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Sudan/Darfur

U.N. in Sudan: www.unsudanig.org

United Nations information about the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, and the situation in the South of the country. Includes situation reports, maps, humanitarian issues, reports and documents.
USAID on Sudan: www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) information on the situation in Sudan, including Darfur. Includes Satellite Imagery of destroyed villages in Darfur.

Sudan, key events

UN backs new Darfur peace force: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6925187.stm

7/31/07, BBC: The United Nations Security Council voted to send peacekeepers to Darfur. Up to 26,000 troops and police will make up the world's largest peacekeeping force, under a joint UN and African Union mandate. The resolution allows peacekeepers to use force to defend civilians and aid workers in Darfur from attack, but not to disarm combatants. Sudan has accepted the resolution.
Sudan backs UN-led Darfur force': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6760781.stm

6/18/07, BBC: Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir agreed unconditionally to a joint UN-African Union peacekeeping force for Darfur. The joint force policing Darfur will number between 17,000 and 19,000 soldiers. ” However, diplomats continue to caution that Sudan has a history of making agreements and then raising difficulties.”
Timeline: Sudan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/country_profiles/827425.stm

BBC chronology of key events in Sudan from 1881 to present.
Darfur rebels agree to a peace deal: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4975512.stm

5/5/06, BBC: The largest rebel group in Sudan's Darfur region has agreed to sign a peace deal with the government. Two smaller groups rejected the deal.
South Sudan gets new government: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4370100.stm

BBC, 10/23/2005: An autonomous government for southern Sudan has been announced. It is the next step in the country's complex north-south peace agreement signed in January 2005. Under the terms of the deal, the south has been given a large degree of autonomy and the chance to vote for full independence in six years' time.
Sudan signs new constitution.: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4666701.stm

7/8/05, BBC: Ex-rebel John Garang becomes Sudan's vice-president as a new constitution ends 20 years of civil war in the south of Sudan.
UN refers Darfur war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4399487.stm

4/7/05, BBC: UN Security Council voted to refer war crimes suspects in Sudan's Darfur region to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Sudan leaders sign deal for South: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4157707.stm

1/9/05, BBC: Sudan's government and southern rebels signed a comprehensive peace deal to end Africa's longest civil war.
UN gives three months on decision about Darfur genocide: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3725770.stm

10/8/04, BBC: A five-member panel to investigate whether genocide has taken place in Darfur has been appointed by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan. The commission has been given three months to report its verdict about events in the western Sudanese region.
UN threatens sanctions on Sudan: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3668072.stm

9/18/04, BBC: The UN Security Council has approved a resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan if violence continues in the western region of Darfur. Full text of Resolution
Bush administration says genocide committed in Sudan/Darfur: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3641820.stm

9/9/04, BBC: Secretary of State Colin Powell gave testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in which he "concluded, that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the Government of Sudan and the Jingaweit bear responsibility -- and that genocide may still be occurring."
UN says Sudan failing on Darfur: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3618450.stm

9/1/04, BBC: A United Nations report says Sudan has not disarmed Arab militias or stopped attacks against civilians in the strife-torn Darfur region. It did not mention or recommend any sanctions against Khartoum, as had been threatened in an earlier UN resolution but called for more foreign troops to go to Sudan.
U.N. Security Council Resolution on Sudan/Darfur: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3940547.stm

7/30/04, BBC: U.N. Security Council warned the Sudan government that it must halt atrocities by Arab militias in the western Darfur region within 30 days. Full text of Resolution
US Congress calls Darfur genocide': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/africa/3918765.stm

7/23/04, BBC: The US Congress passed a resolution that declared that the atrocities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide and urged the Bush Administration to seriously consider multilateral or even unilateral intervention to prevent genocide should the United Nations Security Council fail to act. Excerpts from Resolution.