CIJ Complete Darfur Chronology

COALITION FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
CHRONOLOGY OF REPORTING ON EVENTS

CONCERNING THE CONFLICT IN DARFUR, SUDAN
Darfur timeline, Darfur chronology, Darfur events
February 2006
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2006 by the Coalition for International Justice. All rights reserved.
Preface
Researchers, scholars, advocates, policymakers, investigators and journalists have long complained about the absence of a day-by-day
chronology tracking events in Darfur. This database of reporting represents what we believe is the first effort to systematically and
comprehensively trace and record, in one document, the Darfur conflict through the chronicling of related events, ranging from attacks
against particular villages to humanitarian and relief operations, to diplomatic, political and peace efforts aimed at resolving the crisis.
This is not a chronology as such, but rather a database of news reporting on Darfur, created by compiling selected publicly available
English-language news sources. It is built around wire service dispatches from the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse and
has been supplemented with reporting from other major news sources including the United Nations Integrated Regional Information
Network (IRIN), bi-weekly United Nations Sudan Situation Reports, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian
(UK), and Reuters. It also relies on reporting by several human rights NGOs, including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
and Physicians for Human Rights.
This database is sorted by reporting date. We have intensively focused on April 2002 when substantive reporting on Darfur began
until March 2005 when the UN Security Council referred the Darfur situation to the International Criminal Court (ICC). Some
significant events prior to 2002 and after March 2005 are also included. We also present reporting on the North-South peace process
and other issues in Sudan or elsewhere that may be connected to the Darfur crisis.
We summarize and synthesize the reporting without comment or opinion. Where appropriate, we have made some comments in the
notes field only to indicate to the reader some possible significance of the event, or to point out an inconsistency with reporting from
a different date, or to provide a cross-reference or link to the original report. We have, as a courtesy for the reader, highlighted in
yellow, those events that we believe carry particular significance, such as the referral of the Darfur situation to the ICC.
The reporting on events in Darfur is far from perfect, consistent or complete, and certainly some of these limitations are reflected in
this work. There will be errors in fact and geography and most certainly in spelling, but again, this is a chronology of reporting of
what people knew at the time these sources were published. In the process of compiling, information is necessarily lost and errors
may be introduced. Consequently, we encourage the reader to go back to the original news sources when necessary.
How to use this database

The database has seven columns one each for: 1) event date, 2) publication (or filing) date, 3) description of the event, 4) source, 5)
locations, 6) names and 7) notes.
Dates
We rely principally on wire-service reporting because it occurs on a nearly daily basis, immediately following the actual event, or as
soon as the event becomes known. Unfortunately, in many cases, the actual date of an event (such as an attack in a remote village) is
simply not known. Given the difficulty of accurately pinpointing the date of specific events, we depend on the only reliable dates we
were certain of the date of publication or filing. In many cases, the date of publication (especially by wire services) coincides with
the date of the actual event being reported on. In cases where the reporting identifies an earlier date for the event than the day on
which it is reported, we note the event date in the first column.
Terms
The database is completely searchable for terms and names by using the search function on your browser or viewer. In the description
of events (the third column), the spellings of people and places have been preserved as they appeared in the original source cited. We
have bolded personal names, place names, major organizations and other terms for the convenience of the reader.
In separate locations and names columns (the fifth and sixth columns, respectively), we have recorded a standardized spelling in
order to help the user find places and names. This is because various news sources have produced a multitude of different spellings,
especially upon romanization of Arabic names and terms. For example, we encountered thirteen different spellings for Governor
Kibir of North Darfur, (including inter alia Mohammed Osman Kibir, Othman Mohammed Kibir, Osman Mohmed Yousuf Kubur).
To search for him in the text, go to the Names glossary and search under K for Kibir. Use the standardized name in the left-hand
column Osman Mohamed Yusuf Kibir to search the database and you will find all instances of Governor Kibir, including Kubur.
When you search, the standardized name Kibir will appear in the names (sixth) column of the database indicating that he was
involved in the event listed, but the description will contain the spelling as it appeared in the original article.
The same holds true for place names, such as Kabkabiya, in North Darfur, which has been spelled Kapkabia or Kebkabiya
inter alia. Look under K in the glossary to locate Kabkabiya and search under that standardized spelling to find all instances of that
town in the chronology.
Glossaries
Three glossaries are included with the chronology to aid the user for: 1) people; 2) place names; and 3) abbreviations, organizations
and other terms.
These glossaries will help to identify terms, and also to help the user search the chronology as discussed above.
Note that for the People glossary, due to the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a major shift in government positions
occurred. In our glossary, we refer to people by the titles they held during the time period 2002-2004 or during a significant part of
this period.
We did our best to describe locations (often remote villages) that were mentioned in reporting. Where we were unable to pinpoint the
exact location of the place name, we usually described what state it was in. For some place names, we were unable to provide details.
A note on spelling
In many instances different reporting will produce not only different spellings of names, but different name orders or additions or
deletions of name parts. We have attempted to reconcile these differences by choosing a standard name as well as providing a list of
alternative spellings that we have encountered. In order to give the reader an accurate view of the reporting from the time, we have
left the spellings as they appeared in the cited articles.
We did our best to standardize Arabic spellings based on widely-accepted nomenclature convention and after consultations with
Arabic speakers and scholars. We have also tried to alphabetize the personal names according to what we believe is the most
commonly recognized component of each name. Note that for people such as Omar Al-Bashir or Hasan al-Turabi, their names are
filed under B and T respectively, in accordance with naming conventions. Similarly, in the places glossary, Al-Fashir is under
F and El Geneina is under G.
This is only a first attempt at bringing together just a few of the sources that have recorded what happened in Darfur and the
international communitys response. As of the time of this writing, looting, pillaging and murders continue. We encourage readers to
use this chronology not only to look to what has already transpired, but to expand it and add to it as new developments occur.
The principal authors of this chronology are Edgar Chen and Shaoli Sarkar, both of the Coalition for International Justice. We are
grateful to Victor Tanner for suggesting this project to us and for loaning to us his collection of thousands of wire articles. He was one
of the first to alert the Coalition to the absence of such a chronology. We would also like to thank Mr. Tanners research assistant,
Jessa de Simone who dedicated many hours to compiling and organizing the press clippings that form the backbone of the database.
We would like to thank Ann Louise-Colgan of Africa Action and Jerry Fowler of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for
their support. We were joined mid-way through this project by two dedicated interns, Craig Annear, formerly a senior attorney with
the EPA and now docent at the US Holocaust Museum and Memorial and Diana Duarte, of Africa Action. For assistance with Arabic
terms and cataloging, we would like to greatly thank Andras Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Fine Arts
Library, Harvard University; Adrienne Fricke and Victor Tanner.
Edgar Chen and Shaoli Sarkar

February 2006
Washington, D.C.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Glossary People...
Glossary Places ...
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Glossary Abbreviations/Organizations/Terms. xxxvii

Pre-2002 Events..
2002 Events.
2003 Events.
2004 Events.
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April ....................
July .....
October
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152
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2005 Events.
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April ....
336
About CIJ
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DARFUR CHRONOLOGY: Glossary People
Glossary People
Personal Name
Description
Alternative spelling(s), confirmed or

possible
Abaker, Abaker Ayoub
MP, West Darfur
Abbaker, Abdallah
SLM/A commander
Abdallah, Jaafer Ahmed
NDA envoy
Abdallah, Jebriel
GoS official in North Darfur
Abdallah, Mohammed Ali

Abdallah, Mohamed Yousuf
AU Commission Chair overseeing Abuja peace talks

Sudanese State Humanitarian Affairs Minister
Abdullah al-Baker
Sudan Deputy Humanitarian Affairs

Mohamed Yussef Abdullah
Mohammed Yusuf
Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah
Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah
Minister Mohammed Youssef Abdallah
Mohammed Yousef Abdullah
Mohammed Yusef Abdallah
Youssouf Abdallah
Mohammed Youssef Abudullah
Mohammed Yusuf Ibrahim
Abdallah, Salah
Abdelhameed, Haroun
Abdelwahab, Najeib el-Kheir
Sudan National Security Chief; Major General

Foreign Commissioner for JEM
GoS State Minister for Foreign Affairs; delegate to Darfur peace talks
Najib Abdelwahab
Naguib al-kheir Abdul Wahab
Nejib al-Khari Abdel Wahab
Naguib al-Khair Abdel Wahab

Najib Abdelwahab
Najeib Abdelwahab
Abdel-Wahab, Najeib al-Khair
Najeib el-Khair Abdelwahab
Abdin, Hassan
Abdoulaye, Mahamat Nour
Abdullah, Farah Mustafa
Al-Abidin, Mahmud Zein
Abrahamson, Jennifer
Abubakar, Abdulsalami
Abujohn, Samuel
Achouri, Radhia
Sudan Ambassador to UK
Secretary-of-Chadian National commission for Reintegration of Refugees
Darfur MP
West Darfur state civil defence coordinator
UNOCHA spokeswoman
Nigerian and AU special envoy on Darfur, former Nigerian President
Governor of Equatoria
Spokeswoman for UN Mission in Sudan
Adam, Adam Jamaa

Adam, Mukhtar Ibrahim
El-Agbash, Mohamed Ahmed
Abdullah, Mohamed Ali
Adam, Ahmed Hussein
Adam, Sulieman Abdullah
GoS commissioner for Nyala

Judge on the Nyala court
Sudanese Commissioner for Refugees
Senior member of National Congress Party
JEM Spokesman
Governor of West Darfur, appointed by President Bashir May 2003; Major
General
Radhia Achour
Radhi Achouri
Suleiman Abdallah
Abdullah Suleiman Adam
Adam Sulieman
Adeniji, Olu
Agnew, David
Ahmad, Khidr Harun
Ahmed,. Abdullah Hassan
Ahmed, Ibrahim
Ahmed, Mohammed Bechir
Ahmed, Sidiq Mohamed, General
Ahern, Bertie
Akram, Munir
Akol, Lam
Akoy, Emanuel
Akram, Munir
Allami, Ahmad
Nigerian Foreign Minister

President of UNICEF-Canada
Sudanese ambassador to the US
Deputy Leader Popular Congress Party
SLM/A spokesman
JEM Secretary-General
Police General in Nyala
Irish Taoiseach (Prime Minister)
Pakistan Ambassador to UN
Former Sudanese Transport Minister; Justice Party founder
UN Commission on Human Rights observer
Pakistani Ambassador to the UN
Foreign relations advisor to Chadian Pres. Idriss Deby; Chadian mediation team
member
Ahmed Allammi
Ahmat Allam-mi
ii

Allami Ahmat
Allam-Mi Ahmed
Alak, Chol Deng

Ali, Mohammed Gomaa
Ali, Mohammed Hamed
Ali , Mutrif Siddiq
Ali, Zakaria Mohammed
Algabid, Hamid
Alliot-Marie, Michele
Amaning, Kingsley
Amedoh, Anthony
El-Amin, Omar
AmounPagan
Andrea, Andy
Annan, Kofi
Arabi, Abbas, General
Arbab, Ahmed
Arbour, Louise
Arman, Yasir
Armitage, Richard
Atiku, Abubakar
Augstburger, Daniel
Ba, Assane
Baali, Abdallah
Babbush, Omar
Badr, Al-Sherif Ahmed
Minister of State, GoS Foreign Ministry

One of first Darfur refugees to win asylum in the United States
SLM/A spokesman
Undersecretary of Sudanese foreign ministry
Secretary-General of JEM
AU Special Envoy to Darfur
French Defense Minister
Senior UN official for relief efforts in Chad
Chief Ghanaian ceasefire observer, CFC
Lawyer for Musa Hillal
SPLM official
Spokesperson for Dunant Center
UN Secretary-General
GoS Armed Forces Chief of Staff
Former Sudanese governor.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
SPLA spokesman
US Deputy Secretary of State
Nigerian Vice President
UN emergency relief officer
AU Spokesperson
Algerian Ambassador to the UN
Identified as a Janjaweed militia member by US Ambassador Pierre Prosper
Chairman of GoS Refugee commission, industry/investment minister
Mohammed Hamid Ali
Anthony Amadoh
Omer el Amin
Yasser Arman
Sherif Ahmed Badr

Sharif Amed Omar Badr
Al-Sherif Ahmed Omar Badr
Cherif Ahmat Ourmar Badour
Al-Bait, Sadek Abbas Dhaw

Baja, Lauro
Al-Baker, Abdullah
Nazir, Berti community of Jebel Marra

Philippines Ambassador to the UN
A Chadian opposition member alleged to be an SLM/A leader
Balyel, Makki Ali

Baptiste, Jean
Barcham, Noureen Mianaoui
Former Presidential peace advisor

AU political officer
NMRD (National Movement for Reform and Development) leader
Abdullah al-Bakr
Abdullah al-Bakar
iii
Barnier, Michel
Al-Bashir, Omar
Battas,Sophie
Baum, Gerhart
Beda, Angelo
Bell, Peter
Bellal, Mohamed Vall Ould
Bellamy, Carol
Bellamy, William
Bello, Islam Salih
Benn, Hilary
Bercow, John
Berthiaume, Christiane
Bettochi, Guillermo
Biden, Joseph
Bilal, Khalid
Bin-Laden, Osama
Biya, Paul
Bjorknes, Oddvar
Blair, Tony
Bolad, Daud
Boniver, Margherita
Bordin, Lino
Boucher, Richard
Bot, Bernard
Brownback, Sam
Burns, William
Bush, George W.
Bushra, Osman
Byrs, Elizabeth
Calmy-Rey, Micheline
Came, Barry
Cammaert, Patrick
Carroll, Aileen
Casaer, Peter
Cassese, Antonio
French Foreign Minister

Sudanese President
Spokeswoman for Disasters Emergency Committee
UN Human Rights Rapporteur
GoS Parliamentary Speaker
CARE USA representative
Mauritanian Foreign Minister
Director of UNICEF
US ambassador to Kenya
Al-Jazeera Sudan correspondent.
UK International Development Secretary
UK MP
WFP spokesperson
UN Deputy Representative on Protection
US Senator (D DE)
Sudanese MP from Azoum Daresah, West Darfur
Al Qaeda leader
Cameroon President
Norwegian Peoples Aid, Director for Sudan
UK Prime Minister
Member of Fur tribe and SPLA
Italian Deputy Foreign Minister
UNHCR Deputy Representative in Chad
US State Department Spokesman
Dutch Foreign Minister
US Senator (R - KS)
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
President of the US
SLM/A member
Spokeswoman for UNOCHA
Swiss Foreign Minister
WFP spokesperson
UN Military Advisor
Canadian Minister for International Cooperation
MSF representative
Italian jurist, former President of UN Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, member
of UN Commission of Inquiry for Darfur
Caux, Helene
Chaib, Abubakar Mohammed
Chauzy, Jean-Philippe
Cheadle, Don
UNHCR spokeswoman
Chadian Red Cross representative
IOM spokesman
US actor and activist
Angelo Bedo
Christine Berthiaume
Osama bin Laden
Ben Bot
Antonio Casesse
Antonio Cassesse
iv

Chege, Geoffrey
Chirac, Jacque
Clark, Jennifer
Claycombe, Paula
Cook, Denise
Cordes, Paul
Corentin, Ki Doulaye
Corzine, Jon
Cue, Eduardo
Cunningham, James
Dahab, Mouckhtar Wawa
Dahabune, Moctar wawa
Dalila, Hamed Ahmed
Dallaire, Romeo
Dawai, Hamid
Danforth, John
Daquash, Gadeen Godallah
Daschle, Tom
Dawson, Hilton
Day, Stockwell
Dekheir Ahmad
de Villepin, Dominique
Deby, Idriss
Degerfelt, Kent
Deng, Francis
Denisov, Andrei
Dercot, Jean-Pierre
De Poortere, Evelyn
De Mul, Erick
DeWine, Mike
Al-Dhaw, Mussa Hamid
Djinnit, Said
Diaz, Jose Luis
Dirdiery, Muhammad Ahmad
Dofa, Abduljabbara
CARE regional director for East and Central Africa

French President
UNHCR spokesperson
UNICEF spokeswoman
UN spokeswoman
German Archbishop and Vatican envoy to Darfur
Head of AU conflict management office
US Senator (R NJ)
UNHCR spokesman
Deputy US Ambassador to UN
Chadian Communications Minister
Chadian government spokesman
Sudanese MP
Former UN commander, Rwanda
U.S. Envoy to Sudan, US Ambassador to UN
GoS spokesman as of Sep 2003
US Senator (D SD)
UK MP
Canadian MP
Identified as a Janjaweed militia member
French Foreign Minister
Chadian President, member of Zaghawa ethnic group
EU representative in Sudan
UN human rights and refugee expert
Russian Ambassador to the UN
French Ambassador to Chad
Epidemiologist, author of Darfur mortality study, associated with MSF
UN Deputy Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs
US Senator (R OH)
SLM spokesperson
AU Peace and Security Commissioner
UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights spokesman
Charge daffaires then deputy ambassador, Sudanese embassy in Nairobi,
Kenya
SLM/A representative
Domee, Abdullah Hasaballah

Downer, Alexander
Drajj, Ahmed Ibrahim
Drew, David
SLM/A delegation leader at the Abeche, Chad talks (Oct, Nov 2003)
Australian Foreign Minister
President of Sudanese Federal Democratic Alliance
UK MP
Ki Doulay
Moctar Wawa Dahab
Andrey Denisov
Evelyn Depoortere
Erick Deumuhl
Jose Diaz
Muhammad Ahmad Dirdeiry
Abduljabbar Dossa
Abduljabbar Dofa
Ibrahim Dreij

Dujarric, Stephane
Eckhard, Fred
Egeland, Jan
Eiffe, Dan
Elder, James
Erwa, Elfatih Mohamed Ahmed
UN spokesman
Spokesperson for UN Secretary General Kofi Anan
UN Head of Emergency Relief Coordination/UN Under Secretary for
Humanitarian Affairs
Sudan Development Trust, representative
UNICEF news desk, Nyala
Sudan Ambassador to the UN
al-Fathih Urwah
Elfatih Mohamed Erwa
Ellerman-Kingombe, JeanCharles
Ereli, Adam
Evans, Gareth
Fadeev, Vassily
Al-Fadni, Abdel Rahman
Fakhouri, Jean Marie
Faraj, Khalid
Fatah, Maged Abdul
EU spokesman
Fayek, Mohammed
Egyptian; Secretary-General for Arab Organization for Human Rights of UN

Commission of Inquiry for Darfur
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
GoS State Foreign Minister
US State Department Deputy Spokesperson

President of ICG, former Australian Foreign Minister
ICRC representative
GoS Parliamentary Peace Committee head
UNHCR Sudan Operations Director
Emergencies Director, Sudan Humanitarian Aid Commission
Egyptian Presidential Spokesman
Maged Abdel Fattah

