Forty days

The United Nations Security Council looks set to fail another critical test: whether it has the will to protect civilians in Darfur from being slaughtered by their own government (AC Vol 45 No 17). Forty days after the Council gave Sudan's National Islamic Front government 30 days to end them, the massacres continue and the UNSC hasn't moved.

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Kofi Annan, Netherlands, Jan Pronk, Colin Powell, China, Russia, Britain, France, Jack Straw, Iraq, Norway, Jan Egeland, Kenya, Kieran Prendergast, Rwanda, Nigeria, Africa Confidential

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