Key moments in the Darfur rebellion
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KHARTOUM, Aug 22  -- Since early 2003, Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region has been in the throes of armed conflict between government forces backed by Arab militias and several rebel movements.
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While most of the country&#39;s attention has been focused on Iraq, a human-rights crisis has been unfolding in north Africa. In Darfur, Sudan, more than 50,000 people have been killed and 1.2 million displaced
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EL-FASHIR, Sudan Just two weeks after the Sudanese authorities and their guerrilla enemies signed a pledge to restore security and broaden access to aid groups, a fresh surge of violence is engulfing Darfur.
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Rumors that Sudanese opposition leader Hasan Turabi helped plot a coup attempt against the Khartoum administration shook a country already buckling under the weight of the Darfur crisis.
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United Nations officials report security breaches in internally displaced people and refugee camps in Sudan&#39;s embattled Darfur region and neighboring Chad.
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Decades of drought helped trigger Darfur's violence as rival groups fought over scarce water and arable land.
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UNITED NATIONS -- A U.N.-African Union peacekeeping force faced the first major challenge to its authority in Darfur, Sudan, this week, enduring more than 10 minutes of hostile fire from Sudanese forces without responding with a single shot.
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Rebel groups and Sudan's government are to hold talks to try to end the conflict in the Darfur region.
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people out of camps they had fled to in Darfur, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says. The incident in the camps involved several thousand refugees among some 20,000 homeless people near Nyala in South Darfur.
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Thousands of refugees were caught in the crossfire Wednesday as Darfur rebels battled a large Sudanese government offensive near Sudan's border with Chad, rebels and humanitarian workers said.
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The horrors in Darfur mark this century&#39;s first great venture in genocide, but they are not the first such action perpetrated by the National Islamic Front (NIF) regime ruling Sudan.
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Violence and fear still ruled the lives of the displaced inhabitants of Sudanâs Darfur region as the United Nations deadline set for civilian protection and militia disarmament passed this week.
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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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The Christian Science Monitor - With rebels in the heart of Chad's capital, N'Djamena, surrounding the presidential palace, the complex Darfur conflict is set to take a dramatic and unexpected turn.
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KHARTOUM, Oct 21  -- Sudan has reportedly drawn up a list of charges against rebels in the troubled region of Darfur that it hopes to present to the United Nations during a meeting with representatives of the world body.
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Less than two weeks after the Sudanese government and rebels reached a partial agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Darfur, two clashes in that western Sudan
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The Christian Science Monitor - Three years after rebels from the farming tribes of Darfur rose up against the Arab-dominated government in Khartoum, Sudan, the region is staring into the abyss once again.