MEPs query 'missing' Darfur aid
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MEPs investigate why EU funding for African peacekeepers in Darfur is not reaching the soldiers.
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A Sudanese government offensive and a spate of attacks by rogue rebel groups have left relief organizations with less access to the suffering in Darfur than at any point in the war in the devastated region, according to the U.N.'s head of humanitarian affairs there.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 27 (IPS) - The European Union's humanitarian aid policy  does not draw a sufficiently clear distinction between responses  to emergencies and longer-term development assistance, a new  report has concluded.
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KHARTOUM, Oct 12  - The Sudanese foreign ministry summoned the European Union&#39;s delegation chief on Tuesday to protest at a renewed threat of EU sanctions over the crisis in Darfur.
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Resources essential to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Sudan&#39;s remote western Darfur region will run dry unless international funding doubles, British-based charities say.
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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today will visit Sudan to press government officials for action on protecting refugees in the nation&#39;s Darfur region as peace talks sponsored by the African Union are held in Nigeria.
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Rising violence in Darfur has led to almost 500,00 people being denied access to aid, agencies say.
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BELGIUM BRUSSELS -- Officials said the European Union will provide up to $125 million to back African peacekeepers in Darfur, as the United Nations warned yesterday that crucial relief convoys are in danger. Gunmen in Darfur are attacking relief convoys, civilians, and African villagers, the UN's World Food Program said in a statement yesterday. ''The security situation in all three ...
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The European Union postponed the deployment of advance units of a peacekeeping force for protecting refugees from Darfur because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad, where France was reinforcing its troops on the ground.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan -- The Sudanese government faced intense Western and African Union pressure to accept additional observers and soldiers in the Darfur region, as Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of Britain flew to Sudan yesterday to urge the country to do more to disarm marauding militias.
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European Union foreign ministers called Monday for the United Nations to "immediately investigate" whether atrocities in Sudan's Darfur region constitute genocide, highlighting growing impatience with the Sudanese government for failing to end the conflict.
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In their Dec. 9 op-ed piece, &quot;Darfur: Where Is Europe?&quot; Christian WD Bock and Leland R. Miller suggest that the European Union&#39;s lack of military action in Darfur is a result of a foreign policy mechanism by which &quot;inaction is virtually automatic.
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LONDON, Aug 18  -- The United Nations&#39; top envoy in Sudan said an African peacekeeping force deploying in Darfur was too small to carry out its mission in the vast, devastated Sudanese region, in comments published Wednesday in the Financial Times ...
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BRUSSELS, Dec 17 (IPS) - The deployment of a European Union peacekeeping  force in Eastern Chad has fallen behind schedule amid fears that  its French-dominated troops could come under attack after setting  foot in the troubled African state.
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PARIS, Feb. 1 -- The European Union said Friday it had postponed the deployment of a peacekeeping force to protect Darfur refugees because of an upsurge of rebel activity in neighboring Chad.
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The European Union will finance over half of the cost of the African Union&#39;s (AU) cease fire monitoring and civilian protection force in Sudan&#39;s troubled region of Darfur, EU foreign affairs chief Javier Solana said on today.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 26 (IPS) - The European Union restored ties with Sudan Tuesday  and offered 50 million euro (65 million dollars) in aid to help  boost a peace agreement after the end of one of Africa's  longest ever civil wars.