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Annan: Violence Intensifying in Darfur
In a grim report on the 20-month conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan (news - web sites) says violence intensified in October and there are strong indications of war crimes "on a large and systematic scale."
11/4/04
- Associated Press
Oxfam: Civilian populations held captive as security deteriorates in Darfur
More than a hundred thousand people are essentially being held captive by armed militias in West Darfur, international aid agency Oxfam reports today.
11/4/04
- Oxfam International
Security Situation Deteriorating In Darfur (Sudan)
UN agencies and humanitarian groups are warning that the security situation in the conflict-ridden Darfur region of Sudan is deteriorating amid reports that government forces may be forcing displaced people (DP) to return to their homes.
11/4/04
- OneWorld US
Northern Uganda is 'world's biggest neglected crisis'
Northern Uganda, where around 20,000 children have been kidnapped and many forced to serve as combatants, is the world's biggest neglected humanitarian crisis, the head of UN humanitarian affairs said yesterday.
10/22/04
- Associated Press
Sudan: Darfur villagers 'facing famine'
Rural communities in the Darfur region of Sudan are facing an unprecedented food crisis, according to the international Red Cross. It says it is worse even than the African famines of the 1980s and 1990s.
10/19/04
- BBC
U.N.: Ethiopia Still on Brink of Disaster - 200,000 Died in Recent Crisis
Ethiopia remains on the brink of disaster because it is failing to deal with spiraling population growth, slow economic growth and environmental degradation fueling its near perpetual crises, a United Nations report said Monday.
10/19/04
- Associated Press
Jewelry Retailers Still Ignorant On ‘Conflict Diamonds’
Nearly two years after the global diamond industry committed itself to prevent the trade in diamonds from areas where it has fueled civil war and violence, retailers in the United States and Britain are failing to live up to their pledges, according to survey released by Amnesty International and Global Witness Monday.
10/19/04
- OneWorld US
U.N.: 70,000 Have Died in Sudan Camps
At least 70,000 refugees have died since March because of poor conditions in camps in Sudan's Darfur region, and more will die at the same rate unless countries contribute the $300 million in aid they promised, the U.N. health agency said Friday.
10/15/04
- Associated Press
African Feminist and Environment Champion Takes Nobel Peace Prize
Human rights and environmental activists are hailing the award of the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize to Wangari Maathai of Kenya as fitting recognition of the growing role of civil society in transforming national and international politics, particularly in Africa, over the last several decades.
10/9/04
- Inter Press Service
Rwanda: Rape Survivors Find No Justice
Tens of thousands of Rwandan women were raped during the genocide and in the decade since, but only a few perpetrators of sexual violence have been prosecuted, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today.
10/4/04
- Human Rights Watch
U.S. Official: Sudan Darfur Deaths May Reach 300,000
The death toll in Sudan's conflict-ravaged Darfur region could rise six-fold by the end of the year — hitting 300,000 — because of worsening food shortages among refugees, a senior U.S. aid official said Monday.
10/4/04
- Associated Press
UNCTAD Urges Complete Africa Debt Write-Off
Africa's debt must be completely written off if the continent is to have a chance of meeting international goals on reducing poverty, a United Nations body argued on Thursday.
9/29/04
- Reuters
Report: Africa's Debt Should Be Canceled
African countries are sinking deeper into the red and creditors should cancel the continent's debts to give it a chance to meet global poverty reduction goals, the United Nations said in a report.
9/29/04
- Associated Press
U.N.: Darfur Resolution a Historic Failure
The U.N. Security Council’s new resolution on Sudan fails to provide protection for endangered civilians in the country’s western Darfur region, Human Rights Watch said today.
9/23/04
- Human Rights Watch
Sudan: U.S. Declares Darfur Situation 'Genocide'
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Thursday declared that the past 18 months of attacks by government forces and Arab militias on black African farmers in the western region of Darfur amounted to "genocide" and pledged to push hard at the U.N. Security Council for tough measures against Khartoum to stop it.
9/15/04
- Inter Press Service
Death Rates in Sudan's Darfur Rising, WHO Says
Between 6,000 and 10,000 people are dying from disease and violence each month in Sudan's Darfur region as heavy rains and a marauding militia hinder U.N. efforts to respond to one of Africa's worst humanitarian crises, according to a survey of mortality rates by the United Nations' World Health Organization.
9/15/04
- Washington Post
U.N.: Up to 10,000 Dying a Month in Darfur Camps
Up to 10,000 people, many of them children, are dying each month from disease and violence in Darfur camps, despite the international aid effort in the vast and arid region, the World Health Organization (news - web sites) said Monday.
9/15/04
- Reuters
Sudan: Death Rate Among Internally Displaced Soars in Darfur
The high mortality rates documented by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in the past few weeks in camps of internally displaced people in the Darfur region of western Sudan are comparable to those seen in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide, said an expert from the United Nations agency.
9/14/04
- Inter Press Service
Cleaning Up Africa’s Image
Conflict resolution and poverty reduction will dominate the annual summit of the African Union (AU), to be held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, this week from Jul. 6 to 8.
7/6/04
- Inter Press Service
Africa 'should not pay its debts'
A special adviser to the United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan has said African countries should refuse to repay their foreign debts. Mr Annan's economic adviser Jeffrey Sachs first called on developed countries to cancel Africa's debts. But failing that, he said Africa should ignore its $201bn (£109bn) debt burden.
7/6/04
- BBC
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