Darfur, Sudan News

Impact of New WHO Growth Standards on the Prevalence of Acute Malnutrition and Operations of Feeding Programs - Darfur, Sudan, 2005-2007 Acute malnutrition among children aged 6-59 months is a key indicator routinely used for describing the presence and magnitude of humanitarian emergencies.

Officials from the joint United Nations-African Union mission have visited areas of North Darfur to verify reports of the spontaneous return of refugees and displaced persons to their villages, and to assess their living conditions.

I believe the United States should be taking a stand in the crisis in Darfur. The violance sprang up between rebel groups and government militia in 2003.

" The spokesman of the African Union -United Nations Mission Noureddine Mezni said that there is intense diplomacy underway to energize the peace process in the war ravaged region of Darfur.

An assessment mission from the hybrid peacekeeping verified the return of 356 families to their village in South Darfur after had being displaced in internally displaced camps in the region.

I believe the guilty verdicts handed down today are an important step in bringing justice for John Granville and Abdelrahman Abbas Rahama, U.S. Agency for International Development employees murdered in Sudan in 2008.

The African Union Panel on Darfur , which is examining the root causes of the Darfur conflict and aiming to promote justice and reconciliation, held public hearings over the weekend across the region.

Academics and experts came together yesterday at A stanbul University's BeyazA t campus to discuss possible solutions in order to end the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Darfur, Sudan.

David Byrne, the man who made the "big suit" famous and reeled off a string of hits in the '80s with art-rock band, Talking Heads, brought his singular brand of eclectic sounds to the Red Butte Garden Ampitheatre Sunday for a sold-out show.

Not everyone can pull a Madonna or Angelina and just adopt half the continent, but a bunch of celebs are "chipping" in to help the people of Darfur at the World Series of Poker this year.

Global military spending rose 45% between 1999 and 2008, fuelled by the US-led "war on terror" and by increased wealth in China, Russia and the Middle East.

A Browncroft Community Church organization is sponsoring a strawberry social on Saturday, June 20.

Speaking to more than 2,200 United Methodist ministers and lay delegates, the Rev.

The joint UN and African Union mission in Darfur says one of its peacekeepers died during a road traffic accident in the South Darfur capital of Nyala yesterday while on official duty.

June 8, 2009 a ' Some 1500 returnees to a village in South Darfur met a peacekeeping official today, telling him that they would like more protection so that others can return home.

People walk across DeSoto Ave. on Victory Blvd. at the begining of the march. More than 2,000 people from local synagogues, schools and community groups joined with members of the Darfuri community in a Walk for Darfur, sponsored by the Jewish World Watch.

Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya -- When President Obama called the slaughter of innocents in any part of the world to be a "stain on our collective conscience," one of the examples he cited was the violence unleashed in Darfur by the Islamic-led government of Sudan.

In spite of some positive steps made by the Sudanese Government, reports of arbitrary arrests, torture and press censorship, along with the situation in the war-ravaged Darfur region, are cause for concern, an independent United Nations human rights expert said today.

A nurse from Montreal is among three foreign-aid workers kidnapped in Darfur, Sudan, on Wednesday night.

Dozens of teens walked along Riverside Park in Beloit on Saturday as they raised money for victims of genocide in Darfur, Sudan.