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Arab foreign ministers are expected to discuss a proposal Saturday calling on Sudan’s president to hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects to an international tribunal in an effort to fend off the longtime leader’s own prosecution on genocide charges, Arab diplomats said.
For years, Mohammed Ali has been hearing relatives and friends tell how government-backed militiamen torched villages in his native Darfur, raped women and shot fleeing civilians.
Arab foreign ministers are expected to discuss a proposal Saturday calling on Sudan’s president to hand over two Darfur war crimes suspects to an international tribunal in an effort to fend off the longtime leader’s own prosecution on genocide charges, Arab diplomats said.
The genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir could “lead to a lot of danger,” the chairman of an African Union panel said Thursday.
Syria’s foreign minister says genocide charges against Sudan’s president have set a dangerous precedent.
African envoys sought support Wednesday from Russia and China for ways of letting Sudan’s president dodge a global court prosecutor’s Darfur war crimes charges.
U.N. officials say another peacekeeper with the United Nations-African Union force has been shot and killed.
Sudan’s parliament has condemned genocide charges against the country’s president, saying his indictment by the International Criminal Court endangers vital peace agreements in Darfur and the rest of the country.
For years, the Bush administration has taken a strong stance denouncing atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region and labeling them genocide. Yet it offered only an ambivalent response when the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed genocide charges against Sudan’s president.
For years, the Bush administration has taken a strong stance denouncing atrocities in Sudan’s Darfur region and labeling them genocide.
UN has a very strong presence in conflict zone of Darfur, Sudan. UN’s World Food Program (WFP) is carrying out one of the largest food aid operation; United Nations-African Missions Joint Peacekeeping Force (UNAMID) has been trying to protect people...
Khartoum, capital of Sudan was considered one of the safest African capital cities but the recent spurt of Islamic terrorism is threatening to interrupt its law and order scenario. The growing resentment among the Muslim youths of the country over the...
Undeterred by international criticism against its ’scorched earth’ policy, the Sudanese government has launched a fresh attack on the rebel stronghold in Darfur. The government-sponsored genocide is centered on western Darfur where clusters of...
Following Steven Spielberg’s withdrawal as an artistic adviser from the Beijing Olympics yesterday, China is now being pressurized by the international community to use its influence on ally Sudan to stop atrocities in the Darfur region. This...
The political situation in Chad is another indication of the same old African story of civil wars and regional instability. Chad government forces and rebels, with alleged Sudanese backup, are involved in a fierce battle for the control of the...
BBC News is trying to get one back at the old British colonies by making a joke out of Mrs. Gillian Gibbon’s arrest for calling a teddy-bear Mohammed. It sees Sudan giving a bloody nose to the UK while becoming red in the face from defeat. The old...
The ethnic-cum-tribal conflict in Sudan’s Darfur region, sponsored by the Sudanese govt. seems to be developing a gravely violent flavor suddenly, after reports of proliferation in the number of armed militia groups. Confirming these reports are...
Sudan, the largest African nation, is reputed for violence and discrimination against women. Human rights violations against women have taken the driver’s seat here. Ethnic conflicts flowing from an ill-respected cultural diversity, insurgency,...
There was always a hanging suspicion that the Libya peace talks on the Darfur conflict would yield few results. Even before the peace conference has begun in Sirte, the absence of representatives of various rebel fractions has confirmed that the...
The violent political scenario in the impoverished oil-rich African country of Chad is the result of another, yet common world neglect. Chadians have hardly experienced a period of calm and peace since their independence from the French. According to...
Photographers surround Sudanese state Foreign Minister for foreign affairs, Salman al- Wasilla, right, and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal attend an Arab League foreign ministers emergency meeting to discuss the indictment of President Omer...
