Stephanie Clifford writes on the New York Times blog: More than 130 athletes have signed an open letter asking the international community to pressure Sudan for a truce during the Olympics, the activist organization Team Darfur...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China’s envoy to the strike-torn Sudanese region of Darfur on Thursday accused western media and non-governmental groups of stirring up anti-Chinese feelings among opposition groups in the African country....
Read MoreAccording to Jan Eliasson, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the Darfur region, negotiations aimed at ending the conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan have stalled and neither the Sudanese government nor the rebel...
Read MoreFrom Reuters: China praised Sudan for its work in trying to end the Darfur crisis and said Beijing would do what it could do stop the fighting. China, a big investor in Sudan’s oil industry and its largest weapons...
Read MoreFrom AP: Two senior U.S. officials on Wednesday praised China for increasing pressure on Sudan to change its behavior in Darfur but said Beijing can do much more to stop Khartoum from harming civilians in the Sudanese region....
Read MoreWritten by Liu Guijin, China’s special envoy to Darfur, from China Daily: China and the Arab nations have a long tradition of interaction. Even before Zheng He’s voyages over 600 years ago, China had both direct and...
Read MoreFrom AP: As the world turns its attention to Beijing and the Summer Olympic Games, Mia Farrow will be broadcasting from a Sudanese refugee camp to highlight China’s involvement in the region. Farrow will spend the first...
Read MoreThe Save Darfur Coalition, which is critical of China’s relationship with the Sudanese government, has been hacked over the last month. Hackers have entered e-mail accounts and the advocacy group’s web server. As a...
Read MoreFrom The Independent: The European Parliament has disinvested in a firm accused of being one of the chief bankrollers of the Sudanese regime’s military campaign in Darfur after pressure from MEPs and human rights...
Read MoreA U.S. human rights group has alleged that China is the largest supplier of small arms to Sudan. From AP: The report says China stepped up its arms supply to Sudan as others cut back to comply with a U.N. arms embargo, making...
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