Full Coverage: Sudan

30.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 30 (OneWorld) - Africans and Americans support United Nations-authorized military intervention to quell serious human rights abuses and violence in Sudan's Darfur and other conflict-wracked regions, said a pair of new polls.

24.06.2005 African and international NGOs have issued a joint appeal to the UN and the African Union (AU) to put the crisis in Zimbabwe on the agenda of the upcoming AU Assembly, scheduled to take place in Libya July 4-5. Since last month, Zimbabwe's government has engaged in the ruthless destruction of homes and businesses in the capital, Harare, that has left at least 200,000 without shelter.

24.06.2005 The White House has been sharing counter-terrorism intelligence with the government of Sudan, a top diplomat has revealed, causing human rights activists to castigate the Bush administration for putting the "war on terror" above stopping the mass extermination of people in Darfur.

23.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 22 (OneWorld) - Rights campaigners accused the U.S. administration of going along with genocide Wednesday after a top diplomat told lawmakers the White House maintains an intelligence-sharing relationship with the very government of Sudan it has assailed for a massive extermination of people in Darfur.

21.06.2005 Sudanese authorities have dropped the charges, which many believed were politically motivated, against two senior aid workers with Medécins Sans Frontières. A report on rape in Darfur, based on the organization's experience with traumatized victims in the region, led to their arrests at the end of May.

16.06.2005 Tony Blair is slammed for ignoring the genocide in Darfur, while lecturing world leaders on helping Africa. A report published today by pressure group Waging Peace, criticises the prime minister for a “policy of appeasement” towards the Sudanese regime.

15.06.2005 Sudan has responded to the attentions of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) by setting up its own national court to investigate war crimes. Such a court could have no credibility whatsoever, argues Amnesty International.

15.06.2005 Sudanin hallituksen perustama Darfurin sotarikoksia tutkiva erityistuomioistuin on Amnesty Internationalin mukaan tuomittu epäonnistumaan. Epäonnistuminen voidaan välttää vain jos Sudan toteuttaa perustavanlaatuisen lakiuudistuksen ja takaa oikeuslaitoksen itsenäisyyden. Amnesty pelkää, että erityistuomioistuimen perustaminen on Sudanin hallituksen taktinen veto välttää syytteeseen joutuminen kansainvälisessä rikostuomioistuimessa.

15.06.2005 A week after the International Criminal Court (ICC) opened an investigation into Darfur's war crimes, the Sudanese Government has opened its own court to try war criminals. As threats continue against those who expose human rights violations, Amnesty International calls the court a governmental tactic to avoid ICC prosecution.

10.06.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jun 10 (OneWorld) - Humanitarian advocates welcomed Western moves to airlift additional African peacekeepers to Darfur Thursday but urged the United States and other powers to marshal an international peacekeeping force to halt what the White House has called ongoing genocide in the war-wrecked region of Sudan.

10.06.2005 At least 2 million have fled to camps in Sudan and neighboring Chad since the violence began in Darfur in 2004, relying on humanitarian assistance for their basic needs. Programs that provide clean water, education for children, and nutrition are making a difficult situation much more bearable.

07.06.2005 In light of President Bush's candid remarks last week on genocide and Monday's announcement that the special prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) is launching investigations into the situation, the U.S. is being urged to fully support the accountability process for Darfur.

07.06.2005 Punaisen Ristin kansainvälinen komitea (ICRC) on käynnistänyt ilmasillan Sudanin Darfuriin. Ilmasillan avulla turvataan ruoka-avun jatkuminen alueen asukkaille. Rahtikone kuljettaa alueelle ruokaa kaksi kertaa vuorokaudessa seuraavan kahden kuukauden ajan. Apua on tarkoitus jakaa kaikkiaan noin 220 000 ihmiselle. Ilmasillan avaamiseen päädyttiin hankalien kuljetusolosuhteiden takia.

06.06.2005 Spending three days with three-year-old Samaa, a Sudanese refugee in Greece, American University student Paul Perry discovers the consequences of U.S. foreign policy priorities in a truly alternative spring break experience.

03.06.2005 Amid growing pressure to do more about Sudan, President Bush broke nearly six months of silence on the issue, reaffirming Wednesday his belief--and that of his administration--that genocide is taking place in Darfur. Meanwhile, 114 lawmakers have signed as co-sponsors of a bill authorizing the use of U.S. military force to stop the Sudan killings.

01.06.2005 Medecins Sans Frontieres worker Paul Foreman was charged with crimes against the Sudanese government Monday for refusing to hand over evidence on which a report documenting hundreds of rapes was based, and his co-worker Vincent Hoedt was detained and released. MSF says the arrests demonstrate the Sudanese government's attempts to intimidate the aid community.