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He said Darfur in western Sudan is still reeling from a devastating war exacerbated by a shortage of water and fertile land.

The president has spoken for some time of his resolve to help the peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

GE spokeswoman Deidre Latour said the company spoke to the IOC on a variety of issues, of which the Darfur issue was just one.

A piece of paper would not bring immediate relief to displaced women in Darfur, he said, but it was a start.

China is defending its stance on Sudan, arguing that it has taken a constructive role in trying to settle the conflict in war-torn Darfur.

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A Samsung spokeswoman said the company wasn't certain who the Darfur group had contacted within the organization.

"It seems odd since I've only met Berlusconi once and that was in an attempt to get aid into Darfur, " Clooney said in a statement.

For some time, the question of Darfur, Sudan has been a focus of attention of the international community.

On your second question, it's witnessed by all that China follows the Darfur issue closely and plays a constructive role.

After eight years of fighting in Darfur, the army is still trying to clear pockets of rebel fighters in the vast desert region.

Certainly I cannot say all the problems in Darfur have been properly solved, which needs further efforts of the international community.

He could also chuck out a few of the international NGOs which provide a lifeline to the refugees in Darfur.

The fighting in Darfur is usually described as racially motivated, pitting mounted Arabs against black rebels and civilians.

Obama, who had studies the Darfur situation, did not learn as much as he wanted.

"It is very unfortunate to see those tragedies going on in Darfur, " he said.

Nonetheless, the IOC feels the Beijing Games may help focus greater positive international attention on Darfur, she said.

The United States is not a party to the ICC but is understood to have provided some support for its Darfur war crimes inquiry.

Closer to home are the untold trials and tribulations of the people of Darfur, which the world seems to have forgotten.

African Union negotiators are struggling to hammer out a peace agreement between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels. A.

It has been five years since the U. S. Congress declared genocide in Darfur but thousands continue to perish.

Just as important, the UN, probably with NATO support, could operate out of Chad to enforce a no-fly zone over Darfur.

Late last month fighting broke out in Kalma, a vast camp for internally displaced people near the town of Nyala in south Darfur.

UNAMID spokesman Noureddine Mezni said the U. N. had highlighted the importance of allowing airports in Darfur to operate 24 hours a day .

The rights group says there has been a surge in government-led attacks on populated areas of Darfur and aerial bombings since December.

Sudan's government bears principal responsibility for five years of the Darfur crisis, Human Rights Watch said.

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The announcement by the White House comes as the Obama administration continues to formulate a new strategy for Sudan and the Darfur crisis.

Sudan signed end-user agreements with both governments guaranteeing that the aircraft would not be used in Darfur.

The U. N. Security Council has renewed the mandate of its joint U. N. -African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur, Sudan, for another year.

In the telephone conversation, Li stressed that the settlement of the Darfur issue in southern Sudan is at a key stage.

Ostensibly orphans from the Darfur region of Sudan, destined for adoption in France, many turned out to be local children, and not orphans.

We believe that there cannot be lasting peace in Darfur, or stability in Sudan, without accountability and justice.

Mr Obama brings with him some big figures with strong opinions on one of Africa's bloodiest conflicts, in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

Mister Baligizi is one of several aid workers attempting to help the local people and refugees from the conflict in Darfur.

Mr. Bush plans to ask Chinese leaders about their hand in three trouble spots: Darfur, Burma, and Iran.

Its narrator, Halima Bashir (pictured above), grew up in Darfur, became a victim of the conflict and ultimately escaped from it.

American speed-skater Joey Cheek - who won a gold and a silver medal at the 2006 Winter Games - is involved with a group called Team Darfur.

Do you think the U. N. should be given authority to intervene militarily in situations like Darfur?

He also criticized the US and Britain for their "megaphone diplomacy" in trying to persuade Sudan to accept a UN force in troubled Darfur.

Q: Has China brought up to the Sudanese Joint Chief of Staff the issue of UN peace-keeping mission to the Darfur region?

he is now officially accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in relation to the war in Sudan's western region of Darfur.

A few days ago, we heard good news from Abuja: the Sudanese government and the SLA signed the Darfur Peace Agreement.

Similar calls are coming from activists concerned about the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur province, where China has a great deal of influence.

At best, it seems, Britain sees it as a chip to be exchanged for setting south Sudan free and making peace in Darfur.

Darfur is not as much in the news as it was, but it is not any better.

The nightmare in Sudan has lasted longer than my life. Yet, isn't Darfur enough to lead to his indictment?

We hope to see continued progress in both peacekeeping operations and the political process in Darfur.