Maged Abul Fatah
Fedotov, Yury
Fidahil, Al-Tigani Salih
Tidjani al-Fidhail
Tigani Salih Fidhail
Tigani Saleh Fadel
El Tijani Fidail
Fintor, Lou
Feith, Pieter
Fischer, Joschka
Fowler, Jerry
Francoys, Michel
Frease, Stefanie
Freih, Loubna
Freivalds, Laila
Frist, Bill
Gagnon, Georgette
Gai, Riek
Gallach, Cristina
US State Department spokesman

Personal Representative of Janvier Solana to Darfur
German Foreign Minister
Staff Director, Committee on Conscience, US Holocaust Museum
MSF head of mission in Chad
Program Director, Coalition for International Justice
Human Rights Watch, Spokeswoman
Swedish Foreign Minister
US Senator (R TN)
Deputy Director, HRW
Southern States Coordination Council Chair
Spokeswoman for Javier Solana
vi
Riek Gay

Gallucci, Gerard M.
Garang, George
Garang, John
Gassis, Macram Max

Garvelink, William J.
Gezairy, Hussein
Al-Ghali, Salah Ali
Al-Ghali , Al-Ghali Ali
Al-Ghali, Omar Ali
Gheit, Ahmed Abul
Glover, Danny
Gluck, Kenny
Gnodtke, Hans Gunter
Goderiaux, Benedicte
Goff, Phil
Gosh, Salah Abdallah
Graham, Bill
Grennell, Richard
Guerrant, Bradley
Haaglund, Gustuv
Hagan, John
Charge daffaires at the U.S. Embassy, Sudan

SPLM/A spokesman
Southern rebel/SPLA leader; late vice president of Sudan; died July 2005 in
helicopter crash
Former Peruvian Justice Minister and member of the UN Commission of
Inquiry for Darfur
Catholic Bishop
Deputy Assistant Administrator of USAID
World Health Organization Regional Director
Darfur Governor
Habbaniyah tribe leader, head of the legal department in South Darfur
Habbaniyah tribe leader, deputy chief
Egyptian Foreign Minister, from 2004
US actor and activist
Head of MSF International
German Ambassador
Amnesty International official
New Zealand Foreign Minister
GoS Head of Intelligence
Canadian Foreign Minister
Spokesman for US Ambassador to the UN (Danforth and Negroponte)
WFP deputy country director for Sudan
EUs top military official
Professor of Sociology and Law, Northwestern University.
Hagel, Chuck
US Senator (D NE)
Haggar, Ishmael
Sudanese school teacher.
Hall, Tony
US Representative to FAO
Hamdan, Mohamed
Hamid, Abu Bakr
Arab miltiaman
Popular Congress Party politician with alleged ties to Darfur rebel movement
Hamid, Ibrahim Mahmoud
GoS Humanitarian Affairs Minister
Garcia-Sayan, Diego
Aboul Gheit
Ibrahim Mahmud Hamid

Ibrahim Hamid Mahmoud
Ibrahim Hamed
Hamid, Khalid Abbas

Hamid, Mohammed Saleh
Hamid, Siraj al-Din
al-Hardallu, Abdallah
Sudanese consul-general, Sudan mission to Chad

Leader of JEM
Sudanese ambassador to Uganda
Deputy Speaker of the Sudanese Parliament
vii

Hassaballah, Abdallah
Haq, Farhan
Hariri, Sherif
Harnisch, Christoph
Haroun, Ahmed
Haroun, Ahmed Mohamed
SLM/A official
UN Spokesman
Sudanese Federal Alliance Vice President
Red Cross Africa chief
MP from Darfur
Minister of State, Interior Minister
Sharif Harir
Ahmed Mohammed Haroun

Ahmed Mohamed Haroon
Ahmed Mohammed Harun
Haroun, Mariam Azraq

Haroun, Omar
Heffernan, John
Helgesen, Vidar
Hettiaratchy, Nimal
al-Hidhari, Omar
Hier, Marvin
Hill, Robert
Hilal, Musa
Hodgkin, Elizabeth
Hoedt, Vince
Hoeffel, Joe
Holbrooke, Richard
Holdsworth, Peter
Holliday, Stuart
Hosni, Samir Hassan
Howard, John
al-Hueres, Jamal
Hunt, Paul
Hussain, Mahgoub
Hussain, Mahmud
Hussein, Abdel Rahim Mohamed
Darfur tribal singer, indicted for inciting ethnic violence

Governor of West Darfur, fired by President Bashir May 2003
Senior investigator for Physicians for Human Rights
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister
Acting UN coordinator
Police Commander, North Darfur
Rabbi, the Simon Wiesenthal Center
Australian Defense Minister
Sheik, identified as a Janjaweed militia leader by US Ambassador Pierre
Prosper
Amnesty International representative
MSF program coordinator, South Darfur
US Congressman (D PA)
Former US Ambassador to the UN
EC Humanitarian Aid Office representative
US Ambassador for Political Affairs, UN Mission
Arab League official in charge of Sudan affairs
Australian Prime Minister
Police Chief of North Darfur, Brigadier General
UN human rights expert
SLM/A spokesman
SLM/A spokesman
Sudanese Interior Minister, Military General, Presidents Special
Representative in Darfur
Stewart Holliday
Samir Hosni
Mahjoub Hussein
Abdel Rahim Hussein
Abd al-Rahim Muhammad Husayn
Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein
Abdel-Rahim Hussein
Hussein, Abdel Wahab Hassan

al-Hussein Sayyed
al-Husseini, Sidahmed
National Congress spokesman

Major General, Sudanese Army
GoS police spokesman
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Ibok, Sam
Ibrahim, Al-Noor Muhammad
Ibrahim, Abdel Rahman Yagoub
Ibrahim, Bahar
Ibrahim, Hasan
Ibrahim, Jibril Mohammed
Ibrahim, Mohammed Khalil
African Union, Peace and Security Director

Minister of Social Affairs for North Darfur
South Darfur Judiciary Chairman
SLM/A spokesman
Brother of Mohammed Khalil Ibrahim.
Sudanese Movement for Justice and Equality (JEM) leader
Ibrahim, Ibrahim Mohammed

Ismail, Ibrahim Bushra
Ismail, Mohammed
Ismail, Mustafa Osman
GoS delegation spokesman at Abuja peace talks

Sudanese Air Force Chief, Major General
General, Deputy Chief of Staff Sudanese Army
GoS Foreign Minister
Bahr Ibrahim
Hassan Ibrahim
Khalil Ibrahim; Khaliel Abraheem
Khalil Mohammed Ibrahim
Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim
Ibrahim Bushra
Mustafa Uthman Ismail
Mostafa Osman Ismail
Mustapha Osman Ismail
Ivanov, Igor
Jabir, Abubakr Younis
Jackson, Jesse
Jackson Jr., Jesse
Jackson, Mike
Jahangir, Asma
Jammeh, Yahya
Jamous, Suleiman
Janowski, Kris
Jebreel, Ahmed Keir
Jeru , Mussa Hassan
Jilani, Hina
Jimenez, Marco
John Paul II
Jorru, Hassan Khames
Kabeir, Abdelbagi
Kaelin, Walter
Kaiff, Kate
Kalomoh, Tullameni
Kamasha, Ahmed Abu
Kapila, Mukesh
Karegeya, Patrick
Karim. Abdullah Abdul
Russian Foreign Minister

Libyas envoy in Sudan
US clergyman and civil rights leader
US Congressman (D IL), son of Rev. Jesse Jackson
UK Chief of General Staff
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions
President of Gambia
UNHCR spokesperson
German-based vice chairman of the JEM
UN special representative of Secretary General on human rights defenders ,
member of the UN Commission of Inquiry on Darfur
ICRC spokesman
Pope
Self-described JEM political coordinator
Sudan Embassy to US, Spokesman
UN Secretary-Generals Representative for IDPs
Sudan country director, Save the Children
UN Assistant Secretary-General
Identified as a Janjaweed militia member
UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan
Colonel, Rwanda Army spokesman
Senior Interior Ministry official; Intelligence Chief; holds rank of Major
General
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Hina Gilani
Abdel Karim Abdallah
Katumba , Albert
Kawaguchi, Yoriko
Kellenberger, Jakob
Kerim, Abdallah Abdel
UNHCR spokesperson
Japanese Foreign Minister
ICRC head
Colonel; JEM military spokesperson
Kerry, John
al-Khalifa, Majzoub Ahmad
US Senator (D MA), Democratic Presidential nominee, 2004

GoS Agriculture Minister
Abdallah Abdel Karim

Abdallah Abdel-Kerim
Majzub al-Khalifa
Mazoub al-Khalifa
Majzoub al-Khalifa
Khalifa, Mohammed Al-Amin

Kalil, Abdel Rahim
Khamis, Hassan
Khan, Irene
Khan, Masoon
Khair, Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed
Popular Congress Party official

Sudanese Ambassador to Nigeria
RDM (Reform and Development Movement) Coordinator-General
Amnesty International, Secretary-General
Pakistan Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Sudan Presidential Affairs Minister, Presidential Security Adviser, Major
General
Rahim Khalil
El-Tayeb Ibrahim Mohammed

Al-Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair
Khair, Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed
Khatami, Mohammed
Khatib, Said
Khattib, Abdel Dafe
al-Khatim, Salah Eddin Sir
al-Khatim, Sayyed
al-Khala, Khatir Toar
Khokar, Riaz
Kibir, Osman Mohamed Yusuf
Iranian President
Spokesperson for Sudanese government
Sudanese Deputy Information Minister
Sudanese magistrate and government advisor on IDPs
GoS spokesman for North-South peace talks
Prominent rebel leader
Pakistan Foreign Secretary
Governor of North Darfur, appointed by President Bashir May 2003
Riaz Khokhar
Mohammed Osman
Othman Mohammed Youssef
Kibir
Kubur
Osman Mohamed Yousuf
Osman Yousuf Kibir
Osman Mohammed Youssef

Osman Yusuf Kibir
Osman Youssef Kebir
Osman Youssef Kibir
Mohammed Osman Kibir
Osman Mohmed Yousuf Kubur
Othman Mohammed Youssef
Kibaki, Mwai
Kilgour, David
Kingibe, Baba Gana
Kitt, Tom
Koene, Ton
Koehler, Horst
Kolbe, Jim
Kong, Quan
Konare, Alpha Oumar
Korah, Abdullah
Kristof, Nicholas
Kufuor, John
Kwaje, Samson
Ladsous, Herve
Lavrov, Sergei
Leahy, Patrick
Le Bouffy, Philippe Guyon
Lee, Barbara
Lee, Jong-wook
Lefevre, Gauthier
Li Zhaoxing
Libis, Yahia
Lindner, Walter
Lubbers, Ruud
Lugar, Richard
Lu-Lu, Ahmed Abdel Rahmen
Abu
Machar, Moses
MacLaren, Duncan
Madibbu, Adam Mussa
Kenyan President
Canadian MP
Nigerian Diplomat and AU special Envoy on Darfur
Irish development minister
Emergency Manger, MSF-Holland
German President
US Congressman (R AZ)
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Head of AU Secretariat as of Dec 2003; former President of Mali
Rebel appointee.
New York Times columnist
Ghanaian President
Official spokesman, SPLM
French Foreign Ministry spokesman
Russian Foreign Minister
US Senator (D VT)
WFP representative
US Congresswoman (D CA)
Director-General of the World Health Organization
ICRC/Red Crescent Federation spokesman
Chinese Foreign Minister
SLM/A commander
Spokesman for German Foreign Minister, Joschka Fischer
UN High Commissioner for Refugees
US Senator (R IN)
MP from Kas
Sudanese Vice President
Caritas Secretary-General
Umma Party politburo member
Jim Colby
Kong Quan
Alpha Omar Konare
Lee Jong-wook
Adam Mussa Madibbu
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Madibu, Saeed Sinein

Mahamat, Moussa Facki
GoS official (in Darfur)

Chadian Prime Minister
Mussa Faki
el-Mahdi, Gutbi
Advisor to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
Moussa Faki
Gutbi al-Mahdi
al-Mahdi, Mubarak al-Fadil

al-Mahdi, Sadiq
Maher, Ahmed
Mahamat, Moussa Facki
Sudanese Presidential Assistant

Sudanese opposition leader; former Prime Minister, overthrown by NIF
Egyptian Foreign Minister (2001 - 2004)
Chadian Prime Minister
Gotbi el-Mahadi
Sadek al-Mahdi
Mussa Faki
Moussa Faki
Mahmoud, Salih
Malanda, Alphonse
Malik, al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Sudan Organization Against Torture representative

Head of UNHCR in Chad
GoS Information Minister
Al-Zahawe Ibrahim Malik

Al Zhawi Ibrahim malik
Malek, al-Zahawi Ibrahim
Mandela, Hassan
Manis, Omar Bashir
el-Mannan, Atta
Mantica, Alfredo
Maraut, Issa
Martinez, Juan
Matha, Jaotoday Jean de
Martin, Paul
al-Mattan, Al-Haj Atta
Mayoral, Cesar
Mbeki, Thabo
McCain, John
McClellan, Scott
McCollum, Betty
McDermott, Jim
McDonough, Alexa
McKinley, Brunson
McKinsey, Kitty
McNamara, Dennis
Mendez, Juan
Mersal, Mohammed
SLM/A spokesperson
Sudans deputy UN Ambassador
Governor of South Darfur, appointed June 2004.
Italian foreign ministry official; EU delegation leader (Dec 2003)
France Charge dAffairs, Khartoum
ICRC spokesman
Colonel, AU Conflict Management Center Official
Canadian Prime Minister
National Congress Party member
Argentine ambassador to UN Security Council president (January 2005)
South African President
US Senator (R AZ)
White House spokesman
US Congresswoman (D MN)
US Congressman (D WA)
Canadian MP
Director of IOM
UNHCR spokeswoman
UN Special Advisor on displacement
UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide
Director of SLM/A Secretariat Office
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Mohamed Mersal
Michel, Louis
Mikouy, George
EU Aid Commissioner
Deputy Chairman of AU dispute-resolution mechanism
Millington, Jeffrey
Minawi, Mani Arkoi
The first US resident diplomat in Khartoum since 1996, posted in 2002

Secretary-General of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A)
Mini Arkoi Minawi

Minni Arkou Minnawi
Arkoi Minawi
Mani Arkoi
Mani Arkoi Minaoui
Minni Arkou Minnawi
Minni Minnawi
Minni Arkou Minawi
Osman al-Mirghani
al-Mirghani, Mohammed Osman
Opposition leader and NDA Chairman
Mkapa, Benjamin
Moeller, Per Stig
Mohamed, Mohamed Berekah
Mohamed, Ibrahim
Mohammed, Abdul
Mohammed, Fadl Ibrahim
Mohamadain, Abdel Rahman Ali
Moore, Joanne
Mootoo, Gaetan
Moratinos, Miguel Angel
Morris, James
Motoc, Mihnea Ioan
Moussa, Abdramane
Moussa, Mohammed Youssef
Mozersky, David
Mubarak, Hosni
Mueller, Kerstin
Muligande, Charles
Mullin, Chris
Musa, Abdelhafiz Mustapha
Tanzanian President
Danish Foreign Minister
MP, North Darfur
GoS spokesman to Darfur peace talks
UN delegate to Abuja
One of first Darfur refugees to win asylum in US
Sultan/native administrator of the Ambro district
US Department of State spokeswoman
Spanish Foreign Minister
WFP executive director
Romanian Ambassador to the UN
Chadian Communications Minister
GoS State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs
Analyst with ICG
Egyptian President
German Deputy Foreign Minister
Rwanda Foreign Minister
UK Foreign Office Minister
SLM/A delegate
Mohamed Osman al-Mirghani
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Abdelhafiz Mustafa Musa
Muselier, Renaud
Museveni, Yoweri
Musharraf, Pervez
Mussa, Adam Hamid
French Deputy Foreign Minister

Ugandan President
Pakistani President
South Darfur Governor; Lt. General; also identified as Darfur Security chief;
fired in June 2004
Mussa, Abderahmane
Mussa, Amr
Mutuli, Millicent
Munoz, Heraldo
Nabarro, David
el-Nabi, Mohammed Barbary
Ahab
Nadingar, Emmanuel
Nafie, Nafie Ali
Nahar, Ahmed Babikir
al-Naja, Faruq Abu
Natsios, Andrew
Ndiaye, Bacre
Neel, Yahia Hasan
Chadian minister of public security and immigration

Secretary-General of the Arab League
UNHCR spokeswoman
Chilean Ambassador to the UN
WHO expert
Awald Zeid tribal leader and first purported Janajweed leader to be arrested by
GoS
Chadian Acting Defense Minister
National Congress Party Deputy Secretary-General
GoS Education Minister
Popular Congress member
Administrator for USAID
UNHCHR mission leader
Member of the SLM/A Revolution Command Council and participant in
ceasefire negotiations in Abeche, Chad, Sep 2003
Former GoS Justice Minister, Justice Party founding member
Spokesman for South Africa
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
EU development commissioner
Congo president
Former President of Sudan
Tine Commissioner
GoS presidential spokesman
Alleged leader of SLM/A Darfur rebel group
Adam Mussa
Adam Hamed Moussa
Neo, Amin Benai

Netshintenzhe, Joel
Newman, Constance
Nielson, Poul
Ngueesso, Denis Sassou
Nimeiri, Jafar
Nimir, Ahmed Musa
al-Nour, Abbas Ibrahim
al-Nur, Abdel Wahed Mohammed
Ahmed
Connie Newman
Abdel Wahed Mohammad Ahmad

