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	Former rebel takes over governing of West Darfur - CNN.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		West Darfur is the most lawless of all the Darfur states as it runs along the long and porous border with neighboring Chad, also in the throes of its own insurgency.
		Darfur, an area the size of France, has been beset by bloodshed since 2003 when mostly non-Arab rebels took up arms accusing Khartoum of neglecting the arid region.
		Minnawi complains a transitional authority he should head and which should direct development and reconstruction in the remote west is still not functioning almost a year after the signing of the accord which envisaged it.
	www.cnn.com /2007/WORLD/africa/03/15/darfur.governor.reut/index.html (665 words)

	West Darfur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Darfur (Arabic: غرب دارفور; transliterated: Gharb Darfor) is one of the 26 states of Sudan, and one of three comprising the Darfur region.
		It borders North and South Darfur to the east.
		The Chadian prefectures of Biltine and Ouaddaï lie to the west, while to the north is the prefecture of Bourkou-Ennedi-Tibesti.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Darfur (113 words)

	WHO \| Health update for Darfur, Sudan and Chad
		Hepatitis E outbreaks in Darfur and in refugee camps in Chad are related to an insufficient supply of clean water and poor sanitary conditions in refugee and IDP camps on both sides of the Chad-Sudan border.
		West Darfur State reported 66% of the total cases (1,640 out of 2,431), compared to 22% and 12% for South and North Darfur respectively.
		In July, the UN estimated 83% of IDPs are accessible to UN staff in North Darfur, 44% in South Darfur and 52% in West Darfur.
	www.who.int /mediacentre/news/briefings/2004/mb4/en (1848 words)

	Darfur Peace and Development - Selected Reports
		In the wake of the conflict in Darfur, many “African” victims of attacks have used the term to refer to the government-backed militias attacking their villages, many of whom are drawn from nomadic groups of Arab ethnic origin.
		One is the systematic use of indiscriminate aerial bombardment in North Darfur and to a lesser extent in West and South Darfur.
		Simultaneous with the attacks on villages to the west and southwest of the Sindu Hills, government and militia forces attacked villages on the eastern side of the hills, in the Shattaya locality of Kass province, South Darfur.
	www.darfurpeaceanddevelopment.org /reports.php?ID=124 (6699 words)

	espac.org - DARFUR IN PERSPECTIVE
		Al-Fasher, the historic capital of Darfur, is the capital of North Darfur state; Nyala is the capital of South Darfur state; and al-Geneina is the capital of West Darfur state.
		Darfur is an ecologically fragile area and had already seen growing– and often armed – conflict over natural resources between some 80 tribes and clans loosely divided between nomadic and sedentary communities.
		These forces have used Darfur as a battlefield on which to wage war against the Khartoum government– and ironically were, in large part, the same people who ruthlessly put down the attempted insurrection in 1990.
	www.espac.org /darfur-in-perspective (2148 words)

	Darfur Background
		While the situation in Darfur is complex, the factors underlying this humanitarian catastrophe bear a striking similarity to the economic, ethnic, and political motivations that have contributed to previous incidents of genocide and “ethnic cleansing” throughout the world.
		The Darfur region of western Sudan – the states of North Darfur, West Darfur and South Darfur - is approximately the size of Texas.
		At that time, rebels in Darfur, seeking an end to the region's economic and political marginalization, also took up arms to protect their communities against an on-going campaign by government-backed militias recruited among groups of Arab culture in Darfur and Chad.
	www.the-ethic.org /darfurbackground.htm (985 words)

	Darfur Peace and Development - Selected Reports
		In all, more than half of Darfur،s 3 million people are estimated to have been affected by the conflict through insecurity, displacement, loss of livelihoods and decreased access to humanitarian assistance and basic services.
		In north Darfur alone it is estimated that 20% of villages have been burned and looted (WFP Sept 2003).
		Her village in the Sahara Desert was attacked and burned, and her family had to flee in the middle of the night, walking about 20 miles to Geneina, the capital of West Darfur.
	www.darfurpeaceanddevelopment.org /reports.php?ID=121 (1832 words)

	Sudan: Death Toll in Darfur
		The most important factor distorting the debate on deaths in Darfur has been the application of elevated mortality rates derived from site-specific surveys of displaced populations to the broader affected populace, of which they are not representative.
		The highest numbers of deaths are believed to have occurred during this period, primarily in West and North Darfur, with violence a major cause of death.
		The highest rates of mortality were already subsiding—and the cleansing of primarily non-Arab populations from large sections of Darfur was already completed—when the international community realized the scope of crisis in Darfur in the spring of 2004.
	www.state.gov /s/inr/rls/fs/2005/45105.htm (1446 words)

	Darfur Information.com
		SMC said that in a separate incident, rebels on Monday attacked a truck chartered by the UN World Food Programme in North Darfur, unloaded and took away the food it was was carrying and then allowed the driver to drive on after beating him.
		Abdallah said other areas such as Al-Fashir in North Darfur and Nyala in South Darfur were not affected by the rains because they had a railway and asphalted roads.
		Al Ayam, reporting from the South Darfur capital, said the university administration on Tuesday announced the suspension of studies after clashes the previous day between students of the ruling National Congress party and those in opposition parties during a campaign for elections of the student union.
	www.darfurinformation.com /r_38_killed.asp (627 words)