Tensions over Iran and North Korea's nuclear programmes, the crisis in Darfur, Kosovo and climate change all cry out for urgent attention.

And in Sudan's Darfur region, Rice said, the world's democracies must "resolve to end the suffering and violence. "

The group might now regret their move into Chad, as in their absence there was a fresh Sudanese assault on Darfur.

I was there to profile an American peace broker who himself was en route to the refugee camps out on the border with Darfur.

Chad's civil war is an essential contributor to the Darfur conflicts, whose effective solution is contingent upon the stabilization of Chad.

Since the election, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has welcomed ICC prosecutions of persons responsible for atrocities in Darfur.

He was forthright about the difficulties of winding down the war in Iraq and gave an eloquent pitch for American intervention in Darfur.

The governor of the west Darfur state planned to accompany the body back to Khartoum, added al-Amin.

Sudan's strongman, Omar al-Bashir, blasts the proposed deployment of UN troops in Darfur as the spearhead of a new Western crusade.

America can deliver all this in return for improvements in Darfur, elections and much else.

It would be wonderful if the perpetrators of the slaughter in Darfur were brought to justice.

The UN is now sending emissaries to the various hold-out rebel groups in Darfur, to try and bring them into talks.

The places where I think you'll see growing U. S. -French cooperation are Darfur . . . [and] on Iran to try to tighten the sanctions.

As I stepped off the plane into Sudan, I saw the dusty faces of those who have suffered under the terrible genocide happening in Darfur.

In Darfur thousands of villages have been burned, crops destroyed, water wells poisoned, and live stock killed.

so many different rebel groups now infest Darfur that striking any sort of agreement with them all has become dauntingly difficult.

Several Sudanese policemen have been killed in a battle with rebels in Sudan's western Darfur region, the Sudanese government says.

Diplomatic sources say Burkina Faso's foreign minister is to be named joint mediator on Darfur during this AU summit.

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On current plans it would take six to nine months to build up to full strength in Darfur.

Its leaders met U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Johnnie Carson this month on the sidelines of a Darfur workshop in Washington.

Injured in the conflict have been taken to the United Nations and the African Union Mission in Darfur at a camp for treatment.

Jill Savitt, executive director of Dream for Darfur, another campaign group, said her application for a visa had been rejected.

In Darfur, Chad would be an example of that among other things.

But by the time of the Darfur conflict four years ago, scientists had identified another cause.

For the first time in many months, he did not repeat his vehement rejection of U. N. troops in Darfur.

But in the West of Sudan, in Darfur, the situation for millions is still one of urgent crisis.

Olympic sponsors have been put under great pressure from some lobby groups to speak out about human rights in Tibet or Darfur in Sudan.

We must bear witness to the value of every child in Darfur and the dignity of every woman in the Congo.

North Darfur state's authorities earlier arrested a number of people belonging to a rebel faction responsible for the kidnapping.

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The plane took off from the town of Nyala in southern Darfur on Tuesday and was scheduled to travel to the capital Khartoum.

China has always advocated a dual-track approach: China was among the first countries sending peacekeepers to Darfur.

And it is trying to promote peace in Sudan's bloody western region, Darfur.

America and others are distracted by Darfur, whose protagonists are to meet in Libya later this month to talk peace.

The Bush administration says what is taking place in Darfur is genocide.

Archbishop Tutu called for the rapid deployment of a joint 26-thousand United Nations- African Union peacekeeping force to Darfur.

"Survivor Soulmates, " a documentary detailing the Holocaust and recent atrocities in Darfur, was viewed as part of the ceremony.

Government-backed militias in Darfur have sometimes killed well- drillers and ruined water points to prevent refugees returning to the land.

Besides, the UN needs Rwanda to continue with its deployment of troops to the UN mission in Darfur.

Sudan remains obligated to proactively facilitate the full deployment of UNAMID, the United Nations peacekeeping force in Darfur.

The fate of the people of Darfur dominated his talks at the White House with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.

The United Nations Security Council is meeting to renew the mandate of the joint UN-African Union peace keeping force in Darfur.

The crisis in Darfur and its impact on this year's Beijing Olympics is one example.

Three aid workers, including a US woman and two Sudanese nationals, have been kidnapped in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, officials say.

And why is China exporting weapons to Sudan when there's no guarantee that those weapons will not be used in the Darfur region?

The permanent members of the Security Council should not stand in the way of bringing the mass murderers in Darfur to justice.

The government of Sudan has signed a ceasefire agreement with one of the main rebel factions in Darfur.

