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Two businessmen were linked to video surveillance devices that were sold to Sudan and used by drones.
The former official, Robert J. Cabelly, was charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign country, money laundering, passport fraud and making false statements.
Critics rebuked the new policy as naïve while supporters said it reflected common sense. But both camps agree it has Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration’s fingerprints all over it.
An official said the White House’s policy would use a mix of “incentives and pressure” to end the human rights abuses that have burned Darfur into the American conscience.
The Sudanese female journalist who was convicted of violating her country’s decency laws for wearing pants in public was not sure why she had been released from jail.
A journalist had dared authorities to punish her for wearing pants, deemed to be indecent dress for a woman. She was fined $200 on Monday but spared 40 lashes.
The trial of a journalist arrested for wearing pants is to begin Monday in Sudan, part of which is governed under an Islamic code that emphasizes modest dress for women.
Violence between rival tribes, often caused by cattle rustling and long-running feuds, has soared this year.
The fourth kidnapping in the remote Sudanese region since March involves a ransom demand.
With fighting in the Darfur region said to be lessening, alarm is growing about the south, where a 2005 peace agreement ended a long and bloody conflict.
Rodolphe Adada, a former foreign minister of Congo who some diplomats say has been ineffective, ran the joint United Nations-African Union mission.
Disputes, many of them over cattle rustling, are made worse by a ready supply of arms left over from the two-decade civil war.
An international court redefined the borders of a disputed oil-rich region between north and south Sudan.
The tendency to draw an impenetrable psychic curtain across the worst that the world has to offer is understandable. But it’s a tendency that must be fought.
Interior Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamad said that 75 police officers were killed in the fighting, along with 169 members of the two tribes.
Bahar Idriss Abu Garda became the first rebel commander to be accused of war crimes in connection with the violence in Sudan at The Hague on Monday.
Bahr Idriss Abu Garda, the leader of the United Resistance Front, is accused of participating in the killing of African peacekeepers in 2007.
Chad and Sudan have long traded accusations of backing each others’ rebels, who have waged offensives along the border of the two nations.
The fear now is that back-and-forth violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle could escalate unless there is decisive intervention.
President Obama said if Sudan did not back down, he would “find some mechanism” to get supplies to Darfur.
Sudan’s president, who has been indicted for war crimes, was embraced at the annual Arab League summit.
Mahmood Mamdani has written a learned book that reintroduces history into the discussion of the Darfur crisis in Africa.
Humanitarian assistance is not compatible with punishing war criminals.
Israeli warplanes bombed a convoy of trucks in Sudan in January that was believed to be carrying arms to be smuggled into Gaza, according to American officials.
For the first time, scientists have tracked an asteroid headed for Earth, watched it explode in the atmosphere, and studied remnants found on the ground.
Stopgap efforts after the expulsion of foreign agencies have helped, but cannot be sustained, the humanitarian coordinator said Tuesday.
Sudan’s expulsion of humanitarian organizations has thrown the world’s largest aid operation into disarray.
The sharper tone and the appointment of Maj. Gen. J. Scott Gration come after criticism from activists who once saw Barack Obama as an ally in the struggle to save the people of Darfur.
In a ceremony attended by the French foreign minister, European politicians and U.N. officials, the Europeans transferred command of its peacekeeping mission in Chad to the United Nations.
Fighters have killed more than 200 people in villages in southern Sudan, where tribal disputes over cattle are jeopardizing peace efforts, officials said.
Three foreign aid workers who were kidnapped two days ago in Darfur contacted their organization Friday to say that they were unharmed, according to the group, Doctors Without Borders.
Three foreign aid workers were abducted in the conflict-ridden Sudanese province of Darfur on Wednesday night, the organization said.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir of Sudan is preparing to kill people en masse, not with machetes but by withholding the aid that keeps them alive.
Whether speaking to a group of young softball players or plying her teammates with literature, Jessica Mendoza, a 27-year-old outfielder on the United States Olympic softball team, does not hesitat...
(CNN) -- Attacks in January and February by Sudanese forces on Darfur villagers are described in a U.N. report as "violations of international humanitarian and human rights law." A Nigerian sol...
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao spoke with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the phone yesterday to discuss bilateral relations, the issue of Sudan's Darfur region and other international issues. ...
A fresh Sudanese offensive by government soldiers and Arab militiamen against Darfur rebels has trapped thousands of refugees along the Chadian border, the rebels and humanitarian workers said Wedn...
The Group of Experts on Darfur, established by the Human Rights Council in March 2007 to ensure the effective follow-up and implementation of existing resolutions and recommendations on Darfur, pre...
October 27, 2007 (SIRTE, Libya) - Delegations from Darfur rebel groups, Sudanese government negotiators and international mediators gathered in Sirte, Libya on Saturday for peace talks aimed at end...
