Full Coverage: Sudan

28.10.2004 A coalition of more than 160 U.S. development and relief organizations is calling on President George W. Bush to provide more assistance to the more than 1.6 million people who have been forced from their homes in a brutal counter-insurgency campaign that the Bush administration has characterized as “genocide” in Sudan’s western region of Darfur.

27.10.2004

Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights - da Hrw

The fighting in Darfur is only one of several confrontations in the Sudanese Civil war, says Dan Connell, it cannot be solved in isolation. If a unified state is desirable, the international community will have to include Darfur and other regional conflicts in the ongoing peace talks between the Khartoum government and the people of southern Sudan, otherwise breaking Sudan into several autonomous states may be the only solution to the slaughter.

26.10.2004

Refugees from Darfur head for Eastern Chad © B.Heger/Exile Images / Exile Images

This much we know: more than twelve months on, the fighting and insecurity that sent Darfur people fleeing from their homes has not stopped. Relief workers do not know when the situation will improve but they plan to provide emergency aid till October 2005 and to help people rebuild their lives when they return to their villages.

21.10.2004 Ali Adam, aid worker and native of Khartoum, believes the conflicts in Sudan are not about religion (Christian versus muslim) or region (north versus south) but about power and wealth, economic imbalance and social marginalization.

20.10.2004 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in collaboration with the Sudanese Red Crescent and Red Cross has set up an extensive family tracing network for refugees in eastern Chad. Most of the families from western Darfur become separated in the chaos and confusion after attacks on their villages.

19.10.2004 Si deve fare di più, a proposito di aiuti ai Paesi poveri. Un monito che vale purtroppo per tutto il Nord del mondo. Basti pensare ad una delle più grandi crisi umanitarie in atto, quella del Darfur. Una situazione insostenibile, come denunciato da Caritas, Oxfam e Care all’inizio di settembre, se la comunità internazionale e i singoli governi occidentali non si assumeranno le loro responsabilità. L’ultima risoluzione delle Nazioni Unite - minacciando sanzioni nei confronti del Governo del Sudan - apre timidi spiragli.

19.10.2004 The troubled western Sudan region of Darfur is facing another catastrophe with a growing number of animal deaths in the region where more than 70 000 people have died in what the United Nations has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world.

19.10.2004 During the rainy season in South Darfur, a land cruiser makes a 66 mile journey in four hours because of the sodden ground. A ten-ton truck laden with relief supplies may require up to five days for the same journey. Since the beginning of the year, aid workers have been enduring these difficulties and more - - cold nights, attacks by bandits and stultifying government bureaucracy - - to bring clean water, toilet facilities and medicines to thousands of people displaced by the violence in western Sudan.

18.10.2004 Women in Abushouk camp in North Darfur are being assaulted by the Police forces deployed to protect them from the Janjaweed militia. The Police who are reported to be in league with the Janjaweed and to have recruited members of the militia into their ranks, were deployed to the camps by the Khartoum government under the terms of an agreement with the UN.

15.10.2004 More internally displaced persons - - more than 200, 000 - - flocked to camps as fighting intensified between the Sudan government and rebels in South Darfur last month. Aid workers say tension between refugees and government officials is rising because of persistent insecurity and grim living conditions in camps.

13.10.2004 Unicef on kotiuttanut yli 20 000 Etelä-Sudanin kapinallisten joukoissa taistellutta lasta vuoden 2001 jälkeen, todetaan hankkeesta tehdyssä arvioinnissa. Pääasiassa hallituksen joukoissa taistelee arvioiden mukaan edelleen useita tuhansia lapsisotilaita. Unicefin mukaan lasten kotiinpaluuta voidaan edistää koulutukseen sekä perheiden ja yhteisöjen tukemiseen panostamalla.

13.10.2004 Sudanin Darfurissa Punaisen Ristin pakolaisleireille riittää tulijoita, vaikka hallituksen mukaan pakolaisvirta on tyrehtynyt ja taistelut laantuneet. Monet heistä ovat menettäneet kaiken: kotinsa, karjansa, ruokavarastonsa, kirjoittaa toimittaja Merja Sundström raportissaan Darfurista SPR:n verkkosivuilla.

12.10.2004 More than 20,000 children in Sudan have been successfully pulled out of the armed forces since 2001, according to a UNICEF report. But thousands still remain in service.

08.10.2004 How can we name the crisis unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan? The U.S. Congress, and now Secretary of State Colin Powell, claim that genocide has occurred in Darfur. The European Union says it is not genocide. And now so does the African Union.

07.10.2004 In his briefing to the Security Council this week, the UN Special Representative in Sudan stated that there has been no improvement of people’s security under the Khartoum government’s “Darfur Plan of Action.” He said internally displaced persons consistently report that police reinforcement to create safe areas under the Plan has actually resulted in greater violence against civilians.

06.10.2004 From the countryside in Sudan, Sarah Martin and Mamie Mutchler, both advocates with Refugees International, give first hand account of why the internally displaced people now living in Kass and Fato Barno camps in North Darfur fled their villages, how they still live at the mercy of the Janjaweed, and under what conditions they will consider going back to their homes.

05.10.2004 Crisi di Darfur: centomila rifugiati ed un milione di sfollati. Cifre che li accomuna, per tragedia, ai Grandi Laghi. Ai Janjaweed, cavalieri indiavolati, non interessa nulla che tu sia un fratello musulmano come loro, animista o cristiano, purché tu abbandoni il campo. Per far ciò s'imbottiscono di droga e poi si accaniscono contro gli stessi leader religiosi musulmani, dissacrano le moschee, bruciano il Corano. Insomma, la questione è politica e la religione non c'entra.
di Fabio Pipinato

01.10.2004 The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre has produced a paper which looks at the Darfur conflict as one which has been often over simplified by both international media and world leaders. The paper outlines the dilemmas emerging from a situation where there is a clear international responsibility to protect civilians and how the use of urgent and robust action is necessary to meet this responsibility.