A group of respected international figures is reporting the situation is still desperate in Sudan's Darfur region.

The security situation and the large influx of people in need of care have had a negative impact on access to health care in Darfur.

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Average rainfall in the region fell abruptly (by a third or more) in the early 1970s and Darfur repeatedly suffered droughts.

It has also expelled aid workers, bringing potentially fatal consequences for refugees in war-torn Darfur.

As well as putting UNAMID on the spot, the episode has shown up tensions within the Darfur peace process.

Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations secretary-general, told the Davos meeting that water shortages had helped to cause the conflict in Darfur.

It would deter investment, distract attention and resources from Darfur and Somalia, and slow down Africa's push for democracy.

In Darfur the UN is due to start deploying its forces in a few weeks.

And here we have the countries in collapse and war, like Afghanistan, Somalia, parts of Congo, Darfur.

The president even announced, dramatically, a ceasefire by government forces in Darfur.

Little George Bush shrewdly grasped onto this, declaring the Sudanese government wholly responsible for the Darfur Crisis.

A: We have taken note that recently there have been some discussions and actions involving China's position on the Darfur issue.

China attaches great importance on the Darfur issue and has played a positive and constructive role in the properly solution of the issue.

Parties backed by the rebels in Darfur, for which several million refugees would have voted, never even entered the race.

De Waal was traveling through the dry scrub of Darfur, studying indigenous reactions to the drought that gripped the region.

We believe the measures taken on the Darfur issue should facilitate stability in Sudan and proper settlement of the Darfur issue.

He faces a clutch of rebel groups in the western province of Darfur, in South Kordofan province, as well as in the east.

But the coming Summer Games have prompted China's leaders to respond to criticism, particularly over the country's handling of Darfur.

China also has about 140 engineers and troops deployed in Darfur as part of a joint U. N. -African peacekeeping force.

They are leaving behind hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Darfur whose future now looks even more uncertain .

getting the Security Council, and in particular China, to take action over Darfur was like pulling teeth.

Three Chinese workers have been kidnapped by militants in western Sudan's Darfur region that borders Libya and Chad.

Second, China was the first non-African country to send peacekeeping troops to Darfur.

Al-Bashir, as commander-in-chief of the Sudanese Armed Forces, played a pivotal leadership role in the military campaign in Darfur.

N. peacekeeping missions in Darfur and Somalia and Ambassador Butagira said African issues would be high on Uganda's agenda.

The ministry said a Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement, was responsible for the kidnapping and killings.

Observers say China can play a crucial role this time as it did in resolving the Darfur conflict.

I look forward to attending a Security Council meeting that will focus on Darfur, chaired by the French President.

Bring about awareness of those suffering in the face of genocide in Darfur.

Another African country that has drawn intensive Western criticism is Sudan, whose government is accused of waging genocide in Darfur.

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China has acted in a principled manner and played a constructive role on the questions of Iraq and Darfur in Sudan.

Ms. Rice says the real problem in dealing with the Darfur crisis is not the alliance, it is the leadership in Khartoum.

This shortfall led to the initial fighting and the subsequent full-scale violence in Darfur, says Ban.

China to block a UN report that says Chinese bullets were used in attacks on UN peacekeepers in Darfur.

The ongoing battles in Kordofan and Darfur were, in part, a result of Muslims rejecting Arab dominance, says Usamah Ali.

These deals have provided some much-needed momentum to the meandering Darfur peace talks that are being held in Qatar.

Seven years after the Darfur crisis blew up, for instance, no one from the government side has been tried for the killings there.

It has shown willing to nudge, if not push, the Sudanese government over Darfur.

On Thursday, when the diplomats were in Darfur, the Sudanese armed forces attacked rebel positions.

Violence is rife in the Darfur region between government-backed militias, government troops and local insurgent groups.

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Those were specific to Darfur, whereas the sharp drop in rainfall hit the whole Sahel, without intensifying conflict elsewhere.

In Darfur alone, at least 3. 5 million are partly or wholly dependent on international aid.

"It is not China's Darfur, it is first Sudan's Darfur and then Africa's Darfur, " the China Daily quoted him as saying.

Under Mr Annan, the UN proclaimed a new high-minded "responsibility to protect" ; but in Darfur the raping and killing continue unabated.

But the three together are now putting considerable pressure on him to change course in Darfur and get serious about peace with the south.

At the moment, Darfur is a stain on mankind.

China's foreign minister said in the spring that any attempts to link the Olympics to Darfur go 'against the spirit of the Games. '

Also likely to come up will be the tense state of affairs between Sudan and Chad which hosts about 250, 000 refugees from Darfur.