	Economist deems AU failing in Darfur
		The threat in Darfur is that the violence will soon jeopardise the continuation of humanitarian support for the refugees and destabilise a region that had only recently achieved a bit of equilibrium, if not exactly peace.
		At the beginning of last month, one aid convoy in West Darfur was ambushed by armed gunmen who looted everything, and then, says one of the victims, “systematically beat” the 23 aid workers, and sexually abused the women.
		The result is that in West Darfur, for instance, which has 657,000 refugees, the UN and aid agencies are in a state of virtual paralysis in places like el-Geneina.
	migs.concordia.ca /EconomistdeemsAUfailinginDarfur.htm (1645 words)

	Photo Slideshow \| Reuters.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Janjaweed militias have been concentrating forces to the north of el-Geneina, the capital of West Darfur state in western Sudan, an African Union military source said on Tuesday, corroborating a U.N. report.
		Janjaweed is the local name for militia forces drawn mainly from the nomadic Arab tribes of the area and blamed for much of the killing in Darfur over the past four years.
		Darfur, an arid area the size of France, has been ravaged by violence since 2003, when rebels took up arms, accusing the government in Khartoum of ignoring the region.
	today.reuters.com /news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2007-02-20T141808Z_01_L20494001_RTRUKOC_0_US-SUDAN-DARFUR-JANJAWEED.xml&src=rss (518 words)

	Sudan Blames West for Darfur Conflict \| The Agonist
		Senior Sudanese officials yesterday accused the West of stirring the armed conflict in the Darfur region and exaggerating the crisis to pressure Khartoum amid final negotiations for peace in southern Sudan.
		Taha told a gathering of Egyptian and Sudanese intellectuals and politicians in the Egyptian capital that the conflict in Sudan's western Darfur was "fabricated" by the international community, and in particular, by the West.
		Both allege the West is applying pressure while the Sudanese government and the SPLA make their last push toward ending their 20-year civil war at negotiations in Kenya.
	scoop.agonist.org /story/2004/6/11/234827/579 (2147 words)

	Sudan: Remembering, Responding and Rebuilding
		The Darfur region consists of three states — North, South and West Darfur — with a population of nearly 6 million people, one third of whom now require emergency aid.
		CRS works in the capital of West Darfur, El Geneina, and along the "Kulbus corridor," which runs along the border with Chad and includes the Sirba, Selea and Kulbus areas.
		The project targets internally displaced people and conflict-affected communities in West Darfur to help them to become more resilient and better able to cope with continuous vulnerabilities and to meet their basic human and social needs in a dignified manner.
	sudan.crs.org /responds_darfur.htm (855 words)

	Emergency Measles Control Activities --- Darfur, Sudan, 2004
		The Darfur region of Sudan, composed of three states with a population of approximately six million, has experienced civil conflict during the previous year, resulting in the internal displacement of approximately one million residents and an exodus of an estimated 170,000 persons to neighboring Chad.
		Coverage were highest in South Darfur, an area with limited conflict, and lowest in West Darfur, where a substantial percentage of the population was inaccessible because of lack of security.
		The high case-fatality rate (CFR) observed in Darfur and refugee camps in neighboring Chad is consistent with studies in similar settings and emphasizes the importance of providing measles vaccination as early as possible in such populations.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5338a3.htm (2123 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Threatened UN staff leave Darfur
		UN envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk told the BBC the threats arose because authorities in West Darfur were trying to disarm the Janjaweed militia.
		The UN is in discussion with the authorities in West Darfur to try and resolve the situation and is also trying to contact the militia.
		A UN report earlier this year concluded that while the killings in Darfur did not amount to genocide, killings, torture, enforced disappearances and sexual violence were carried out on a widespread and systematic basis and could amount to crimes against humanity.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/4354933.stm (380 words)

	Darfur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During the Sultanate of the Keira Dynasty, the region had developed the demographic structure that would endure for the twentieth century.
		To the west lay Dar Masalit; the Masalit had successfully maintained their independence from Dar Fur.
		Following the overthrow of Abdallahi at Omdurman in 1898 by a British force, the new Anglo-Egyptian condominium government recognized Ali Dinar as the sultan of Darfur and largely left the dar to its own affairs except for a nominal annual tribute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Darfur (1524 words)

	Political Affairs Magazine - Darfur: UN Evacuation of Humanitarian Personnel from West Darfur
		Darfur: UN Evacuation of Humanitarian Personnel from West Darfur
		The decision by the UN to evacuate all non-essential humanitarian personnel from West Darfur should not be surprising, even as hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are affected by this move.
		By contrast, in the UN's Darfur Humanitarian Profile No. 17 (representing conditions as of August 1, 2005), 37% of the conflicted-affected population was described as inaccessible.
	www.politicalaffairs.net /article/articleview/2033/1 (3988 words)

