Full Coverage: Sudan

29.09.2004 Join NetAid and CARE relief effort in Darfur by sending Sudan Action E-cards. For every five cards sent, $1 will be allocated from the NetAid World Schoolhouse Fund to finance CARE’s relief work which includes, distribution of UNICEF school-in-a-box kit to refugee children and teachers.

27.09.2004 Una nuova indagine epidemiologica condotta da Medici Senza Frontiere (MSF) nel Darfur del Sud rivela che complessivamente il livello e la qualità degli aiuti umanitari continua ad essere insufficiente. Nel campo di Kalma, nei pressi di Nyala, dove circa 66.000 persone fuggite dalle violenze hanno trovato rifugio e dove MSF sta curando 3.900 bambini malnutriti, l’indagine ha riportato tassi di mortalità e malnutrizione ben sopra la soglia d’emergenza. MSF avverte che senza un aumento della mobilitazione degli aiuti nel Darfur del Sud, le condizioni sanitarie e nutrizionali nella regione potrebbero peggiorare ulteriormente.

23.09.2004 An Amnesty International delegation headed by its Secretary General Irene Khan visited Darfur from 14-21 September 2004 to gather information, assess the human rights aspects of the crisis and press the Government of Sudan to take action. Click through to listen to their statements and testimonies....

23.09.2004 Dopo che il Consiglio di Sicurezza dell'Onu ha approvato la seconda risoluzione sul Darfur (Sudan), minacciando provvedimenti anche verso il settore petrolifero qualora il governo sudanese non dovesse accogliere le richieste del Consiglio, si sono interrotti i colloqui di pace in corso tra il governo centrale e rappresentanti dello Sla/m e del Jem. Una nota della Comunità di Sant'Egidio invita le parti a riprendere i colloqui. Intanto Amnesty International rende note le conclusioni della visita in Sudan confermando le precedenti denunce di "villaggi attaccati dalle milizie sostenute dal governo e in alcuni casi assistite sul campo dalle forze armate sudanesi".

22.09.2004 In a report on the September 14-21 visit of an Amnesty International delegation to Sudan, the organization said that the humanitarian situation in Darfur remains “extremely precarious despite full and free humanitarian access.” The delegates who met with displaced persons in camps and Sudanese government officials, said people are still being uprooted from their homes by fighting and those in camps do not feel safe enough to return to their villages.

21.09.2004 The UN Security Council's new resolution on the situation in the western Darfur region of Sudan falls short of what is needed to protect its black African inhabitants, nearly two million of whom are currently displaced from their homes, according to human rights groups.

21.09.2004 Attuare l'embargo sulla vendita di armi e mantenere la pressione politica sul governo di Khartoum. Per Stefano Squarcina - consigliere per l'Africa al Parlamento europeo, membro di una delegazione dell'Ue da poco rientrata dal Sudan - sono queste le priorità per spingere il governo sudanese ad una soluzione politica della crisi in Darfur. "La crisi umanitaria in Darfur ha origini strettamente politiche e l'unica soluzione è una soluzione politica". La sua analisi anticipa gli approfondimenti contenuti nel numero di ottobre di Nigrizia tra cui un'intervista a mons. Antonio Menegazzo, dal dicembre 1995 amministratore apostolico di El Obeid (Sudan), nella quale il prelato afferma che "genocidio è il termine giusto" per definire la situazione.
a cura di Michela Trevisan

20.09.2004 Sudan has promised to protect civilians in Darfur, responding to United Nations security council resolution threatening the regime with oil sanctions and ordering an inquiry into whether the atrocities in the region constitute genocide. Khartoum appeared to bow to the pressure to reign in its militias. But in satement by its Washington embassy, it called the resolution 'unfair and unjust'.

20.09.2004 Some of the female children who escaped the civil war in southern Sudan in 1983 were reunited at a recent conference in Arizona with the “Lost Boys," male children who escaped with them two decades ago . While the boys remained in camps, most of the girls were put in foster homes and became mothers and/or housekeepers.

17.09.2004 A humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding in the Darfur region of Sudan. A quarter of the population has been displaced. People are dying or living in desperate conditions. Thousands have been slaughtered with the complicity of the Sudanese government. Some human rights activists are now calling for UN-backed military intervention. The editors of Canada's New Socialist make their case against that approach.

17.09.2004 Sono partite subito le reazioni "indignate" alle anticipazioni dell'intervista concessa alla Bbc dal Segretario Generale dell'Onu Kofi Annan sull'"illegalità" della guerra in Iraq. E' opportuno analizzare gli estratti dell'intervista che la stessa Bbc ha da poco messo in rete. Ma sorge anche una questione: si può poi davvero ridurre tutto solo a una questione legale o illegale? Dall'Iraq al Medio Oriente al Darfur, lo scenario è sempre caratterizzato da conflitti ad intensità maggiore o minore, ma pur sempre guerre. Che fanno parte o si sviluppano sullo scenario di un'unica grande guerra, quella al terrorismo, impostata dagli Stati Uniti dopo l'11 settembre 2001.
di Pietro Mariano Benni

15.09.2004 The number of those dying in Darfur’s camps is reaching the level seen during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, figures from the World Health Organisation show.

15.09.2004 ”Sudanin Darfurissa on avun tarpeessa tällä hetkellä noin 1,5 miljoonaa ihmistä, kun otetaan huomioon ne paikalliset asukkaat, jotka ovat omista vähistä varoistaan avustaneet kotoaan paenneita ihmisiä", kertoo Kirkon Ulkomaanavun ulkomaantyön päällikkö Leo Siliämaa, joka on juuri palannut Darfurista.

15.09.2004 According to result of a survey released this week by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 200 refugees die in Darfur every day because of crowded, unhygienic conditions in camps or violent attacks. WHO said this number is far higher than the accepted mortality rate for humanitarian crises, namely one death per 10,000 people per day.

15.09.2004 According to result of a survey released this week by the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 200 refugees die in Darfur every day because of crowded, unhygienic conditions in camps or violent attacks. WHO said this number is far higher than the accepted mortality rate for humanitarian crises, namely one death per 10,000 people per day.

14.09.2004 Due to the humanitarian crisis currently occurring in Darfur, Sudan, the country has been in the headlines recently. Ten years ago, the decade old civil war between the Arab-dominated government in the north and the Christian and animist south caused thousands of children to flee to safety. Although the fighting is over, the children who were brought to the United States five years ago as the Lost Boys and Lost Girls of Sudan, continue to struggle in their new home.

14.09.2004 Relief workers in Gereida camp in South Darfur are worried that the camp is being overwhelmed by the arrival of a huge influx of newly displaced people. A staff of Oxfam Canada, one of two agencies working at the camp, said the camp population has increased from 10,000 to 40,000 in one week.

13.09.2004 This week's debate on a draft UN Security Council resolution submitted by the United States last Thursday that, if passed, would increase pressure on the government of Sudan to stop violence in Darfur that has killed at least 50,000 people since last year, is shaping up as a major test of U.S. influence in the world body.

13.09.2004

Displaced family in Sudan © Jean-Marc Bouji/Associated Press / Christian Aid

The U.S. Secretary of State’s comments on the crisis in Sudan last week are commendable as senior U.S. officials rarely declare an ongoing conflict genocide. But the declaration still leaves open the question of whether the U.S. will take assertive action to end the crisis.

13.09.2004 Speaking to reporters after consultations at the UN Security Council, the United States’ ambassador said last week that other members of the Council responded positively to a U.S. resolution on Sudan. The resolution, which may be passed by the Security Council this week, outlines steps to better the security and humanitarian situation in Darfur and stresses the crucial role of the African Union in the process.