Thousands of Sudanese, many armed with clubs and knives, demanded the execution of a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam for allowing her students to name a teddy bear “Muhammad.”
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Protests took place in 30 countries to bring attention to the crisis in Sudan’s Darfur region.
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Arab tribes in Darfur were fighting over the spoils of war, killing hundreds of people and displacing tens of thousands.
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The UN Security Council has approved a joint UN-African Union force of up to twenty-six thousand troops for Darfur.
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A French geologist stated that a newly discovered underground lake in Darfur, which was expected to help bring peace to the water-starved region, likely dried up at least 5,000 years ago.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said the world has failed Darfur.
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France is holding a 15 nation conference in Paris to try and figure out what to do about Darfur. The African Union is not attending.
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A UN reported warned that the Darfur conflict heralds era of wars triggered by climate change.
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Iraq was rated the world’s second most unstable country, behind Sudan.
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The United Nations top humanitarian chief is saying the refugee situation in Somalia is now worse than Darfur.
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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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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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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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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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