this situation is getting of control and fast.
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Khartoum confronts the United Nations
By T. Ország-Land
The Islamic Republic of the Sudan has embarked on a collision course with the US and its allies in the United Nations (UN) Security Council over the resolution of a bloody ethnic conflict unfolding in its western Darfur region.
A Security Council resolution has directed the Sudan government to assure the safety of the black African civilian population of the region by the end of August by disarming the marauding Arab Janjaweed militants. The Khartoum government has responded by rejecting the resolution, incorporating Janjaweed units in the official security services for joint operations and threatening to declare jihad (holy war).
This is the world?s worst humanitarian crisis resulting from systematic ethnic cleansing waged by the pro-government Arab militants, says the UN. Human rights groups and the US Congress say the Janjaweed are carrying out genocide.
The 18-month conflict was sparked by the emergence of two African rebel movements challenging the authority of Khartoum. They seek to resolve a long simmering tension in Darfur over land and grazing rights between the mostly nomadic Arabs and African farmers of the Fur, Massaleet and Zagawa ethnic groups.
The emergency has so far claimed an estimated 50,000 civilian lives and caused widespread material destruction and the displacement of around one million people. Aid agencies estimate that perhaps two million people are in urgent need of food and medical aid. The tragedy in the uniformly Islamic west of the Sudan, near Chad, is demanding international attention just as another, 20-year war in the south of the country between the Islamic Arabs and the largely Christian Africans seems to have come to an end.
Sudan has also rejected African Union (AU) proposals to deploy more than 2,000 African troops under international mandate in the Darfur region to prevent further bloodshed. Mustafa Ismail, Foreign Minister of Sudan, has stated that "the security of Darfur is the responsibility of Sudan alone".
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text. this is the free excerpt. it provides a nice overview.
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Khartoum confronts the United Nations
By T. Ország-Land
The Islamic Republic of the Sudan has embarked on a collision course with the US and its allies in the United Nations (UN) Security Council over the resolution of a bloody ethnic conflict unfolding in its western Darfur region.
A Security Council resolution has directed the Sudan government to assure the safety of the black African civilian population of the region by the end of August by disarming the marauding Arab Janjaweed militants. The Khartoum government has responded by rejecting the resolution, incorporating Janjaweed units in the official security services for joint operations and threatening to declare jihad (holy war).
This is the world?s worst humanitarian crisis resulting from systematic ethnic cleansing waged by the pro-government Arab militants, says the UN. Human rights groups and the US Congress say the Janjaweed are carrying out genocide.
The 18-month conflict was sparked by the emergence of two African rebel movements challenging the authority of Khartoum. They seek to resolve a long simmering tension in Darfur over land and grazing rights between the mostly nomadic Arabs and African farmers of the Fur, Massaleet and Zagawa ethnic groups.
The emergency has so far claimed an estimated 50,000 civilian lives and caused widespread material destruction and the displacement of around one million people. Aid agencies estimate that perhaps two million people are in urgent need of food and medical aid. The tragedy in the uniformly Islamic west of the Sudan, near Chad, is demanding international attention just as another, 20-year war in the south of the country between the Islamic Arabs and the largely Christian Africans seems to have come to an end.
Sudan has also rejected African Union (AU) proposals to deploy more than 2,000 African troops under international mandate in the Darfur region to prevent further bloodshed. Mustafa Ismail, Foreign Minister of Sudan, has stated that "the security of Darfur is the responsibility of Sudan alone".
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text. this is the free excerpt. it provides a nice overview.
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