Full Coverage: North Africa

29.07.2005 On August 1-4, a fast and vigil will be held outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C. for an end to the genocide in Darfur. Africa Action asks you to show your support and get involved.

25.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 25 (OneWorld) - Congress has done little to protect lives in Darfur in the year since it declared, unanimously, that mass killings there amounted to genocide, a leading U.S.-based advocacy group has charged amid an upsurge in violence in the western Sudanese region.

25.07.2005 The leadership asserted by the U.S. Congress one year ago, when it unanimously declared that genocide was taking place in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, has now dissipated, says Africa Action, faulting the legislators for failing to exert pressure on the Bush administration to provide protection for Darfur's civilians, where threats of sanctions and divestment have proved insufficient.

22.07.2005 Faced with a funding shortfall for Sudan’s strife-torn Darfur region, the U.N.'s Food and Agricultural Organization has appealed for $8 million to provide vulnerable families with agricultural supplies and seeds so they can produce their own food, a more effective strategy than providing food aid because it gives people an incentive to stay on the land and provides food for several months.

15.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 15 (OneWorld) - Anti-genocide activists have launched a new campaign to increase U.S. television coverage of mass killings in Darfur, Sudan--described by the United Nations as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

15.07.2005 International free speech groups have challenged the Tunisian government to end internet blocking in the lead-up to the November 2005 World Summit on the Information Society.

15.07.2005 CNN, Fox News, NBC/MSNBC, ABC, and CBS devoted more than 8,000 segments in June to the "runaway bride," the Michael Jackson trial, and actor Tom Cruise, reports the "Be A Witness" campaign; the ongoing genocide in Darfur was alotted 126 segments. The campaign is calling on Americans to send a message to these networks to "give the Darfur genocide the coverage it so clearly deserves."

15.07.2005 Diverse religious groups from across the U.S. are coming together this weekend to pray for victims of the government-backed genocide in Darfur and to refocus the Bush administration's attention on ending the killing, which has claimed an estimated 400,000 lives over the past two years and displaced 2.5 million more.

11.07.2005 The ambassadors of the United States of America and United Kingdom and representatives of European Commission met the Chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, Ilirian Celibashi, on Friday. They expressed their concern over the slow vote count and the lack of cooperation between the political parties to speed up the process.

01.07.2005 The President of Sudan is urged to keep his June promise to release all the country's political prisoners, believed to number in the hundreds.