Leadership vacuum leaves Darfur in peril
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THE WORLD has finally awakened to the horrors of genocidal destruction in the Darfur region of western Sudan, but an effective response is nowhere in sight.
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The continent struggles to contain a locust swarm that a UN official says could be more dangerous than Darfur.
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Leadership deflects pressure aimed at ending Darfur 'genocide.' Talks will resume this month.
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The international community is "getting nowhere" with the crisis in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, the US ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth, said.
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Darfur is at the heart of a really dangerous regional crisis, warns the UN aid chief as the AU mulls help for its force.
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In Darfur, both sides play the diplomatic game. The rebels&#39; best suit is the suffering of their people. The government&#39;s is that international intervention failed spectacularly in Iraq.
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Sudan will take the lead in restoring order to its rebellious Darfur region but needs the support of African peacekeepers and humanitarian aid, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said.
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UNTIL RECENTLY, the international momentum on Darfur seemed positive. The plight of Sudan&#39;s western province was recognized as the world&#39;s most pressing humanitarian crisis, and a congressional resolution
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EL FASHER, Sudan, Sept. 17 -- As the African Union prepares to abandon its troubled peace mission to Darfur, the region is descending ever more steeply into war.
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Lack of agreement keeps the EU from flexing its foreign policy muscles. That is especially apparent in Darfur&#39;s humanitarian catastrophe, which has ministers &quot;extremely concerned&quot; but unable to enforce any action.
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The United Nations envoy to Sudan says the troubled Darfur region is heading towards anarchy.
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IT HAS been called the worldâs worst humanitarian crisis, but the United Nationsâ deadline of tomorrow for Sudan to stop the mass killings in its Darfur region is expected to pass with more slaughter by roaming gangs of militiamen.
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years after rebels from the farming tribes of Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, Sudan, the region is staring into the abyss once again.
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Raids by Sudanese forces and Arab militiamen have worsened a desperate situation in Darfur, rights groups say, but the United Nations said Khartoum was making serious efforts to keep pledges to curb the violence.
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Plans to deploy a joint U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force to Sudan's violence-plagued Darfur region could still be derailed by a dearth in funding and political will, the chairman of the African Union warned Sunday.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Jan. 29 -- Bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region dominated discussion at the African Union summit Monday, blocking Sudan's bid to lead the 53-country group as the U.N. chief described scorched-earth military policies as "a terrifying feature of life" in the vast, arid area.
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The Christian Science Monitor - For the past three years, Arab militiamen have helped Sudan's government quell a rebellion in Darfur by slaughtering the region's mostly black African population and leaving behind a trail of rape, murder, and destruction. The result: more than 200,000 dead and 2 million displaced in what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian emergency.