Despairing for Darfur
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While there is growing attention to ongoing genocide in Darfur, this has not translated into either a meaningful international response or an accurate rendering of the scale and evident course of the catastrophe.
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The United Nations new human rights  watchdog was struggling on Wednesday to agree on a mission of  inquiry for Sudan's Darfur to probe charges of worsening abuses  against civilians.
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Atrocities in the Darfur region of Sudan are occurring daily at a "horrific" level, the top U.N. human rights official said yesterday, adding that countries in the region were "in denial" about the situation.
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There is little hope of peace in Sudan unless it addresses environmental damage, a UN study finds.
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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.
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The Christian Science Monitor - For the past three years, Arab militiamen have helped Sudan's government quell a rebellion in Darfur by slaughtering the region's mostly black African population and leaving behind a trail of rape, murder, and destruction. The result: more than 200,000 dead and 2 million displaced in what the United Nations calls the world's worst humanitarian emergency.
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VIA the crackle of a satellite phone, the punctured hopes of the people of Darfur were dealt another blow. On the line was Hassan Khamis, military coordinator for the National Movement for Reform and Development
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Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization.
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As we work to provide assistance in Sudan&#39;s remote Darfur region, we are confronted on a daily basis by the horrible toll of a conflict that has taken tens of thousands of lives and has displaced more than a million people.
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Mud continues to be one of the biggest obstacles to relief efforts in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region. Heavy rains have washed out roads and airstrips and the rainy season is expected to last another month or two.
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NAIROBI As concern has continued to grow around the world at the ongoing ethnic cleansing in the western Darfur region of Sudan, the stream of high-profile visitors to Sudan over the past few months has been accompanied by increasingly angry language from
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Despite international condemnation, renewed fighting is being reported in Darfur, Sudan. A European Parliament delegation returning from the crisis area is calling for more aid and increased pressure to end the conflict.
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AL-FASHER, Sudan -- The former US ambassador to the United Nations visited a camp for the displaced in the troubled Darfur region yesterday and sharply criticized Sudan, the United Nations, the US government, and the international community as doing too little to stem the humanitarian crisis.
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While the world focuses on the crisis in Darfur, three times as many people have been suffering for many more years in two other conflicts involving the Sudanese government.
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Sudan is in denial about the extent of rape in refugee camps in its traumatised Darfur region where fear and distrust of the government is pervasive, the United Nations&#39; top human rights official says.
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- The African Union said yesterday that the situation in Sudan's troubled Darfur region was worsening because of the return of re armed janjaweed militia and Khartoum's resolve to use military force.
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The United Nations warned on Wednesday it would not be able to cope if conditions do not improve in Sudan's Darfur region, devastated by violence which has driven more than 1.5 million from their homes.