Militia justice claims fall flat in Darfur
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ASADIQ Abdullah Hamis cuts a lonely figure in al-Fasher&#39;s main prison, where he is the only inmate serving a sentence for political crimes.
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THE WORLD has finally awakened to the horrors of genocidal destruction in the Darfur region of western Sudan, but an effective response is nowhere in sight.
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The Sudanese government and  allied militia have systematically abused civilians in Darfur,  a U.N.-appointed commission said on Monday, but it said  Khartoum had not pursued genocide as Washington contends.
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Five hundred Sudanese militiamen in government service disarmed in western Darfur Friday at a ceremony attended by U.N. envoy Jan Pronk, but denied they were Arab Janjaweed irregulars blamed for killing, raping and looting in Darfur aimed at African villagers.
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Fighting between Sudanese government  forces and rebels continues in Darfur despite cease-fire  promises, the African Union said on Sunday, saying one of its  monitoring helicopters had come under fire.
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The leader of the Fatah al-Islam group was not among fighters killed by Lebanese troops at a refugee camp this month and he might have escaped, the public prosecutor said on Monday.
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Darfur's human rights situation has not improved in recent months despite increased efforts by Sudan's government and the United Nations, a group of U.N. investigators said Monday.
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A cease-fire in Sudan's Darfur region is not holding, with reports of an aerial bombardment and attacks by rebels, the United Nations said Wednesday.
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UNITED NATIONS -- Despite peace deals, Sudan's Darfur region is lapsing into chaos, with rebels attacking police and the government ignoring brutal tribesmen they once armed, according to a UN report yesterday.
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International Criminal Court prosecutor (ICC) Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Thursday urged the UN Security Council to ensure that a Sudanese minister and a Khartoum-backed Janjaweed militia leader accused of war crimes in Darfur face justice.
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Sanctions aimed at pressuring Sudan to take action in Darfur are likely to have limited effects on the countryâs oil production and exports.
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Sudan has lashed out at Darfur rebels for suggesting an African summit on the Darfur conflict was biased in Khartoum's favor and denied it was convened to preempt a UN Security Council meeting on the troubled region.
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CAIRO, Feb. 28 -- The main Sudanese opposition leader said the government is refusing to allow U.N. peacekeepers into the violent Darfur region because it believes the troops would help hunt down war crimes suspects for the International Criminal Court.
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Sudan denied Wednesday that its army opened fire on a convoy of U.N. peacekeepers attacked in Darfur barely a week into their new mission.
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Sudan has failed two major U.N. demands aimed at ending violence in its Darfur region &#151; disarm militias and arrest groups attacking villagers, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.
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The International Criminal Court is close to launching prosecutions against war crimes suspects in Sudan's Darfur region, the chief prosecutor said Thursday.
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Warring parties in Sudan's western Darfur region are showing no urgency in the search for a political solution to a conflict that has caused a humanitarian catastrophe, the top U.N. envoy in Sudan said Wednesday.