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The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday dissolved a group of experts tasked with monitoring abuses in the Darfur region after demands from African countries to ease political pressure on Sudan.
Sudan has still not agreed to non-African troops or unrestricted night flights for the new 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur that is expected to take over on Jan. 1, a senior U.N. official said Thursday.
The U.N. special envoy for Darfur toured the tribal heartland of the region's top rebel on Saturday, trying to draw the reluctant chief's followers into new peace talks that have stalled since October.
European nations look unlikely to meet an urgent U.N. call to provide military helicopters for a peacekeeping force planned for Darfur, saying their armies are already stretched by missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo and other hot spots.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned Thursday that a new peacekeeping force for Darfur could fail unless it gets 24 critically needed helicopters and he appealed to all countries for help.
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court announced Wednesday he was opening an investigation against Sudanese government officials for what he called systematic attacks on refugee camps in Darfur.
Veteran statesmen including former President Jimmy Carter appealed Tuesday for an immediate cease-fire in Darfur and called on the Sudanese government to drop all obstacles to the deployment of a U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force.
Actress Mia Farrow launched a fund to support survivors of the fighting in Sudan's Darfur region Sunday, and said that the jailing of a British teacher in the African nation showed the cruelty of its leadership.
Darfur's peacekeeping force will start in January with less than half the troops initially promised and without key equipment, the force's commander warned Saturday.
A Chad rebel group on Friday declared a "state of war" against French and other foreign armies, an apparent warning to a European force that will soon deploy to protect refugees fleeing violence in neighboring Darfur.
The Sudanese government is throwing up numerous obstacles to the deployment of a 26,000-strong peacekeeping force for Darfur which could destroy the effectiveness of the joint U.N.-African Union mission, the U.N. peacekeeping chief warned Tuesday.
A joint peacekeeping force planned for Darfur remains threatened by political deadlock and a shortage of equipment, the head of U.N. peacekeeping said Wednesday.
European Union defense ministers reiterated their commitment Monday to sending troops to help Darfur refugees, but a lack of helicopters was holding up deployment of a force that should have been on the ground by now.
A joint peacekeeping force will not be prepared to take over in Darfur by the start of 2008 unless Sudan quickly accepts units from outside Africa and contributing countries offer critical equipment, a top U.N. official warned Wednesday.
A prominent doctor who treats displaced people in Darfur says the Sudanese government is risking the deaths of hundreds of thousands by forcing people out of the camps where they receive humanitarian aid.
Negotiations between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels have been postponed until December, the spokesman for the government delegation to the stalled peace talks said Thursday.
Sudanese officials have been pressuring people to leave refugee camps in its wartorn Darfur province in recent weeks, and United Nations officials say the regime has even forcibly loaded some civilians onto trucks to clear them out.
Key rebel leaders in Sudan's Darfur region called Monday for a peace conference to be canceled, but U.N. and African mediators bid for more time in hopes of drawing the insurgents into the stalled talks.
President Nicolas Sarkozy on Sunday condemned an attempt by a French group to spirit more than 100 children out of Chad on the grounds that they were orphans from Darfur in danger of being killed.
Crippled by the absence of key rebel leaders, a highly anticipated Darfur peace conference was effectively postponed Sunday to give rebel delegates time to prepare before direct negotiations with the Sudanese government.
Sudan's government committed to a cease-fire in Darfur at the start of peace talks Saturday, but mediators and journalists outnumbered the few rebels who did not boycott the U.N.-sponsored negotiations, reducing hopes for an end to the fighting.
The Sudanese government committed to an immediate cease-fire in Darfur at the opening of peace talks on Saturday, but the expected announcement was not met by similar pledges from rebels, who largely boycotted the U.N.-brokered negotiations.
Seven crew members of a plane contracted to fly more than 100 children out of Chad were detained, authorities said Saturday, and Chad's president promised punishment for anyone involved in a plan to spirit the children to Europe.
Two major Darfur rebel groups said Friday they plan to boycott upcoming peace talks, a major blow to negotiations the U.N. hoped could reach a new agreement for the Sudanese region torn by years of fighting.
President Idriss Deby said attempts by a group of French citizens to fly more than 100 African children out of Chad were "shocking," and promised that all those found involved would be punished.
Child malnutrition rates have reached their highest level in three years in the strife-torn Darfur region of Sudan, according to a joint survey carried out by the Government and the United Nations, which is leading what is the currently the largest relief effort in the world aime …
Five Sudanese refugees from the war-torn western Darfur region were arrested early Thursday trying to cross illegally from Egypt into Israel, an Egyptian security official said.
Child malnutrition rates have increased sharply in Darfur, even though it is home to the world's largest aid operation, according to a new United Nations report.
Genocide is a process that develops in eight stages that are predictable but not inexorable. At each stage, preventive measures can stop it. The later stages must be preceded by the earlier stages, though earlier stages continue to operate throughout the process.
Evangelical influence is all over the election of 2008. The debates are laden with questions about candidates' favorite Bible verses or how often and heartily they pray.
The idea that America is locked in a war with the entire Muslim world crops up with depressing frequency, from the pages of Michelle Malkin and Little Green Footballs to subtle hints in the mainstream media.
Darfur is the celebrity cause du jour. But it doesn't really matter whether it is Darfur or Congo. These problems cannot be solved by supplying aid in cash, food, or guns. It can only be solved by an invasion, occupation, and pacification by a conquering nation.
The change always has to come from within, history tells us this. Let's hope it starts with the Rebel groups in Sudan.
The world's leaders say they care desperately about Darfur's suffering, until they get distracted.
''Northern Darfur state governor Mohammed Yousif Kibir confirms the strong bilateral ties between Sudan And China. Woman Affairs? Do you think they mean the rape of woman as an act of war in Darfur?''
Egyptian border police detained six migrants from the Ivory Coast trying to cross illegally into Israel on Friday, security sources said. Egyptian police have opened fire at many of the migrants, killing at least two Africans this year.
And then there is Darfur, the western region where four years of government-backed genocide has left an estimated 200,000 people dead. Some might say they are the lucky ones. Luckier than the man whose eyes were gouged out with a bayonet.
Since 2003 a campaign of mass murder has been carried out against the Black Arican peoples of Darfur [a region in south-west Sudan], by Arab militias backed by the Sudanese gov't.
Britain criticised a lack of action by the international community on Darfur on Wednesday and said unless political will was strong, peace prospects were slim in the western Sudanese region.
No, this is not a historical article. It is thestory of a sickening practice that is still happening today. Today's Sudan is not just about naming Teddy Bears Mohammed... or massacres of blacks in Darfur; Excerpt:
With resumed violent riots in France, the Saudi Arabian woman who was recently convicted of having been gang-raped by seven men and has been sentenced by the Islamic Shari'a court to 200 lashes with a whip (a virtual death sentence) and 6-months in prison—assuming she survive …
Some background information about the genocide in Darfur, Sudan-- and how you can help.
''Last weekend, Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir again tried to thwart the will of the international community and said that he will not accept non-African peacekeeping troops in Darfur.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum�s Committee on Conscience asked students to submit published op-eds explaining what more students can do to the stop genocide in Darfur.
Our biggest handicap in the war we're fighting is a failure to understand the nature of the war.
To the surprise of no one, the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of Sudan is making it impossible to deploy the promised peacekeeping mission in Darfur, the a senior UN official says.
Well-- it had to happen! Some entrepreneurial capitalistic class whore has found a way to profit . . . from the brouhaha over . . . the prophet! More silliness over the original silly event.
The saga of the teddy bear is really a story of a scapegoat and of cynical political manipulation... [...]
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