As it is well known internationally, Darfur is suffering a wide range of unbelievable human rights violations and atrocities by which a comprehensive system of...

Seventy years ago last weekend, the Holocaust began. On the night of November 9th-10th, 1938 Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues were attacked by Nazi...

A disputed region in Sudan could turn into another conflict to rival that in Darfur, a think-tank has warned. The International Crisis Group said the main political...

The top prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Argentine Luis Moreno-Ocampo, has sought the arrest of the first sitting head-of-state to be...

While we were busy grumbling over our economic problems, Arab militiamen known as the janjaweed were busy butchering thousands of black African civilians in Darfur,...

OMAR Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, was yesterday charged with genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, his country’s western province.

The craze in recent months has been to climb the New York Times 8th Ave building in order to bring attention to ones pet cause. Recent climbers include French climber...

Why are African leaders turning against their own people? International Criminals Court has accused Sudan head for serious crimes against rebellous civilians of...

The International Criminal Court has accused Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir of genocide in Darfur. Around 300,000 people have died since rebels took up arms in 2003....

The Republic of Chad, situated between Niger to the west and Sudan to the east, will be celebrating nearly half a century of independence in a month. But this central...

The disaster in Burma presents the world with perhaps its most serious humanitarian crisis since the 2004 Asian tsunami. By most reliable estimates, close to 100,000...

Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) called the attention of the faithful to the sufferings of Africa during his midday audience on Sunday, April 27. After leading the...

‘Well what would you do in your country?” That was the question a group of Darfuri refugees put to an aid worker in their camp near the Sudanese border 18...

All Darfuris are Muslim and black. The “African” and “Arab” distinctions pertain more to lifestyle and livelihood categories. Comprising 35% of the population...

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...

This photo by Kevin Carter won the “Pulitzer Prize” in 1994 and became a symbol of the Sudan famine at the time. The picture depicts stricken girl crawling towards...

US President George W Bush has defended his decision not to send troops to the Sudanese region of Darfur, despite what he calls a genocide taking place there. He...

Film director Steven Spielberg and actress Mia Farrow joined activists worldwide Tuesday in using the Olympics as a backdrop to address human rights concerns, urging...

# According to a new study, mass killings reported as statistics fail to tickle human emotions while a person’s accidental death reported on the evening news can...