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...recent ceasefire brokered between the two sides was intended to put an end to the genocide and other atrocities, watchdogs claim that not only have the attacks in the south continued, but they have spread to include similar acts of aggression against Black Muslims in Sudan’s Darfur region...
...Sight SUDAN The Islamic northern government and southern Christian and animist rebels agreed to a peace deal at talks in Kenya to end to 21 years of civil war. The deal does not cover the conflict in the western region of Darfur...
...young woman, they rape her. That's why it's us, the old women, who go see." What they have witnessed is a campaign of attacks that were labeled "ethnic cleansing" last week by Human Rights Watch - a charge Sudan denies. In the western Sudanese region of Darfur, a 14-month-long war between the government and the region's black African rebel Sudan Liberation Army has displaced more than a million black villagers and sent more than 100,000 fleeing into Chad. (The conflict in Darfur is not part of the country's 21-year-long civil war between...
...much pain to talk. Her arms, which once dug wells, have withered nearly to the bone. "She doesn't eat," Ashta says. "We don't know if she'll recover or if she will die." The Sudanese government has promised to observe a cease-fire in Darfur, and recently allowed U.S. officials to visit the region. With the flood season approaching, the camps in western Sudan and Chad are at risk from isolation and outbreaks of disease. Most black villages have been abandoned; the Janjaweed raid them more than once to send the message that it's not safe...
Small Steps to Peace SUDAN After delays, peace talks between the government and rebels involved in the civil war in the western Darfur region got under way in neighboring Chad, as a U.N. delegation arrived in Darfur to investigate reports of government-sponsored atrocities...