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Being a member of Coalition for Darfur, here are the news from Darfur the Coalition would like you to read.
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Physician for Human Rights released an important report on Darfur that
says, as the Boston Globe explains, Khartoum and the Janjaweed
"committed a little-discussed form of genocide. One clause in the UN's
Genocide Convention defines the crime of genocide as a group
inflicting upon another group ''conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or part.'"
http://www.phrusa.org/research/sudan/news_2006-01-11.html
http://www.boston.com/news/world/africa/articles/2006/01/11/darfur_conflict_study_sees_death_of_a_way_of_life/
There were also reports that the AU mission in Darfur is going to run
out of money by March and may be forced to hand over the mission to
the UN:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1292536.htm
This might not be an entirely bad thing, because Khartoum is poised to
assume the chairmanship of the AU at the end of the month:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L10300487.htm
The UN is considering its options in Darfur, but Khartoum has already
stated that it will not accept US, EU, or UN troops in Sudan:
http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP01132006news105622.cfm
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MCD350583.htm
In other news, the AU has accused Sudanese troops of disguising
themselves as AU peacekeepers to launch attacks in Darfur:
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_1862048,00.html
Sudanese troops also attacked areas of eastern Sudan earlier this week:
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MCD137517.htm
And finally, a recent International Crisis Group reports says that
Sudan continues to support Uganda's vicious Lord's Resistance Army:
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-01-11T093340Z_01_KNE134346_RTRUKOC_0_UK-UGANDA-REBELS.xml&archived=False
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I would like to add the UN weekly Report of Humanitarian Activities in Sudan dated Jan 4th 2006, a Report worth reading if we want to have an ideia of what the stakes are over there. For instance:
"·WES carried out maintenance and minor repair for nine hand pumps in Wau South Payam, sustaining the supply of safe drinking water for 4,500 people" and "· WFP distributed 155 MT of food to 8,758 beneficaries in Gogrial ".
The photo above was taken in Gogrial: "gogrial east county. this is outside the primary health care center; patients waiting for care" says Erin Chu at his Flickr website. Erin has a whole set of 57 photos of South Sudan.