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/ 29 September 2008
A helicopter working for peacekeepers in Darfur crashed on Monday, killing at least two people.
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/ 26 September 2008
Sudan’s vice-president has dismissed a possible war-crimes indictment of the country’s president as a plan intended to derail Darfur’s peace process.
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/ 19 September 2008
Sudan’s UN envoy said on Thursday the fault for any delays in deploying peacekeepers to Darfur lies with the UN and not the Khartoum government.
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/ 18 September 2008
Sudanese aircraft bombed Darfur rebel positions on Thursday in the latest offensive in the war-torn region, rebels said.
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/ 18 September 2008
Only 13 000 of the 26 000 peacekeepers authorised for Darfur will be deployed by the end of the year, far below the 80% target.
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/ 17 September 2008
Rebel groups said they fought off a government assault on their positions in North Darfur on Wednesday, leaving an unknown number of casualties.
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/ 16 September 2008
SA President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Sudan on Monday for two days of talks with President Omar al-Bashir on efforts for peace in Darfur.
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/ 15 September 2008
Darfur rebels said on Monday they were fighting back against attacking government troops for a fourth day, the latest in a series of battles.
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/ 11 September 2008
Darfur rebel groups on Thursday dismissed an Arab League initiative aimed at bringing peace to the war-ravaged western Sudanese region.
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/ 9 September 2008
A UN human rights expert on Tuesday accused the government in Khartoum of indiscriminate bombing of civilians in Darfur.
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/ 8 September 2008
The AU will ask the UN to defer possible proceedings for alleged war crimes against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, the AU said on Monday.
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/ 8 September 2008
The UN World Food Programme has threatened to suspend deliveries of food aid to Sudan’s Darfur province after a string of attacks on its convoys.
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/ 4 September 2008
Residents of a refugee camp in Sudan’s Darfur region complained to peacekeepers on Thursday about the threatening presence of government troops.
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/ 3 September 2008
Sudanese forces accused of killing more than 30 people in a raid on a Darfur camp have started to build up outside the settlement, peacekeepers say.
Sudan boosted forces outside a volatile camp for displaced people in Darfur on Tuesday as fears rose of new armed clashes.
Tapping down the rough track with metal sticks, blind Sudanese children negotiate a route between pools of muddy rainwater and zooming motorbikes.
A deadly firefight on Monday killed at least 25 people after Sudanese security forces thrust into one of the largest camps for Darfur’s displaced.
More than 50 Arab tribesmen were killed in armed clashes over water and grazing land in South Darfur, a member of one of the groups said on Thursday.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said the ICC attempt to prosecute him for genocide and war crimes had only strengthened his position.
Sudan sentenced to death 12 alleged Darfur rebels on Wednesday, bringing to 50 the number condemned to hang over an attack on Khartoum.
When Sudan’s president landed in this remote western Darfur town, he was warmly greeted by a man who by all logic should be his mortal enemy.
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, on his first trip abroad since the ICC moved to indict him for war crimes, on Tuesday denied the charges.
A Sudanese anti-terrorist court has convicted and sentenced to death two senior members of a Darfur rebel group and six others.
It will take weeks to deploy more peacekeepers to Darfur because of the difficulties of operating in the remote region, the force commander says.
Darfur rebels on Wednesday accused the Sudan government of mounting a massive attack to wipe out their strongholds in the far north of the region.
The commander of the UN-AU mission in Darfur on Tuesday urged the world community to put pressure on the fragmented insurgency in the region.
Sudan’s north and south armies have not fully withdrawn from the disputed oil-rich Abyei region as called for under a plan aimed at defusing tensions.
As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actor and activist Mia Farrow is webcasting the ”Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the Sudan-Chad border.
The UN on Thursday raised concerns that Sudanese anti-terrorism courts which condemned 30 Darfur rebels to death did not meet international standards.
International charity Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) said on Friday it had evacuated staff from troubled areas of Darfur.
The UN Security Council renewed the mandate for peacekeepers in Darfur on Thursday in a resolution that Washington criticised.
Two Sudanese courts sentenced 22 more Darfur rebels to death by hanging on Thursday for their involvement in a raid on the capital in May.