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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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The United States accused Sudan of trying to intimidate the UN.
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Tens of thousands of demonstrators in cities around the world on Sunday demanded action to stop the killing in Darfur, Sudan.
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The Sudanese government agreed to release a well-known American journalist, Paul Salopek, and two Chadians who were arrested and charged with espionage and with illegally crossing the border from Chad last month.
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The United States said it had received reports of renewed fighting in Sudan’s Darfur region, one day after the UN Security Council called on Khartoum to allow a major deployment of peacekeepers to the area.
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The United Nations Security Council has voted in favour of creating a UN peace force for Sudan’s Darfur region. The resolution passed by the council states that such a force would be deployed only with the consent of the Sudanese government.
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Sudan’s president accused the United States and Britain Tuesday of conspiring against his country as diplomats at the United Nations said Washington and ally London want the Security Council to adopt a resolution in two days giving the U.N. authority over peacekeepers in Darfur.
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The International Rescue Committee announced that more than 200 women were sexually assaulted in refugee camps last month in Darfur.
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UN Secretary General Koffi Annan is warning the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is worsening by the day.
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The Sudanese government said Tuesday it had protested to the U.N. Security Council, the African Union and the Arab League over an attack by rebels from the troubled Darfur region on a town in a neighboring region where at least a dozen people were killed.
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A peace deal has been signed between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Liberation Army.
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Sunday, on Washington’s National Mall, actor George Clooney and other stars of Hollywood, politics, sports and religion led a rally aimed at pushing international action in Darfur. Thousands turned out to urge greater U.S. involvement in ending the 3-year-old tragedy in which 180,000 people, perhaps more, have been killed and 3 million made homeless by Arab militias known as the Janjaweed, backed by the Sudanese government.
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Sudanese rebels rejected a proposal to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
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Human Rights Watch is warning a new Sudanese military offensive is increasing the risks to civilians in Darfur. UN food-rations were cut in half due to severe funding shortages.
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Five members of Congress were among 11 people arrested during a protest Friday outside the Sudanese Embassy, staged at a critical moment to call attention to genocidal violence in the Darfur region.
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The world must act now to end the atrocities in Darfur and Sudan’s government should accept it has failed to protect its own people and let a U.N. mission intervene, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday. “We really can’t afford to wait,” she said.
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Sudan is blocking the top humanitarian official at the United Nations from visiting the Darfur region. The official, Jan Egeland, accused Sudan of trying to hide the ethnic cleansing that is occurring in the area.
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Arab leaders meeting at the annual Arab League summit in Sudan issued a statement reiterating a four-year-old land-for-peace offer to Israel. Under the proposal, the Arab states would offer diplomatic recognition in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from land occupied in the 1967 war. Israel has rejected the offer.
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At the United Nations, a top diplomat is warning international efforts are failing to quell increasing violence in Sudan’s south and western Darfur region. UN Special Representative to the Sudan Jan Pronk:

“The ceasefire agreement is violated day after day. Both parties know that these violations will be noted down but neither discussed nor addressed let alone sanctioned. The ceasefire does not function, the joint committee does not meet. The sanctions foreseen with the Security Council panel of experts exist only in theory.”

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