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Hidden Stories: Quest for Peace By: Eligh McCallum
Friday 26 October 2007
Sword-wielding, camel-riding torturers and rapists burning African villages — this is the picture being pushed by advocacy groups as a call to action for the crisis in Darfur. After the genocide in Rwanda, the world said never again. [...]

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UK lawmakers call for inclusive peace talks to solve the Darfur conflict 
NAIROBI, Daniel Ooko, (MWC News)–United Kingdom lawmakers said Monday that the African Union/United Nations are in danger of repeating the mistakes of the past in the quest for peace in Darfur.
In a statement issued in Nairobi after a visit to the strife-torn Darfur region, [...]

http://www.gurtong.org/ResourceCenter/weeklyupdates/wu_contents.asp?wkupdt_id=1023
25/08/2007
More focus needed to help returnees
JUBA, Aug 25 (Gurtong) – A representative from a group of Members of the British Parliament who visited Juba told Gurtong that more attention needs to be focused on providing services to recent returned refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) to South Sudan.
“People have come back and are looking for [...]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKMCD93741820070829
Detained Sudan politician allowed to meet lawyers
Wed Aug 29, 2007 12:49pm BST
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese opposition politician Mubarak al-Fadil has met his lawyers for the first time since he was detained without charge more than 40 days ago, his advocate Amin Mekki said on Wednesday.
Fadil, the head of the opposition Umma Party for Reform and [...]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKL29290511._CH_.242020070829
 
29, August 2007, “Darfur peacekeeprs must use force - British MPs” - Reuters

 
KHARTOUM, Aug 29 (Reuters) - U.N. and African Union peacekeeping troops in Darfur must respond with force if attacked by armed groups, British parliamentarians said on Wednesday.
 
The current 7,000-strong African Union force in Darfur has failed to stem violence in the region despite [...]

David Drew interviewed on BBC World with George Aligiah after a recent visit to Sudan. You can watch an excerpt from this interview by reading this post (clicking on the title above). The b-roll footage is also from the Group’s visit, and was taken in the AMIS camp at Geneina, and among displaced populations from [...]

The House Magazine
Policy focus | Issue 1224 | Monday 25th June 2007 | Send this article to a friend | Print this article
Deja vu in Darfur
Efforts to halt the bloodshed in Darfur are being hampered by superpower involvement, says Baroness Tonge
The all-party group on Sudan was set up by Hylton Dawson and me in [...]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/7days/story/0,,1826871,00.html
Oliver Marre
Sunday July 23, 2006
The Observer
It’s not a game, more a matter of life and deathIt is all a matter of taste, but an online video game about the troubles in Darfur has invoked a display of righteous indignation from a growing number of our constitutional representatives.
The caring folk at MTV designed the game, sensitively [...]

Thank you for your letter dated January 12th, 2006. I understand the interest your group has in the matter. As we all feel great loss of life which occurred during the incident of December 30, 2005, I wish to make clear a number of points which, I am sure, will help you better understand the situation and the context in which it happened:

“Never again”, pledges a world which this week commemorates a million Rwandans who died in the 1994 genocide (West all but ignores Rwanda anniversary, April 7). Yet in western Sudan a similar catastrophe is unfolding amid a deafening silence. “The only difference from Rwanda is the numbers,” says the UN humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, Dr Mukesh Kapila, who also witnessed the Rwandan genocide.