Clooney: Not enough being done in Darfur
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Actor George Clooney expressed frustration Friday over the lack of action to end the conflict in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan.
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U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday unacceptable delays were preventing help reaching millions of victims of Darfur's bloodshed, but negotiations on deploying U.N. peacekeepers were making only slow progress.
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A UN envoy welcomes a move to deploy  African troops to Sudan's Darfur region, but says more are needed.
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KHARTOUM/NAIROBI, Aug 18,2004 (dpa) -- The current number of ceasefire observers in Sudan&#39;s war-ravaged Darfur region is insufficient, the UN envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, said in an interview published Wednesday.
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Major Western nations must offer more  police for Darfur to end four years of violence, the retiring  U.N. police chief said on Thursday as the world body struggles  to find enough officers for the Sudanese province.
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"At some point, it is a publicity stunt"  George Clooney welcomes the visit to Italy by Sudan's president, saying increased international contact with the Khartoum leadership could ease the plight of the millions who have fled their homes in Darfur.'The policy of not talking to them because they're unsavory hasn't been very effective,' the 46-year-old actor said in a telephone interview Thursday with The Associated Press.'So my hope is that having a conversation with this man can somehow further movement toward getting these people back into their homes, their villages.' Read more
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Sudan must do a lot more to make its  Darfur region safer, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on  Tuesday, adding that Khartoum had failed to improve security  since the United States last week accused it of committing  genocide there.
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Hollywood actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle received an award from Nobel peace prize laureates on Thursday for their campaign to help the people of Sudan's Darfur region after 4-1/2 years of war.
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The Sudanese government is trying to meet UN demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has killed up to 50,000 people but needs to do more, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday.
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DARFUR is on the brink of chaos as violence increases, order collapses and the number of desperate people in need of humanitarian aid reaches nearly 2.3 million, Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, has warned in his darkest assessment yet of
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Nigeria's most prominent armed group Saturday urged George Clooney, the Hollywood actor named the latest UN Messenger of Peace, to work on solving the unrest in the Niger Delta.
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Analysis: Washington has done more than any other power to end the crisis in Darfur, but the U.S. has little direct leverage over Sudan
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Actor George Clooney urges intervention in Darfur, telling the BBC he believes ethnic cleansing is taking place.
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George Clooney welcomes the visit to Italy by Sudan's president, saying increased international contact with the Khartoum leadership could ease the plight of the millions who have fled their homes in Darfur.
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Rape of women and girls and official harassment are still widespread in Sudan's western Darfur region, a senior United Nations official said, insisting that the government in Khartoum was not doing enough to protect displaced people.
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George Clooney cut short his first trip as a U.N. "messenger of peace" and flew home from Darfur after falling ill, U.N. sources said on Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush said on Thursday that international efforts to address violence in Sudan's Darfur region were moving too slowly and that the United State would push to accelerate the process.