George Clooney travels to Chad for U.N. trip
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George Clooney traveled to Chad on Tuesday as a U.N. "messenger of peace" after spending time in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, U.N. sources said.
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N&#39;DJAMENA, Chad As Bill Frist, the majority leader of the US Senate, was interviewing Darfurian refugees in Chad earlier this month, the Sudanese government and Arab janjaweed forces attacked a number of black Darfurian villages just a few miles away
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Please be advised the Khartoum story reporting George Clooney had cut short his Darfur trip is wrong and has been withdrawn. Reuters will issue a substitute story shortly:
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A spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says he is heading off to Asia and Europe this weekend for wide-ranging talks.
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The top United Nation refugee official is in Chad, where Saturday, he toured a camp for Sudanese refugees who have fled violence in the western Darfur region.
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The foreign secretary, Jack Straw, will today fly from the Sudanese capital Khartoum to the country&#39;s western Darfur region where more than 1 million people have been been displaced by fighting.
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U.S. actor George Clooney and  Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel told the U.N. Security Council on  Thursday the world would be blamed for another Rwanda if  atrocities were not halted in Sudan's Darfur region.
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The UN secretary general calls for up to 11,000 troops to be sent to Chad and the Central African Republic.
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U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan makes his first visit to Washington next week since calls for his resignation, meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice to talk about Iraq, U.N. officials said on Friday.
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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon flew to Algeria on Tuesday to express support for the country after a December 11 twin bombing that killed at least 37 people including 17 U.N. staff, state media reported.
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Leaving for his much trailed trip to Sudan yesterday, the Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said: &quot;I am keen to see for myself the situation on the ground in Darfur.
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In his new role as U.N. messenger of peace, George Clooney was playing himself.
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon  named actor George Clooney, who has campaigned for refugees in  Darfur, as a U.N. "messenger of peace" on Friday to promote the  world body's peacekeeping efforts.
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Chad Friday for talks with President Idriss Deby Itno on the Darfur crisis in neighbouring Sudan, and the plight of refugees who have fled to his country.
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Actor George Clooney dismisses calls for him to enter politics, as he continues to campaign on Darfur.
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Actor George Clooney lobbied on Wednesday for Egypt's help in getting protection for victims of Darfur's increasing violence.
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Actors George Clooney and Don Cheadle said  world leaders must not be allowed to ignore the war in Darfur,  as they received an award by Nobel peace laureates for their  efforts to help civilians caught up in the conflict.