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Paramilitary shelling on camp kills 8 in Darfur
Paramilitary forces shelled a displacement camp in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, killing eight civilians and injuring ...
The International Criminal Court (ICC) believes war crimes and crimes against humanity are continuing to take place in ...
The International Criminal Court has “reasonable grounds to believe” war crimes and crimes against humanity were committed, ...
The UN Security Council gave the ICC a mandate to investigate and prosecute crimes in Darfur two decades ago, with the body ...
North Darfur is the only one of the five states where the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) have retained a foothold in war-torn Sudan’s vast western region of Darfur, overrun by its rival, the paramilitary ...
Darfur, a region in western Sudan, has a tragic history marked by ethnic violence and humanitarian crises. In the early 2000s, the region experienced a brutal conflict that resulted in the deaths ...
Fighters from a paramilitary force and their allied Arab militias rampaged through Darfur, Sudan, reportedly killing more than 800 people in a multiday attack, doctors and the U.N. said.
GENOCIDE IS not being committed in Darfur. This is not a popular position, I know.
But in Darfur the days of moral clarity, of easily identifiable good guys and bad guys, are long gone. Ahmed is a Maharia, an Arab–the overwhelming majority of whom take no part in the war.
Any peace in Darfur must be built on solutions that go to the root causes of the conflict. We can hope for the return of more than 2 million refugees. We can safeguard villages and help rebuild homes.
The specter of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state's besieged capital, El Fasher.