Nour
Abdel Wahed Mohammed Nur
Wahed Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur
Abdel-Whaid Mohamed Ahmed elNur;
Abdelwahid Muhamed el Nur
Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nour
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Abdel Wahid Mohammed al-Nur
Abubeker Hamid Nour
al-Nur, Abu Bakr Hamid
Sudanese government representative
Nursey, Caroline
Nyamvumba, Patrick
Nyan, Tacudi Bashi
al-Obaid, Kamal
Obasanjo, Olusegun
Oberreit, Jerome
Ocampo, Luis-Moreno
Okabe, Marie
Okonkwo, Festus
Omar, Ibrahim Ahmed
Onwuamaegbu, Emka
Orjako, Desmond
Osman, Said al-Hussein
Oyo, Remi
Pagonis, Jennifer
Palme, Christian
Parker, Ben
Parker, Patricia
Patey, William
Payne, Donald
Pelosi, Nancy
Persson, Goeran
Personnaz, Damien
Pettigrew, Pierre
Peyrassol, Sonja
Philippe, Charles
Pleuger, Gunter
Porter, Toby
Powell, Colin
Prendergast, Kieran
Pronk, Jan
Oxfam Spokeswoman
Rwanda Nasho Training Center, Major General
JEM official
Foreign Relations Department head of National Congress Party
President of Nigeria and Chairman of the AU
MSF representative
ICC Prosecutor
UN spokeswoman
Nigerian General and Chair of the Ceasefire Commission
Secretary General of the National Congress Party
Colonel, Nigerian Army spokesman
AU spokesman
Police, Lt. General
Nigerian Presidential spokeswoman
UNHCR spokeswoman
Spokesman for the ICC
Spokesman for UN Humanitarian coordinator in Sudan
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
UK Ambassador to Sudan
US Congressman (D NJ) and president of the Congressional Black Caucus
US Congresswoman (D CA) Minority Leader
Swedish Prime Minister
UNICEF spokesman
Canadian Foreign Minister
MSF senior aid worker
Colonel, head of French forces in Chad
German ambassador to UN
Director of Emergencies at Save the Children
US Secretary of State
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
Dutch environment and development expert appointed by Kofi Annan as the top
UN envoy in Sudan
US Ambassador-at-large for war crimes
Paramount leader of Libya
Abubker Hamid Nour
Prosper, Pierre
Qadaffi, Muamar
Olesegun Obasanjo
Luis Moreno Ocampo
Ibrahim Omar
Muamar Qadaffi
Muamar Khadafi
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Muamar Gadhafi
al-Qaradawi, Yusuf
Quadranti, Beatrice
Qassim, Abul
Rafirasme, Ramin
Rahmah, Beshir Adam
Rahman, Hassabu Mohamed
Abdel
Rajasingham, Ramesh
Ramcharan, Betrand
Rangel, Charles
Ranneberger, Michael
Redmond, Ron
Reeves, Eric
Reneaux, Dominique
Rhaman, Saad Abdul
Rice, Condoleezza
Rizzigallah, Ahmed Sabah
Rome, Jemera
Roth, Ken
Royce, Ed
Rupp, George
Rush, Bobby
Sabliere, Jean-Marc de la
al-Said, Osman
al-Sadek, Kamal
el-Sadig, Abdulla
al-Safi, Ali
Sahnoun, Mohamed
Sakhairoun, Abakora Aboo
Salaheddine, Ghazi
Saleh, Bakri Hassan
Saleh, Haroun
Saleh, Ina
Saleh, Nihaidh
Saleh, Sulaf el-Din
Muslim scholar and television personality

Spokesperson for International Federation of Human Rights
Alleged Darfur rebel
World Food Program spokesperson
Popular Congress Party, Political Affairs Secretary
Humanitarian Aid Commission Commissioner
Head of OCHA Sudan
UN acting High Commissioner for Human Rights
US Congressman (D NY)
Ambassador; US State Department expert on Sudan and Special Advisor for
Sudan
UNCHR spokesman
Professor, Smith College
French ambassador to Sudan
Fur Chief
US National Security Advisor; later, US Secretary of State
Deputy director of Kuwaiti relief organization
Human Rights Watch researcher
Human Rights Watch director
US Congressman (R CA)
IRC head
US Congressman (D IL)
French Ambassador to the UN
Sudanese Ambassador to the AU
Managing editor of Al Ayam (independent) newspaper
GoS Information Advisor, Sudanese embassy in London
Member of Central Committee of Beja Congress
UN Secretary-Generals Special Envoy to Africa
Janjaweed fighter
Sudanese presidential peace advisor as of Oct 2003
GoS Defense Minister; Lt. General
Governor of Ouaddai prefecture, Chad
Arab militiaman
Zalinje district commissioner
Humanitarian Aid Commission
Osman Elsayed Fad Elsayed
Mohammed Sahnoun
Bakri Hassan Salih
Sualif el-Deen Salih

Sulaf Eddin Salih
Sulaf al-Din Salih
Salih, Faysal Ali Abu
Sudanese Minister for the Interior
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Salih, Mohamed
Sarungi, Philemon
Sawa, Barout Margui
Al-Sawy, Abdel Wahab
al-Sayyed, Izz al-Dinn
Scheffer, David
Scheffer, Jaap de Hoop
Schneider, Christian
Saeed, Abdul Waheed
Saef, Omada
Scheuren, Fritz
Seraj, Tigani
Serra, Nuria
al-Shafi, Ahmad Abd
Shalgham, Abdelrahman
Shareerf, Abdulkader
el-Sherif, Badour
Shineibat, Abdullah abu
Shogan, Adam Ali
Silva, Manuel Aranda Da
Silva, Ramiro Lopes Da
Siv, Sichan
Skelton, Shaun
Smerdon, Peter
Somerwill, George
Snyder, Charles
Solana, Javier
Splinter, Peter
Stewart, Gemma
Stevenson, Annick
Stillhart, Dominik
Straw, Jack
Striggner-Scott, Therese
Struck, Peter
Sturm, Yvan
Suarez del Toro, Juan Manuel
Sugar, Ali
Suleiman, Ghazi
Suleiman, Ibrahim
Editor-in-Chief of Al Ayam (independent) newspaper

Tanzanian Defense Minister
Local official at refugee camp in Tine, Chad
GoS Director of AU department in the Foreign Ministry
Sudanese development official
Former US ambassador-at-large for war crimes
NATO Secretary-General
UNICEF, German branch official
Arab militiaman
President of American Statistical Association
MP
MSF coordinator
SLM/A spokesman
Libyan Foreign Minister
Tanzanian Foreign Minister
Head of GoS delegation, Ndjamena peace talks April 2004
UN Secretary-Generals Envoy
WFP country director, Sudan
US Ambassador to ECOSOC
Oxfam country director
WFP Information Officer
UN Spokesman in Khartoum, Sudan
Acting assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
EU foreign policy chief
Oxam Canada communications officer in Sudan
UN spokeswoman in Geneva
ICRC Sudan Chief
British Foreign Secretary
Chairwoman of Ghana Law Reform Commission; Member of the UN
Commission on Inquiry for Darfur
German Defense Minister
UNHCR spokesperson, UNHCR regional operations manager
Head of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
An SLM/A leader
Head of Sudan Human Rights Group
Lt. General and Chairman of the Committee for Maintaining Security in Darfur;
Governor of North Darfur and the Security Mechanism Chairman (fired by
President Bashir May 2003 when Security Mechanism also dissolved)
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Ahmed Abd al-Shafi
Adam Ali Shogar
Suleiman, Mohamed Beshir

Suleiman, Omar
Sumbeiywo, Lazaro
Swart, Gemma
al-Sweilem, Abdul Rahman
Taha, Abdel Moniem
Taha, Ali Osman Mohammed
GoS Army spokesman

SLM/A spokesman as of July, Sept 2003
Chief mediator, North-South peace talks
Oxfam representative
Head of Saudi Red Crescent Society
Director of human rights at Sudanese Justice Ministry
First Vice President of Sudan
El-Tahir, Ahmed Ibraim

al-Tahir, Gamar Hassan
Takirambudde, Peter
Talha, Talha Hassan
Tancredo, Tom
Tardio, Altafaj
Tekenah, Yousuf Suleiman
Thaim, Adam
Thomson, Robbie
Triki, Ali
Toggo, Ahmat
Tonge, Jenny
Tugod, Ahmed Mohammed
Speaker of Sudan Parliament

Parliamentary deputy from Darfur.
HRW Africa Division director
Chief Judge, Supreme Court, North Darfur
US Congressman (R - CO), backer of Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act
EU spokesman
GoS International Cooperation Minister
AU Spokesman
International Federation of Red Cross and Crescent Organizations
Libyan envoy
JEM spokesman
UK MP
JEM top negotiator
Ali Osman Taha

Ali Uthman
Ahmed al-Taher
Yusuf Suleiman Takanah

Adam Thiam
Ahmed Tagod Lissan

Mohammed Ahmed Tugod
Ahmed Tugod
Ahmed Tugod Lissan
Mohammed Tugod
al-Turabi, Hasan
van Ardenne, Agnes
Umer, Shaukat
van Boven, Theo
van der Borght, Erwin
Vjorkness, Oedvar
Volkmar, Erik
Vraalsen, Tom Eric
Wabara, Adolphus
Wane, El Ghassini
Wang, Guangya
Sudanese opposition leader; the former ally then rival of Sudanese President
Omar al-Bashir
Dutch International Development Cooperation Minister
UN Ambassador from Pakistan
UN human rights expert
Deputy Director of Amnesty International Africa Program
Country director of Norwegian Peoples Aid.
Medair director
UN Secretary Generals Special envoy for Sudan
Nigerian Senate President
AU Conflict Management Center, Deputy Director
Chinese Ambassador to UN
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El Ghassim Wane
Wang Guangya

Watson, Diane
Weet, Keer Bol
Weschler, Joanna
Wieczorek-Zeul, Heidemarie
Weisel, Elie
Wibisono, Makarim
Williamson, Richard
Winter, Roger
Wolf, Frank
Woods, Brian
Yagou, Ahmed Abdel-Shafi
Yahia, Beshir Ibrahim
Yahya, Abdulaziz
Yahyah, Bashir Ibrahim
Yamassoum, Nagoum
Yassin, Ali Mohamed Osman
US Congresswoman (D CA)
Community development officer with NGO Pact Kenya
Human Rights Watch
German Overseas Development Minister
Nobel-prize winning author and activist, holocaust survivor
Indonesian Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission
UN Ambassador from US
USAID Assistant Administrator, part of US delegation in Naivasha peace
process
Representative (R - VA), US Congress
Arms researcher for Amnesty International
SLM/A spokesperson
MP
SLM/A political director
MP
Chadian foreign minister
GoS Justice Minister
Ahmed Abd al-Shafi

Beshir Ibrahim Yahia
Mohammed Osman Yassin

Ali Osman Mohammed Yasin
Ali Yassin
Yassin, Haj Aseel

Yount, Ellen
Youssef, Adel
Yusuf, Dafaallah al-Haj
Darfur mayor
USAID spokesperson
Militia official
Former GoS Chief Justice
Zaki, Hossam
Zahner, Luke
Zebari, Hoshiyar
Zenelabdin, Essamt Abdel
Rahman
Zhang, Yishan
al-Zubeir Ahmed Hassan
Arab League spokesman

USAID spokesman
Iraqi Foreign Minister
Sudanese General, commander of the western region
Dafallah Hajj Yusuf

Dafalla al-Hajj Yusuf
Chinas deputy UN envoy

GoS Finance Minister
Zhang Yishan
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DARFUR CHRONOLOGY: Glossary Places
Glossary Places
NOTE: Most of the places below which are in Darfur were sites of reported attacks
Place name
Description
Alternative spelling(s), confirmed or

possible
Abakar Hamad
Abdel Shakur
Abdul Bagir
Abeche
Abga Rajil
Village in West Darfur

North Darfur
North Darfur
Chad
Village in South Darfur
Abhournon
Abquarajel
Abu Adjura
Abu Ajouma
Abu Dileig
Abu Djara
Abu Gamrah
Abuhambrah
Abu Jazy
Abu Jidad
South Darfur
South Darfur
Village in Abu Gamra area of West Darfur, 60 km south of Karnoi; also,
HRW-reported Janjaweed base in Darfur (August 2004)
North Darfur, 100 km west of Kutum
South Darfur, 40 km east of Al-Mallam
Nigerian capital, site of multiple Darfur peace talks
South Darfur
South Darfur, 95 km north of Nyala in the Adwa area
North Darfur
South Darfur, southwest of Nyala

Village in South Darfur, southwest of Nyala
North Darfur, near al-Fashir
Abu Delieg
Village in North Darfur, also rebel camp
Abugamrah
Abu Ghamri
Abu Leiha
Abu Hambra
Abuja
Abu Noura
Abu Oudam
Abu Ramlah
Abu Sarouj
Abu Shouk IDP camp
Abou Shouk
Abu Shawk
Abu Surug
Abu Zereiga
Abyei
Adar
Addis Ababa
North Darfur, 30 km south of al-Fashir

West Kordofan
Area in North Darfur
Ethiopian capital; headquarters of African Union
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Ade
Adeelah
Adjidji
Adre
Adwa
South Darfur district

West Darfur, south of El Geneina
Chad, border town
South Darfur, 95 km north of Nyala
Agam
Ain Saro
Chadian border town, 180 km from Abeche

North Darfur
Aish Barra
West Darfur, west of El Geneina, near the Chad border
Allaiat
Almadou
Amakasarah
Ambara
Amberu
Ambro
Ambru
Amdur
Amsila
Am-Djerima
Andru
Angar
Anka
Arajab Issa
Arara
Ardamata
Ardjan
Arey
Arwalla
As Sheref
Ashmara
Asmara
Assalaya
Awin Rado
Aysh Barrah
Azoum Daresah
Village in Darfur
South Darfur
Darfur, a main town
North Darfur
Daresah
Baba
Deisah
Babbaa
Adwah
Adoua
Agan
Aysh Barrah
South Darfur, 16 km northeast of Nyala

Chad, border town
Darfur, in the Terbeba-Arara area
West Darfur
West Darfur
Darfur, in the Bareh area
West Darfur
South Darfur, 10 km southwest of Nyala
Region in West Darfur
Ethiopian capital
HRW-reported Janjaweed base in Darfur (August 2004)
South Darfur
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Bahai
Bahr el-Ghazal
Chad
North and West Bahr el-Ghazal are two of the 26 states of the Republic of
Sudan, bordering South Darfur
Banduga
Baraka
Bareh
Bargo
Barh Mahamad Adam
Bashom
Bashom IDP camp
Bassaw
Bayda
North Darfur, near Korma

60 km southeast of Nyala
Area of Darfur
South Darfur
Village in North Darfur
West Darfur, in the Terbeba-Arara area
Bahr Al Ghazal
Bahr al-Ghazal
Baidha
Bauda
Beida
Betenan
Be-Ter
Biatra
Bilel
Billel-Gas
Birak
Birak Refugee Camp
Birdgig
Biri
Biritabla
Birka
Birkat Saira
Bir Seiba
El Bisharia

South Darfur
El Bisharia IDP camp
North Darfur, 2.5 km south of al-Fashir
Bishau
North Darfur
Blue Nile
One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan, south of Khartoum; capital is El

Damazin
North Darfur, 71 km west of al-Fashir
North Darfur
Chad
Bobay Segili
Borno
Breidjing Refugee Camp
Bulbul
Chad, border town

Chad
West Darfur
Near al-Fashir
South Darfur, 100 km south of Nyala
North Darfur, between al-Fashir and Korma
North Darfur, west of Kabkabiya
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Birka Seyra
Buram
Burk
Burush
Central African Republic
Chad
Cheeria
Cornei
Dagali
Dar Masalit
Dayein
Debbah Taira
Debebat
Deleig
Deliej
Dingo
Djedja
Djerbira
Dogo
Dolad
Doukhoune
Doung-Diresa
Djabarmon mountains
Dreige IDP Camp
Duma
Duma IDP Camp
Dureysa
Ed Diein

Near Chad
North Darfur, 200 km east of al-Fashir
Country that borders Sudan to the southwest; capital is Bangui
Country that borders Sudan to the west; the capital is Ndjamena
Between al-Fashir and Nyala
Region in North Darfur, 130 km north of al-Fashir
South Darfur, in the Taasha area
West Darfur, homeland of the Masalit
South Darfur
North Darfur, 15 km north of Tawila
West Darfur, in Wadi Salih province
South Darfur
South Darfur, near Buram
Eida
Effendi
Ehda
Ein Seru
Eisalaya
En Nahud
Erenga
Eritrea
Faki Abdel Karim
Farchana Refugee Camp
South Darfur
West Darfur
South Darfur
Southeast of Nyala
South Darfur
Common hiding place for Darfurians to avoid Janjaweed and GoS attacks
Darfur
South Darfur
South Darfur
South Darfur
CAR
Delieg
Donki Dereisa
Douma
Douma IDP Camp
Ed Daein
Ed Dein
North Darfur
South Darfur
North Darfur (also a city of the same name in West Kordofan)
Country that borders Sudan to the northeast; capital is Asmara
Chad, 55 km inside border
Ein Seeru
Farachana
Forchana
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Furchana
Fasha
Fasheriya
al-Fashir

North Darfur
North Darfur capital
Fasher
al-Fasher
Al Fasher
Fashir
Al-Fashir
El Fasher
El Fashir
Fato Borno IDP Camp

Fireash
Fojo
Forawiyah
Forbranga
Forgo
Fugiley
Gabish
Garsila
El Geer IDP Camp
North Darfur
Geldy
Gemeiza
Gendoul
El Geneina
Village in South Darfur, south of Nyala

South Darfur, north of Nyala.
South Darfur
West Darfur capital
Forawya
West Darfur
South Darfur, 6 km east of Feina
Darfur
Garsilla
Al Geer
Al Geir
Genaina
Geneina
El-Geneina
Al Jeneina
Jenina
Al Junaynah
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Gereida
Gereida IDP camp
Village in South Darfur, 100 km south of Nyala, 60 km northeast of Buram

South Darfur, 100 km south of Nyala, 60 km northeast of Buram
Gereisa
Ghanja
Ghibaish
Gildu
Girgira
Golol
Gorno
Gos Ajour
Goweighin
Goz
Goz-Beida Refugee Camp
Guerada Refugee Camp
Guiri Arad
Gulu
South Darfur, 11 km from Nyala

South Darfur
West Kordofan
South Darfur, in the Jebel Marrah area
Area in Sudan, near border with Chad
South Darfur
South Darfur
South Darfur
Chad, southeast of Abeche
Chad
South Darfur, capital of Jebel Marrah province
Gurnyu
Habeela
West Darfur
Habila Canare
Habila Karainik
Hagir Tono
Hamada
Hamat Manant
Hamedia IDP Camp
Hashaba
Hashaba IDP Camp
Haskanita
West Darfur, 25 km east of El Geneina

West Darfur
South Darfur, 30 km southeast of Nyala
South Darfur, north of Nyala
West Darfur, near Zalingie
South Darfur, near Touri
South Darfur, in the Bareh area, 2 hours east of Muhujariyaha
Hessa Hissa IDP Camp

Hijer
Hileat
Hydra
Iriba Refugee Camp
Iridimi Refugee Camp
Ishma
West Darfur
South Darfur
West Darfur
Chad
Chad
South Darfur, 7 km east of Kalma, 50 km southeast of Nyala
Greda
Greida
Gildo
Golo
Golu
Habila
Habilah
Hashkanita
Haskanit
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Isham

