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BBC News
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Sudan's government has promised $300m (�150m) to "help rebuild and repair" Darfur, tripling a previous pledge, said ex-US President Jimmy Carter.
Mr Carter said President Omar al-Bashir was also willing to have international observers at planned elec..
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BBC News
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Amnesty International (AI) has accused the Sudanese government of deploying weapons to Darfur in "breathtaking defiance" of a UN arms embargo.
The rights group said photographs of Russian-supplied military helicopters and a transport plane at an airpor..
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Yahoo News
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Israel said Sunday it would no longer accept refugees from Sudan's Darfur region, touching off debate over whether the Jewish state, founded after the Nazi genocide, has a duty to take in people fleeing persecution.
Israel has been grappling for months..
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CNN
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Sudan on Wednesday endorsed a U.N. resolution to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, raising hopes for a force that could for the first time provide real protection to civilians in one of the world's most embattled regions. If fully deployed, the troops w..
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BBC News
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The European Union has taken the first step towards sending a force to countries neighbouring the Sudanese conflict in Darfur.
European foreign ministers in Brussels authorised their military staff to draw up plans for an operation to deploy in Chad an..
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BBC News
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World renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs has condemned the US decision to impose fresh sanctions on Sudan over Darfur.
Mr Sachs said this would do little to address the underlying causes of the four-year conflict, which he said was a squeeze on natural r..
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CNN
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The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for a Sudanese government minister and a janjaweed militia leader suspected of committing war crimes in Darfur, the court said Wednesday.
The court will now wait and see if Sudanese authoritie..
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BBC News
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Lawyers in Sudan's Darfur region are investigating reports of slavery during the conflict, the BBC has learned.
"There are many cases of abductions," a Sudanese lawyer told the BBC.
They are too afraid of possible reprisals from either militias or s..
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BBC News
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Camps for those displaced by fighting in Sudan's Darfur region are almost full, the UN says.
Several camps are having to turn away new groups of refugees, a report for UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) says.
More than 80..
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Independent
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France yesterday defended recent fighter jet raids on towns bordering Sudan's Darfur region by claiming the aggressive action was aimed at preventing regional chaos...
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BBC News
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The Sudanese government together with the Janjaweed militia have launched new attacks in northern Darfur, the African Union (AU) has said...
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BBC News
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The "whole state apparatus" of Sudan is implicated in crimes against humanity in Darfur, the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor has said.
Luis Moreno-Ocampo's report into the crisis in western Sudan, due on Thursday, coincides with a visit..
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CNN
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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 situation is so serious that our representative in Chad is now at the border trying to find a..
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BBC News
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The UN secretary general is pressing Sudan's leader to accept non-African troops in the peacekeeping force due to arrive in Darfur within weeks.
Ban Ki-moon has dispatched two of his most senior envoys to a Lisbon summit.
In 25 days a joint African..
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BBC News
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Arab groups in Sudan's Darfur region could start their own rebellion, a leading think-tank has warned.
Some Arab communities felt they had been used by Sudan's government, says the International Crisis Group (ICG).
The ICG report also criticised the..
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BBC News
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The joint UN-African Union peacekeeping mission to Darfur may fail unless countries can provide helicopters and lorries, a top UN official says.
Foot-dragging by Sudan over the make-up of the force could also threaten the mission, he warns.
The 26,0..
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BBC News
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The United Nations has criticised the Sudanese government's use of red tape to delay the deployment of the hybrid UN-African Union force to Darfur.
In a highly critical report, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon accused Khartoum of failing to approve a l..
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BBC News
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The UK has warned rebel groups in Darfur they could be excluded from the peace process if they boycott talks due to be held in Libya later this month.
The UK Minister for Africa, Lord Malloch Brown, said those who opted out "should understand the conse..
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BBC News
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A delegation of influential elder statesmen led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu is travelling to Darfur to try to find solutions to the conflict.
The "Elders" will be talking to local community leaders and to displaced people living in camps.
The visit c..
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USA Today
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What do the Beijing Olympic Games have to do with genocide in Darfur?
Nothing, according to the Chinese government.
A lot, say some diplomats and experts on Darfur. They say that, as next year's Games draw closer, China is taking steps to end the hu..
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