Darfur Daily News
| December 19 | Annan aide heads to Sudan to push for Darfur force U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is sending a top aide to Sudan to press his case for bolstering an African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur with substantial U.N. resources, a spokesman said on Monday. More >> |
| December 19 | Chad says nearly 40 killed in Janjaweed raids Nearly 40 people were killed in clashes between Chad’s security forces and Arab raiders on horseback who attacked two eastern villages, burning homes and mutilating their victims, the government said on Tuesday. More >> |
| December 18 | Chad Troops Chase Rebels Into Sudan Troops from Chad entered Sudan’s Darfur region in pursuit of Chadian rebels Friday as the U.N. and humanitarian aid groups prepared to pull some workers out of a key border town, fearing an imminent battle. More >> |
| December 18 | AU blames Khartoum for worsening Darfur situation The African Union (AU) on Saturday said the situation in Sudan’s troubled Darfur region was worsening due to the return of re-armed Janjaweed militia and Khartoum’s resolve to use military force. More >> |
| December 18 | UN to send envoy to discuss ‘hybrid’ Darfur force The United Nations is to send a special envoy to Sudan to coordinate assistance to the embattled African Union force deployed in war-torn Darfur, state media have reported. More >> |
| December 15 | U.S. special envoy heads to Brussels to talk Darfur The U.S. special envoy to Sudan was en route to Brussels to discuss the crisis in Darfur with top European Union and NATO officials, the State Department said on Thursday. More >> |
| December 15 | Ban Ki-Moon Lays Out U.N. Agenda South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon laid out an ambitious agenda as the next U.N. secretary-general, promising to become personally engaged in efforts to bring peace to the Mideast and Darfur and to clean up the world body. Ban also said he planned to become “directly engaged” in efforts to bring peace to Sudan’s Darfur region, adding his first trip may be to an African Union summit in late January. More >> |
| December 15 | Sudan dismisses Blair threats, welcomes UN mission Sudan on Thursday dismissed British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s threats of sanctions and a “no-fly zone” over Darfur, and said it welcomed the visit of a U.N. mission as long as it reflected reality. Blair’s spokesman quoted him as saying during a visit to Washington last week that the option of a no-fly zone in Darfur should be considered as part of sanctions against Sudan if it did not agree to a U.N. peace plan. More >> |
| December 14 | War Tribunal to Seek Darfur Prosecutions The International Criminal Court expects to finalize by February its first case against suspects who bear the greatest responsibility for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sudan’s Darfur conflict, the chief prosecutor said in a report Wednesday. Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo gave few details of the investigation except to say that it focuses on “a series of incidents that occurred in 2003 and 2004, during a period and in a location where the highest number of crimes were recorded.” More >> |
| December 14 | Next Week Critical to Progress in Sudan: Envoy The U.S. special envoy to Sudan said next week may see progress in the troubled west and south of the African country after he had what he called a productive meeting with President Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Wednesday. Envoy Andrew Natsios said that during the two-hour meeting with Bashir: “(We) agreed to disagree on history, but we have agreed that there are some steps that we can take in the next week that may make some progress.” More >> |
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