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Reports of Trouble in Darfur Refugee Camp

The BBC reports that Sudanese government troops are trying to disarm a refugee camp in Darfur.
Story at BBC

2008 08 25 Ted Thornton Comments (0)

ICC Seeking to Indict Sudan’s President

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague announced recently he would seek an indictment of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir for war crimes in connection with the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

2008 07 26 Ted Thornton Comments (0)

New Round of Violence in Sudan’s Darfur Region

Attacks by Janjaweed militiamen with support from Sudanese government forces are on the rise again in Darfur.
See Lydia Polgreen, “Scorched-Earth Policy Returns to Darfur, New York Times, March 2, 2008.
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2008 03 02 Ted Thornton Arab World Comments (1)

Threat of Renewed Civil War Looming in Sudan

Nicholas Kristof, writing from Juba, a major center in southern Sudan, notes in his Op-Ed piece in today’s New York Times (”A Genocide Foretold,”Feb. 28, 2008) that Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir is backing away from commitments his government made in the 2005 agreement between the north and south that ended the civil war.  Under the [...]

2008 02 28 Ted Thornton Arab World Comments (1)