	Middle East Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		He told a gathering of Egyptian and Sudanese intellectuals and politicians in Cairo that the conflict in western Darfur was "fabricated" by the international community, and in particular, by the West.
		Taha claimed that the government wanted to use the funds for projects in Darfur, but the EU refused to release the funds unless Khartoum resolves the conflict in the south.
		An estimated 10,000 people have died since rebels complaining of government neglect of their impoverished region launched an uprising in Darfur in February 2003 and were met with fierce retaliation by government and Janjawid forces.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=10250 (398 words)

	USAID: Sudan: Darfur Humanitarian Emergency
		UNHCR reported that on September 29, 250 to 300 armed Arab men riding horses and camels attacked Aro Sharow IDP camp, West Darfur, killing 29 people and causing most of the camp’s 4,000 to 5,000 residents to flee into the countryside.
		U.N. Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland condemned the attack and blamed all parties to the Darfur conflict for the increasing number of attacks targeting humanitarian workers in recent weeks.
		On September 26 and 27, several hundred women and children IDPs Darfur Humanitarian Emergency — September 30, 2005 demonstrated, in one case blocking the entrance to the AMIS Civilian Police compound, and in another case congregating peacefully outside an NGO compound.
	www.usaid.gov /locations/sub-saharan_africa/sudan/darfur.html (1132 words)

	Sudan: new wells for old in West Darfur
		In remote Arab villages in West Darfur the ICRC is piloting a programme of hand-dug wells for nomads and agro-pastoralists, who are facing problems cleaning and maintaining traditional wells in the harsh, semi-arid terrain.
		The project adds to a much wider ICRC operation that is providing water for some 1.5 million residents and displaced persons across Darfur, by rehabilitating pumps and water yards, digging wells and drilling boreholes.
		When the conflict started in Darfur, preventing access to many areas, the work was suspended.
	www.icrc.org /Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/sudan-darfurwells-180706 (844 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Africa : Crisis in Darfur
		Human Rights Watch remains extremely alarmed about the situation in Darfur and in eastern Chad given the recent increase in hostilities between the government of Sudan and non-signatory rebel groups in Darfur.
		The volatility of the Sudan-Chad border, the escalation in militia attacks on civilians in both countries, and the increasing insecurity for humanitarian aid workers in the region are also grave causes for concern.
		Darfur Bleeds: Militia Attacks on Civilians in Chad
	www.hrw.org /campaigns/darfur (1283 words)

	Coalition for Darfur: Looming Catastrophe
		All the while, attacks on the displaced continued and seven AU monitors were killed in an ambush.
		That is something of an understatement, but considering that it was Powell himself who first declared that what was happening in Darfur was indeed genocide - more than one year ago - it is certainly worth noting.
		One year later, UN officials are warning that "everything is getting out of control" and that Darfur risks descending into utter anarchy, bringing with it an untold loss of life...
	coalitionfordarfur.blogspot.com /2005/10/looming-catastrophe.html (446 words)

	ACT-Caritas feature: Zalingei, West Darfur, Sudan; July 11, 2006
		Zalingei, West Darfur, July 11, 2006--At first glance, it seems like life as usual in one of Darfur’s biggest camps for displaced people.
		As in many of the other big camps in Darfur, the people of Hassa Hissa have been demonstrating against the Darfur Peace Agreement, signed by the government of Sudan and a small but militarily strong faction of the Sudan Liberation Army, led by Minni Minnawi.
		The people in the camp are against the agreement mainly because their tribal leader, Abdul Wahil Al-Nur, of Darfur’s largest tribe, the Fur, has not signed it.
	www.act-intl.org /actcaritas/news/2006/dtsudan0406.html (824 words)

	CBC News In Depth: Crisis Zone: Darfur, Sudan
		Another report, by Amnesty International, says the crisis in Darfur is being ignored as nations such as the U.S., China and Russia put their own security concerns ahead of human rights issues.
		In a unanimous vote, both houses of the U.S. Congress declare that "the atrocities unfolding in Darfur, Sudan, are genocide." The resolution passes 422-0 in the House of Representatives and passes without dissent in the Senate.
		The government sends a 1,025-strong police force to Darfur to maintain security, law and order, and to "uphold the sense of nationhood." Its main tasks are to protect refugee camps, set up security checkpoints along the border with Chad and safeguard roads for the return of refugees.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/sudan/darfur.html (3578 words)

	International Medical Corps \| New IMC health clinic in West Darfur (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The clinic’s inauguration ceremony held on November 22, 2006 was attended by the Minister of Health of West Darfur State, the Director General of Primary Health Care, representatives from international NGOs, internally displaced people from Abu Zar and Madina camps and residents of Jebel.
		IMC is also restoring and restocking derelict health stations, abandoned during the early days of the conflict to encourage displaced people to return to their homes and villages.
		The Minister of Health of West Darfur State spoke at the ceremony and officially opened the clinic.
	www.imcworldwide.org /loc_sudan_darfur_clinic_west.shtml (515 words)

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