Darfur's vast and complex catastrophe has increasingly come to be perceived through the narrow lens of an impending ruling by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on charges brought against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir. ...

Eight years ago, nearly all United Nations member states and many international organizations committed to a series of ambitious steps designed to respond immediately to critical needs within the developing world, and ...

UN humanitarian organisations operating in Darfur belatedly acknowledged this week that conditions are poised to deteriorate rapidly for some 4.3 million conflict-affected persons in the vast western region of Sudan, which ...

Eric Reeves   - The international community fails to heed the warning signs or hold Khartoum accountable   - http://dissentmagazine.org/article/?article=1212   • Despite five years of genocidal counter-insurgency ...

On May 10, one of Darfur's key rebel factions, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), struck military targets within Omdurman, the twin city of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. Although rumored for days, the long-distance ...

NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS - The brutality of the Khartoum regime's military actions in the Darfur region of western Sudan continually forces a question that seems to have no morally intelligible answer: Is there no act of ...

In preparing to host the 2008 Summer Olympics, China has engaged in a massive campaign to dissemble its role in the Darfur genocide in western Sudan, now entering its sixth year. Such a task was unexpected by Beijing. The ...

International failure in responding to genocide in Darfur should be occasion for the deepest shame. Inaction has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives and caused untold human suffering—but the catastrophe is far ...

A terrible consequence of the Darfur Peace Agreement, signed in May 2006 and resulting chiefly in dividing the anti-Khartoum rebel movement, is that it has allowed too many influential people to speak euphemistically about ...

Amidst the ominous uncertainties created by the Chadian rebel assault on N'Djamena, Chad's capital city in the far west of this vast country, one reality is all too clear: in eastern Chad, more than 400,000 displaced Chadians ...