Sarkozy opens Darfur meeting, says "silence kills"
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Saying "silence kills", French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged delegates to a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur on Monday to find a way to stop the violence ravaging Sudan's vast west.
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AFRICA/SUDAN - Aperta a Parigi la Conferenza internazionale sulla crisi del Darfur Parigi (Agenzia Fides)- Si apre oggi, 25 giugno, a Parigi la Conferenza internazionale sulla crisi del Darfur, indetta su iniziativa del Ministro degli Esteri francese, Bernard Kouchner. Al Vertice, che si tiene a livello di Ministri degli Esteri, pa...
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A summit intended to strengthen ties between Africa and former colonial power France opened on Thursday but all eyes will be on a subject not on the agenda -- Sudan's battered Darfur province.Comment
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir. An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from ...Comment
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Leadership deflects pressure aimed at ending Darfur 'genocide.' Talks will resume this month.
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Delegations gathered in Libya on  Saturday to launch talks to end 4-1/2 years of conflict in  Sudan's Darfur region but the absence of key rebels cast doubt  on whether negotiations could produce any meaningful deal.
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The African Union has set an ambitious agenda for a political solution to the two-year-old Darfur conflict at the opening of peace talks in Nigeria, but says continued fighting is poisoning the atmosphere.
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French President Jacques Chirac has urged all sides in Ivory Coast&#39;s crisis to resume talks as he opened a summit of French-speaking countries snubbed by the Ivorian delegation.
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ABECHE, Chad -- The UN High Commissioner for Refugees proposed autonomy for the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a solution the government has resisted but said yesterday it would be willing to discuss anew in an effort to end the violence that has killed 50,000 people.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged world powers Monday to take a tough line with Sudan if it balks at efforts to end bloodshed in Darfur, and argued that ignoring the situation was tantamount to complicity.
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The UN Security Council said it would hold a meeting on the tense situation in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region next Monday following the ambush killing of two Rwandan peacekeepers there.
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The new French foreign minister said Sudan's president told him in a meeting Monday that he now fully agreed to a "hybrid" U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force of more than 20,000 to stop the bloodshed in Darfur but was adamant that all of them must come from Africa.
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Sudan's leader dismisses talk of genocide
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To stop the killing in the western region of Sudan known as Darfur, a neutral force of 30,000 soldiers is urgently needed, the leader of the Sudanese People&#39;s Liberation Movement and Army (SPLM/A), John Garang, said during an address to the Congressional
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The international community cannot afford to lose the war against extremists in Afghanistan, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Saturday on a quick visit to the insurgency-hit country.
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United Nations chief Kofi Annan on  Tuesday demanded that the world body's human rights watchdog,  meeting in special session on Sudan's Darfur, send a clear  message that the "nightmare" of violence had to stop.
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African Union heads of state meet to discuss the conflicts in Ivory Coast and Sudan's Darfur region.