Full Coverage: Sudan

28.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 28 (OneWorld) - Human rights and international aid activists are demanding that the international community move swiftly to protect civilians in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region, where rights researchers say they have obtained new eyewitness accounts of atrocities by government-backed militias.

25.02.2005 Is it genocide or not? Does that matter? What can we do? Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International's Campaign Director, will address questions and concerns on the two-year Sudanese crisis that has displaced over 1.5 million people and left more than 70,000 dead.

23.02.2005 It's not often that someone who believes he could be brought before the International Criminal Court for war crimes seeks out a team of humanitarian aid workers for informal discussions. "Why are criminal prosecutions so important to the international community?" he asked. "Punishment will start the war all over again," he warned. "No women and children have died," the refugee advocates were told over dinner.

18.02.2005 President Bush is faced with a difficult choice--continue to oppose the International Criminal Court on ideological grounds, or give way to overwhelming public opinion and agree to let the Court hear war crimes cases from the Darfur region of Sudan, thereby expediting justice and likely hastening the end of atrocities that continue in the troubled region today. But a group of experts may have found a third way.

17.02.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb 17 (OneWorld) - Despite his strong opposition, U.S. President George W. Bush is under growing pressure from human rights groups and U.S. allies to refer what his administration has called "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague.

15.02.2005 Amnesty USA is calling for a UN Security Council mandatory arms embargo to stop the flow of arms into Sudan. Continued armament is exacerbating the longstanding conflict in that country and is directly contributing to further deterioration of the current humanitarian crisis.

08.02.2005 A shy toddler with a strange name is one thread in a larger story of Africans now rebuilding interrupted lives - sometimes after decades of war.

04.02.2005 Why did the UN Commission report on Darfur stop short of declaring the violence to be genocide? Could there be political forces anxious to protect the separate north-south peace agreement with its promise of access to oil fields?

04.02.2005 "Last night’s 'State of the Union' address revealed exactly where Africa fits into the foreign policy priorities of the Bush Administration--it doesn’t rate," said the head of the oldest U.S. organization working on African affairs. President Bush is taking heat for failing to mention any key issue of U.S. Africa policy, including the ongoing atrocities in Darfur, Sudan.

02.02.2005 The conflict in Sudan's Darfur region has taken centre-stage at the African Union summit where President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria said AU-sponsored peace talks between the Sudanese government and Darfur rebels would resume in mid-February.

02.02.2005 The Bush administration has called for a new ad hoc tribunal to try cases of atrocities in Darfur, which would cost much more and take much longer to begin than would hearings before the already functioning International Criminal Court. "The Bush administration seems willing to sacrifice Darfur's victims to its ideological campaign against the Court," charged one rights advocate.

01.02.2005 To human rights activists, the question before U.S. President George W. Bush this week is, which is the higher priority: undermining the new International Criminal Court (ICC) or bringing to justice the perpetrators of what Bush himself has called "genocide" in Darfur, Sudan?

01.02.2005 "We are expressing our unreserved willingness to help....We are determined to achieve peace in northern Uganda, so that all our people can put their lives together again and engage in development," said the leader of the southern Sudan rebel movement that now exercises a large amount of control over the territory abutting Uganda as a result of the country's recent peace agreement.