Itou
Jabal Moun
North of Nyala
West Darfur, north of Sirba
Jabel Moon
Jebel Moon
Jebel Moun
Janjawannah
Jarrar
Jebel Marrah
South Darfur
South Darfur
Province in South Darfur; the capital is Gulu
Jabal Marra
Jabal Marrah
Jebel Mara
Jebel Marra
Jemesa
Jemet
Jera Beth
South Darfur
North Darfur
Jibal Nun
Region in West Darfur, north of El Geneina
Jirjerah
Joghana
Jongol
Juldu Olu
Jumaina I IDP Camp
Jumaina II IDP Camp
Jumaizah
Juma Adam
Juruf
Kaare
Kabkabiya
South Darfur
South Darfur, near Duma
Jongul
South Darfur
South Darfur
Village in Darfur; rebel camp
South Darfur, north of Nyala
West Darfur
North Darfur
Kapkabia
Kebkabiya
Kafut
Kailiek
Kalakiti
Kalma IDP camp
Kaloquiting
Kampala
Darfur, between Kutum and al-Fashir

South Darfur, 64 km southwest of Kas
South Darfur
South Darfur, near Nyala
South Darfur, north of Kas
Capital of Uganda
Kailek
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Karainik
Karnoi
Kas
Kasia
Kaskildo
Kassab
Kassara Al Buram
Kassott
Kastara
Kayola
Kemezgi
Kenya
Kenyu
Kereinik
Kerim Djame
Kernawe Abelah
Kemezgi
Khartoum
Khashaba
Khazzan Jadid
Khor Abache
Khor Tawaila
Kidnair Camp
Kirikos
Kishkish
Kocholongue
Koma
Kondoli
Konkono
Konkora
Kono
Kordofan
Korma
Koroma
Kornoy
Koroma
Kossa Hill
Kouja
Koulbous
West Darfur
West Darfur
South Darfur, northwest of Nyala
Kareinik
Karnei
Kass
West Darfur
North Darfur
North Darfur, near Kutppum
West Darfur
South Darfur
Country bordering Sudan on the southeast
Darfur, near Forbranga
Sudanese capital
North Darfur, 30 km north of Kutum
South Darfur
Kerenik
Khazan Gadid
Khor Abeche
An SLM/A camp
South Darfur
Darfur, in the Silaya area
North Darfur, north of al-Fashir
Darfur, in the Misterei area
El Koma
South Darfur
Eastern Chad
North, South, and West Kordofan are three states of the Republic of Sudan;
southwest of Khartoum and east of Darfur
District in North Darfur, near al-Fashir
West Darfur
North Darfur, at the extreme west
North Darfur, 9 km north of Tawila
Chad, 20 km north of Birak
Khordofan
Kornoi
Kolbus
Kulbus
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Kouma
Kounougo
Kounougu Refugee Camp
Krenik IDP Camp
Krinding
Krinding IDP Camp
Kudnair
Kukul
Kulbus
Kumah
Kunja
Al-Kuraynik
Kutppum
Kutum
Kutum IDP Camp
Labado
Chad
Chad, 125 km from the border
Northwest of Morni
West Darfur
West Darfur
Village in South Darfur, in Jebel Marrah area
North Darfur, north of al-Fashir; marketplace
West Darfur, border town north of Sirba
North Darfur
North Darfur, 15 km north of Tawilla
West Darfur
North Darfur
District in North Darfur
North Darfur, 62 mi northwest of al-Fashir
South Darfur
Koulbouss
Al-Kureinik
Kuttum
Kuttum IDP Camp
Labdo
Lobodou
Labanti
Labarwa
Langa
Levente
Liait Jar al-Nabi
Libya
Liri
Maali
Mabouraka Arad
Machakos
Madarassa
Magornay
Mahadjiria
South Darfur
South Darfur, around Duma
North Darfur, in Um Kaddadah district
Country that borders Sudan in the northwest; capital is Tripoli
West Darfur
South Darfur
Kenya; site of peace talks between the Government of Sudan and Southern rebel
groups
West Darfur
South Darfur, between al-Fashir and Nyala
Mahadjiriya
Muhajiriyah
Muhujarija
Muhujariya
Mahamad Nar
Al-Mahia
Majreia
Mali

South Darfur
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Mallam
South Darfur, 100 km north of Nyala, 15 km north of Mershing
Almalm
Malam
Mallit
North Darfur, 25 km north of al-Fashir; strategic northwest city, the second

largest in Darfur, and an important link between Sudan and Libya
Al Mallam
Malit
Mellit
Milit
Manawashi
Manawashi IDP Camp
Mango

South Darfur
Marla
South Darfur, 50 km southeast of Nyala
Marlla
Marra Mountain
Masa
West Darfur
Masry IDP Camp
North Darfur
Massour Ismail
Masteri
Masteri IDP Camp
Matorit
Mayo IDP Camp
Medo
Mejmeri
El Meram
Meramta
Merinshik
Mersheng
Mersheng IDP Camp
Meshtel
Meshtel IDP camp
Messaoula
Millebeeda
Mistiria
Moraia Jenge
Morni

West Darfur
West Darfur
South Darfur, in Ed Diein
20 km southwest of Khartoum
North Darfur, 30 km north of Mallit
West Darfur
Village in South Darfur, 11 km south of Nyala
25 km south of El Geneina
South Darfur
South Darfur
North Darfur IDP Camp which Kofi Annan visits
North Darfur
Southwest of El Geneina
South Darfur
Mershing
Mershing IDP Camp
Mashtel
Mashtel IDP Camp
Mornay
Morne
Mornei
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Morni IDP Camp
West Darfur
Mornay IDP Camp

Morne IDP Camp
Mornei IDP Camp
Mororo
Mosabikra
Moskit IDP Camp
Mugjir
Mummu
Murnei
Musa Abderami
Musa Alil
Naga
Nairobi
Naivasha
Narjiba
Narti
Nazeef
Ndjamena
South Darfur
South Darfur
Area in West Darfur
Capital of Kenya
Kenyan town; site of peace talks between Sudanese government and southern
rebel group SPLM/A
South Darfur
Capital of Chad
Nertiti
North Bahr el-Ghazal

One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is Aweil
Mukjar
Ndjamena
NDjamena
Nertetie
North Bahr Al Ghazal
Northern Bahr Al Ghazal
North Darfur
State of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is al-Fashir
Northern Bahr el-Ghazal

Shamal Darfur
North Kordofan
One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is El Obeid
Northern Darfur
North Khordofan
Northern Khordofan
Northern Kordofan
North Shareya
Nortik
Nouri
Nuba
Nuba Mountains
South Darfur
Darfur, near Murnei
Region in Kordofan
Mountain range in Kordofan
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Nuri Last
Nyala
Nyala-Kass Road
Nyama
Nyorongta
El Obeid
Orshu
Otash IDP Camp
Ouaddai
Qardud
Qussat Ingammat
Rahad Kabolong
Razallah Jawazat
Reil
Rihete
Riyad
Roky Ru
Rwanda
Saiyah
Sala Qoya
Samfodo
West Darfur
The capital of South Darfur
South Darfur
South Darfur
The capital of North Kordofan
North Darfur
Prefecture in Chad
Janjaweed camp
South Darfur, 60 km northwest of Nyala
North Darfur, 15-20 km south of Shangil Tobai
HRW-reported Janjaweed base in Darfur (Aug 2004)
South Darfur
Scene of 1994 genocide of at least 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, mostly
by extremist Hutu militia, during a period of 100 days
North Darfur, 97 km northeast of al-Fashir
South Darfur
South Darfur, east of Nyala
Saniafandu
Sani Afendo
Sangatah
Saraf Ayat
Saraf Umra
Sarmah
Saroor
Sayalah
Selah
Senete
Shala prison
Al-Shariya
Shatatya
North Darfur
South Darfur
North Darfur
West Darfur, north of Sirba
West Darfur, very close to Chad border
North Darfur, al-Fashir
North Darfur, east of al-Fashir
Shaariyah
Shetaya
Shattay
Shawa
Shengeltobai
Area in South Darfur, 60 km north of al-Fashir

Shangaltubai
Shangel-Topayi
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Shangil Tobai
Sherif IDP Camp
Shangil Tobaya
Serief
South Darfur, near Nyala
Serif
Al Sureif
Shete Zakariya
Shiariyah

Town in South Darfur, located in northeast
North Shareya
Shareya
Sheriya
Shoba
Shushta
Sierp-den-Hussein
Silah
Silaya
Village in North Darfur, south of Kebkabiyah

West Darfur, near Kulbus
Saliea
Seleia
Silea
Sildi
Sin mountain
Sirba
Sisi IDP Camp
South Darfur
Darfur, southeast of El Geneina

West of al-Fashir
West Darfur
West Darfur, northwest of Morni
One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is Nyala
South Kordofan
Suleia
Surtunu
Taasha
Tabaja
Tabaldia
Tabaldiate
Tabet
One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is Kadugli

West Darfur
West Darfur
South Darfur
South Darfur
North Darfur, northeast of al-Fashir
Tadit
North Darfur
Sissi IDP Camp

Janub Darfur
Southern Darfur
Southern Kordofan
Tabit
Thabit
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Tagla
Taisha
Talata
Talha
Taranka
Taringa
Tarne
Tawal Balal
Tawila

South Darfur, 50 km northeast of Nyala; HRW-reported Janjaweed base (Aug
2004)
South Darfur
South Darfur
North Darfur, 60 km from of al-Fashir
Taweelah
Tawelah
Tawilah
Tawilla
Touweila
Tebeldina
Tegil
Terbeba
Terbeba-Arara
Terbese
Terchana
Tereba
Terty
Thabit
Thur
Tibez
Tibibi
Tina

Area in Darfur
Chad
Darfur, in the Bareh area
Southeast of Nyala
North Darfur, approximately 50 km southeast of Tawila
North Darfur, west of Abdel Shakur
North Darfur, on the border with Chad
Tur
Teina
Al-Teinah
Tinah
Tina
Tine
Teina
West Darfur
Al-Teinah
Tinah
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Tine

Tine
Teina
Chad
Al-Teinah
Tinah
Tine Refugee Camp
Tine
Teina Refugee Camp
Chad
Al-Teinah Refugee Camp

Tinah Refugee Camp
Tine Refugee Camp
Tizi
Torit
Totaraan
Touloum Refugee Camp
Touri
Touweila
Tulus
Tunfuka
Tunia
Tur
Tura
Al-Twaishah
Uma Kasara
Um Akasala
Um Barro
Umbru
Um Dashur
Um Gabo
Um Haraz al-Madrash
Um-Haraz al Um dah
Um Hashab
Um Jer Abdu
Um Kaddadah
Um Kheir
Um Kutkout
Strategic town in Eastern Equatoria

South Darfur, north of Saniafandu
Refugee camp in Chad, near Tine (Chad); US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
visits in Aug 2004
South Darfur.
Region south of al-Fashir
Darfur, south of Murnei
North Darfur, west of Abdel Shakur
72 miles from al-Fashir
North Darfur, near Tawila
South Darfur
North Darfur
Tullus
South Darfur, 2 hours east of Muhujariyaha

West Darfur
North Darfur
North Darfur
West Darfur
North Darfur
Um Kadada
Um Kher
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Um Maraheik
Um Sagwada
Um Shegaira
Umm Gamina
Umm Sayala
Umm Sayala IDP Camp
Um Zaifa
Urbi
Urum
Wad Almeram
Wad Jahar
Waddi Sikali IDP Camp
Wadi Amdur
Wadi Ferra
Wadi Salah
North Darfur
Village in South Darfur, 21 km east of Shariya
North Darfur
South Darfur
West Darfur
Darfur, near Habila
Village in South Darfur, 30 km south of Nyala
South Darfur
State in Chad
West Darfur, province
Um Sayala
Um Zehefa
Wadi Saleh
Wadi Salih
Wad Jahar
al-Wahda IDP Camp
Warai
West Bahr el-Ghazal
West Darfur
One of the 26 states of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is Wau
West Bahr Al Ghazal

Western Bahr Al Ghazal
Western Bahr el-Ghazal
West Darfur
West Kordofan
State of Republic of Sudan, also known as Gharb Darfur; the capital is Geneina
States of the Republic of Sudan; the capital is Al Fula
West Khordofan
Western Khordofan
Western Kordofan
Whu
Wususu
Yassin
Yuruf
Zabuni
Zalingie
West Darfur
West Darfur
South Darfur, southeast of Nyala
South Darfur
District in West Darfur
Zalengi
Zalinge
Zalingei
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Zalinije
Zalingie IDP Camp
Zelingei
Zalengi IDP Camp
West Darfur
Zalinge IDP Camp

Zalingei IDP Camp
Zalinije IDP Camp
Zelingei IDP Camp
Zam Zam
Zam Zam IDP Camp
Zaray
Town in North Darfur

West Darfur
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DARFUR CHRONOLOGY: Glossary Abbreviations/Organizations/Terms
Glossary Abbreviations/Organizations/Terms
Name
ADT
AFP
African Union (AU)
AI
Akhbar Al-Youm
Al Anbaa Daily
Al Ayam
Al Hayat
Al Rai Al Aam
Al-Khartoum
Al-Sahafa
Amnesty International (AI)
Annual Global Terrorism Report
Antonov
AP
Arab League
AU
BBC
Beja
Beja Congress
Bergu
Berti
Bashmurqa
Border Intelligence unit
CARE
Ceasefire Commission (CFC)
CENSAD
Center for the Prevention of
Genocide (CPG)
Community of Sahel and Sahara
States (CENSAD)
Comprehensive Peace Agreement
Description
Atrocities Documentation Team (US investigation team assessing crimes in
Darfur)
Agence France-Presse, Paris-based global news wire service
An organization of 53 African states, the successor to the Organization of
African Unity (OAU)
See Amnesty International
Daily pro-Government newspaper in Sudan
Government-owned daily newspaper in Sudan
Long-standing independent newspaper in Sudan
London-based independent Arabic language daily newspaper
Privately-owned newspaper in Sudan
A newspaper
Independent daily newspaper in Sudan
London-based human rights NGO
See Patterns of Global Terrorism report
Soviet/Ukranian-built aircraft used by the Sudanese military for transport and
offensive military purposes
Associated Press, US-based global news wire service
Informal name for the League of Arab States, a regional organization
See African Union
British Broadcasting Corporation
Ethnic group in eastern Sudan
Eastern Sudanese opposition movement; aka, Bija Congress
Ethnic group in Sudan
Ethnic group in Sudan (sedentary tribesmen)
Ethnic group in Sudan
Name of Arab Militia group, possibly Janjaweed unit
Humanitarian aid NGO
African Union-sponsored commission established to monitor the Darfur
ceasefire
See Community of Sahel and Sahara States
A US-based genocide prevention NGO
Alternative References
Akhbar al-Yom
AI
CFC
20-member African regional bloc

9 January 2005 peace treaty that ended the Sudan North-South Civil War
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CPA

Congressional Black Caucus
CPG
Darfur Liberation
Front/Movement
ECHO
ECOWAS
EU
FAO
Federation of Muslim Womens
Associations of Nigeria
FLD
Front for Liberation of Darfur
(FLD)
Free Lions Movement
Fur
G-8
GoS
Greater Darfur Special Initiative
The Guardian
Habbaniyah
HAC
HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW)
ICC
ICG
ICRC
IDPs
IGAD
IHL
IOM
International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC)
International Crisis Group (ICG)
IRIN
Janjaweed
An organization of black members of the US Congress

See Center for the Prevention of Genocide
See Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A)
European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office
The Economic Community of West African States, a 15-member political bloc
European Union
UN Food and Agriculture Organization
Nigerian organization
Front for the Liberation of Darfur; See Sudan Liberation Movement/Army
(SLM/A)
See Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A)
Eastern Sudan rebel group
African, non-Arab ethnic group in Darfur
International economic group of the eight leading industrial nations
Government of the Republic of Sudan
UN initiative of 2003 to assist Darfur
London-based daily newspaper
Arab ethnic group in Sudan
See Sudan Humanitarian Aid Commission
See Human Rights Watch
US-based human rights group
International Criminal Court, based in The Hague
See International Crisis Group
See International Committee of the Red Cross
Internally Displaced Persons
Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, a seven-country regional
development organization based in Djibouti.
International Humanitarian Law
International Organization on Migration, an international organization dealing
with displacement
Geneva-based humanitarian international organization
Brussels-based international policy think-tank
United Nations Integrated Regional Information Network
The term has been loosely used to describe pro-GoS Arab militias accused of
carrying out attacks against civilians and rebel forces in Darfur; it has been
variously defined as "bandit or armed horseman and may be derived from
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Sometimes simply, Khartoum,

Khartoum Government
Habania
HRW
Janjawid, Janjawiid, Jenjaweed,

Jinjaweit, jingaweit
JEM
JIM
Joint Implementation Mechanism
(JIM)
Justice and Equality Movement
(JEM)
Justice Party
Kababeesh
Le Figaro
Le Progres
League of Arab States
Maalia
Mahamid Tribe
Machakos Protocol
Masalit
Medair
Medecins Sans Frontires (MSF)
MSF
NDjamena Hebdo
National Assembly
National Congress Party
National Democratic Alliance
(NDA)
National Islamic Front (NIF)
NIF
NGO
North-South protocols
NYT
OAU
OCHA
OIC
OMCT
Omdurman Radio
G3 (a rifle) and jawad (horse) but it is also western Sudanese dialect for
rabble or outlaws
See Justice and Equality Movement
See Joint Implementation Mechanism
Body created to monitor 3 July 2004 agreement between GoS and UN
A principal rebel group in Darfur purportedly with Islamic orientation
Sudanese opposition party formed with defectors from ruling party to promote
southern interests but also with members from Darfur and Nuba mountains
Ethnic group in Sudan (nomadic cattle herders)
French newspaper
Private daily newspaper in Chad.
Regional organization composed of 22 member states
Ethnic group in (at least) Adeelah district in South Darfur
Initial, tentative cease-fire agreement between GoS and SPLM signed in July
2002 in Machakos, Kenya
Non-Arab, African ethnic group in Darfur
Switzerland-based humanitarian NGO
Doctors Without Borders, a Brussels-based humanitarian aid NGO
See Medecins Sans Frontires
Chadian newspaper
Sudanese Parliament
The governing political party of President Omar Al-Bashir, formed from the
National Islamic Front, which seized power in 1989
An alliance of opposition political parties formed in 1989 to oust President
Bashir and the National Islamic Front.
Party of Omar al-Bashir and Hassan al-Turabi which toppled Sadiq al-Mahdis
government in 1989
National Islamic Front
Non-governmental organization
Preliminary agreement between GoS and SPLM signed 26 May 2004 which
ultimately paved the way for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of January
2004
The New York Times
See Organization of African Unity, predecessor of the African Union
UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
See Organization of the Islamic Conference
See World Organization Against Torture
GoS-controlled radio station
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JIM
JEM; Sudanese Movement for Justice
and Equality
Arab League
Maaliya
Masaalit
NDA
Sometimes simply referred to as the
Islamists or Islamist Party

Organization of African Unity
(OAU)
Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC)
Organization for the Protection of
Faith and Nation
Oxfam
Popular Defence Force
Patterns of Global Terrorism
Peace and Security Council (PSC)

