This was a dream come true for human rights advocates accustomed to political irrelevance: a genocide in faraway Darfur became a major issue in domestic politics. The Darfur lobby was born, as Rebecca ...

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 ...

The United Nations says a drone attack on a U.N. convoy set fire to all 16 trucks carrying desperately needed food to Sudan’s ...

Daly's excellent history of Darfur can be added to the list of recent fine works providing background on the current crisis there. It starts with the Fur Sultanate in the middle of the seventeenth ...

D aly (A History of the Sudan), arguably the world's most knowledgeable authority on Darfur, enlists history, politics, economics and geography to disentangle the reasons why up to 400,000 people ...

Land rights in Darfur act as a principal protagonist to the cause and maintenance of the ongoing armed conflict. The internal functioning and interaction of statutory, customary, and Islamic legal ...

But there was an important distinction to be made in this case. After threatening Sudan with sanctions and dispatching Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Darfur region in late June to assess the ...

In the western region of Darfur, Sudan’s conflict has reopened old wounds caused by divisions drawn along ethnic lines that led to systematic killings a generation ago. Back then, governments ...

Conscientiously upbeat and shiny, “Darfur Now” takes a tactical approach in addressing the ongoing African genocide: Present the appallingly grim situation in Sudan through the rosy lens of ...

Responsibility is difficult to prove conclusively in a war zone, and evidence might have to link such acts to national leaders far from the battlefield. But it has happened.