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Darfur in the News

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January 23, 2023

Darfur bandit attacks threaten aid to 2 million: WFP 23/01-2008 06:11 (Washington Post)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Armed robberies and bandit attacks on aid convoys are threatening deliveries of food to more than 2 million people in Darfur, the World Food Program said on Wednesday.


Impunity in Sudan 23/01-2008 03:04 (Los Angeles Times)
It's a bleak day for humanity when one of the architects of the genocide in Darfur gets a promotion. In a gesture of supreme defiance of decency and international law, the Sudanese government announced Monday that it had appointed Musa Hilal, a militia leader who recruited and mobilized the janjaweed...


Sudan Names Janjaweed Figure as Top Adviser 23/01-2008 01:21 (Washington Post)
Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir has promoted Musa Hilal, a suspected leader of the Arab Janjaweed militia that is accused of some of the gravest human rights violations in the battered Darfur region, to a senior adviser post in the government.


U.S. criticizes Sudan over Darfur militia chief 22/01-2008 20:04 (Washington Post)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations on Tuesday strongly criticized Sudan's decision to promote to a government post a man Washington has accused of coordinating Darfur's marauding militias.


George Clooney travels to Chad for U.N. trip 22/01-2008 14:19 (Washington Post)
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - George Clooney traveled to Chad on Tuesday as a U.N. 'messenger of peace' after spending time in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

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