PHR
Physicians for Human Rights
(PHR)
Plan for Action for Darfur
Popular Congress
PSC
Razaykat
Red Crescent
Refugees International
Reuters
Rizaiqat
Save the Children
El Sharee el Syasi
SLM/A
SPLM/A
Sudan Federal Democratic
Alliance
Sudan Humanitarian Aid
Commission (HAC)
Sudan Media Center
Sudan Peace Act
Sudan Peoples Liberation
Movement/Army (SPLM/A)
Predecessor of the African Union

An inter-governmental organization of fifty-seven Muslim states
Sudanese organization
British humanitarian aid NGO
Name of Arab militia in Darfur, possibly Janjaweed unit.
The annual report, released by the Secretary of State and the Coordinator for
Counterterrorism, that addresses the extent to which foreign governments
support terrorism and cooperate with the United States in counterterrorism
activities, among other things
African Union sub-organization dealing with security issues
See Physicians for Human Rights
Boston-based human rights NGO
PHR
A Sudanese opposition political party headed by Hassan al-Turabi with alleged

ties to JEM
See Peace and Security Council
See Rizaiqat
An international humanitarian movement organized into the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and national Red Crescent
societies
UK-based daily news wire agency
Ethnic group in Adeelah district of South Darfur
UK-based humanitarian NGO
Private daily newspaper
See Sudanese Liberation Movement/Army
See Sudan Peoples Liberation Movement/Army
A leading opposition group in Darfur
Razaykat , Rizeigat
Sudanese Federal Alliance
GoS agency
GoS-controlled media outlet
US Congressional enactment of 7 Oct 2002 condemning Sudans human rights
record, directing the White House to impose sanctions if, after six months,
Khartoum is deemed not to be negotiating in good faith at peace talks
The Southern rebel movement formed to fight GoS and establish a secular and
democratic state and to gain greater control over Southern natural resource; the
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SPLA; SPLM; SPLM/A

Sudanese Liberation
Movement/Army (SLM/A)
SPLA is the military wing of the SPLM and subordinate to it

A principal Darfur armed rebel group, with more secular orientation than JEM
Sudanese Movement for Justice

and Equality (JEM)
SUNA
Tungur
Umma Party
UN
UNDP
UNHCR
UNICEF
UN Commission on Human
Rights
USAID
WFP
See Justice and Equality Movement
WHO
World Organization Against
Torture (OMCT)
WP
Zaghawa
UN World Health Organization

Swiss-based human rights NGO

SLM, SLA, SLM/A Front for
Liberation of Darfur, FLD, Darfur
Liberation Front, Darfur Liberation
Movement
State-controlled Sudan News Agency

Darfur ethnic group (sedentary)
Long-standing opposition party in Sudan
United Nations
United National Development Programme
United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees
United Nations Childrens Fund
UN body dealing with human rights issues, made up of 53 elected member
states.
US Agency for International Development
UN World Food Programme
Washington Post
African (non-Arab) ethnic group in Darfur
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Zagawa and Zigawaa
DARFUR CHRONOLOGY: Pre-2002 Events
Pre-2002 Events
Event
Date
Publica
tion
Date
1980s
Source
Drought plagues Darfur accompanied by increased

desertification and farming pressure; local governments
face neglect from Khartoum and bankruptcy by the
early 1980s.
de Waal
Counter
Insurgency on
the Cheap
Drought and famine in Darfur in 1983-84; increasing

struggle between pastoral groups and farmers over
diminishing resources. Reconciliation conference held
in 1989, but recommendations not implemented.
Fur-Arab War between Jebel Marra Fur communities
and an alliance of 27 Arab tribes of the northern
Rizeigat groups.
Colonel Gaddafi, leader of Libya, conducts a
succession of military adventures in Chad in order to
try to gain control of Chad. Chadian factions
supported by Libya provision themselves in Darfur
generating a French-Chadian incursion in response.
Many of the guns in Darfur used in the 2002-2005
period were allegedly brought in by these factions.
Jafar Nimeiri is deposed as President of Sudan.
Sadiq al-Mahdi wins democratic elections.
National Islamic Front (NIF) topples Sadiq alMahdis government in Khartoum. Omar al-Bashir
now rules in alliance with Hassan al-Turabi, the
leader of the Islamist party.
Late
1980s
1980s,
especiall
y19871989
1985
1986
10 June
1989
3 Apr
1991
1991
Event
The NIF Government decrees it will collect

unauthorized arms from private citizens in Darfur. This
was announced by Minister for Interior, General
Faysal Ali Abu Salih, who pointed out that citizens
would be paid back the value of their arms.
SPLAs John Garang sends a small expeditionary
force into Darfur. The disasterous effort was led by
Daud Bolad, a member of the Fur tribe who had once
been a leading Islamist at Khartoum University. He
later abandoned political Islam and joining the SPLA.
Locations
Names
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de Waal
Muamar Qadaffi
de Waal
de Waal
de Waal
Jafar Nimeiri
Sadiq al-Mahdi
Sadiq al-Mahdi
Omar Al-Bashir
BBC citing
SUNA
Hasan al-Turabi
Faysal Ali Abu
Salih
de Waal
John Garang
Daud Bolad
Notes
9 Jun
1992
12 Jan
1994
17 Oct
1996
22 Mar
1997
22 Dec
1997
31 Mar
1998
The expedition to Darfur was crushed, Bolad was

captured and never heard from again.
GoS sends one militia battalion from Sudan's western
Darfur province to "wipe out" rebels in neighboring
Bahr el-Ghazal province, according to Darfur
governor Altayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Kheir. The
People's Defence Force, backing government troops,
late last year played a major role in "pacifying" Darfur
province, according to the official SUNA news.
Khartoum re-districts Sudans internal boundaries and
creates the three states of North, South and West
Darfur.
Tribal fighting claims several lives in Sudan's western
Darfur province, which has also seen a series of cattle
thefts, according to the daily Al-Rai al-Am. A
parliamentary deputy from Darfur, Gamar Hassan
al-Tahir, told the paper that clashes took place in
several villages between the black Masaleit tribe and
Arab tribes of Chadian origin.
Tahir gave few details but warned that he considered
that the incidents could degenerate into a civil war.
The government of the West Darfur state decrees that
anyone found in illegal possession of arms after March
28 may face the death penalty, Sudan's army
newspaper al-Nasr reports.
Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir declares state of
emergency in western Sudan to combat a wave of
armed robberies, according to state-run Omdurman
radio.
General Beshir, speaking at the closing session of a
conference on security in Darfur states, said a state of
emergency would be imposed in the three states of
Darfur and in North Kordofan state.
GoS sends troops to Darfur to quell unrest between
Arab and African tribes. Previous media dispatches
report that Arab tribes had launched assaults on the
homes of Mesaleit tribes, killing 23 men and burning
53 villages in western Darfur. President Omar alBashir says that the armed clashes in western Darfur
were "motivated by enemies of the nation who are
AFP
Bahr el-Ghazal
Al-Tayed
Ibrahim
Mohammed
BBC citing TV
Omdurman
AFP
Gamar Hassan
al-Tahir
AP
Worldstream
AFP citing
Radio
Omdurman
Omar al-Bashir
AFP
Omar al-Bashir
16 Apr
1998
19982001
1999
May
2000
planning to distract attention from the fighting

in south and east Sudan."
Large numbers of Sudanese flee tribal warfare in the
west of the country to neighboring Chad, a Khartoum
newspaper reports.
Chadian authorities have set up tent camps for
Sudanese refugees who "fled the fierce (tribal) fighting
in Darfur," former governor Ahmed Arbab told the
private daily El Sharee el Syasi.
Large scale attacks against Masalit force many to flee
to Chad.
President Bashir dismisses Hassan al-Turabi as
speaker of the National Assembly and places him
arrest. Turabis followers form the opposition
Popular Congress party.
In Darfur, those who had been brought into the
Islamist party by Hassan al-Turabi organize
themselves. Publication by the Popular Congress or
Justice and Equality Movement of the Black Book
which argued that Khartoum had systematically
marginalized Darfur in terms of resources and positions
in government.
AFP, citing El
Sharee el Syasi
Chad
Ahmed Arbab
Chad
de Waal
Omar Al-Bashir
Hasan al-Turabi
de Waal
Hasan al-Turabi
Pattern to be
repeated later on
DARFUR CHRONOLOGY: 2002 Events
2002 Events
Event
Date
Publica
tion
Date
25 Apr
Event
Source
Locations
Names
Gunmen kill approximately 25 villagers in West

Darfur State, robbing and setting fire to villages.
Reports indicate West Darfur has seen tribal clashes,
exacerbated by factional conflicts in neighboring
Chad. (AP)
AP, AFP
Chad
Abaker Ayoub
Abaker
Debbah Taira
Sayyed al-Hussein
Um-Haraz al Um
dah
Western Sudan is frequently the scene of tribal

clashes and armed banditry. (AFP)
30 Apr
15 May
21 May,
22 May
Gunmen kill 17 in North Darfur State; 597 huts

burned; 583 head of livestock killed, by gunmen in
four-wheel vehicles and riding camels. North Darfur
MP Mohamed Berekah Mohamed said deputies from
Darfur region urged government to take measures to
check increasing armed attacks in the region.
US policy on Sudan focuses on resolving the 18-year
civil war between the Khartoum government in the
north and rebels in the south. US envoy to Sudan
John Danforth calls for increased US diplomatic
presence in Sudan, encouraging the US to enhance
our presently light diplomatic presence in Sudan in
order to be effective participants.
After recent tribal fighting leaves 50 dead, the GoS
imposes state of emergency in region. President
Omar al-Bashir forms a high-level security body
(committee chaired by Darfur Governor Salah Ali alGhali) with sweeping powers to arrest, try and deport
persons. (AP/AFP)
AFP, citing Al
Rai Al Aam
daily
Um Haraz alMadrash
Shoba
WP
AP, AFP,
IRIN
Mohamed Berekah
Mohamed
John Danforth
Chad
Salah Ali Al-Ghali
CAR
Sidahmed alHusseini, GoS

police spokesman
Hamed Ahmed
Dalila
Around 50 people had been killed in fighting between

Maaliya and Razaykat tribes. Sudanese MP Hamed
Ahmed Dalila attributes the start of the fued to the
killing of Razaykat policeman by a Maaliya
counterpart. (AFP)
Muhammad
Ahmad Dirdiery
Omar Al-Bashir
Notes
23 May
31 May
9 Jun
19 Jun
1 Jul,
27 Aug
17 Jul
20 July
21 Jul
23 Jul
Responding to the Maaliya-Razaykat clashes, the

Sudanese government says ethnic clashes such as that
between the Maaliya and Razaykat tribes have been
exacerbated by an inflow of arms from neighboring
countries such as the CAR. (IRIN)
The US State Department, in its Annual Global
Terrorism Report, acknowledges that Sudan has
recently taken some positive counter-terrorism steps,
but retains the country on its list of state sponsors of
terrorism. Sudan was added to the list in 1993.
The US posts a resident diplomat, Jeffrey Millington,
in Khartoum for the first time since 1996.
Sudanese emergency courts to try 92 people accused
of involvement in tribal clashes and armed robbery
incidents.
Sudanese government officials and Southern Sudanese
rebels of the SPLM/A gather in Machakos, Kenya to
start five weeks of talks aimed at ending the 18-year
civil war.
Amnesty International reports a sharp increase in
death sentences in Darfur, stating that at least 19
people have been executed in Darfur since the
beginning of 2002, without an opportunity to defend
themselves as required by international law. (IRIN 1
July)
Such emergency courts were established in Darfur
under a 1998 state of emergency, which grants wide
powers to circumvent Sudanese criminal procedures.
(IRIN, 27 August)
A Sudanese military court sentences 88 Rizzigat
tribesmen to death in Southern Darfur for killing 50
men in tribal clashes in May. (AFP and AP citing
SUNA)
The Sudanese government and Southern rebels sign an
accord after five weeks of talks in Machakos, Kenya.
The GoS accepted the right of the South to seek selfdetermination after six-year interim period and the
SPLA accepts Shariah law in North. The Machakos
Protocol did not contain a ceasefire component,
however.
An emergency court in Nyala, South Darfur sentences
IRIN
http://www.state.gov/
s/ct/rls/pgtrpt/2001/
NYT
Jeffrey Millington
AFP citing Al
Anbaa
Ibrahim Suleiman
NYT
Machakos
IRIN
AFP and AP
citing SUNA;
Guardian
Machakos
AFP
Nyala
15 people to death for April attacks on two minority

Fur villages. Sudans western states of South and
North Darfur have been the scene of growing ethnic
unrest over the past decade, most of it between Arab
tribes and the regions non-Arab minorities the
Masalit and Zagawa, as well as the Fur.
29 Jul
12 Aug
22 Aug
Khartoums growing use of the death penalty to stem

violence prompted an alert from Amnesty
International in June.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and Southern
rebel leader John Garang meet face-to-face for the
first time in Kampala, Uganda to endorse the recent
signing of the Machakos Protocol.
Second phase of Sudanese peace talks between
Khartoum government and southern rebels begins in
Machakos, Kenya.
Justice Party (opposition) formed with defectors from
ruling party to promote southern interests but also
with members from Darfur and Nuba mountains.
IRIN
Kampala
Omar Al-Bashir
John Garang
IRIN
Machakos
AP
Lam Akol, former

Transport Minister
Makki Ali Balyel,
former Pres. peace
Advisor
2 Sep,
3 Sep
21 Sep
26 Sep
The GoS suspends peace talks with Southern rebels

after the group seizes the strategic town of Torit,
Eastern Equatoria. Sudanese Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail warns: The energies of the
state will be directed towards military operations.
The situation is now a war situation.
Raiders from Sudan on horseback and camel massacre
several dozen villagers in Central African Republic
(CAR). Presidents of CAR, Sudan and Chad had
been due to meet in Khartoum in August to sort out
how to put an end to tribal clashes and insecurity in
border region.
Five policemen killed in clashes with armed bandits
in Darfur. Police spokesman Sayyed al-Hussein says
armed banditry in Darfur has subsided, except for a
IRIN, WP
Torit
Amin Benai Neo,

former Justice
Minister
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
AFP
Jebel Marrah
Sayyed al-Hussein
9 Oct
7 Oct
10 Oct
10 Oct
10 Oct
3 Nov
10 Nov
18 Dec
25 Dec
few pockets which the police are determined to

completely eliminate by years end.
A Joint Army-Police force carrying out a manhunt in
Jebel Marrah area after armed gang(s) killed nine.
US House of Representatives passes the Sudan
Peace Act condemning Sudans human rights record
and directing the White House to impose sanctions if,
after six months, Khartoum is deemed not to be
negotiating in good faith at peace talks. The Peace Act
calls upon the US Secretary of State to collect
information about incidents which may constitute
crimes against humanity, war crimes, genocide and
other violations of international humanitarian law by
all parties to the conflict in Sudan. The resolution also
authorizes $300 million over the next three years for
peace efforts in Sudan.
UN Human Rights Rapporteur Gerhart Baum visits
Darfur region to collect information on emergency
courts.
The Sudanese government agrees to return to peace
negotiations with southern rebels after halting them
because of rebel military victories in the South.
At a rally in Fashir, Sudanese First Vice President
Ali Osman Taha warns of a conspiracy to extend
the North-South civil war into Darfur.
The Sudanese Humanitarian Aid Commission
predicts food shortages in Darfur. Khalid Faraj, the
Commissions emergencies director said 1,930 tons
of food had been distributed to Northern Darfur and
340 tons in Southern Darfur in October.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir urges
Parliament to extend a state of emergency for a fourth
year. Critics say the state of emergency restricts
rights, as it grants the President such sweeping powers
as ordering indefinite detentions and appointing
officials who should be elected.
12 killed, 80 wounded in attacks launched by around
50 armed camel-riders on groups of the Fur and Bergu
tribes living 45 km from Nyala. Raiders looted 1,000
head of cattle.
AFP citing Al
Ayam
IRIN
Kudnair
documents/organizati
on/19897.pdfc
AP
Gerhart Baum
NYT
AFP, citing
SUNA
al-Fashir
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AFP
Khalid Faraj
Reuters
Omar Al-Bashir
Nyala
2003 Events
Event
Date
Publica
tion
Date
25 Jan
31 Jan
21 Feb
22 Feb
26 Feb,
27 Feb
Event
Source
Locations
Khartoum government and Southern rebels resume

peace talks in Kenya. Both parties are discussing the
distribution of power and of the countrys oil wealth.
In January, an Amnesty International delegation
visits Shala prison in Darfur, expressing concern
about lack of fair trial provisions in special courts.
Amnesty raised concerns over the security situation in
Darfur and petitioned the GoS to set up an independent
commission of inquiry to look into the situation. (AP,
AFP, IRIN)
Sudanese Government and tribal leaders to hold
conference (on 24 Feb) aimed at quelling tribal
violence in Darfur according to Lt. General Ibrahim
Sulieman, Chairman of the Committee for
Maintaining Security in Darfur.
NYT
Kenya
AP/AFP, IRIN
Shala prison
Amnesty International (on 21 Feb) warns that, the

situation in Darfur must not be allowed to escalate into
all-out war.
Newly formed armed rebel group seizes a provincial
capital in western Darfur. 300 rebels identifying
themselves as Front for Liberation of Darfur
(FLD) seizes the town of Gulu, capital of Jebel
Marrah province, establishing their own
administration. FLD claimed it wants to eradicate
marginalization and injustice which had deprived the
region of development, according to North Governor
Ibrahim Suleiman. (AFP)
AP, citing
SUNA
AFP, citing
Khartoum
papers, IRIN
Names
http://web.amnesty.or
g/library/Index/ENG
AFR540032003?ope
n&of=ENG-SDN
Ibrahim Sulieman
Gulu
Abdullah Korah,
rebel appointee
Jebel Marrah
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
South Darfur Governor Adam Hamid Mussa claims

rebel group is led by Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nour
a lawyer and former member of Communist Party;
Muhammad
Ahmad Dirdeiry
Ibrahim Suleiman
The Sudanese government denies the existence of the
Notes
26 Feb
28 Feb
6 Mar
9, 11
Mar
14 Mar
FLD rebel group, instead only referring to them as

bandits. Muhammad Ahmad Dirdeiry,
spokesman at the Sudanese embassy in Nairobi tells
IRIN that the so-called rebel group was a "gang of
bandits" who had been terrorizing residents of the
region and who had no political agenda. (IRIN)
13 killed in clashes between armed tribesman and
government forces that began 26 Feb. Sudanese
government claims Important security breaches are
currently taking place, according to SUNA. Violence
erupted just as a GoS-sponsored conference of tribal
elders in el Fasher designed to bring local chiefs
together to quell violence ended this week.
Darfur rebels claim they are not fighting for secession,
rather for a role in government. We only want a role
in power and a share of resources, said Khalil
Ibrahim, chief of Sudanese Movement for Justice
and Equality, in an interview with Al Hayat.
Darfur Liberation Front claims to shoot down
military helicopter carrying North Darfur Governor
Ibrahim Suleiman. (AFP, 9 Mar.) Suleiman
acknowledges that the aircraft had been forced to land,
but only due to technical problems. Suleiman was on
board with Armed Forces Chief of Staff General
Abbas Arabi. (AFP, 11 Mar.)
Darfur Liberation Front formally changes name to
Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A),
according to groups Secretary-General Minni Arkou
Minawi.
AP, citing
SUNA and AlSahafa
al-Fashir
AFP, citing Al
Hayat
AFP
Sidiq Mohamed
Ahmed
Mohammed Khalil
Ibrahim
Tura
First reference to
JEM in Western news
agencies
Abbas Arabi
Ibrahim Suleiman
AFP
Gulu
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
Minawi announces an armed struggle to create a

united democratic Sudan. Minawi calls for an
understanding with the National Democratic Alliance
(NDA). Minawi claims Darfur has suffered from
marginalization, racial discrimination, exclusions
andpolicies amounting to ethnic cleansing against
African tribes.
Minawi announces recapture of Gulu capital of
Jebel Marrah province, claiming 195 Government
SLM/As first
appearance as such
dead. GoS forces retook Gulu in early March.
19 Mar
20 Mar
27 Mar
27 Mar
30 Mar
31 Mar
Sudan Information Minister al-Zahawi Ibrahim

