http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/736/ en_GB_uk Sudan http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83820 Darfuri refugees as young as nine are being trafficked as child soldiers by armed groups operating in eastern Chad, says an NGO. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83818 Accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur, the International Criminal Court prosecutor said he would seek new indictments next month against senior Khartoum officials. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83812 Uganda, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo say they have agreed to jointly fight Lord's Resistance Army rebels if peace talks with its elusive leader, Joseph Kony, fail, according to a Ugandan military official. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83631 Refugees account for over half of those that will need food aid this year due to increased food prices, writes an international refugee agency, noting that violent reactions to the crisis may also force more people to flee their homes. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83581 Despite an arrest warrant issued a year ago by the International Criminal Court, a Sudanese minister accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur is free and is a "fugitive," the body's prosecutor said. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83546 A World Food Programme driver has been shot dead while delivering vital food relief to Darfur, the second such killing in two months. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83513 Central African leaders and the UN have been urged to secure the release of more than 350 men, women and children thought to have been abducted by Uganda's rebel Lord’s Resistance Army in recent weeks. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83506 Up to 300,000 people are estimated to have died in Darfur since early 2003, when rebels began fighting Government forces and allied militiamen, according to John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83446 The World Food Programme says it will have to halve rations to Sudan's Darfur region because attacks on its trucks are preventing vital relief supplies from getting through. + Secret police seize copies of six daily newspapers + Southern Sudan: Giving birth is deadly http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83292 U.S. intelligence ties with the Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir's state security agency -- part of the global 'war on terror' -- undercut international action to protect Darfur, says a new report from African rights advocates. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159548/1/ UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/159514/1/ UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83178 Without international pressure the victims of Darfur will never see justice and will face even more abuses, says Lotte Leicht. From New Statesman http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83168 A solution to the Darfur crisis requires a much more comprehensive approach by the international community, including a single, empowered mediator and greater attention to the local context, write two Darfur advocacy groups. From: ENOUGH Project http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82913 As Sudanese officials warned that the UN was heading towards Iraq-style disaster in Darfur, a UN air service in the Sudanese province received $500,000 from a humanitarian organisation founded by Hollywood actors George Clooney, Don Cheadle, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, producer Jerry Weintraub and civil rights lawyer David Pressman.