Khartoum &#39;plans onslaught&#39; on Darfur
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INTERNATIONAL observers yesterday described the Darfur region of Sudan as &quot;a timebomb waiting to explode&quot; and warned that the Sudanese government is pouring arms and ammunition into the Darfur region in apparent preparation for a major military offensive.
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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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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that violence escalated in Sudan&#39;s western region of Darfur in October and that there are strong indications of war crimes &quot;on a large and systematic scale.
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Khartoum&#39;s National Islamic Front regime is acutely aware of growing international condemnation of genocidal destruction in Darfur, and the increasingly insistent (if variously motivated) calls for action.
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Astronomical quantities of arms and  ammunition have poured into Darfur in the last two weeks and  the government appears to be preparing for a major military  offensive, the African Union (AU) said on Friday.
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KHARTOUM : 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&#39;s demands.
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Britain&#39;s top diplomat has decided to travel to Sudan to evaluate how the Khartoum regime is the humanitarian and security crisis in Darfur.
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The Security Council on Friday weighed a report on a planned UN-African Union (AU) joint peacekeeping mission in Darfur, including a call on Khartoum to allow a mobile force of up to 23,000 troops and police in the war-torn region.
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British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan on Monday to keep up international pressure on Khartoum to comply with U.N. demands to end the conflict in Darfur that has already killed up to 50,000 people.
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African authorities are warning of a further disaster in Darfur as massive quantities of arms and ammunition pour into the region.
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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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BRITAIN&#39;S Foreign Secretary Jack Straw flew to Sudan today, stepping up international pressure on the government there to tackle the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Darfur.
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&quot;Unless the Security Council backs up its earlier ultimatums with strong action, ethnic cleansing in Darfur will be consolidated.
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ABUJA : The African Union will bring Sudan&#39;s warring government and rebel armies into talks with regional power-brokers aimed at heading off a mounting humanitarian crisis in the province of Darfur.
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There should be no doubt about the extent of Khartoum&#39;s brutal triumph in furthering its genocidal policies in Darfur over the past several weeks.
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LONDON Oct. 5, 2004 - Prime Minister Tony Blair will pressure Sudan to end the conflict in Darfur when he visits the capital Khartoum on Wednesday, the first leg of a three-day trip to Africa.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday Darfur was close to a catastrophe, as the United States sought to rebuke Sudan for trying to scare off potential U.N. troop contributors.