Background to the Sudan conflict
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Sudan is the largest country in Africa and has a population of almost 28 million. About 60 per cent are Muslim, a quarter are animist and 15 per cent Christian.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan - The violence in Sudan&#39;s western province of Darfur, where more than 30,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been displaced, is widely portrayed as an ethnic-cleansing campaign by Arab militias ...
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John Garang, veteran leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement in southern Sudan, has said he is prepared to help seek a solution to a bitter conflict in Darfur, in the west of the vast country.
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Abuja - An enormous quantity of weapons and ammunition has been brought into the Darfur region and it is only a question of time until fighting starts, the ceasefire commission on the Darfur conflict said in Abuja on Friday.
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KHARTOUM South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Sudan yesterday to discuss post-war rebuilding ahead of a peace pact expected to be signed by the Khartoum government and the main rebel group, the Sudanese People&#39;s Liberation Army, to end two
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ABUJA : Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel leaders agreed to study an agenda for peace talks drawn up by the African Union, after a first day of negotiations revealed deep divisions over how to proceed.
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Talks between Sudan&#39;s government and two rebel groups to resolve the nearly two-year battle resume Friday. By Abraham McLaughlin | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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Refugees fleeing the Darfur region of Sudan have described conditions that amount to a campaign of genocide by the Sudanese government, US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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A deadline is raising tensions and upping the stakes in a UN-Khartoum showdown.
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If the solution seems complex, the roots of the problem in western Sudan are perhaps more so.
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A State Department report detailing atrocities in the Darfur region of western Sudan concludes that the Sudanese government has promoted systematic killings based on race and ethnic origin, but officials said Tuesday that there was strong debate over whether Secretary of State Colin L. Powell should classify the violence as genocide.
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The first Rwandan peacekeeping troops have been airlifted into the Sudanese region of Darfur aboard two US transport planes. Sixty-five Rwandan officers and soldiers arrived with their supplies.
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In 2003, as hopes were rising that the government of Sudan would agree to an internationally-brokered settlement of the 21-year civil war in the South, the same government unleashed a brutal counterinsurgency campaign in the Darfur region of western Sudan
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The crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur is spilling over into the Central African Republic, UN officials say.
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The violence in Chad has opened up a new conflict next to Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, where more than 200,000 people have died since early 2003 and 2.5 million people have been chased into refugee camps.
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By ALFRED de MONTESQUIOU  DAMRAT SURMI, Sudan - Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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The United States declared on  Thursday genocide has occurred in Sudan's Darfur region and  blamed the Khartoum government and Arab militias for the crisis  that has driven more than a million people from their homes.