Malek claims that tribes in Chad were assisting Darfur
rebels. (AFP).
The Sudanese government and Southern rebels (SPLA)
agree to extend the mandate of an independent
monitoring team aimed at preventing attacks on
civilians for one more year.
The SLM/A and the Sudanese government agree to a
ceasefire so that peace negotiations can be held.
A few days later, the SLM/A claims the government
has broken the ceasefire by dropping bombs from two
helicopter gunships near Karnoi.
National Congress Party instructs the Government to
employ military force to end rebellion that recently
erupted in Darfur. President Omar al-Bashir denies
political nature of rebellion, blaming unrest on armed
criminal gangs. (AFP)
We have come to the view that these events have to be
dealt with in a decisive and strong manner, said
Ibrahim Ahmed Omar, Secretary-General of
National Congress Party. AP continues to report that
clashes are believed to have begun as tribes competed
for grazing land, and are not linked to the civil war in
the south and east of Sudan. (AP)
SLM/A says it captured and liberated the town of
Tina, on border with Chad. SLM/A claims to be in
full control of the Sudanese/Chadian border in
Zaghawa area and to have captured two heavy trucks
and two technicals - Toyota land cruisers mounted with
guns and ammunition. SLM/A claims that GoS lost 56
dead in fighting.
GoS forces free four tribal leaders held hostage by
SLM/A; GoS claims to have inflicted serious losses
on the armed groups of rebels, but that Minni Arkou
Minnawi managed to escape.
UN Special Rapporteur Gerhart Baum comments on
NYT
IRIN
Karnoi
AFP, citing
SUNA; AP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Ibrahim Ahmed
Omar
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
Tina
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Chad
AFP
IRIN
10
Jebel Marrah
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Gerhart Baum
8 Apr
12 Apr
13, 14
Apr
the deteriorating situation on Darfur: The

governments interpretation of the conflict as caused by
armed groups engaging in robbery and its response to
solve the Darfur issue by resorting to Special Courts,
group trials, death sentences and cruel and inhumane
punishment such as cross amputation, are totally
inadequate and resulted in serious human rights
abuses.
SPLA spokesman George Garang calls the SLM/Aled rebellion in Darfur an uprising against injustice.
President Omar al-Bashir and Chadian President
Idriss Deby pledge security cooperation when they
meet in Fashir on 12 April. Deby stated that Chad
would not allow an organization or individual to
disturb security along the common border. (AFP)
IRIN
AFP, AP
George Garang
al-Fashir
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Idriss Deby
Omar Al-Bashir
22 Apr
24 Apr
25 Apr
Sudan declares a military operations zone. South

Darfur Governor General Adam Mussa, (referred to
as Darfur security chief) said President Deby and
President Bashir underlined the necessity of
cooperation between the armies in Chad and Sudan to
eliminate all armed bandits and armed groups in the
border areas. AP reports summit held due to Chads
concerns insurgency could spread across its borders.
(AP)
GoS forces seize rebel stronghold in West Darfur.
There will be no negotiations with anyone who carries
arms. They will be faced with arms only warned the
states governor, Omar Haroun.
44 killed in tribal clash in West Darfur between
Arab and Masalit tribe in Mali village.
SLM/A claims capture of al-Fasher, capital of
Northern Darfur. SLM/A leader Mani Arkoi
Minawi tells AFP that large numbers of GoS army
were killed and that the SLM/A captured citys
military headquarters and seized key artillery positions.
Minawi claimed SLM/A had shot down four
helicopters and three planes and seized four tanks in
clashes around Kutum (62 mi. northwest of al Fasher)
AFP
West Darfur
AP
Mali
AFP, AP
al-Fashir
Omar Haroun
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Kutum
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
11
In late January of
2003, Chad and
Sudan signed an
accord to create a
joint force to monitor
border security.
Khartoum denies that Fasher had been captured,

saying its forces repelled an attack on the city. (AFP)
Army spokesman General Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman says an armed group of outlaws, assisted by
5th column elements infiltrated al-Fasher airport and
armed forces areas. Suleiman claimed army troops
secured the airport after repulsing the attack leaving 52
dead on both sides (32 GoS and 20 insurgents).
Suleiman said attackers penetrated the airport
perimeter with six vehicles. Suleiman said 4 planes
had been damaged 2 fighters, 2 transports. (AFP)
25 Apr
26 Apr
27 Apr
25 Apr
28 Apr
28 Apr
General Sulieman described the rebel operation as a

desperate suicide attempt. (AP)
44 people are killed and 22 wounded in clashes
between Arab and Masalit Arican tribesmen in
Darfur, near the border with Chad.
South Darfur Governor Adam Hamid Mussa orders
night curfew in Nyala.
Nyala court sentences 24 to death for village raid in
December 2002. The village of Sangatah (inhabited
by Fur tribe) was attacked by Arab militia on 31 Dec
2002 and burned to the ground killing 35. (AFP)
The accused attacked the village from four directions,
looting and killing anyone they found in the street and
burning the whole village Akhbar Al-Youm daily
reported Judge Mukhtar Ibrahim Adam as saying.
(AP)
On 25 April, during attack on al-Fasher, JEM rebels
abduct GoS Air Force Maj. Gen. Ibrahim Bushra,
head of Sudanese Air Force.
GoS officials blame SPLA and Israel of aiding Darfur
rebels. Southern States Coordination Council Chair
Riek Gai accused John Garangs SPLA of sedition in
Darfur, describing alleged SPLA aid to Darfur rebels
as a hurdle in the peace process while North Darfur
State Governor Ibrahim Suleiman accused both
SPLA and Israel of having a hand in events.
NYT, citing Al
Rai al-Aam
Chad
AFP
AFP, AP,
citing Akhbar
Al-Youm daily
Sangatah
AP
al-Fashir
AFP
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Mukhtar Ibrahim
Adam
Ibrahim Bushra
Ismail
Ibrahim Suleiman
Riek Gai
John Garang
12
28 Apr
29 Apr
29 Apr
29 Apr
Suleiman says that all political parties, except Popular

Congress of Hassan al-Turabi were engaged in peace
talks.
North Darfur Governor Ibrahim Suleiman claims
there is a direct relationship between SPLA and
outlaws referring to SLM/A, saying the SPLA has
chosen the al-Fasher rebel group to carry out this
mission of engaging the government army. Suleiman
also claimed that planes ferry arms to Darfur from the
South and that SPLA members were involved in the
attack on al-Fasher. Suleiman accuses Abdullah alBaker of heading the SLM/A and describes him as a
Chadian opposition member.
Amnesty International claims thousands of villagers
have reportedly fled their villages since April 11, after
attacks by government forces and governmentorganized Arab militias fighting against the SLA in the
area of Kutum, Northern Darfur.
GoS Army spokesman General Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman confirms capture of Major General
Ibrahim Bushra Ismail. Suleiman confirms rebels
who raided Al-Fasher killed 32 GoS troops. Suleiman
claims rebels are dug in on Sin mountain, west of AlFasher and besieged by GoS forces.
North Darfur Gov. Ibrahim Suleiman blames SPLA
for Darfur unrest explaining that the SPLA wanted
to keep the army busy after concluding that the
government troops were getting a chance to rest and
rearm because of a truce in Nuba Mountains which
has held since 2002. Suleiman said attackers on Al
Fasher included local Zagawa and Fur tribesman,
southerners from SPLA and Chadian mercenaries.
On Monday, 28 April, Amnesty International called
for Darfur to be included in human rights monitoring
system set up under Sudan peace process and called for
independent commission of inquiry.
GoS officials fly journalists to al-Fasher to prove that
GoS is in control of the city. Wreckage of six aircraft
AFP, citing
SUNA
Kutum
Abdullah Al-Baker
Early reports of
thousands displaced.
Ibrahim Suleiman
g/library/Index/ENG
AFR540262003
AFP
Sin Mountain
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Ibrahim Bushra
Ismail
AP
Nuba Mountains
al-Fashir
AFP
13
al-Fashir
Ibrahim Suleiman
29 Apr
23 Apr
29 Apr
30 Apr
6 May
litters al-Fasher airport including two Antonov

transport planes and four helicopters.
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail accuses
Eritrea of involvement in attack on Al-Fasher. Ismail
blamed Eritrea and Sudanese opposition National
Democratic Alliance for incidents. This may be the
first time Khartoum acknowledged political motivation
for unrest up to this point, they consistently blamed
armed criminal gangs.
Eritrea later denies attacks (see 3 May AFP article).
Amnesty International urges the international
community to send human rights monitors to Darfur as
security in the region deteriorates: A conflict, which
no one wants and which could be solved by clear
recommendations and human rights protection
mechanisms, must not be allowed to escalate. The
international community must act.
Amnesty reports that on 23 April armed nomads, some
of whom were wearing uniforms and said to be
members of a government militia, attacked men around
a mosque in West Darfur, killing 55 people, wounding
at least 20 and looting domestic animals.
Swiss-based NGO, World Organization Against
Torture (OMCT) expresses concern over the
increased arbitrary mass arrests and torture directed
against members of the Zaghawa tribe in Darfur by
Sudanese security forces: OMCT is gravely
concerned by this most recent wave of arbitrary arrests
that have been carried out by the National Security
Agency and the intelligence services. OMCT calls for
their immediate release unless there are valid legal
charges against them that are in line with international
law.
GoS ups casualty figures from al-Fasher attack to 75
dead. Sudanese Defense minister Lt. Gen. Bakri
Hassan Saleh speaking before Parliament claims 75
GoS troops dead and 70 assailants killed. Interior
Minister Abdel Rahim Hussein said conflicts
AFP
Eritrea
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
al-Fashir
Bakri Hassan Saleh
IRIN
IRIN
AP, AFP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
14
9 May
11 May,
12 May
between tribal groups are normal but expressed

concern over growing number of robberies and
weapons. Hussein proposed economic aid and
environmental programs for Darfur including water
and irrigation projects to address the problem. (AP)
President Omar al-Bashir sacks high-ranking Darfur
officials. Bashir fires governors of North Darfur
(Gen. Ibrahim Suleiman) and West Darfur (Omar
Haroun) as well as top security officials including the
local military commander, director of security unit, and
the police chief in Al-Fasher. Bashir also disbands
the security committee formed for maintaining
security under North Darfur Governors watch.
(AFP)
President Bashir appoints General Sulieman
Abdullah Adam as governor of West Darfur and
Osman Youssef [Kibir] as governor of North Darfur.
AP reports the other sacked officials include the head
of police in North Darfur and el-Fashir district
military commander. (AP)
Rebels attack strategic northwest city of Mallit.
SLM/A spokesman Mani Arkoi Minawi claims his
group has captured the city, an important link between
Sudan and Libya after overcoming weak resistance
from GoS troops. (AFP 11May)
AFP citing
state television
and SUNA;
AP citing
SUNA
Omar Haroun
Ibrahim Suleiman
Osman Mohamed
Yusef Kibir
Suleiman Abdullah
Adam
AFP; AP
citing SUNA
Mallit
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
GoS Army spokesman Mohamed Beshir Suleiman

acknowledges that a number of troops were killed
during attack on Mallit. Vice President Ali Osman
Taha states that the group of outlaws are planning to
create a political row to make the government respond
to their demands. (AFP, 12 May)
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
SUNA claims GoS troops confronted rebels, and

inflicted heavy losses on them and the rest fled. Milit
is Darfurs second largest city 60 km north of alFasher. SUNA claims Sudan Bank, customs
warehouses, hospital and police station attacked. (AP,
citing SUNA)
15
Security
Committee
disbanded

15 May
17 May
2003
GoS Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed

Hussein calls on other Sudanese states to send one
company of police reinforcements each to Darfur to
help quell attacks. Minister Hussein said these
measures, together with development programs (such
as $25 million earmarked for water) to curb friction
between shepherds and farmers, go hand in hand.
Attending a meeting to discuss security measures were:
Hussein; North Darfur State Interior Minister
Ahmed Mohamed Haroun; Police Commander
General Omar al-Hidhari, Darfur state governors
and police commanders from all Sudanese states.
Abu Jidad attacked by Arab militia on horseback and
camels and government forces in vehicles. Local
village head claims 36 villages were burnt and at least
76 persons killed. The villages reportedly burnt are
Tabaldia I et II, Silah, Betenan, Gos Ajour, Naga,
Abhournon, Mahamad Nar, Arajab Issa, Kerim
Djame, Abakar Hamad, Musa Alil, Faki Abdel
Karim, Massour Ismail, Jera Beth, Amsila, Musa
Abderami, Mabouraka Arad, Tibez, Barh
Mahamad Adam, Massour Ismail, Guiri Arad,
Hamat Manant, Juma Adam, Madarassa and Shete
Zakariya.

AFP, citing
SUNA
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Ahmed Mohamed
Haroun
Omar al-Hidhari
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
Abakar Hamad
Abhournon
Abu Jidad
Amsila
Arajab Issa
Barh Mahamad
Adam
Betenan
Faki Abdel
Karim
Gos Ajour
Guiri Arad
Hamat Manant
Jera Beth
Juma Adam
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Kerim Djame
Mabouraka Arad
Madarassa
Mahamad Nar
Massour Ismail
Musa Abderami
Musa Alil
Naga
Shete Zakariya
Silah
Tabaldia
25 May
26 May
24-25
May
26 May
27-29
29 May
North Darfur Governor Osman Mohamed Yousuf

Kubur imposes variety of security measures including
bans on satellite phone use; bans on four wheel drive
vehicles outside of towns; limits of 5 gallons of fuel to
purchase at a time; bans on spare part sales for four
wheel drive vehicles.
North Darfur simultaneously offered (on Sunday 25
May) an amnesty deal to anyone who repents, lays
down arms and surrenders before June 8.
GoS launches air raids against rebel encampment west
of Kutum at the weekend (24-25 May). SLM/A
Secretary-General Mani Arkoi Minawi tells AFP
that GoS launched air strikes against villages and a
camp of the SLM/A. Minawi reported six rebel deaths
and also several government troop POW deaths.
SLM/A claims to have killed 500 GoS troops and
AFP citing
Akhbar al-Yom
paper
Tibez
North Darfur
AFP
Kutum
AFP
Kutum
17
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Ahmed Babikir

May
taken 300 POWs during fighting north of Kutum.

Attacks began at 1030AM and lasted until 1345 PM
according to SLM/A Secretary-General Mani Arkoi
Minawi, speaking to AFP. SLM/A reportedly
destroyed seven four-wheel drive vehicles and three
trucks.
Nahar
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Minawi claims GoS Education Minister Ahmed

Babikir Nahar contacted SLM/A on 27 May to
express GoS willingness to negotiate.
29 May
31 May
31 May
1, 5 Jun
6 Jun
Minawi claims on Wednesday, 28 May, GoS forces

burned four villages and launched aerial bombing in
the region.
Adam Mussa Madibbu, Senior Umma Party
representative in Darfur and politburo member with
close ties to Sadiq al-Mahdi arrested by GoS. (Date
of arrest unclear).
GoS denies SLM/A claim that 500 troops were killed
in battle. An official in General Mohammed Beshir
Suleimans office described the claim as a false
media rattle and fabrication. The official said a small
army recon team went to a location 60 km north of
Kutum and engaged with a gang of armed robbers.
Official claims GoS is now in full control of North
Darfur. Mani Minawi had previously claimed
SLM/A destroyed an infantry battalion.
Dr. Adam Mussa Madibbu released from detention
after 24 hours. Madibbu claims Security services
accused him of persuading people to support rebellion
in Darfur.
SLM/A claims to have annihilated a large number of
GoS soldiers on Thursday 5 June, capturing 25 vehicles
and arms including rocket launchers and heavy
machine guns. Attack was in Adar area of North
Darfur state.
AFP
AFP
Adam Mussa
Madibbu
Kutum
Sadiq al-Mahdi
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AFP
AFP
SLM/A Secretary-General Mani Arkoi Minawi said

on Sunday, 1 June, that the SLM/A wished to join the
SPLA in peace talks with GoS. He reported SLM/A
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Adam Mussa
Madibbu
Adar
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
16 Jun
17 Jun
19 Jun
26 Jun
had decided to begin a dialogue with SPLA in order

to reach a comprehensive solution on the entire
Sudanese territory.
GoS establishes special branch within Justice
Ministry to prosecute terror suspects. Religious
extremism and armed banditry will be the top of the
concerns of the department, according to Justice
Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin.
John Garang expresses solidarity for SLM/A, saying,
The (SPLA) movement feels solidarity with all those
marginalized in Sudan and what is happening in
Darfour [sic]is a rebellionagainst injustice, although
he denied links between SPLA and SLM/A. The
SPLA rejected government proposal for nationwide
referendum on future peace settlement.
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail appeals to
Darfurians to lay down arms and launch dialogue with
government. Ismail explained that the Darfur problem
stemmed from regions need for development. Ismail
said, regardless of a call by Garang or any other
person, the Darfur problem can be solved politically
rather than militarily. This marks a shift in
government policy toward a region where it had long
denied any political dimension to unrest.
In a new report, the International Crisis Group warns
that a peace deal between the Khartoum government
and southern rebels will not be sustainable if conflicts
in the marginalized areas of Darfur, Abyei, Southern
Blue Nile and the Nuba mountains are not addressed.
AFP, citing Al
Anbaa; and AlRai Al-Aam
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
AFP, citing Al
Hayat
John Garang
AFP, citing AlAyam
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
John Garang
Sayyed al-Khatim,
GoS spokesman for
North-South peace
talks
IRIN
Abyei
Nuba Mountains
The clear danger is that as long as these groups

continue to feel marginalized and their views are not
represented in the IGAD process, the pull toward
violence will remain compelling.
The grievances of the populations in these regions had
long been viewed as matters of secondary
importance. There is real potential for those who feel
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This marks a shift in

government policy
toward Darfur, where
it had long denied
any political
dimension to unrest.
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ignored by the IGAD peace process to undermine any
deal that is between only the Khartoum government
and the rebel SPLA.
Kornoy repeatedly bombed in June 2003, provoking
the population to flee en masse to Chad.
Jun
2003
7 Jul
7 Jul
7 Jul
12 Jul
14 Jul
15 Jul
16 Jul
17 Jul
US President George Bush takes his first trip to

