Darfur News

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WHILE WE GROPE our way through the fog of health care reform and emerge groggily from another election season, the people of Darfur may have slipped from our thoughts.

Two Iranian businessmen working at a company in Dubai were linked to video surveillance devices that were sold to Sudan and used by drones in Darfur in violation of a United Nations arms embargo, according to a United Nations report that was released on Friday.

Doha: The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Ahmed bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud and the AU-UN Joint Chief Mediator for Darfur Djibrill Bassole held talks yesterday within the framework of preparations for the Darfur peace talks.

Uwe Boll got a reputation of repeatedly violating video games and putting the results of his efforts on screen, then he did Postal and got quiet.

Non-Arab asylum seekers from Darfur will be allowed to stay in Britain and will not be sent back to Sudan after it was deemed too dangerous, the Interior Ministry said on Tuesday.

How blessed are we, that we have the awareness and the capacity to do what we are about to do.

Hundreds of thousands killed, millions homeless as violence continues Despite being in the news on and off for some years, Sudan is still unknown to many Americans.

The U.S.-based group Physicians for Human Rights says Darfuri refugees sheltering in refugee camps in Chad are subject to ongoing sexual violence.

Sudan's People's Liberation Movement says it is displeased with a proposal by African leaders to end the conflict in Sudan's restive Darfur region.

"The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur," written by Daoud Hari, is Colorado Mountain College's Common Reader this fall.

Darfuri kidnappers of a French/British Red Cross aid worker have demanded a $1 million ransom, which Sudan has refused to pay, a high-level security source told Reuters on Tuesday.

The Obama White House launches a new strategy. The familiar measure of success? An end to the humanitarian disaster Published on Monday, Oct 26, 2009 A s a presidential candidate, Barack Obama did not mince words about what needed to be done in Sudan.

JUBA: Ugandan rebels desperate for supplies attacked a camp for Darfuri displaced persons in south Sudan, killing five people, the region's army said yesterday.

The author of "The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur" will visit the Summit Campus of Colorado Mountain College to talk about his book and sign copies on Wednesday, Nov.

Before addressing the Darfur conference at Kean University, special envoy Gen. Scott Gration, center, spoke with Darfuri participants, from left, Adeeb Yousif, Yahya Osman, and Abdelbagy Abushanab.

Filmmaker Christopher Farber recently traveled to Chad, where some 250,000 Darfur refugees live in 12 camps scattered across the Sahara Desert, to record their views for a short film.

A tall, scrawny man known as Abubakar tells a story that's hard for many to hear.

Sudan is at an important crossroads that can either lead to steady improvements in the lives of the Sudanese people or degenerate into even more violent conflict and state failure.

From the verdant, leafy campus of Chatham University, refugees of Darfur and South Sudan are hoping to mold the future of their arid, war-torn country an ocean and a continent away.