It's the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the biggest U.N. aid operation and the 21st century's first genocide -- yet the toxic blend of militants, rebels, bandits and government forces in Darfur is barely understood by the outside world. Here CNN answers the basic questions surrounding the violence-stricken region.
What surprised me the most about the aid camps is the sheer fortitude of the people. Fires burning down the flimsy straw shelters is a common occurrence here.
Life for the millions of people in Darfur's aid camps is a living hell. Women are often raped while out collecting firewood and security is so bad aid trucks can't get through, resulting in food handouts being halved.
The number of deaths in Sudan's Darfur region since 2006 may have been underestimated by as much as 50 percent, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said Tuesday.
The U.N. refugee agency says "unknown armed elements" are thwarting its efforts to move Darfur refugees in eastern Chad from the "volatile border to camps."
The Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations lambasted the body's chief envoy to Sudan on Thursday for insulting the country's government and army on a Web blog.
(CNN) The African Union has announced it will leave its 7,000 troops in the Darfur region until at least the end of the year. Here's all you need to know about the crisis in western Sudan.
It's the scene of the world's worst humanitarian crisis, the biggest U.N. aid operation and the 21st century's first genocide -- yet the toxic blend of militants, rebels, bandits and government forces in Darfur is barely understood by the outside world. Here CNN answers the basic questions surrounding the violence-stricken region.
What surprised me the most about the aid camps is the sheer fortitude of the people. Fires burning down the flimsy straw shelters is a common occurrence here.
Life for the millions of people in Darfur's aid camps is a living hell. Women are often raped while out collecting firewood and security is so bad aid trucks can't get through, resulting in food handouts being halved.
The number of deaths in Sudan's Darfur region since 2006 may have been underestimated by as much as 50 percent, the U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs said Tuesday.
The U.N. refugee agency says "unknown armed elements" are thwarting its efforts to move Darfur refugees in eastern Chad from the "volatile border to camps."
The Sudanese ambassador to the United Nations lambasted the body's chief envoy to Sudan on Thursday for insulting the country's government and army on a Web blog.
(CNN) The African Union has announced it will leave its 7,000 troops in the Darfur region until at least the end of the year. Here's all you need to know about the crisis in western Sudan.
Sudan's foreign minister has apologized to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after authorities roughed up journalists and staff members traveling with her.
The government of Sudan and militias have acted together in committing widespread atrocities in Darfur that should be prosecuted by an international war crimes tribunal, but the violent acts do not amount to genocide, a U.N. commission has said.
A Darfur rebel group said Thursday it refused to return to African Union-sponsored peace talks and rejected the pan-African body as lead mediator to end the 22-month-old conflict.
The Sudanese government and rebels in the country's Darfur region have signed security and humanitarian agreements in Nigeria after two weeks of talks, the press officer for Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo has said.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called on the U.N. Security Council to "take action now" on a resolution demanding that the Sudanese government stop the violence in the troubled Darfur region, where tens of thousands of civilians have been killed.
The United States has toned down its threat of U.N. sanctions against Sudan, but said oil sanctions should be considered if the African nation does not stop the violence in the troubled Darfur region.
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that "genocide has been committed" in the Sudanese region of Darfur, a charge rejected by Sudan's Foreign Minister.
While not directly calling the crisis in Darfur a genocide, the U.S. State Department has said that interviews with Sudanese refugees indicated attacks against the regions' black Africans appeared to be racially motivated.
The United Nations' special envoy to Sudan said Thursday that the African nation's government is making some progress -- but not enough -- in meeting Security Council demands to rein in the catastrophe in the country's Darfur region.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Wednesday for a "substantially increased international presence" as quickly as possible in the Darfur region of Sudan, saying the Sudanese government had not met its obligation to stop attacks against civilians.
CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour Interviewed Lt. Gen. Omar Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan, on August 12. The following is a transcript of the interview.
Rebel groups walked away from peace talks with the Sudanese government in the Nigerian capital of Abuja on Saturday in protest of alleged attacks by the government-supported Janjaweed militia in the embattled Darfur region, a government spokesman said.
The Sudanese government has agreed to an African Union proposal to send more AU troops to the Darfur region to garrison rebel fighters, a top government negotiator told reporters.
Sudanese peace talks have hit a new snag after rebels refused to discuss garrisoning their forces, even though host nation Nigeria said they had agreed to put it on the agenda.
Britain's Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said his government is prepared to help fund an enlarged African Union force to monitor the situation in the troubled western Sudan region of Darfur.
The United Nations says thousands of displaced persons in the Darfur region of Sudan could cross to Chad "if no credible measures are taken to make them feel secure inside."
The United Nations' envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk, is pessimistic the government in Khartoum will be able to meet is commitments to relieve the country's growing humanitarian crisis.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan is sending a U.N. security team to Addis Adaba to assist the African Union (AU) with the security situation in the Darfur region of Sudan, where armed gangs known as the Janjaweed have driven thousands from their homes.
Sudan is calling a U.N. Security Council vote on the Darfur crisis "illogical," after being given 30 days to disarm Arab militias or face economic and diplomatic penalties.
A U.S. draft proposal to the United Nations on the Sudan crisis drops the word "sanctions" but calls on the Sudanese government to disarm Arab militias, known as the Janjaweed.
Talks broke down Saturday between two rebel groups and the African Union, which has been trying to mediate an end to the violence in the Darfur region of Sudan, where government-backed Arab militias are blamed for a campaign of mass murders.
State Department officials tell CNN they knew the village Secretary of State Colin Powell visited last week during his visit to Sudan was somewhat sanitized. They say they'd expected that.
On his first day as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Danforth demanded the Sudanese government act to improve the situation in the strife-torn Darfur region.
The Sudanese government Saturday vowed to crack down on militia violence in the country's strife-torn Darfur region, where a shocking humanitarian crisis has been unfolding for months.
The United States circulated a resolution Wednesday to member nations of the U.N. Security Council calling for sanctions against the militias being blamed for what has been described as a "humanitarian catastrophe" in Sudan.
Millions may die in the Darfur region of Sudan as a result of fighting between the Sudanese government, allied militias and rebel groups unless there is an immediate outpouring of international aid, the World Health Organization has warned.
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