War in Darfur
Military Conflict
Pandora: Silvio and Tessa's reunion - Pandora, People - The Independent...it is inevitable." Priorities! The offer by Gordon Brown's spokesman for Britain to host peace talks on the Darfur conflict was timely, coinciding as it did with Sunday's Global Day For Darfur protests. Let no cynic accuse Downing Street... In this article: Lee Jasper, Tessa Jowell, Russell Brand, Ken Livingstone, Silvio Berlusconi, Gordon Brown, and Lord of the Rings |
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Times of India | February 11, 2009
Sudan tells NGOs not to interfere
...(MSF). Other NGOs have been targeted by expulsions since the 2003 outbreak of the Darfur conflict, including the US agency CARE in 2007, the Norwegian Refugee Council in 2006 and Britain's Oxfam and Save the Children in 2004. Two members...
In this article: Sudan, Darfur, Darfur conflict, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Norwegian Refugee Council, Save the Children, and Medecins Sans Frontieres
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BBC News | November 03, 2009
Darfur survivors to get UK asylum
About 300,000 people died in the Darfur conflict, the UN estimates Survivors of the Darfur crisis who sought refuge in the UK are to be granted asylum under new rules. Non-Arab Darfuris will no longer be deported back to Sudan after...
In this article: Darfur, UK, UN, UK Border Agency, Darfur crisis, Sudan, and Janjaweed
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 29, 2007
Sudan Convicts Teacher In Naming of Teddy Bear
...full sentence before deportation. Government officials and Muslim leaders in Britain said they believed the case may be linked to severe Western criticism of Sudan over its handling of the Darfur crisis. Western officials accuse the...
In this article: Sudan, Muhammad, London, Khartoum, Britain, Islam, Darfur crisis, and Muslim Public Affairs Committee
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Reuters | January 07, 2009
China urges deferral of Bashir war crimes case
By Andrew Heavens China, the biggest investor in Sudan, said on Wednesday a war crimes indictment against Sudan's president would have a "disastrous" impact on the Darfur conflict and called for the case to be postponed. Liu Guijin,...
In this article: Omar Hassan al-Bashir, United Nations Security Council, Darfur, China, Sudan, Khartoum, Britain, and France
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www.washingtonpost.com | November 29, 2007
Teacher Convicted in Teddy Bear Case
...government appeared reluctant to let hard-liners steer it into tensions with Britain and the West. Public pressure by Western governments over the Darfur conflict has eased recently, with a U.N.-African peacekeeping force preparing to deploy.
In this article: Islam, Prophet Muhammad, Unity High School, David Miliband, Khartoum, and Salman Rushdie
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BBC News | May 12, 2009
Sudan leader denies Darfur crimes
...of a neo-colonial Western plot to take over Sudan. The Darfur conflict began in early 2003, when the government and Arab militias launched a campaign against black-African rebel groups. You can see the full interview with President Omar...
In this article: Omar al-Bashir, Darfur, Sudan, BBC News Channel, Darfur conflict, UN, The Hague, and Khartoum
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NewsFeed Researcher Digests - World News | February 26, 2009
Hague Court Will Pursue Sudan Leader
[31] H owever, the United States, Britain and France are eager to see the alleged perpetrator of the Darfur genocide brought to justice, but the Africa Union, the Arab League and China are less enthusiastic about Mr. Bashir's arrest. To...
In this article: Omar al-Bashir, Khartoum, Darfur, Sudan, Hosni Mubarak, United Nations Security Council, Cairo, and United Nations
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The War in Darfur is a military conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan. Unlike the Second Sudanese Civil War, the current lines of conflict are seen to be ethnic and tribal, rather than religious. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the Arab Abbala tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling non-Arab Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support. The conflict began in February 2003.
The combination of decades of drought, desertification, and overpopulation are among the causes of the Darfur conflict, because the Baggara nomads searching for water have to take their livestock further south, to land mainly occupied by Black African farming communities.
On 14 July 2008, prosecutors at the International Criminal Court (ICC), filed ten charges of war crimes against Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, three counts of genocide, five of crimes against humanity and two of murder. The ICC's prosecutors have claimed that al-Bashir "masterminded and implemented a plan to destroy in substantial part" three tribal groups in Darfur because of their ethnicity. The ICC's prosecutor for Darfur, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, is expected within months to ask a panel of ICC judges to issue an arrest warrant for al-Bashir. The ICC prosecutor's indictment has drawn widespread international criticism.
- Name:
- War in Darfur
- Date:
- January 01, 2003
- Location:
- Darfur
- Combatant:
- UNAMID
- Casualties:
- est. 200,000-400,000 dead and 2,500,000 misplaced
- Strength:
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- N/A
- UNAMID: 9,065
- NRF/JEM: N/A
- Commander:
- Ibrahim Khalil
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