Darfur Rebels Kill 10 in Peace Force Alfred de Montesquiou/Associated Press African Union peacekeepers evacuated their base in Haskanita Sunday after rebel forces killed at least 10 in a surprise ...
NYALA, Sudan, Aug. 28 ďż˝ Some of the same Arab tribes accused of massacring civilians in the Darfur region of Sudan are now unleashing their considerable firepower against one another in a battle ov...
The Security Council gave the European Union and the U.N. the green light Monday to prepare for a military and police deployment to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic c...
The Security Council gave the European Union and the U.N. the green light Monday to prepare for a military and police deployment to help protect civilians in Chad and the Central African Republic ...
By James Pomfret HONG KONG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - China should help resolve a humanitarian crisis in Darfur as one of a few "critical players", a British minister said on Tuesday, urging the world'...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that she will discuss ways to combat human rights violations in Sudan's Darfur region when she visits China on the first leg of a trip to Asia start...
Amnesty International says Sudan's government continues to send weapons to Darfur in violation of a peace treaty and a U.N. arms embargo. Amnesty International released photos of military aircra...
A delegation of U.S. advocates for Darfur says Friday that conditions in refugee camps in Sudan and Chad are appalling and that the population in Darfur continues to suffer a genocide by attrition ...
American actress Mia Farrow says she is bearing witness to the suffering and squalid living conditions of survivors of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan.
Brahim DĂ©by, the 28-year-old son of President Idriss DĂ©by, was found dead at his apartment building outside Paris, apparently the victim of a murder.......
Majzoub al-Khalifa, a powerful adviser to President Omar al-Bashir, died in a car accident in northern Sudan, a presidential source said.......
They came, they met, they agreed that more must be done, but a gathering in Paris aimed at solving the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region ended with little visible progress.......
(Nairobi) The killing of an employee of the NGO Action by Churches Together-Caritas (ACT-Caritas) in West Darfur has brought to five the number of people recently killed in Zalingei area, amid cont...
The proposal to send more than 20,000 peacekeeping troops to Darfur, clears the way for a joint force with the African Union, led and paid for by the United Nations.......
It must have surprised LeBron James to hear that he has the power to stop the slaughter of thousands of people half a world away. At 22, his life is all about basketball, and in case you haven't no...
'A win-win situation' is how the Chinese government describes its economic relations with Africa. In 2005, Chinese Vice-Premier Huang Ju announced that his country would triple trade and double inv...
Sudan set conditions for the deployment, insisting that a majority of the soldiers be African, which may hamper efforts to raise the force to full strength.......
United Nations Human Rights Council appointed seven UN human rights special rapporteurs to form a group of experts on Darfur. This group was composed of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of h...
In June 2007, the group of experts assembled by the United Nations Human Rights Council issued a report that compiled pre-existing recommendations that had been already issued by UN human rights bo...
China urged the international community on Thursday to show patience with Sudan over the strife in its Darfur region, as an advocacy group called on Beijing to take more action to pressure Khartoum...
Washington: The United States will also push for a stronger UN Security Council resolution punishing Khartoum over the ongoing violence Bush ordered actions against 31 companies and 3 people, prev...
President Bush ordered new U.S. economic sanctions Tuesday to pressure Sudan's government to halt the bloodshed in Darfur that the administration has condemned as genocide. "I promise this to the ...
Russia and China say they will oppose UN sanctions against four Sudanese officials accused of involvement in continuing violence in Darfur. Russia's UN envoy said the Security Council should delay...
China's carefully planned coming-out party as a world superpower at the 2008 Summer Olympics could be clouded by Beijing's close ties with the Sudanese government and its failure to halt the genoci...
Sudan: A report by Amnesty International has accused Sudan of violating an embargo on Darfur and is dismayed at Russian and Chinese arms supplies
London (Reuters) Human rights group Amnesty International accused Russia and China on Tuesday of breaching a United Nations arms embargo by letting weapons into Sudan, where they are used in "grave...
Colin Thomas-Jensen, an expert on Chad and Darfur who works International Crisis Group think-tank has grave doubts as to whether "this new deal will lead to any genuine thaw in relations or improve...
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and Chad president Idriss Deby signed a peace agreement on May 3, 2007 aimed at reducing tension between their countries. The accord was brokered by Saudi A...
Protests are taking place on Global Day for Darfur to demand intervention to end the fighting in Sudan's region
President Bush gave a speech at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum criticizing the Sudanese government and threatened the use of sanctions if the situation does not improve. Sanctions would involve r...
African Union peacekeepers were targeted and killed. The New York Times reported that 'a confidential United Nations report says the government of Sudan is flying arms and heavy military equipment ...
