US ambassador hits inaction on Darfur
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US Ambassador John Danforth criticized the UN General Assembly yesterday after diplomats made clear they will scuttle a resolution denouncing rights abuses in Sudan's Darfur region. Diplomats meeting in the General Assembly's human rights committee postponed a vote until today, when they are expected to file a ''no action&quot; motion -- a procedural move that lets them put off the ...
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Britain and the United States must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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The United States will commit 116 million dollars to the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in an effort to help relieve the humanitarian crisis gripping the war-torn Darfur region, the State Department said.
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Ambassador Michael Ranneberger told members of the American public interested in foreign affairs that the depth and breadth of US efforts &quot;to resolve the crisis in Darfur highlight a major collaborative effort between the United States, our allies, and
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Sudan's foreign minister rejected US charges of genocide in the western region of Darfur as a reelection ploy by US President George W. Bush.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 17  -- The United States flatly rejected Sudanese accusations that its determination last week that &quot;genocide&quot; is occurring in Darfur had poisoned nascent African Union-hosted peace talks between Khartoum and two rebel groups.
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The United States modified its call for U.N. sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday but still kept up the threat of punitive measures if Khartoum did not stop atrocities in its Darfur region.
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The United States and Britain must stop   making threats over the crisis in Sudan's vast Darfur region   because the government in Khartoum knows they can't back them   up with action, a leading British diplomat said on Friday.
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The United States has called an emergency meeting of the Security Council to protest a Sudanese letter warning African and Arab countries against contributing to a proposed UN peacekeeping force for war-torn Darfur.
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Sudan said on Saturday the United States was wrong to try to label the conflict in Darfur as genocide and said recent hardline US statements on Sudan were aimed at domestic constituencies and the US elections.
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The US push for United Nations sanctions against Sudan&#39;s government for failing to halt Arab-militia atrocities in Darfur is being thwarted in part by China&#39;s strong economic interest in the African country.
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The United States eased off on the threat of oil sanctions against Sudan to try to win Security Council approval for a resolution pressuring Khartoum to end atrocities in western Darfur.
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Sudan&#39;s government has said it had handled the Darfur crisis better than the United States had dealt with Iraq. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismael told the BBC that US leaders were trying to use Darfur
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The Bush administration has begun quietly urging Arab countries to help overcome Sudan's resistance to deploying 20,000 U.N. peacekeepers and police to the troubled Darfur region, the new U.S. special envoy for Sudan said Wednesday
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Sudan rejects US Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that genocide has been taking place in the Darfur region.
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Sudan risks falling into Somalia-style anarchy if peace talks aimed at ending separate crises in Darfur and the south fail and embolden more factions to take up arms, the top US envoy to Sudan said Friday.