United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Darfur on Saturday after warning warring parties and international donors that time is running out to avoid an unprecedented humanitarian disaster. He was confronted with the devastation caused by more than two years of fighting between ethnic minority rebels and government forces.
African leaders meeting in Egypt on Tuesday begged for cash ahead of July’s Group of Eight summit, but poor attendance showed tepid faith in the continent’s ability to achieve the stability and transparency meant to underpin the meeting. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak urged donors to boost their contributions.
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/ 19 January 2005
The construction of a road network for southern Sudan will be crucial to rebuilding a region that, after two decades of civil war, has virtually none at all. Most of those that do exist are usable only in the dry season and all are unpaved and in desperate need of repair.
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/ 23 September 2004
A top official from Sudan’s ruling party said on Thursday the government will not disarm ”Arab tribes” in the troubled Darfur region, saying they are not all members of the feared Janjaweed militia. ”The government and international community are not in agreement over the definition of the Janjaweed,” a National Congress spokesperson said.
Ahmed Idris’s wife is preparing the family’s only meal of the day and there is not enough for their 11 children running around their two little shelters in the middle of the Zamzam refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region. The children, some of them with distended bellies, appear malnourished, although their mother says the quantity of the food rations they get has increased considerably in recent months.
Nigerian troops set off for Darfur