur in order to visit Sudanese refugees in neighboring Chad. A day earlier, they had barred him from visiting the capital, Khartoum, and the Darfur region. Read more >>>

Violations of African Union troops in Darfur

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/253272944?ltl=1143819150

Holocaust in Plain Sight

by Nat Hentoff

[U.N.] official Jan Pronk told the Security Council that killings, rapes and armed attacks on Darfur villagers [are being] committed by armed gangs secure in the knowledge that no one would stop or punish them.
New York Times, March 22

Long before the genocide in Sudan, I had been reporting for years in the Voice on the Sudan government's murders, gang rapes, and enslavement of black Christians and animists in the south of Sudan—and the attempts of the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, black American pastors, Christian Solidarity International, and a few members of Congress to awaken this country to the horrors in Sudan. Read more >>>

Gridlock on Genocide

by J. Carter Johnson
Pressure on Sudan mounts, but the killing continues in Darfur.

In Darfur, the desert of western Sudan, hideous genocide continues. A developing coalition that crosses the religious and political spectrum has lobbied hard for government bureaucracies to take action. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., recently returned from a visit to the devastated region. Still, it remains to be seen whether anyone can coax Sudan's government to stop the mass rape and murder. Read more >>>

UN's Egeland says Sudan stops him going to Darfur

By Opheera McDoom

RUMBEK, Sudan, April 3 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s top humanitarian official in Sudan Jan Egeland said the government barred him on Monday from visiting Darfur to prevent him seeing poor conditions there.

The apparent snub comes as Sudan is under international pressure over violence in Darfur that has made aid deliveries impossible in large parts of its vast western region.

"I've been barred from going to south Darfur, west Darfur and also I have been told that I am not welcome in Khartoum," Egeland, U.N. under-secretary for humanitarian affairs, told Reuters during a visit to southern Sudan. For more click here >>>

Former U.S. Marine seeks end to genocide in Darfur

By Jamie Ward

Former Marine Brian Steidle shows pictures that he took while stationed in Darfur to students in the business school Thursday night.
Yossi May • IDS
Former Marine Brian Steidle spoke of an ongoing "systematic ethnic cleansing" he witnessed in Darfur, a region in Sudan, while touring Bloomington Thursday and Friday. The events were part of the "Million Voices for Darfur" campaign.

"This is a government-sponsored military operation," Steidle said. "At its height, 9,000 to 10,000 people have died in a month and there are now nearly 2.5 to 3 million people in internally displaced persons camps. It's going on right now as we sit in this room. People are dying." Read more >>>

Violations of African Union troops in Darfur

Allegations of sexual abuses, by those who are supposed to curb sexual crimes, should not be left unaccounted for.

Please listen to the silent horrors unheard by many in the following link:

http://www.channel4.com/player/playerwindow.html?id=3979&vert=news

Whatever has been done to alleviate the suffering of the innocent is highly appreciated and the least to be done is to sign the petition in the following link:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/253272944?ltl=1143972683

Sudan tragedy needs action

The tragedy in the Sudan is overwhelming. In three years, 300,000 people have been killed; more than 2 million people have been displaced. Rapes and mutilations occur daily. The United Nations describes it as the world's worst humanitarian disaster and the United States has gone so far as labeling the situation in Darfur "genocide."

Yet, little is officially being done to right the wrongs, and grassroots efforts coordinated by frustrated citizens are sprouting up.

In Poughkeepsie, Diane Browne-Sterdt, like many people throughout the country, is increasingly appalled about the atrocities occurring in the western region of the Sudan, especially after having seen the movie "Hotel Rwanda." Read the full story >>>

Darfur: A peaceful option

By Kofi A. Annan
Alpha Oumar Konare


While no one knows for sure how many people have died in the conflict in Darfur, western Sudan, more than 2.6 million are suffering because of it, and urgently need assistance.

Villages have been burnt, crops uprooted, men murdered, women raped, children abducted. And 1.9 million people have been displaced from their homes within Sudanese territory. Others are still at home but prevented from planting the crops on which their lives depend. If food does not soon reach them, they too will be forced to go search of it, swelling already overcrowded camps. For more >>>>

Bush condemns Darfur 'genocide'

Washington -
United States President George Bush on Wednesday said that "genocide has to be stopped" in western Sudan, and that involvement by Nato should send a "clear signal" of the West's intent.

In unusually candid remarks on a range of international issues, Bush answered questions after a speech on Iraq at Freedom House in the nation's capital.