Art makes a difference in Darfur, where a troupe of self-taught young actors take theatre into the streets and refugee camps.

In 2006, Clooney traveled to Sudan and Chad with his father, journalist Nick Clooney, to raise awareness of the conflict in Darfur.

But in Darfur, the two organisations have competed to provide support for African peacekeepers.

The wars in Darfur and Somalia and between northern and southern Sudan all have roots in tribal competition for land and livestock.

Echoing many of the sponsors, GE's Ms. Latour said she thought the Darfur resolution should be conducted at United Nations level.

The Obama administration is coming under pressure from Darfur advocacy groups to step up diplomatic pressure on Sudan.

Chad has, in its turn, backed rebel groups in Darfur as proxy fighters against Mr Bashir's government.

On the situation in Darfur, important progress has been made on the Darfur issue with the joint efforts of the international community.

But elsewhere its fine intentions have yet to bear fruit, especially in the two most pressing cases, Darfur and Somalia.

The report, compiled for the UN sanctions committee, said 12 different types of Chinese-made ammunition casings were found in Darfur.

UN video shows women and children walking long distances through the arid desert to fetch water in Darfur.

Managing director of the Forum, Richard Samans, says an informal gathering of world leaders will discuss the ongoing crisis in Darfur.

Followed by a daily webcast by the actress Mia Farrow from a Darfur refugee camp.

He just returned from a two-week trip to Darfur, Chard (Chad) and the Democratic Republic of Congo with a UN peacekeeping of official.

The genocidal repression of the people of Sudan's region of Darfur is indeed a serious issue that merits the world attention it has gotten.

S. Congress also declared the Darfur violence genocide in a joint resolution in July.

The ICC issued an arrest warrant for al-Bashir in March for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.

This, say activists, makes it complicit in the state-orchestrated killing that has devastated Darfur.

Can Sudan's serving head of state really be brought to justice for his alleged crimes in Darfur?

The number of deaths from armed confrontation in Darfur is down, but tensions are on the rise.

As such it has used its economic influence to pressure the Sudanese government into allowing a UN peacekeeping mission to work in Darfur.

Sharma said India acknowledged "with appreciation the good work" which Joie has done in Sudan's Darfur region, Cambodia and Ivory Coast.

These policies can only prolong and exacerbate the misery of people in Darfur and neighboring countries.

Yet the wrangling over Darfur should not divert attention from southern Sudan.

The roots of the drying of Darfur, she and her colleagues had found, lay in changes to the global climate.

China, Liu said, "has made unremitting efforts and has played a positive and constructive role" on the Darfur issue.

"Darfur is making a mockery of our vows of 'never again, '" said Roth.

The interests of peace and justice in Darfur have become entwined in a diplomatic row.

Consider Darfur, where I've put considerable diplomatic effort during my first year as Secretary-General.

Crime must stop and security must be restored in Darfur, Gration said.

Now it wants the blue helmets to help relieve its 7, 000 hard-pressed AU peacekeepers in Sudan's troubled region of Darfur.

Fierce fighting has been reported in Sudan near the border between Darfur and the autonomous south.

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Thousands of refugees from Darfur remain abroad.

With disease rampant and hunger spreading, this is a humanitarian disaster comparable to that in Sudan's Darfur region or in Somalia.

In the refugee camps of Darfur, the dough for the staple food, assida, requires vigorous stirring of the cooking pot.

The warrant in no way lessens the government's obligations to ensure protection of civilians and justice for abuses carried out in Darfur.

Yet almost all the wordsspoken and written about Darfur have been by foreigners, and inparticular white Westerners.

From refusing to discuss Khartoum's atrocities, China now backs the joint peacekeeping force in Darfur.

He has sent troops to help keep the peace in Sudan's Darfur province and elsewhere.

In Sudan, innocent civilians are suffering repression -- and in the Darfur region, many are losing their lives to genocide.

In meeting with Annan, both sides exchanged views over issue related to Afghanistan, Iran, Middle East, Darfur and the reform of the UN.

The UN in Darfur has moved to its highest level of alert before full evacuation.

Yet the biggest issue to watch is Abyei, an oily strip of land straddling the north-south border and abutting Darfur.

Among other worries, he was deeply concerned about the horrors of the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan.

China opposes any actions which may interfere with the peaceful situation in Darfur and Sudan.

The United Nations says the fighting in Darfur has resulted in the world's greatest humanitarian crisis.

As the House debated health care reform on Tuesday, Gwen Moore, a Wisconsin Democrat, rose to address the situation in Darfur.

