Former US president Bill Clinton on Tuesday announced a deal with drugs companies to drastically reduce the cost of second line anti-retroviral
HIV/AIDS medicines for people in the developing world.
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China and Russia have denied claims by Amnesty International that they are supplying arms to Sudan for use in Darfur, in breach of a UN arms embargo.
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Sudan agreed to allow more than 3,000 armed U.N. and African peacekeepers into Darfur.
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Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, and although he did not know where that is, he was pretty sure it started with an S.
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U.S. air strikes in Somalia killed seven people.
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Hundreds of Somalis stormed Saturday into the streets of Mogadishu, Somalia’s already unsteady capital, to hurl rocks at Ethiopian troops allied with the government and to protest a disarmament program that Somali leaders ended up scrapping.
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Sudanese forces bombed two rebel locations in Darfur just days after the head of the African Union’s peacekeeping force visited the area to urge the rebels to join a cease-fire agreement, the AU said Sunday.
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Ethiopian fighters in Somalia defeated Islamist rebels in less than a day. “We always knew these Islamists weren’t all they were cracked up to be,” Abdirizak Adam Hassan, chief of staff for the transitional president, said.
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Sudan’s president said he accepts a U.N. package to help end escalating violence in Darfur and is ready for urgent discussions on a ceasefire, according to a letter circulated Tuesday.
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About 30 civilians were killed in an attack by gunmen on a convoy carrying medical and relief supplies in the Darfur region of western Sudan.
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Hundreds of people may have been killed in the heaviest fighting between northern Sudanese forces and their former southern rebel foes since they signed a peace deal last year, a top southern officer said on Thursday.
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Former Darfur rebel turned presidential adviser Minni Arcua Minnawi on Monday accused the Sudanese government of rearming and mobilizing the feared Janjaweed militia, violating a peace deal signed in May.
He also urged the international community to take action rather than just talk about the Darfur conflict, which has killed 200,000 and driven 2.5 million people from their homes in the vast region in the west of Sudan.
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The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has nearly completed an investigation into war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region and has sufficient evidence to file charges soon, he said on Thursday.
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The AIDS pandemic is growing in all areas of the world, with worrisome signs of resurgence in some countries that were trumpeted as successes in combating the disease, the United Nations said yesterday.
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The Pope is reconsidering celibacy.
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Somali Islamist fighters opened fire on Thursday at a Mogadishu crowd protesting against a ban on the popular narcotic leaf khat, killing one person and wounding others, witnesses said.
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The nation’s highest court ruled last December that South Africa’s marriage statute violated the Constitution’s guarantee of equal rights. The court gave the government a year to alter the legal definition of marriage.
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President George W. Bush said on Tuesday the United States was looking at new ways to stop the violence in Darfur after getting a “grim” report about the humanitarian crisis from his special envoy.
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Chadian Arabs, apparently inspired by the actions of Arab militias in Sudan, are beginning to attack non-Arab villages in the interior of Chad.
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For the first time in two years, Sudanese rebels are openly killing government soldiers and rejecting all previous cease-fires.
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