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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
US President George W Bush is to meet with Sudanese Vice President Salva Kiir on Monday at the White House, where they will discuss the status of the long-running conflict and genocide in Darfur, the White House said Friday. Kiir is first vice...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
Nigeria Leads 12,000 Peacekeepers in Darfur 2 January 2009 The United Nations (UN) yesterday announced that 12,374 peacekeepers have so far been deployed to UN-AU hybrid force in Sudan's Darfur region...This was contained in a statement to mark one...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
Heart of Darfur Martyn Drakard 30 December 2008 book review Most journalist or expatriate experiences in Africa make a good read, but lack one thing: heart. Lisa French Blaker's book is full of it and had to be written. An experienced nurse with...
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News Source: Sudan Tribune
| 10 months ago
Darfur rebel Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) and a Kordofanese political group, Kordofan Association Movement (KAD) agreed to put together their efforts to topple the Sudanese government. In a joint statement released today the two movement said...
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News Source: The Guardian
| 10 months ago
The failure of Unamid So long as the UN panders to President Bashir, the peacekeeping mission in Darfur will remain ineffective Peacekeeping can never be an exact science. However, as Darfur's suffering continues a year on from the deployment of the...
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News Source: The Washington Times
| 10 months ago
Four years ago, Mark Hanis "didn't know if the Janjaweed militia was a person, place or thing." Today, the bearded 26-year-old heads the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net), a savvy Washington-based nonprofit dedicated to fighting genocide,...
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News Source: Daily Nation
| 10 months ago
Bush is to meet next week with south Sudan's president to discuss his peace pact with the Khartoum government, which the United States accuses of complicity in genocide in Darfur and sponsoring terrorism. The White House said on Wednesday that Bush...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 10 months ago
In this context, the secretary-general urges the parties to work with the Joint Chief Mediator towards a comprehensive political solution." The hybrid force was set up by the UN Security Council last year to protect civilians on the western flank of...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 10 months ago
Bush will meet with Salva Kiir, Sudan's first vice president, here on Jan. 5, the White House announced on Wednesday. The scheduled meeting will focus on the implementation of a comprehensive peace deal which was signed four years ago. ...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 10 months ago
UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that he was pleased to see the growth of the joint African Union and UN peacekeeping force in Darfur to 63 percent of its authorized military strength, and credited this development to the efforts of...