Africa, stating that he is carrying a message that
America cares about the future of Africa.
Eight killed in tribal clashes between Rizaiqat and
Maalia tribes in Adeelah district.
Governor of North Darfur, Osman Yousuf Kubur,
says 15 GoS and 30 rebels killed when Darfur
separatists attacked Al-Teinah garrison. Kibir said a
group of rebels crossed the border and engaged in
fighting with Chadian army troops, killing three.
Chadian army captured 12 rebels who are slated to be
extradited back to Sudan.
The SLM/A claims to have seized the garrison town of
Al-Teinah and killed 250 GoS soldiers, also capturing
14 military vehicles, while sustaining only one dead
and seven wounded. (AFP)
Rebels launch fresh attacks on Tinah, two days after
30 of their fighters were killed in same area, according
to the Sudanese Army. SUNA reports that a group of
thieves and robbers attacked residents and property in
Tinah. (AP)
On Tuesday 15 July, the Sudanese army claims it is
still fighting a group of highwaymen and bandits in
Al-Teinah.
Amnesty International again criticizes GoS record in
Darfur, noting, Darfur has been the scene of attacks
by armed groups on sedentary people and the
government has reacted to the situation by detaining
incommunicado community leaders and perceived
government critics.
On Thursday, the SLM/A claims they attacked GoS
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
WP
Kornoy
AFP
South Darfur
AFP
Adeelah
Tina
AFP; AP
Tina
Chad
George Bush
Tina
AFP
AFP
20
Kutum
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
20 Jul
23 Jul
24 Jul
25 Jul
28 Jul
forces northwest of Kutum in revenge for torching

of 19 villages in Kutum area. SLM/A claims it killed
more than 300 GoS troops, while suffering only 25
dead.
SLM/A claims GoS aircraft have carried out bombing
runs on two dozen villages killing at least 300 civilians
and wounded 200 others in the last three days. Mani
Arkoi Minawi told AFP that 25 villages in northwest
Darfur have been set ablaze and bombed by
Antonovs. He claimed possible use of toxic gas.
SLM/A agrees to a 2-3 week truce after talks with a
government delegation in rebel stronghold of Kornoy.
The SLM/A submitted a list of 12 demands including
formal recognition as political party, cessation of
government deployment of Arab tribal militiamen
against them and cessation of their branding as
highwaymen and bandits. The agreement was
reached after 3 weeks of talks.
The GoS delegation was composed of ethnic
Zaghawas, including Education Minister Ahmed
Babikir Nahar and 40 others.
GoS breaks off peace talks with Darfur rebels. The
rebel groups in North Darfur pretend to prefer
dialogue and negotiation in order to gain time for
building their capabilities said national security chief
Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah.
SLM/A Secretary-General Minni Arkou Minnawi
claims the Khartoum government has been
continuously bombing North Darfur, including the
Adar area. The Sudanese government states it has no
information concerning the reports of recent fighting.
SLM/A claims 50 civilians killed in government

attacks on villages in Darfur. SLM/A spokesman
Omar Suleiman claims GoS forces, aided by armed
gangs, torched villages and dropped bombs from
Antonov aircraft. Meanwhile, Omdurman Radio
AFP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AFP, citing
Al-Sahafa
Kornoy
Ahmed Babikir
Nahar
AFP, citing
SUNA
North Darfur
Salah Abdallah
Adar
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AFP
21
Kutum
Muhammad
Ahmad Dirdiery,
Sudans Deputy
Ambassador to
Kenya
Omar Suleiman
28 Jul
28 Jul
2003
29 Jul
29 Jul
19 Jul
28 Jul
and 1
30 Jul
reported that in fighting near Kuttum, government

forces killed 530 rebels including their leader.
Sudan detains Russian helicopter and crew. GoS
accuses the Russian helicopter crew of involvement in
a rebellion in western Sudan. State Minister of
Foreign Affairs Chol Deng Alak tells Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov that the helicopters
landing at nine locations of unrest inside Darfur state
has raised doubts about the helicopter.
In Meramta, a village of about 450 households,
approximately 25 km south of Al-Jeneina, more than
300 persons were reported to be killed, mostly shot, in
a dawn attack by the Janjaweed and government
soldiers.
Sudan releases 13-man crew of Russian Mi-26
helicopter after Russia appeals to UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan to help persuade Sudan to
release the craft and crew. Russia said the helicopter
was headed for the Democratic Republic of Congo on a
UN mission. Omdurman radio reported that
Khartoum suspected helicopter was used to evacuate
hundreds of wounded rebels, injured in clashes with
GoS forces.
Sudanese First VP Ali Osman Mohammed Taha
says in a speech in Al-Fashir, What is currently
happening in Darfur is another chapter led by John
Garang after he has been encircled and besieged by
the peace process in the south.what is going on in
Darfur is a war by proxy.
Humanitarian sources in Darfur tell the UN that the
SLM/A rebels are regularly attacking and looting
villages, taking food and sometimes killing people.
On July 19, SLM/A rebels attacked Tawila town, 60
km from El Fasher, killing two policemen and two
civilians.
Kasia village was attacked three times between the 28
and 1 August 2003, both by Arab militia and
AP
Chol Deng Alak

Igor Ivanov
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
Meramta
El Geneina
AFP
AP, citing
Radio
Omdurman)
Janjaweed
Kofi Annan
al-Fashir
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
John Garang
IRIN
Tawila
AI (Too
many people
Kasia
22
Reports of attacks on
civilians by SLM/A

Aug
2003
government soldiers.
1 Aug
5 Aug
6 Aug
5-6 Aug
2003
9 Aug
5 Aug
11 Aug
16 Aug
SLM/A claims to have captured Kuttum, killing 510

GoS troops, and suffering 15 casualties.
SLM/A pulls out of Kuttum, citing voluntary
withdrawal to spare Kuttums inhabitants from
possible government reprisals. SLM/A spokesman
Ibrahim Ahmed said 2,500 SLM/A fighters had
evacuated the town, seizing two tanks and destroying
five others as well as two helicopters.
Amnesty International condemns what is calls
stepping up of arbitrary arrests by the Sudanese
authorities, particularly in Darfur, where a new internal
armed conflict is developing. Amnesty cites
allegations of arrests of members of Fur and Zaghawa
ethnic groups in the context of the fighting between
army and rebels in the area of Kuttum and Tina in
North Darfur.
Pro-GoS Arab Miliitas attacks Kutum killing
civilians in what appeared to be targeted executions.
Many inhabitants of Kutum tried to flee to Al-Fasher,
some were stopped mid-way in Kafut by the Sudanese
army.
Chadian President Idriss Deby scheduled to meet
with Bashir on Sunday (10 Aug) to discuss matters
including the rebellion in Darfur.
SLM/A accuses pro-government militias of killing
some 300 civilians in Kuttum. We call on
international organizations to investigate what
happened in Kuttum SLM/A Secretary-General
Minawi told AFP. Minawi charged that on 5 August,
350 pro-GoS militiamen entered Kuttum after SLM/A
pulled out and killed some 300 civilians they accused
of sympathizing with us. They burnt and destroyed
houses and shops. He said Khartoums air force
bombed the town and neighboring villages before
militiamen entered Kuttum.
Thousands flee fighting in Darfur. Two weeks of
fighting around town of Kutum has caused about
10,000 displaced to seek refuge 90 km away in Al-

killed for no
reason)
AFP
Kutum
Ibrahim Ahmed
AFP
Kutum
Ibrahim Ahmed
AFP
Kutum
Tina
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
Kutum
al-Fashir
Kafut
AP
Idriss Deby
AFP
Kutum
Omar Al-Bashir
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AP, citing AlKhartoum
Kutum
Sulaf el-Din Saleh
23
24, 25
Aug
26 Aug
28 Aug
28 Aug
29 Aug
2003
5-6 Aug
2003
29 Aug
2003
29 Aug
30-31
Aug
Fashir, according to Sulaf el-Din Saleh, representative

of the governmental Humanitarian Relief Agency,
speaking to Al-Khartoum.
The SLM/A accuses the GoS of killing 46 civilians and
destroying 500 villages in North Darfur state.
Antonov planes bombarded on Sunday and Monday
[24 and 25 August] the city of Kornoy at the extreme
west of North Darfur, said Mani Arkoi Minawi.
Half of the city was destroyed, according to
Minawi who also accused pro-government militias of
destroying at least 500 villages in North Darfur in the
past 2 weeks.
GoS Humanitarian Aid Commission Emergencies
Director Khalid Faraj says that UN World Food
Program will launch food aid program including
airdrop, airlift and trucking to Darfur in early
September.
GoS destroys aircraft thought to be delivering supplies
to rebels.
Bauda, attacked on 29 August, at 10am
On 5 and 6 August, at least 42 civilians were reportedly

summarily killed in or outside their homes in Kutum
town, North Darfur, by Jenjaweed wearing
government soldiers uniforms. According to reports by
civilians, those shot dead were deliberately targeted
because they were community leaders and businessmen
of Zaghawa, Fur and Tungur ethnicities.
GoS downs aircraft delivering ammunition to rebels.
General Mohamed Beshir Suleiman stated the plane
was supplying the armed robbery bandits with
provisions and ammunition. Sudan Media Centre
quoted sources as saying the same plane was likely
used to evacuate the commander of the outlaws, Mani
Arkoi, from Deisah area after he had a deep wound in
his leg.
Soldiers and Janjaweed attack and burn Mororo,
stealing cattle and killing sixteen people. They return
AFP
Kornoy
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
North Darfur
AFP
Khalid Faraj
AP
Kornoy
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
Amnesty
International
Press Release
29 August
Bayda
Kutum
Janjaweed
AFP
Azoum Daresah
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
http://www.mafhoum
.com/press5/158S24.
htm
Kornoy
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
HRW,
Darfur
24
Mororo
Janjaweed
http://hrw.org/reports
/2004/sudan0504/

2003
Aug
2003
30, 31
Aug
1 Sep
the following day and kill twenty-four more people.

In August 2003, the village of Kishkish, in the Silaya
area, was cordoned by the Janjawid who allegedly
killed many of the villagers.
2 Sep
3 Sep
3 Sep
3 Sep
4 Sep
Talks between GoS and SLM/A held on 30 and 31

August in Abeche mediated by Chadian president
Idriss Deby. SLM/A Secretary-General Mani Arkoi
Minawi said, our leader Abdullah al-Bakr was in
Chad and ready to sign cease-fire accord. The GoS
was represented by Presidential Affairs Minister
Tayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair (formerly governor
of Darfur and North Darfur provinces). The SLM/A
was also represented by Yahia Hasan Neel, a member
of SLM/A Revolution Command Council.
A press report claims that a total of 81 people have
been killed in recent attacks by Arab militiamen on
villages in the east Jebel Marrah district in Southern
Darfur state. The independent Al-Ayam quotes South
Darfur MP Farah Mustafa Abdullah as saying the
attacks on Monday, 1 Sept, by armed militiamen
named as Jenjaweed had also caused 2,700 people
to flee their homes. Abdullah said a joint army-police
force was chasing down the militiamen. The SLM/A
has accused Khartoum of arming Jenjaweed and other
militias to stage attacks on non-Arab tribes in the
Darfur provinces.
The SLM/A says it is ready to sign a ceasefire
agreement with the Sudanese government. The
agreement would include a 45-day cessation of
hostilities to allow talks to take place between the
Khartoum government and the SLM/A, to be mediated
by Chad. Humanitarian access would be guaranteed,
and neither side would be allowed to resupply arms.
Late night on 3 Sep in Abeche, Chad, GoS and Darfur
rebels sign a 45 day ceasefire agreement. The ceasefire
is designed to allow further negotiations for permanent
settlement. In addition to the 45-day cessation of
hostilities, the agreement would guarantee

Destroyed
AI (Too
many people
killed for no
reason)
AFP
Kishkish
Janjaweed
Silaya
Abeche
Abdullah al-Baker
Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair
Yahia Hasan Neel
Idriss Deby
AFP, citing AlAyam
Jebel Marrah
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Farah Mustafa
Abdullah
Janjaweed
Abeche
AP; AFP;
IRIN
Abeche
Gadeen Godallah
Daquash
Chad
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
25
First EnglishLanguage news

source reporting of
Jenjaweed
humanitarian access and prohibit both sides from resupplying arms. Ceasefire to be monitored by tripartite committee of Sudanese and Chadian
governments and Darfur Liberation Army (SLM/A).
Essamt Abdel
Rahman
Zenelabdin
In Khartoum, a group of lawyers presented a petition to

Justice Minister Ali Yassin urging him to investigate
an air strike in Darfur which left 27 dead or wounded;
GoS denied the strike.
Abdullah al-Baker
Omar Suleiman,
SLM/A official at
negotiations
On Wednesday (3 Sept) 18 people were killed in a

rebel raid on a police station in southern Darfur,
according to Government spokesman Gadeen
Godallah Daquash. (AP)
4 Sep
5 Sep
6 Sep
6 Sep
AFP reports that the ceasefire agreement was signed by

Sudanese General Essamt Abdel Rahman
Zenelabdin (commander of the western region) and
Abdullah al-Bakar, on behalf of the SLM/A. The
Agreement calls for liberation of POWs and others
arrested in the conflict. (AFP)
Rebels in Darfur accuse GoS of continuing to attack
their bases just 24 hours before a ceasefire was due to
come into force. Mani Arkoi Minaoui, said,
warplanes belonging to government forces carried out
raids on our positions and our villages on Thursday,
(Sep 4).
GoS frees 54 SLM/A prisoners as part of truce with
Darfur rebels. Security adviser to the President, Col.
El-Tayeb Ibrahim Mohammed told reporters that the
captives from SLM/A would be freed from several
prisons throughout Sudan.
Presidential Affairs Minister Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair said a 15-member committee made
up of Khartoum officials, Chadian officials and
SLM/A figures (5 members from each party) would
hold its first meeting in the Sudanese border town of
Teina, in West Darfur State to kick off negotiations
for permanent peace and address issues of
underdevelopment.
AFP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AP
Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair
AFP
26
Tina
Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair

8 Sep
10 Sep
13 Sep
12, 13
Sep
14 , 15
Sep
SLM/A accuses GoS troops of violating 2-day old

ceasefire by firing mortars at a rebel base, a day after
killing two rebels in an air strike in Kutum. (AFP)
The SLM/A accuses the Sudanese government of
breaking a ceasefire agreement signed September 3,
claiming the government attacked three of its camps
outside Kutum in North Darfur. Two helicopter
gunships and government militias attacked the camps,
killing two SLM/A members and injuring four.
said that he did not know how many civilians were
affected. (IRIN)
GoS admits it killed 26 civilians in an air-strike last
month after mistaking civilians for rebels. Governor
of West Darfur state,. Suleiman Abdallah told AlAyam that Defense Minister Bakri Hassan Salih set
up a committee to investigate incident in the Habeela
area. Abdallah said GoS would pay blood money to
compensate for losses.
UN envoy meets GoS officials for Darfur aid talks.
UN Secretary-Generals envoy for humanitarian
affairs Tom Vraalsen met with GoS International
Cooperation Mininister Yousuf Suleiman Tekenah
to discuss development projects in 3 states of Darfur.
Tekenah blamed Darfur conflict on collapse of
development projects in the region.
SLM/A accuses pro-government militia of violating
truce. SLM/A Secretary-General Mani Minawi
accused GoS of systematically and daily violat[ing]
the truce since it took effect 6 Sept. 75 civilians were
allegedly killed when GoS-allied militiamen attacked
Khashaba, north of Kuttum province on Friday (12
Sept); 16 shepherds were killed Saturday (13 Sept) in
the area of Abu Leiha. SLM/A accused GoS
helicopters of raiding SLM/A positions on 8 Sep.
(AFP 14 Sep). (This account also confirmed by IRIN
on 15 Sep).