Two Darfur rebel leaders have surrendered to the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

But Darfur's other main rebel groups are not involved in peace talks, which may condemn any agreement to failure.

The ICC has charged Mr. Bashir with war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide in Sudan's Darfur region.

He led America's humanitarian mission in Darfur, a task that requires both energy and diplomatic skill.

These protesters vow to keep the issue in front of the American public until peace and justice prevail in Darfur.

Indeed, al-Bashir has not even participated in the Darfur peace talks to date.

Attacks on government installations by Darfur rebels in 2003 set off the crisis.

Just ask (though no one will) the fearful, hungry people of Zimbabwe and Darfur.

How can we take effective action against the genocide in Darfur if we lack the will to condemn genocide whenever and wherever it occurs?

At worst, rape is a tool of ethnic cleansing and genocide, as in Bosnia, Darfur and Rwanda.

I didn't know how it was pronounced any more than most Westerners would've been certain how to say "Darfur" 10 years ago.

Speaking of the issue of the Sudan and Darfur, we, indeed, did several things there.

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Darfur may also have benefited from the elections, albeit obliquely.

We have a permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council; we have hundreds of Chinese UN peacekeepers in Darfur, Sudan.

The rape and sexual violation of women and girls is pervasive in the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan.

China has always advocated that we need to adopt a dual-track approach to seek a solution to the Darfur issue.

These trend-lines in Darfur have become depressingly familiar over the past few years.

In addition, the African Union (AU) will partner the UN in a new hybrid peacekeeping mission in Sudan's Darfur region.

I am able to dip my toe into issues involved in politics, like in Sudan or Darfur.

His organization, Team Darfur, urges athletes to support peace in Darfur.

We sincerely wish an early and proper settlement of the Darfur issue.

Sudan has freed 57 prisoners from a key Darfur rebel group, the Justice and Equality Movement (Jem), officials say.

Honduras may have committed a venial sin, but it's not Serbia or Darfur.

Amid the socio-political causes of the Darfur conflict lies an ecological crisis, argues Ban.

Some officials readily admit to many mistakes in Darfur, and regret the carnage.

The past few decades have seen terrifying examples in Rwanda, Cambodia, Darfur, Bosnia, and elsewhere.

The leader of Darfur's main rebel group has been prevented from entering Chad while en route from Libya to Sudan.

Besides, China has provided selfless assistance to help the people in Darfur living in poverty.

If Darfur's crisis is genocide, then there are many other genocides happening throughout Africa right now.

"Everyone has something more important to do than to save the people of Darfur, " said Roth.

The failures to do so in Rwanda and Darfur and so many other charnel houses is a blot on its conscience that will never be erased.

Reported that the conflict in South Darfur state capital located northeast of Nyala, about 80 km.

Sometimes though, as in the Darfur region of Sudan, those very same governments have driven the IDPs from their homes in the first place.

Program Director Meini Nicolai says it's a terrible development for the displaced in Darfur.

The United Nations hopes to have 26, 000 troops and police on the ground in Darfur.

The scale of the Darfur crisis is also one that most investors can appreciate.

What has Human Rights Watch found regarding al-Bashir's role in crimes in Darfur?

Between June and September, 13 local staff members of NGOs were killed in attacks on vehicle convoys in North Darfur.

He had also produced films and news reports from Darfur and Liberia.

We hope that relevant people and organizations will have an objective view on China's role on the Darfur issue and be more pragmatic.

I think they should do more on Darfur, talk to the Dali Lama, and reduce abuses within its borders.

Chad's government has often stirred the pot in Darfur by arming and backing JEM.

The day after taking office, he held a weekend meeting about Darfur.

This could help bring peace to Sudan's western region of Darfur, on Chad's border.

President Bashir is accused of war crimes in the trouble region of Darfur.

U. S. Senator Barbara Boxer urged Sudan Friday to accept a U. N. -led peacekeeping mission in Darfur.

'To blame China for the problem in Darfur not only attacks the wrong target, but is also most irresponsible, ' he wrote.

Will the issuance of warrants affect the peace process in Darfur?

By January 2007 IMCI was being implemented in 26 health facilities, including three IDP camps, in North Darfur.

President Obama says since then, the situation in Darfur has gotten worse.

Until now, only America had attached that label to events in Darfur.

The conflict in Darfur continues unabated.

Southern Chad is a gateway into the Darfur region of Sudan, which is also strategic in view of its oil wealth.

Chinese companies have also provided dozens of sets of computers and other teaching equipments to schools in Darfur.