Senegalese singer plans Darfur protest at Montreux Jazz Festival
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Senegalese singer Youssou N&#39;Dour is organising a march in support of the victims of the conflict in Sudan&#39;s Darfur region on Friday, on the sidelines of the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland.
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In a show of his new foreign policy objectives, the French president called a meeting Monday in an attempt to help bolster the international military presence in Darfur.
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An album featuring music from stars including Badly Drawn Boy goes on sale to raise money for refugees in Sudan.
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Arab pop stars descended on Khartoum this week to perform concerts to aid war-torn Darfur, in a rare show of solidarity with the millions of Muslims caught in the conflict in western Sudan.
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Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade is to sign a peace deal with Casamance rebels, aimed at ending conflict.
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Saying "silence kills", French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged delegates to a meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Darfur on Monday to find a way to stop the violence ravaging Sudan's vast west.
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Rock singer and campaigner Bono is to be honoured in the US to mark his work to relieve suffering in Africa.
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French President Jacques Chirac has opened a French-African summit with a call for Sudan to accept an international peacekeeping force in war-torn western Darfur region.Comment
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon will seek to jumpstart the Darfur peace process during a week-long tour of Sudan, Chad and Libya beginning Monday, ahead of a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping operation in the strife-torn Sudanese region.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday they were prepared to make a joint visit to Darfur to push for peace in the crisis-stricken Sudanese region.
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African music star Youssou N&#39;Dour plans to put himself forward as a candidate to head a new continental African government being discussed this weekend by African leaders in Ghana.
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President Jacques Chirac has urged Sudan to agree to a peace force for strife-torn Darfur at an Africa-France summit that is likely to be his last foray on the world stage.
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A string of top musicians, including  Paul McCartney, Sting and Eric Clapton will launch an album on  Tuesday dedicated to Myanmar's pro-democracy leader, Aung San  Suu Kyi, calling for the Nobel laureate to be freed.
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Protesters held demonstrations in several countries on Sunday to urge world leaders and the U.N. General Assembly to work harder to end the crisis in Darfur.
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Protests are taking place in 30 countries to bring attention to the growing crisis in Sudan's Darfur region.
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A new album featuring exclusive tracks from Ash, R.E.M. and David Gray has been released to raise money for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been driven from their homes in Sudan's Darfur region.
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AL-SALAM CAMP, Sudan  - Thousands of displaced Sudanese mobbed U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday as he visited their camp in the troubled Darfur region on a tour aimed at pressing for a political solution to the conflict.