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The BBC is reporting a clash between the armies of Sudan and Chad in the Darfur region of Sudan. According to BBC, Janjawid militias crossed… Read More »Sudanese, Chadian armies clash

Andrew Natsios, Administrator of the US Agency for International Development, the US’s highest ranking aid official, gave an amazingly frank press conference yesterday regarding the… Read More »USAID administrator speaks about ethnic cleansing in Darfur

Jim Moore has been blogging extensively about Sudan in recent posts. He’s been encouraging fellow bloggers to link to Passion of the Present, a site… Read More »Passion of the Present

Wired News has an encouraging story which introduces a possible solution to malaria in sub-Saharan Africa – nuke the mosquitos. It’s not quite as wacky… Read More »Nuke the mosquitoes!

BBC reports that the UN will be allowed to send an investigative mission into Darfur “within days”. The mission has been postponed twice, as the… Read More »UN Mission to Sudan

The Addis Tribune is reporting that the African Union is sending monitors to Darfur to monitor the ceasefire. Military officers from Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal and… Read More »Darfur update