More attacks within Chad were reported by the [UNHCR] to have occurred again in the border villages of Tiero and Marena.
an eye witness account of the genocide that is going on in darfur region of sudan
Janjaweed militiamen killed up to 400 people in the volatile eastern border region of Chad near Sudan. The attack took place in the border villages of Tiero and Marena. The villages were encircled ...
Sudan's humanitarian affairs minister, accused of war crimes in Darfur by the International Criminal Court (ICC), has said the move against him is political.
Ethiopia: President Omar al-Bashir has again been bypassed in his bid to become chairman of the AU because of the conflict
WIS-TV's Angie Goff interviews Governor Bill Richardson on brokering a 60 Day Ceasefire in Darfur and his possible run for President in 2008
Genocide was said to happen "never again." But what they meant was "Never again will Jews be killed in 1940's Germany by Hitler."
According to the Save Darfur Coalition, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and President al-Bashir have agreed to a cease-fire whereby the Sudanese "government and rebel groups will cease hostilit...
The 5 were guarding a water point near the border with Chad when they came under fire. 3 gunmen were also killed
Sudan has signed a joint agreement with the U.N. and the African Union that defines their roles in Darfur.
Some 150 Sudanese interpreters working for African Union troops have gone on strike over unpaid wages
In late 2006, Darfur Arabs started their own rebel group, The Popular Forces Troops, and announced on December 6 that they had repulsed an assault by the Sudanese army at Kas-Zallingi the previous ...
A spokesperson for United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour accused the Sudanese government of having committed "a deliberate and unprovoked attack" against civilians in the ...
The UN claim that Sudan agreed to the deployment of UN peacekeepers. Sudan's Foreign Minister Lam Akol stated that "there should be no talk about a mixed force" and that the UN's role should be res...
The AU reports that Sudanese military and Sudanese-backed militias had launched a ground and air operation in the region which resulted in about 70 civilian deaths. The AU stated that this "'was a ...
Reports of a potential deal to place a "compromise peacekeeping force" in Darfur were announced, but would later appear to have been rejected by Sudan.
This event is based on a report by a spokesperson for United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, the Sudanese government commits "a deliberate and unprovoked attack" against ...
Senior Sudanese presidential advisor Nafie Ali Nafie told reporters that his government is prepared to start unconditional talks with the National Redemption Front (NRF) -the rebel alliance in Darf...
the US announced that it will be formulating an international plan which they hoped the Sudanese government will find more palatable.
On 22 October 2006, the Sudanese government told U.N. envoy Jan Pronk to leave the country within three days. Pronk, the senior U.N. official in the country, had been heavily criticized by the army...
US President George W. Bush imposes further sanctions against those deemed complicit in the Darfur atrocities under the Darfur Peace and Accountability Act of 2006. The measures were said to streng...
The Foreign Minister of Nigeria Joy Ogwu arrived in Darfur for a two-day visit. She urged the Sudanese government to accept a UN formula. Speaking in Ethiopia, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo ...
he UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, claimed that the Sudanese government had prior knowledge of attacks by Janjaweed militias in Buram, South Darfur the month before, an attack...
The Food and Agriculture Organization listed Sudan's Darfur region as the most pressing food emergency out of the forty countries listed on its Crop Prospects and Food Situation report.
the UNSC voted to extend the mandate of the United Nations Mission in Sudan until April 30, 2007
The UN military force plan is indefinitely suspended on account of Sudanese opposition. Instead, two hundred UN troops are sent to reinforce African Union forces.
The African Union announced that it will extend its presence in the Darfur region until December 31, 2006.
The AU peacekeeping force mandate expires, and are thus directed to leave the region.
The leader of the now defunct Sudan Liberation Movement, currently Senior Assistant to the President of the Republic and Chairman of the Regional Interim Authority of Darfur, Minni Minnawi, stated ...
A World Food Program official reported that food aid has been cut off from at least 355,000 people in the region.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the UNSC that "the tragedy in Darfur has reached a critical moment. It merits this council's closest attention and urgent action."
Sudan's European Union envoy Pekka Haavisto claimed that the Sudanese army is "bombing civilians in Darfur"
This is an unedited interview of Sahara Abdel Rakman, a survivor of a Janjawid attack that destroyed her village, one of the only eyewitness acounts available on the web. She was a school teacher, ...
Head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees AntĂłnio Guterres, said Darfur faces a "humanitarian catastrophe."
a senior US State Department official who declined to be identified, told reporters that the AU force might remain in the region past the deadline, citing this possibility as a "viable, live option."
Sudan has asked the AU force in Darfur to leave the region by the end of the month, adding that "they have no right to transfer this assignment to the United Nations or any other party. This right ...
