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ForDarfur NASDAQ Opening

On the morning of December 26, 2007 ForDarfur representative James Sunshine presided over the opening bell of the NASDAQ.

Darfur Situation Topic of Sidore Lecture

Kadian Pow, program officer for the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will speak on "The Crisis in Darfur" on Monday at 7 p.m. in the PSU Silver Center for the Arts. Pow's talk is presented by the Saul O Sidore Lecture Series.

Sudan's former foes in crisis talks to rescue deal

The two sides in Sudan's national coalition met on Thursday to try to salvage their fragile peace deal after disenchanted former southern rebels walked out of the government.

UN Admits the Arms Embargo A Failure

Money is a weapon. Economic embargoes have a very mixed record and they are not a decisive tool. However, they are a political signal. Private citizens and local governments cannot enforce economic embargoes on a sovereign nation, but they can do something that is like an embargo. That something is called disinvestment. At the moment twenty U.S. states have voted to "disinvest" any state funds (usually pension funds) invested in companies that invest in Sudan, Sudan businesses or Sudan government bonds. Over fifty US universities have also pledged to withdraw investment dollars.

Three WFP truck drivers killed in Sudan's Darfur

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) condemned on Thursday the killing of three contract truck drivers who were shot dead while working for the UN food agency in the war-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur.

Nigeria: Groups Petition African Commission On Darfur

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and the Independent Advocacy Project (IAP) have called on the African Commission on human and peoples' rights to urgently visit Darfur, Sudan to assess the dire human rights and humanitarian situation and to collect direct evidence on the extent to which the government of Sudan has complied with the commission's recommendations, following the commission's fact finding mission to Darfur, Sudan from 8 to 18 July 2004.

South Sudan leader meets Beshir in bid to end crisis

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir is holding crisis talks with southern leader Salva Kiir on Thursday in a bid to persuade his former rebel group to rejoin the unity government it quit a week ago.

Reshuffle fails to convince Sudan's ex-rebels

Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir has reshuffled his cabinet in a bid to win back southern former rebels who pulled out of the unity government last week, an official said Wednesday.

In Southern Darfur, Signs of Another Massacre

African Union and United Nations officials are looking into reports of a new massacre in Darfur, in which witnesses said Sudanese government troops and their allied militias had killed more than 30 civilians, slitting the throats of several men praying at a mosque and shooting a 5-year-old boy in the back as he tried to run away.

Sudan: Moi Calls for Dialogue

Former President Moi has expressed concern over the fluid political situation in Sudan and urged concerned parties to embrace dialogue and reconciliation.

Sudan Govt Crisis Gulfed

A crisis triggered by the withdrawal of ministers representing former southern rebels from the Sudanese national unity government has been gulfed, and the ministers will be reassuming their duties soon.

Poison pot of obstacles facing peace in Darfur

If anyone needed proof that Darfur has degenerated into a peacekeeper's nightmare, 30 truckloads of armed men forcefully delivered it two weekends ago.