By David Gollust Washington 05 May 2006 Robert Zoellick U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, who helped reach Friday's Darfur peace accord in Nigeria, calls the deal an important step on th...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 05 May 2006 The Sudan government and the largest of the three main rebel groups have agreed in principle to sign an African Union-negotiated peace deal to end the conflict in...
By Peter Heinlein United Nations 04 May 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is pleading with influential countries to pressure Darfur's warring parties to bring their peace talks to a successful co...
By Catherine Maddux Washington 04 May 2006 The pressure on Sudan's warring parties in the western Darfur region is growing as a third deadline approaches Thursday to reach a peace deal proposed by the...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 04 May 2006 Western and African diplomats are racing against time to strike a deal that will end what has been described as the worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur. T...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 03 May 2006 Senior Western and African diplomats have intensified their mediation at the deadlocked Darfur talks in Abuja. Darfur's two main rebel groups, the SLM and JEM, ha...
By Scott Stearns White House 28 April 2006 George Bush President Bush says the government in Sudan must do more to protect civilians in the troubled Darfur region. -----------------------------------...
By Dan Robinson Washington 06 April 2006 Demonstrators on Darfur outside US Capitol Activists pressing for stronger U.S. and international action on Darfur rallied at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. As we...
By Dan Robinson 06 April 2006 The situation in Sudan's western Darfur region was among issues dominating a hearing Wednesday with the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton. Ambassador Bol...
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 10 March 2006 The African Union Friday discussed extending the term of its peacekeeping mission in the volatile Darfur region of western Sudan until the end of this year. The...