Three documents were signed on 26 May in Kenya by the National Islamic Front regime and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army. The protocols were: On Power Sharing, On the Resolution of Conflict in Abyei and On the Resolution of Conflict in Southern...
Between Kass and El Geneina, there was not one village that had not been burnt. Between Zalingei and Geneina, Africa Confidential counted 18 villages destroyed, some of them substantial. In South and West Darfur virtually no villages remain. Some burnt vi...
The day-long delay in signing the latest protocol between the National Islamic Front governmentment and the Sudan People's Liberation Army in Kenya on 26 May points to disagreements ahead.
The government continues to block humanitarian aid and a third of a million lives are at risk
The commander of the Sudan Liberation Army's Messalit forces, Khamis Abdullah Abaker, was one of the first villagers to organise self-defence units. He described how in 1998-2003, he served five years of a 20-year sentence for rebellion four of them...
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, who on the anniversary of the start of Rwanda's genocide raised the possibility of military intervention in Darfur, has been trying to galvanise the UN Security Council to act. But after the Council heard acting UN High Co...
Ten years after Rwanda's genocide, the NIF regime kills and displaces tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur – with impunity
Late last month, an Ilyushin-76 aircraft with clear Algerian air force markings unloaded ten tonnes of ammunition at Abéché airport, 170 kilometres from Chad's border with Sudan, say Western diplomatic sources.
Darfur burns as the US deadline for a peace deal for the South
draws near
Khartoum's surprise announcement of a month's break in the peace talks worries Washington. It had expected a peace deal for President George Bush to celebrate in his State of the Union Address on 20 January. The National Islamic Front had asked for 95 Uni...
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