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The IDPs ask the government to disarm militia and to bring to justice responsible of atrocities committed in the restive region as well as to conclude a peace deal with the rebel groups before organize elections in the country. However, the local authorities...
Tags: West Darfur, voter registration, Sudan, North Darfur, regular force, killing seven, France, Paris, Second Chadian Civil War, Politics, Darfur, Politics of Sudan, Social Issues, Persecution, Internally displaced person, Forced migration, Janjaweed, Darfur conflict, War Conflict
The renewal of U.S. economic sanctions against Sudan does not support the peace process or stability in Sudan, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. US President Barack Obama yesterday renewed U.S. sanctions imposed on Sudan since 1997 in order to have...
Tags: Sudan, African Darfur, West Darfur, Thabo Mbeki, special court, african president, president thabo, Nigerian, african union, south african
The African Union (AU) panel that was tasked with balancing peace and accountability in Darfur has made an implicit endorsement of the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutions despite unfavorable disposition to the issue by African leaders and...
Tags: aid worker, West Darfur, Southern Sudan, darfur region, Omar al-Bashir, Ugandan, Irishwoman Sharon Commins
Armed men seized two foreign civilians working for Darfur's peacekeeping force on Saturday, the fourth kidnapping in the remote Sudanese region since March. "They were abducted by armed men from their residence in Zalingei...It was the first time international...
Tags: West Darfur, Zalingei, Sudan, United Nations/African Union, Noureddine Mezni, UNAMID, United Nations-African Union Mission, united nationalities, Noureddin Mezni, peacekeepers mission
The officers arrived in El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur and will begin induction training before they are deployed across the troubled Darfur province...United Nations Security Council resolution 1769 (2007) authorized the deployment of an appropriate...
Tags: West Darfur, North Darfur, South Sudan
August 1, 2009 — In Senate testimony last week, US special presidential envoy for Sudan Scott Gration offered a peculiarly upbeat assessment of the crisis in Darfur and the prospects for peace throughout Sudan. He argued that we should move toward normalizing...
Tags: Sudan Scott Gration, US Sudan, West Darfur
Fund New Zealand’s partners in Sudan are shaken after a terrifying raid on their compound in which an international staff member was injured by shrapnel. The recent raid on Medair’s compound in El Geneina, West Darfur, has come on the heels of another...
Tags: West Darfur
But Al-Nur said that insecurity is prevalent in most of Darfur. “The people are still being attacked in North, South and West Darfur. Darfuris rather than simply putting them in reports” he added. The Sudanese government including president Omer Hassan...
Tags: darfur, Darfuris, West Darfur
I opened the Rome conference that led to the founding of the International Criminal Court, I reminded the delegates that the eyes of the victims of past crimes and the potential victims of future ones were fixed upon them. The delegates, many of whom...
Tags: West Darfur
The number of uprooted people across the world dropped slightly last year, but new displacement this year in conflict zones like Pakistan, Somalia and Sri Lanka so far "has already more than offset the decline," the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday. ...
Tags: West Darfur, North Darfur, Sudan Armed Forces, Sri Lanka, Seraf Jidad, internally displacements, Somalia, Pakistan Refugee Crisis Worst, Chad, Sima Samar