By Lisa Schlein Khartoum 06 September 2007 U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says new peace negotiations aimed at bringing an end to the four-year-old conflict in Darfur will start October 27 in Libya. Ban made this announcement at the end of talks...
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi 17 August 2007 The Kenyan government has welcomed a rebel leader from Darfur. The rebel, Suleiman Jamous, was given permission to leave Sudan to travel to Kenya for medical treatment. Arjun Kohli has more on the story from our...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 10 August 2007 Clashes in Sudan's Darfur region have reportedly killed dozens of people including rebels and government forces. The rebels say that subsequent air raids by the Sudanese government has forced 25,000 people to fl...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 06 August 2007 After three days of talks in Tanzania, several rebel factions involved in the Darfur conflict put forward a united front Monday and called for new peace negotiations with the Sudanese government in two to three...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 03 August 2007 Negotiations aimed at resolving Sudan's brutal Darfur conflict faltered before they began on Friday after a leading rebel groups refused to participate. As Nick Wadhams reports from our East Africa bureau in Nai...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 20 July 2007 The U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights is urging the Government of Sudan to take immediate action to protect thousands of civilians in the village of Bir Dagig, located about 30 kilometers north of El Geneina...
Darfur, the commissioners will visit camps next to region of Sudan where according to aid groups more than one hundred thousand people have died in civil conflict, an estimated two million people has been displaced. This weekend morning edition we a...
By David Gollust Washington 11 July 2007 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday criticized stalling tactics by Sudan that are holding up deployment of a reinforced international peacekeeping presence in Darfur. Rice will discuss the issue...
By Lisa Schlein Geneva 07 July 2007 The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says it is stepping up its humanitarian operations in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The ICRC says it must get aid to tens of thousands of people in...
By Anita Elash Paris 25 June 2007 A conference in Paris aimed at finding a solution to the crisis in Darfur has ended with an agreement to coordinate future measures in the troubled region. But as Anita Elash reports for VOA from Paris, most of the k...