Sudan

While accelerating its military build up in Darfur, the National Islamic Front government signed a peace deal on 7 January with the mysterious new rebel group, the National...

The temporary capital of Southern Sudan will be Rumbek, home to the South's first secondary school and, since its recapture by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in 1997,...

The failure of the West's policy on Sudan - and in particular its failure to respond to the suffering in Darfur - was clear in the lead up...

After declaring the Islamic African Relief Agency and five senior officials 'Specially Designated Global Terrorists' on 13 October, the United States may now ask the United Nations Sanctions...

As Sudan government attacks on civilians continue in Darfur and as Washington at last calls the slaughter 'genocide', United States' and British diplomats argue perversely that for the...

Chad lives precariously, even without the Darfur crisis on its eastern border (AC Vol 45 No 18). That disaster has turned President Idriss Déby against Khartoum, as he...

The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own...

In a few weeks, the direction of the Darfur crisis should be clearer: if the pressure for an international peacekeeping force and sustained pressure on the National Islamic...

The Darfur war is intensifying on two fronts - on the scorched scrublands of western Sudan, where more than 50,000 civilians have been killed already, and on the...

Bureaucratic squabbles and diplomatic evasions are derailing plans for a peacekeeping force to protect civilians or even ceasefire monitors in Darfur. No interested government has called the National...