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June 2009
- Angelina: UN Must Take a Stand on Darfur
  
  Time | Jun 5, 09 11:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Angelina Jolie argues in a Time essay that it's put-up-or-shut-up time for the UN on Darfur. The Security Council will receive a report today on the nation's genocide under the watch of Omar al Bashir, and its response will determine whether the idea of an "international standard of justice" is real or just talk. "The evidence the prosecutor has presented is clear and compelling," she writes. "Millions of people have been displaced; hundreds of thousands have been killed." More »
May 2009
- Sudan Prez: No Crimes in Darfur
  
  BBC | May 12, 09 2:47 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Sudan’s president says his military hasn’t attacked civilians in Darfur and challenges “anybody” to show evidence to the contrary. “What has been reported to have happened in Darfur did not actually happen at all,” Omar al Bashir told the BBC in his first interview since being charged with war crimes. “What happened in Darfur was an insurgency. The state has the responsibility to fight the rebels.” More »
- US Lands Seat on UN Human Rights Council
  
  Associated Press | May 12, 09 12:52 PM CDT
  
  (AP Summary) - The US today won a seat on the UN Human Rights Council for the first time, along with four countries accused of serious human rights violations: Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China, and Russia. President Bush's administration had boycotted the council over its repeated criticism of Israel and its refusal to cite flagrant rights abuses in Sudan and elsewhere. More »
- Sudan Invites Aid Groups Back to Darfur
  
  BBC | May 8, 09 7:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The Sudanese government says it will invite new aid groups to work in Darfur and let the UN and other agencies expand their operations in the region. The announcement comes two months after Sudan expelled 13 NGOs, including Doctors Without Borders, in the aftermath of the International Criminal Court's indictment of President Omar al-Bashir. The UN's humanitarian chief said he would have preferred if Sudan had reversed the earlier expulsions but was encouraged by the "welcome degree of flexibility." More »
- Darfur: Mass Bloodshed May Not Be Genocide
  
  Los Angeles Times | May 4, 09 7:38 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Hundreds of thousands of people have died or been displaced in the years-long conflict in Darfur, which presidents Bush and Obama have both called a genocide. But while nobody denies the seriousness of the violence, organizations from Doctors Without Borders to the International Criminal Court say that the Sudanese government's actions don't constitute a true genocide. For them, using that word to describe Darfur is setting a hazardous precedent, writes Edmund Sanders in the Los Angeles Times . More »
April 2009
- Blaine Offers Farrow Hunger Strike Tips
  
  New York Daily News | Apr 30, 09 8:30 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Mia Farrow took advice from a pro before going on a hunger strike for Darfur, the New York Daily News reports. Farrow says illusionist David Blaine—who once spent 44 seemingly food-free days sealed inside a Plexiglass case—told her the hunger pangs would stop six days in, and to drink plenty of water. Farrow is now into her fourth day of fasting and has vowed to make it three weeks. More »
- 5 House Dems Arrested at Darfur Protest
  
  AFP | Apr 27, 09 12:59 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Five House Democrats were arrested today at a protest outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington, the AFP reports. The five are being detained, along with three protest organizers, for refusing a police order to disperse. The protesters were calling for the Sudan to allow humanitarian groups to return to Darfur. More »
- Farrow Will Fast for Darfur
  
  BBC | Apr 22, 09 10:36 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Mia Farrow will start a hunger strike on Monday to draw attention to the living conditions of Darfur's millions of refugees, the BBC reports. The actress wants to show solidarity with those whose suffering has increased since the Sudanese government banned aid groups. The actress is asking "human rights advocates and citizens of conscience around the world" to join her for a day. More »
- Attacks on Aid Workers Hit Record in 2008
  
  Reuters | Apr 6, 09 2:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - A shocking number of fatal attacks on international aid workers made 2008 the most dangerous year yet to perform such work, Reuters reports. Last year, 260 workers were attacked on the job, 122 fatally; the majority were working in Somalia, Darfur, or Afghanistan. The Center on International Cooperation’s study notes that it is currently more dangerous to be an aid worker than a member of a UN peacekeeping force. More »
- Darfur Crisis Will Worsen in Weeks: US Envoy
  
  Reuters | Apr 4, 09 11:22 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The humanitarian situation in Darfur will worsen significantly in just a few weeks if aid organizations do not move quickly, says the new American envoy. Scott Gration said groups expelled by President Omar Bashir last month for allegedly colluding with the International Criminal Court to indict him on war crimes must be replaced, reports Reuters. “We are on the brink of a deeper crisis in Darfur,” he said. More »
- 'Fugitive' Sudan Prez Defies World Court
  
