Darfur News

Sudanese security services have pinpointed the area where armed men are holding two abducted female aid workers in Darfur, but have yet to contact the kidnappers, a government minister said on Wednesday.

Jewish Journal columnist David Suissa is in Israel for 10 days, studying at the esteemed Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem.

Ibrahim Hamid's village is no more, all but scrubbed from the map of his homeland.

Public hearings got underway across Darfur over the weekend to examine the root causes of the conflict in the war-torn western region of Sudan, the joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping operation in the region, known as UNAMID, announced today.

During the campaign, when asked about the genocide in Darfur, Candidate Obama said , "We can't say 'never again' and then allow it to happen again.

Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP greeted the reunified Darfuri refugee family of Mr.

Human rights groups working to end the dying in Darfur fear for the survival of 2.5 million people huddled in refugee camps if the Obama administration doesn't put on record its plans to bring security to them.

A four-year old girl from the civil war-torn Darfur region of Sudan who lived in a displaced persons' camp most of her life due to legal complications was reunited with her parents this week.

Washington police investigator George Klein Jr. examines bullet strikes in one of the doors of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, Thursday, June 11, 2009, a day after a shooting left a security officer dead and the gunman wounded.

Few biblical figures stand out for their bravery as Esther does. Faced with a looming order for the systematic extermination of her people, she risked her life and broke the silence.

People walk across DeSoto Ave. on Victory Blvd. at the begining of the march. More than 2,000 people from local synagogues, schools and community groups joined with members of the Darfuri community in a Walk for Darfur, sponsored by the Jewish World Watch.

A rare cross posting from Darfur: An Unforgivable Hell on Earth . There is clearly a debate as to whether all publicity is good publicity.

This 2007 photo shows a boy eating an apple supplied by aid workers at a camp in Darfur.

Barack Obama's trip to the Middle East is one from which few concrete results are expected.

Ugandan-born Mahmood Mamdani is a professor of political science and anthropology at Columbia University and in his new book "Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror" he argues that the situation in Darfur is not a genocide and that the advocacy of the group ' Save Darfur ' has generated outrage in the U.S. without providing ...

Inspired by reporting by Nick Kristof, a blog coalition is taking on gang rape as an instrument of war.

An American human rights group documenting widespread sexual violence against Darfuri women in Sudan and Chad has called for "vigorous prosecution of rape as a war crime." Sudanese women in a refugee camp in southern Chad in March.

In this Nov. 2008 picture provided by Physicians for Human Rights, Darfuri female leaders listen to Physicians for Human Rights researchers surveying the prevalence of rape in members of their community both in Darfur and at the camps in a UN refugee camp near Farchana, Chad.

A survey of dozens of women who fled violence in Darfur found that a third of them reported or showed signs of rape, and revealed a widespread fear of sexual violence in their refugee camp in Chad, a human rights group reported Sunday.

Twenty Sudanese soldiers and 43 Darfurian rebels were killed in fierce clashes over a Sudanese Army base near the Chadian border, the army said Monday.