"This is serious business. This is not playing a diplomatic holding game... When we say genocide, that means genocide has to be stopped," Bush said. Read the rest >>>

Speaking out against genocide

Activist Brian Steidle will raise awareness of the turmoil in the Darfur region of Sudan at two local events Sunday
By Nicole Lee


What began as an assignment to document the turmoil in Darfur (an area in western Sudan, Africa) has become Brian Steidle’s mission. He now travels across the country discussing what the U.S. government has publicly called genocide in hopes of raising public awareness to stop the killing. Read more >>>

Rabbi Meets Genocide's General

A close-up of Sudan's chief mass murderer and his genteel, cultivated entourage
by Nat Hentoff

Refugees fleeing . . . from a village called Saleya described how nine boys were seized by the janjaweed, stripped naked and tied up, their noses and ears cut off and their eyes gouged out. They were then shot dead and left near a public well. From the continuing reports from Darfur by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

I have wondered what it would be like to be in the presence of Sudanese president General Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the apprentice Hitler of our time, who is responsible for the genocide in Darfur, which is very likely to surpass the Rwanda genocide in the number of slaughtered corpses. Rwanda's atrocities lasted less than a year, but Darfur's started in 2003, and in addition to the killings, more than 2 million black Africans have been displaced from their razed homes and villages. Click here for the full story >>>

Darfur: 21st century holocaust

About half a million innocent civilians have been slaughtered over the past 3 years. Other three million have been displaced from their homes either as refugees under squalid conditions in the neighboring countries or as internally displaced persons who constantly face Khartoum regime’s abuses. Read more >>>

Conference helps to remember Holocaust

Staff Writer

This week, West Lafayette is hosting its 25th annual Holocaust Remembrance Conference, designed to educate people about the events that took place decades ago. Such remembrance conferences are important, because they help us to never forget the heinous, embarrassing parts of human history.
However, many people tend to believe that such horrible instances of genocide and ethnic cleansing are all in the past and could never happen again. So it's important to realize that, even today, millions of people are being killed in large numbers due to genocide.

For example, in Dafur, Sudan, it is estimated that about 400,000 people have lost their lives due to genocide, and thousands more are dying every month (darfurgenocide.org). About 1.3 million people in Darfur and Chad have been displaced, and many have been put in concentration camps. For more click here >>>

Act now to stop the genocide in Darfur

Slaughter in Sudan must be countered before it spreads

If the world waits much longer to stop the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, there may be no one left to save.

Already, more than 400,000 black African Muslims have been slaughtered by gangs of Arab janjaweed militias, acting at the behest of the Sudanese government. Thousands more have been displaced and are now packed into disease-ridden refugee camps. Mass rapes have devastated the girls and women of Darfur. Read more >>>

Darfur attacks overwhelm peace force, UN reports

The UN special envoy to Sudan says that violence is rising in Darfur and that lack of progress in the south is jeopardizing a peace agreement that ended a separate conflict there.

The official, Jan Pronk, told the Security Council on Tuesday that killings, rapes and armed attacks on Darfur villagers were committed by armed gangs secure in the knowledge that no one would stop or punish them. The full story >>>

African church leader says Darfur can't wait 6 months for U.N. troops

by Fredrick Nzwili Ecumenical News International

NAIROBI - Sudan's deeply troubled Darfur region desperately needs a truly international peacekeeping force, and cannot wait another six months to get it, the Rev. Mvume Dandala, general secretary of the All Africa Conference of Churches, has told the African Union (AU).

Dandala charged that the AU peacekeepers there too often defer to the wishes of Khartoum.

"Like the rest of the world, we are appalled by the horrendous, disturbing and continuing loss of human life and livelihoods in Darfur," Dandala said in a March 23 letter to AU Chairman Denis Sassou-Nguesso, the president of Congo Brazzaville, and Omar Konari, chairman of the African Commission. Read more >>>

UNSC authorises Darfur peacekeeping plan

The United Nations Security Council has authorised preparations for the deployment of a peacekeeping mission in the Darfur region of Sudan.

The resolution, which was adopted unanimously, asks the Secretary General, Kofi Annan, to prepare a range of options for a UN operation in Darfur.
The full story >>>

Continue to write about Darfur crisis

Billy Thompson
Boca Raton

The humanitarian issue of Darfur is a crisis that has reached epic proportions. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, along with President Bush, has declared this to be modern-day genocide. Read more >>>