Chad's president Idriss DĂ©by voiced support for the new UN peacekeeping force.
the UNSC approved a resolution to send a new peacekeeping force of 17,300 to the region.
Meeting of the UNSC to be held to discuss International troops to be used in the Darfur area.
a US National Geographic Magazine journalist appeared in court in Darfur facing charges of espionage; he had crossed into the country illegally from Chad, due to the strict rules against foreign jo...
the head of the US State Department's Bureau of African Affairs, Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer, warned that the region faces a security crisis unless the proposed UN peacekeeping force is allo...
Also on August 24, the International Rescue Committee reported that hundreds of women were raped and sexually assaulted around the Kalma refugee camp during the last several weeks. The extent of ra...
Sudan rejected attending a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) meeting to explain its plan of sending 10,000 Sudanese soldiers to Darfur instead of the proposed 20,000 UN peacekeeping force. The...
Sudan reiterated its opposition to replacing the 7,000 AU force with a 17,000 UN one, resulting in the US issuing a "threat" to Sudan over the "potential consequences" of this position.
The deputy head of the UN Peacekeeping Forces, Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi Annabi, warned during a private meeting that Sudan appears to be undertaking preparations...
UN Commission on Human Rights special investigator Sima Samar stated that Sudan's efforts in the region remains poor despite the May Agreement.
Tomo KriĹľnar, a Slovenian presidential envoy, was sentenced to two years for spying.
"threatening to shut down the world's largest aid operation" as international aid organizations considered leaving due to attacks against their personnel. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Anna...
In July 2006 at the Darfur town of Kalma, seven women, who ventured out of a refugee camp to gather firewood, were gang-raped, beaten and robbed by the Janjaweed. When they had finished, the attack...
The People's Republic of China, a veto-wielding permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and one of the world's prolific arms producers, continues to remain a major stumbling block to U.S. eff...
This is a film dedicated to the victims of the Darfur/Sudan Genocide currently occuring in Africa. Please pass this on to as MANY people as you possibly can! Together; We can help!
The government of Sudan signed an accord with the faction of the SLA led by Minni Minnawi. However, the agreement was rejected by two other, smaller groups, the Justice and Equality Movement and a ...
The House International Relations Committee for passing a bill today to sanction the perpetrators of genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The bill is called “The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act”
An attack on the Chadian town of Adre near the Sudanese border led to the deaths of three hundred rebels in December 2005. Sudan was blamed for the attack, which was the second in the region in thr...
In their statement, the Chadian government calls for the citizens of Chad to mobilize themselves against the "common enemy" who crossed over the border from Sudan while pursuing Fur refugees and ra...
Garang died in a helicopter crash. His death had long-term implications and, despite improved security, talks between the various rebels in the Darfur region went slowly.
Ex-SPLA leader John Garang was sworn in as Sudan's vice-president
This is /was an up to date map of the villages destroyed in Darfur as of this date=
The Brussels-based International Crisis Group reported in May 2004 that over 350,000 people could potentially die as a result of starvation and disease, because the region's remoteness means that h...
Following the escalation of the Darfur conflict in the Sudan, Chad brokered negotiations in N'Djamena in 2004, leading to the April 8 Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement between the Sudanese governmen...
A group splintered from the JEM in April — the National Movement for Reform and Development — which did not participate in the April cease-fire talks or agreement.
More than 70 Janjaweed militiamen and 10 Chadian soldiers were killed in one gun battle in April. A United Nations observer team reported that non-Arab villages were singled out while Arab villages...
The crisis took on an international dimension when over 100,000 refugees poured into neighbouring Chad, pursued by Janjaweed militiamen, who clashed with Chadian government forces along the border
By the spring of 2004, several thousand people — mostly from the non-Arab population — had been killed and as many as a million more had been driven from their homes, causing a major humanitarian c...
250 were killed in a second attack on Tine
a joint Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) and JEM force in 33 Land Cruisers entered al-Fashir and attacked the sleeping garrison. In the next four hours, four Antonov bombers and helicopter gunships, acc...
On 25 March, the rebels seized the garrison town of Tine along the Chadian border, seizing large quantities of supplies and arms. Despite a threat by President Omar al-Bashir to "unleash" the army,...
The starting point of the conflict in the Darfur region is typically said to be 26 February 2003, when a group calling itself the Darfur Liberation Front (DLF) publicly claimed credit for an attack...
Sudanese government had been aware of a unified rebel movement since an attack on the Golo police station in June 2002
The rebels' first military action was a successful attack on an army garrison on the mountain
Chroniclers Julie Flint and Alex de Waal state that the beginning of the rebellion is better dated to 21 July 2001, when a group of Zaghawa and Fur met in Abu Gamra and swore oaths on the Qur'an to...
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