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Burma is not Sudan. Some observers believe that the Burmese junta’s campaign against ethnic minorities is a “genocide” under international law, but the death toll has not yet reached Darfur’s horrific heights. Still, Harvard should take little solace in the fact that the Burmese government has killed thousands (as opposed to hundreds of thousands) of its own people. The same “pattern of circumstances” characterizing the PetroChina-Sudan relationship is also present in the Chevron-Burma tie. Just as PetroChina’s parent company...
Khalil Ibrahim, Darfur rebel leader, on President Bush's call for a cease-fire in Sudan during October peace talks. Ibrahim, who has been personally sanctioned by Washington, called U.S. threats "a trick...
...used his fame to promote philanthropic causes. In addition to founding 826 National, the proceeds from his latest work, “What is the What,” which relates the life of a Sudanese refugee, will go to aid people displaced by the political turmoil in Sudan...
...those predictions be coming true? Extreme rains and floods have made for a very wet summer in Africa, and there is no end in sight to the downpours that are swallowing towns and forcing over a million to flee their homes in at least 20 countries. Since June, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya have had hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes. Scores have died since. West Africa has seen its worst floods in years, with 300,000 fleeing the earth-colored waters of northern Ghana. Meanwhile, forecasts by African meteorologists say the rains have yet to peak...
Reeves and his colleagues in the groups seeking action on Darfur say Sudan has reneged on similar promises before and already shows signs of doing so again. So they intend to continue goading Beijing to keep pushing Khartoum. "We say to the Chinese, 'We know you think this is your moment to step onto the world stage, but we are going to rain on your parade,'" Reeves says. "They know more pressure is coming and are afraid." In the case of Darfur, says Tsinghua's Yan, "yes, the pressure worked." But he is quick to add that just because Western...