  Times (UK) | Apr 2, 09 4:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Sudan's president thumbed his nose at the International Criminal Court with a high-profile pilgrimage to Mecca yesterday, reports the Times of London. A ruling last month requires the court's 108 members to arrest Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity in Darfur if he enters their nations. Many see his trips to non-members like Saudi Arabia as an effort to undercut the court's authority and turn Arab and African nations against it. More »
March 2009
- Clooney Stars in Latest Viral Video Hit
  
  MSNBC | Mar 18, 09 10:32 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Clips of George Clooney getting silly in Darfur have become the latest viral video craze. During a recent trip with NBC’s Dateline , the UN messenger of peace gave a video tour of his room. “That’s the water bucket that you use to flush the toilet,” he says. “ Nice .” More »
- Abducted Darfur Aid Workers Make Contact
  
  New York Times | Mar 13, 09 1:42 PM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The three foreign-aid workers from Doctors Without Borders who were kidnapped earlier this week in Darfur contacted the group today to report they were unharmed, the New York Times says. Separately, Sudan’s government began ransom negotiations to free the workers, who had been protected by Sudanese guards. One official called the abduction of guarded aid workers “quite unprecedented.” More »
- Doctors Without Borders Staffers Kidnapped in Darfur
  
  Reuters | Mar 12, 09 9:02 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - Three aid workers from Doctors Without Borders are being held hostage in Darfur after a group of armed men kidnapped them, Reuters reports. The three staff members, all Westerners, were seized along with two Sudanese co-workers who were later released. The kidnapping came as Sudan cracks down on NGOs in Darfur after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Omar al-Bashir. More »
- Sudan's Expulsion of Aid Groups Imperils Region
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Mar 11, 09 10:49 AM CDT
  
  (Newser Summary) - The expulsion of international aid groups from Sudan not only raises the risk of starvation for millions of people in Darfur's refugee camps, but is also sparking fears of increased violence by rebel groups opposed to President Omar al-Bashir, the Christian Science Monitor reports. "People with weapons are everywhere," warned one expert on the region. More »
- Sudan President Defies Darfur Warrant, Ejects Aid Groups
  
  New York Times | Mar 5, 09 6:32 AM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - A day after the International Criminal Court ordered his arrest for atrocities in Darfur, Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir vowed to defy the court and called its decision a colonial conspiracy. The New York Times reports that Sudan's government also ordered 10 international humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, to leave the country or curb their work. "It happened right after the announcement," said one aid official. "The connection was clear." More »
- International Court Charges Sudan Prez on Darfur Crimes
  
  New York Times | Mar 4, 09 9:12 AM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - The International Criminal Court today issued a warrant for Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, charging him with murder, extermination, and rape, among other war crimes and crimes against humanity, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors say orders to kill or displace tribal people in Sudan’s Darfur region, which resulted in 5 years of violence and countless deaths, came from Bashir. More »
February 2009
- Clooney Talks Darfur With Obama
  
  Associated Press | Feb 24, 09 9:32 AM CST
  
  (AP Summary) - George Clooney had a pretty good reason for skipping the Oscars: He had a meeting yesterday with President Obama. Clooney told the president about his visit with Darfur refugees, and delivered 250,000 postcards gathered by the Save Darfur organization to the president. "I think somehow we should all know that these people are hanging on by the skin of their teeth," says Clooney. More »
- Scandal! Heartbreak! Clooney Visits Darfur
  
  New York Times | Feb 19, 09 9:53 AM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - George Clooney figures prominently in New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof's latest report from Africa, which Kristof describes as "yet another hand-wringing column about Darfur." He offers to swap dirt on the Hollywood heartthrob for readers' interest—then offers a chilling tale of a "petty and mean-spirited" move by the UN, which yanked the Americans' security escort. More »
- World Court Issues Warrant for Sudan President
  
  New York Times | Feb 11, 09 5:40 PM CST
  
  (Newser Summary) - The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, a move that Arab and African nations warn could sink peace negotiations in Darfur. Omar al-Bashir is the first state leader that the 7-year-old court has tried to arrest, the New York Times reports. Prosecutors hope to try Bashir for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide for his military's actions in Darfur, where more than 300,000 people have died. More »