Full Coverage: Sudan

23.08.2005 With materials provided by SudanAid, displaced women in Dereig camp, West Darfur weave and sell prayer and bed mats, allowing them to buy food and supplies for their children who attend the camp’s UNICEF school.

18.08.2005 Violence in Darfur is continuing, with reports of looting and attacks on internally displaced persons' camps, says the UN Mission in Sudan.

07.08.2005 The man who started one of the longest and most deadly conflicts since World War II was also a unifier and a staunch proponent of equal rights for all. His death leaves a massive hole in Sudan's fragile political fabric, says NGO expert Abdelbagi Jibril, explaining that the country's chances for peace all depend on what happens next.

05.08.2005 The recent death of John Garang is a shocking setback to Sudan's peace process, but not a fatal one. The Bush administration deserves much of the credit for the peace deal signed in January, and if it keeps its nerve, can help preserve the peace with Garang’s successor, says Alex De Waal.

04.08.2005 Anger and frustration is building across Sudan following the death of John Garang, Sudan’s first Vice President.

03.08.2005 "If every member of the House and Senate had received 100 letters from people back home saying we have to do something about Rwanda, when the crisis was first developing, then I think the response would have been different," said the late Senator Paul Simon. There's still time to make Darfur different.

01.08.2005 The North-South peace deal in Sudan may face its toughest test yet after John Garang, who led rebel forces' decades-long struggle for autonomy and was sworn-in as the country's vice-president just weeks ago, died in a helicopter crash Sunday.

01.08.2005 The death of Sudanese vice-president John Garang in a helicopter crash threatens to destabilise the fragile peace deal between the government and Southern rebels.
A side-effect of the peace deal was to take pressure off the government to end what has been called ‘the first genocide of the 21st century’, in Darfur, and last week the author of a new book on Darfur said the conflict there had actually been triggered by the North-South peace negotiations.