Can Celebrities Save Darfur?


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Sudan:   Darfur Peace Talks Suspended, to Resume Next Month - UN
UN News Service (New York)
19 June 2009

The current round of ceasefire talks between the Government of Sudan and a Darfur rebel group have been suspended, a United Nations spokesperson told reporters in New York today.

Sudan:   Aid Restored, But U.S. Warns of Tight Political Timeline
America.gov (Washington, DC)
17 June 2009

Humanitarian aid to Sudan has been restored following the government's expulsion in March of some aid organizations, but the U.S. special envoy for Sudan says the suffering of refugees in camps is ...

Sudan:   Can Celebrities Save Darfur?
GlobalPost (Boston)
25 June 2009

Five years after American activists began to call attention to the violence in Darfur, their movement has bloomed in size and sophistication, reaching out via the internet, enlisting Hollywood ...

Sudan:   African Union Panel Conducts Public Hearings in Darfur
United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (El Fasher)
23 June 2009

The African Union Panel on Darfur (AUPD), which is examining the root causes of the Darfur conflict and aiming to promote justice and reconciliation, held public hearings over the weekend across the ...

Sudan:   'Darfur Was Just a Place Where Evil Lived'
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
19 June 2009

Analysing the colonial and historical roots of the violence in Darfur, Mahmood Mamdani concludes that the crisis in Darfur is not genocide, but a fight for land, triggered by drought, which has been ...

Sudan:   Distorting Darfur - The International Media And Sudan
Fahamu (Oxford)
11 June 2009

In an interview with British television producer Colette Valentine and media consultant Ali Gunn following their visit to Sudan, Afshin Rattansi discusses Western media distortions of actual ...

Sudan:   Beware of Human Rights Fundamentalism
Fahamu (Oxford)
26 March 2009

In response to the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Mahmood Mamdani argues that those enforcing rights also need to be held accountable when ...

Uganda:   'AU Yet to Clear Bashir' - Museveni
New Vision (Kampala)
19 June 2009

PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has appealed to the international community to take tough measures against perpetrators of violence in Darfur. Museveni called for a swift move to stop what he called 'Arab ...

Sudan:   Darfur Advocacy Groups Urge Administration to Unveil Sudan Plan
ENOUGH Project (Washington, DC)
18 June 2009

In a State Department briefing today Special Envoy to Sudan Major General Scott Gration referred to the situation in Darfur as the “remnants of genocide,” and suggested that humanitarian ...


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