Parties plead for sanctions to end Sudan slaughter
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Tony Blair is being urged to demand immediate and punitive sanctions against the Sudanese government in an attempt to halt the slaughter, ethnic cleansing and rape in the Darfur region.
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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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A U.N. Security Council vote on whether to threaten sanctions against Sudan hinged on China and other opponents who fear that the specter of punishment could ruin efforts to end a crisis that has killed more than 50,000 and spawned 1.2 million refugees.
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Days before a UN deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country&#39;s Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union
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The Sudanese government condemned a new set of U.S. economic sanctions aimed at pressuring it to halt the bloodshed in Darfur, describing them Tuesday as "unfair and untimely" and calling on the rest of the world to ignore them.
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The UN Security Council on Wednesday pressed all parties in the Darfur conflict to attend upcoming talks in Libya and threatened sanctions against whomever impedes the faltering peace process.
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EU foreign ministers must step up efforts next week for a ceasefire in Darfur and impose sanctions on members of Sudan's government responsible for the violence, activists said on Tuesday.
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Sudan has condemned as &quot;unfair&quot; a new UN resolution calling on Khartoum to restore security to the crisis-wracked Darfur region or face possible sanctions, but said it would abide by the UN's demands.
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UNITED NATIONS, Sept 10: Pakistan and China on Thursday expressed strong opposition to a US-sponsored resolution on Sudan which demands sanctions and a UN inquiry whether a genocide was taking place in the country.
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The United Nations Security Council has been urged to act to end ethnic cleansing in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Human Rights Watch is calling for an arms embargo and travel sanctions on Sudan&#39;s officials for failing
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ABU SHOUK CAMP, Sudan  - The Sudanese government  is trying to meet U.N. 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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Days before a U.N. deadline for Sudan to disarm and prosecute those responsible for violence in the country's Darfur region, nations are looking to the African Union rather than any U.N. sanctions to curb further killing.
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Burundi will urge regional leaders at a summit on Wednesday to impose sanctions against the rebel Hutu Forces for National Liberation (FNL), blamed for the slaughter of more than 160 Congolese Tutsi refugees in ...
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UNITED NATIONS -- The UN Security Council yesterday adopted a resolution threatening possible sanctions against Sudan and establishing a UN commission of inquiry to investigate atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, and to determine whether Sudanese authorities and militias are responsible for committing genocide there.
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Two Nobel peace prize winners urged the European Union Tuesday to impose sanctions on Sudan for blocking UN moves to send a peacekeeping force to the strife-torn province of Darfur.
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Security remains elusive in the vast Darfur region despite next Monday's deadline that the United Nations set for the Sudanese government to disarm militiamen from nomadic Arab tribes accused of killing thousands of African farmers and looting their villages. Sudan faces the possibility of economic and diplomatic sanctions if it does not bring calm.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday called for all parties in the Darfur conflict to show restraint, calling recent attacks in the Sudanese region unacceptable.