AFP; IRIN
Kutum
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
AFP, citing AlAyam
Habeela
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
Bakri Hassan Saleh
AFP , citing
SUNA
Tom Eric Vraalsen

Yousuf Suleiman
Tekenah
AFP, IRIN
Khashaba
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Kutum
Abu Leiha
The Sudanese government denies the allegations,
27
Abdulla el-Sadig,
Information
Advisor, Sudanese
embassy in London
15 Sep
15 Sep
16 Sep
17 Sep
17 Sep
21 Sep
saying the ceasefire signed in the Darfur area is still

holding. (IRIN)
Last week, a UN inter-agency assessment mission in
Chad witnessed the arrival of over 80 new refugees in
the border town of Agan, about 180 km from Abeche.
The refugees told the team they had fled government
forces bombing their villages.
Refugees fleeing from Darfur are currently scattered in
about 20 sites along Chads eastern border with Sudan.
SLM/A returns 135 government POWs to GoS on 15
Sept. Rebels have repeatedly accused the GoS of
violating the truce. Jebriel Abdallah, a North Darfur
State official acknowledged that 102 people had been
killed in the Sayalah region of North Darfur since the
accord was signed but did not identify who was
responsible for the deaths. Abdallah says the fighting
has cost 3,000 lives.
On 15 Sept the UN announced the launch of a 23
million dollar humanitarian aid initiative to promote
peace in the semi-desert region near the Chad border.
UN estimates for displaced stand at 400,000
The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (UNOCHA) says that the GoS and rebels have
agreed to allow free and unimpeded humanitarian
access to the western Darfur region. A UN statement
claims that the humanitarian situation deteriorated over
last 6 months due to fighting and banditry UN
agencies hope to gain access to all the 500,000 people
who had been receiving aid before the access
constraints began in March.
The UN launches an appeal for $22.8 million to assist
the three states in Darfur through a fast-track program
focusing on the creation of livelihoods and provision of
services.
GoS plans to provide several thousand tons of domestic
and international emergency food aid to Darfur.
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Mahmud
Hamid said the GoS would deliver 15,000 tons of
IRIN
Agam
AFP
Sayalah
Jebriel Abdallah
Chad
400,000 displaced
according to UN
estimates.
GoS acknowledges
3,000 killed so far
AFP
IRIN
AFP, citing Al
Ayam
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Tom Vraalsen
28
emergency food aid to assist 110,000 people with

4,000 tons to be provided by domestic stock, 5,000
tons from the EU and 6,000 from the UN and USAID.
Hamid also said another part of the project involved
rehabilitation of services in the area of water, health
care, sanitation, shelter and education. Landmines
would also be removed and weapons collected from
civilians.
22 Sep
23 Sep
25 Sep
26 Sep
29 Sep
28 Sep
30 Sep
GoS seeks to convene general conference to develop

the region taking into account states development
policy and UN Special Initiative for Greater Darfur.
SLM/A accuses militiamen allied to GoS of burning
villages and driving out people from their homes on 22
Sept in and around Jabal Marrah, Wadi Salah and
Kuttum. SLM/A President Abdel Wahed
Mohammed Ahmed Nur told AFP that inhabitants
had been fleeing militiamen to areas under rebel
control.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) reports that close to
15,000 Sudanese refugees are camped in and around
the Chadian town of Birak, up to 6,000 camped in
Tine, and tens of thousands of others are scattered
along the 400 km Chad-Sudan border. MSF has
received reports of militia groups in Darfur raping and
kidnapping women, burning down villages and stealing
cattle.
The Sudanese government and the Southern SPLA
rebels sign an accord in Kenya. Khartoum agrees to
withdraw most of its troops from the rebel-held south
of the country and begin integrating its soldiers with
rebel soldiers in a unified army.
UN appeals to donors to back North-South peace
process in Sudan. On the Darfur front, money is
earmarked for Darfur under the UN Quick Start
Peace Impact Programme that includes aid to
Darfur, according to Mukesh Kapila, UN
Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan.
Medicins Sans Frontieres says an estimated 2,000
militia from Darfur launched an attack in Chad against
AFP
Jabal Marrah
Wadi Salah
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Kutum
IRIN
Birak,
First reports of rape

in news dispatches
Tine
Chad
NYT
Kenya
AFP
Mukesh Kapila
Koulbous
29
UN Quick Start
Peace Impact
Programme
3 Oct
3 Oct
nomads in Koulbous, stealing 800 camels and taking

them across the border.
UNHCR launches an appeal to raise $16.6 million to
help more than 65,000 Sudanese refugees living
eastern Chad. Refugees began arriving en mass to
Chad in August fleeing fighting in Darfur. UNCHR
had closed its office in NDjamena in 2001 because of
funding problems, but now plans to reopen them.
Refugees are spread across more than a dozen sites
along Chads border with Sudan.
The UN estimates that at least 300,000 people have
been displaced by the conflict in Darfur since August
as a result of killings and looting and burning of
villages. This figure is in addition to 200,000 people in
South Darfur the UN estimates have been displaced
by drought and conflict before the militia attacks
escalated in March.

Birak
AP
Chad
NDjamena
IRIN
Millicent Mutuli,
spokeswoman for
UNHCR
West Darfur
UN estimates
500,000 displaced
South Darfur
North Darfur
In an assessment conducted in late September in South

Darfur, the UN found that of 62 villages, 46 had been
completely burned to ashes while the rest had been
looted.
In North Darfur, 20% of villages have been burned
and looted, resulting in 150,000 displaced people,
according to the UN.
The UN estimates that in West Darfur about 75,000
people have been displaced.
5 Oct
4 Oct
6 Oct
The UN reports that while violence was slowing in

North Darfur, militia attacks continued in West and
South Darfur.
Tribal clashes in Darfur kill 15. Kababeesh (nomadic
cattle herders) and Berti (sedentary tribesmen)
clashed when an armed group of Kababeesh attacked
the dwellings of the Berti tribe, according to Local
MP Tigani Seraj. Seraj said government has
dispatched reinforcements to the area to track attackers.
On 4 Oct, some 1,000 armed men aboard four-wheel
AP
AFP, citing Al
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Tigani Seraj
Koulbous
Beshir Ibrahim

drive vehicles killed or wounded dozens of people in 3pronged assault on Kulbus in Western Darfur State.
The GoS sent in troops to restore calm, according to
MP Beshir Ibrahim Yahia. Yahia said the attackers
were an anonymous group; but Al Ayam quoted
German-based vice chairman of the JEM Mussa
Hassan Jeru as saying that his group launched the
attack in retaliation for attacks by Janjaweed.

Ayam
Yahia
Mussa Hassan Jeru
Janjaweed
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Humanitarian Affairs Mininister Ibrahim Mahmud

Hamid announced that the UN has agreed to finance
program to collect weapons from rebels under ceasefire
deal. Under the truce, parties agreed to control
irregular armed groups.
8 Oct
8 Oct
8 Oct
Hamid described as satisfactory the food situation in

Darfur noting the availability of 980 tons of US
government food and 15,000 tons from EU and 2,000
from GoS.
UN OCHA appealed for urgent donations to provide
water, food, shelter and other relief for 500,000 fleeing
violence in Darfur, one week after UNHCR appealed
for $16.6 million for 70,000 refugees.
UN OCHA stated the number people in Darfur region
displaced because of recent conflict is estimated at
300,000 and an additional 200,000 internally
displaced in the course of the past 15 years, and that
militias continue to destroy livelihoods and cause
displacement into Nyala town in southern Darfur.
MSF appeals for aid, protection of refugees in Chad.
MSF notes that despite a September ceasefire,
bombing and burning of villages in western Sudan has
continued.
GoS sentences 14 to death by hanging for burning
villages and killing two people in Darfur. A special
tribunal in Al Fashir found 14 Arab assailants guilty
of arson and killing two Fur tribe members. One
woman was also found guilty a tribal singer
convicted of inciting the attackers, who were dressed in
Tom Vraalsen
AFP
Nyala
Greater Darfur
Special Initiative
announced 15 Sept.
300,000 displaced,
200,000 internally
displaced
AFP
Chad
AFP, citing Al
Rai Al Aam
al-Fashir
31
Mariam Azraq
Haroun, tribal
singer
Another example of
GoS punishing Arab
militias rather harshly
for attacks on Fur and
other non-Arab
tribes.
8 Oct
9 Oct
2003
military uniforms.
Medicins Sans Frontieres expresses concern about the
lack of assistance and protection for Sudanese refugees
in eastern Chad, stating that they are in dire need of
assistance and protection against violence as they are
receiving practically no assistance. UNHCR estimates
that about 75,000 refugees from Darfur are scattered on
the Chadian side of the border. UNHCR has
launched an appeal for $6.2 million for emergency
assistance for the refugees.
Soldiers and Janjaweed attack twelve villages in the
Murnei area Dingo, Koroma, Warai, Hydra,
Andru, Zabuni, Taranka, Surtunu, Narjiba,
Dureysa, Langa and Fojo - killing eighty-two people
including women, children, and worshippers in a
mosque, according to reports collected by local leaders.
IRIN
Chad
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Andru
Estimates of 75,000
Darfur refugees in
Chad
Janjaweed
/2004/sudan0504/
Dingo
Dureysa
Fojo
Hydra
Koroma
Langa
Murnei
Narjiba
Surtunu
Taranka
Warai
Zabuni
13 Oct
Sudan accedes to the Genocide Convention with the

United Nations, on 13 October 2003 The convention
actually enters into force for Sudan on 11 January
2004.
Sudan signs on to
Genocide Convention
http://www.unhchr.ch
/html/menu3/b/p_gen
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oci.htm
14 Oct
17 Oct
16 Oct
17 Oct
17, 18
Oct
19 Oct
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir frees his former

ally-turned rival and Sudanese opposition leader
Hasan al-Turabi after two years of house arrest.
President al-Bashir said the release was to prepare
for the coming peace era.
The SLM/A says it is keen to extend a ceasefire
agreement with the Sudanese government, due to
expire soon in order to meet the humanitarian needs of
people in Darfur.
SLM/A spokesman Ahmed Abd al-Shafi says Arab
militias attacked three villages in south Jebel Mara on
16 October burning them to the ground and killing 30
people. No one can control them [the militias], says
al-Shafi.
SLM/A accuses GoS of violating ceasefire on at least
47 occasions in 45 days since signing and questions
whether the accord will be renewed. SLM/A
Secretary-General Mani Arkoi Minawi states over
200 deaths have been caused by these violations. On
Oct. 17 and 18, helicopters bombarded targets of the
SLM/A, according to Minawi. The SLM/A claims
none of its 71 POWs have been released by the GoS,
whereas the SLM/A has released 79 GoS POWs. GoS
Minister for Presidential Affairs Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair said 54 SLM/A members were
released in early September, and the Al-Sahafa daily
had previously reported that the SLM/A had handed
over 135 GoS POWs.
NYT
Omar Al-Bashir
Hasan al-Turabi
IRIN
IRIN
45-day ceasefire took

effect 6 Sept + 45
days = 20 October
Jebel Marrah
AFP
Ahmad Abd alShafi
Abderahmane
Mussa
Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Chadian Minister of Public Security and

Immigration Abderahmane Mussa told AFP that
negotiations aimed at reaching a comprehensive peace
were to begin in Khartoum soon. Mussa said in
general the ceasefire has been respected.
18 Oct
20 Oct
Minawi invitee US and UK and European embassy

officials to observe negotiations.
100 killed in Darfur, according to Al Ayam. MP
Khalid Bilal, from Daresah said that on 18 Oct,
AFP, citing Al
Ayam
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Azoum Daresah
Khalid Bilal
20 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
23 Oct
Janjaweed militiamen staged attacks on 15 villages,

burning them down and displacing 15,000. Bilal said a
delegation of West Darfur parliamentarians would go
to the area to conduct fact-finding assessment.
The French Government donates $240,000 to ICRC
for procurement of clothing, blankets, soap, plastic
sheeting and also committed itself to supporting
development in Darfur French Ambassador
Dominique Reneaux last week toured Darfur to
inspect conditions of displaced.
65 Darfur MPs walk out of Parliament to protest GoS
failure to restore order in Darfur. The walkout was
preceded by a heated debate about Darfur situation
between deputies and the Deputy Speaker, Abdallah
al-Hardallu, according to the leader of the walkout,
MP Ahmed Haroun.
Haroun announced the group was protesting
instability, insecurity, acts of killing, devastation,
displacement and panic that hit our region and the
governments abandonment of its duty to maintain
order. He added continuing displacement and
crushing famine is not being adequately highlighted in
the state media.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell travels to Kenya
to provide support for talks to end the long-running
civil war in Sudan. Now that weve come this far,
lets finish it, lets kick it in, lets throw it into high
gear. Lets not miss this opportunity,
Secretary Powell suggests the possibility that the US
would renew diplomatic ties and lift sanctions if Sudan
reached a peace accord and acted further against
terrorism.
SLM/A voices opposition to North-South Peace deal
unless comprehensive settlement includes western
Sudan. SLM/A Secretary-General Mani Arkoi
Minawi claims that a peace accord between GoS and
SPLA will allow the government to regroup and
suppress Darfur and the SLM/A. If a peace deal is

Janjaweed
AFP
Dominique
Reneaux
AFP
Abdallah alHardallu
Ahmed Haroun
NYT
Colin Powell
AFP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
34
Darfur rebels threaten

North-South peace
deal
23 Oct
23 Oct
23 Oct
24 Oct
25 Oct
26 Oct
signed, Minawi warned, we will represent an obstacle

to the achievement of such a peace.
The two warring parties in the North-South conflict
agree to conclude negotiations no later than the end of
December. However, afterwards, a Sudanese
Presidential Peace Advisor, Ghazi Salaheddine,
said, It is impossible for anyone to dictate a date on
the two parties that are negotiating.
The UN estimates that the conflict in Darfur has
displaced over half a million people since March, in
addition to 70,000 who have fled across the border to
Chad. The latest UN estimates for this year document
at least 300,000 IDPs in North Darfur, 126,000 in
West Darfur, and 76,000 in South Darfur (200,000
displaced in South Darfur between 1998 and 2001).
Claiming that the Sudanese government has continued
to attack civilians in Darfur during the last ceasefire,
SLM/A spokesman Ahmad Abd al-Shafi responds,
There is no chance of another ceasefire. I dont think
so. The government insists on fighting.
Darfur MPs continue to boycott the National
Assembly demanding that Khartoum guarantees
restoration of security and relief for displaced. MP
Khalid Bilal said a guarantee could only come from
President Omar al-Bashir, whom the MPs are
scheduled to meet with on Saturday, 25 Oct. Bilal
demanded weapons be rounded up from non-official
forces and rebel militias, as well as relief aid delivered
and development of social programs.
Bilal claims that in his own Azoum Daresah, about
100 people were killed, 25,000 forced to flee when
4,000 armed men torched 28 villages last week.
MPs end boycott after President Omar al-Bashir
vows to rein in pro-government militias. MP Khalid
Bilal, who heads the West Darfur State
parliamentary group said, President Bashir has
pledged to put an end to the unlawful activities of the
Janjaweed and other militias whom he considers as
outlaws, and to the armed banditry in our region.
WP
IRIN
Ghazi Salaheddine
Chad
IRIN
AFP
UN estimates
500,000 displaced in
Darfur and 70,000
fled to Chad
Ahmad Abd alShafi
Azoum Daresah
Khalid Bilal
Omar al-Bashir
AFP
Al-Tayeb Ibrahim
Mohammed Khair
Salah Abdallah
Omar al-Bashir
35
Bilal said he was satisfied with the presidential

pledges.
27 Oct
27/28
Oct
29 Oct
Others in attendance of a 25 Oct meeting on the subject

included President Security Adviser Maj. Gen. AlTayeb Ibrahim Mohamed Khair and national
security chief Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah. Bilal
claims that the militias, originally formed and armed
by the government to help fight the rebels, are guilty of
robbery, looting and killing and are out of control.
Nine Sudanese relief workers for USAID are
reportedly killed while transferring aid to displaced
Sudanese in camps. Andrew Natsios, Administrator
for USAID urges GoS to guarantee safety of USAID
workers traveling to Darfur.
Earlier, Sualif el-Deen Salih, head of GoS
Humanitarian Aid Agency acknowledged for the first
time the seriousness of situation in Darfur.
USAID spokesperson Ellen Yount clarifies that
none of the workers killed were [USAID] relief
workers those killed were private commercial
transporters. The attack was on a WFP convoy (two
weeks ago).
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios says, We
are concerned about the fighting in Darfur and despite
a ceasefire which is not in force in some areas, more
people are killed and around 600,000, according to UN
agencies are internally displaced. Natsios plans twoday trip to Darfur, followed by trip to Kenya to discuss
post-peace plans between GoS and SPLA. Natsios
said that in FY 2003, USAID spent $160 million
dollars on aid to Sudan and had earmarked $200
million for FY2004.
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios visits Darfur
for two-day tour and pledges to increase humanitarian
aid for thousands of displaced. Natsios consents to
financing resettlement programs for estimated 500,000
displaced persons. USAID offered 16,000 tons of
Khalid Bilal
AP
Andrew Natsios
Sualif el-Deen
Salih
AFP
Andrew Natsios
Ellen Yount
AFP, citing AlAnbaa
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Andrew Natsios
36
Natsios gives IDP

figure for Darfur as
600,000
food. USAID humanitarian aid makes up 80% of total

aid sent to Darfur, according to state-owned Al-Anbaa
newspaper, cited by the AFP.
29 Oct
30 Oct
22 Oct
30 Oct
31 Oct,
5 Nov
First Vice President Ali Osman Taha tells Natsios

Peace has become an irreversible strategic option and
there will be no return to war.
SLM/A resumes peace discussions with GoS in
Abeche, Chad on 28 Oct. Two weeks ago clashes
between SLM/A and GoS were reported in Kulbus.
Peace talks between SLM/A and GoS become
deadlocked. The talks, held in Abeche, Chad stalled
as GoS and SLM/A accuse each other of demanding
unacceptable conditions for talks to continue. GoS
rules out deployment of international monitors in
Darfur, a rebel demand. GoS Foreign Minister
Mustafa Ismail said sending international monitors to
Darfur is ruled out because this will be an
internationalization of the problem. SLM/A
Secretary-General Mani Minawi said GoS imposed a
diktat on them, allegedly demanding SLM/A sign a
paper before resuming direct talks. The paper
purportedly would grant a general amnesty for SLM/A
and provides for SLM/A members to be absorbed into
GoS armed forces. Minawi demanded international
monitors to attend the talks and accused the Chadians
of lacking good faith in their shuttle diplomacy
mediation.
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios claims 7,000
casualties in Darfur since February, 600,000 displaced
and 300 villages burned.
Peace talks in Abeche between the Sudanese
government and the SLM/A break down. The SLM/A
blames the collapse on the governments failure to
accept the presence of international observers at the
negotiating table. Although Chadian authorities have
been present during the talks, the SLM/A views them
as friends of the government and calls for neutral
AFP
AFP, citing AlAnbaa
Abeche
Koulbous
Abeche
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Abdullah Abdul
Karim
Abdullah
Hasaballah Domee,
SLM/A delegation
leader
AP
IRIN
37
Andrew Natsios
Abeche
Muhammad
Ahmad Dirdiery
7,000 casualties in
Darfur cited by
USAID.
1 Nov
2 Nov
4 Nov
5 Nov
3 Nov
5 Nov
international observers. The Sudanese government

says there is no need to involve other countries, as
Chad was mediating the talks: Our position is that we
dont need to internationalize the issue.
The SLM/A accuses GoS of launching air-strikes
against their positions in Northern Darfur, according
to SLM/As chief negotiator, Abdullah Hasaballah
Domee. Domee claimed GoS Antonovs targeted
civilian zones and this action meant a resumption of
the war. Domee said he would ask Chadian
mediators to get an explanation on the bombing.
Khartoum denies dropping bombs on rebel held areas
but instead argues that the targeted areas were not
included in a ceasefire agreement. GoS military
spokesman General Mohamed Beshir Suleiman said
the bombing was the result of suspicious movements
by armed groups belonging to the Justice and
Equality Movement (JEM) in the Orshu area in
North Darfur. Suleiman said the area was not
covered by the ceasefire agreement and that GoS
forces stood up to a hostile act by the Justice and
Equality organization which has not signed the
ceasefire. Al-Rai Al-Aam reported that SLM/A was
suspending their participation in peace talks in protest.
SLM/A and GoS extend ceasefire. In a joint
communiqu, the SLM/A and GoS said it would
extend the September 3rd ceasefire another 30 days to
allow SLM/A to prepare annexes to a projected overall
peace pact. Chadian President Idriss Deby chaired
the 4 November discussions that resulted in the
extension. The ceasefire statement provided for
freedom of movement of people through the region and
for granting relief organizations access to people on
both sides.
The SLM/A reports that militias burned eight villages
in the Jebel Marra area, killing over 20 people. Last
week, government forces bombed areas around Kulbus
and Karnoi in West Darfur and the Jebel Marra
area, killing over 30 people.
AFP
North
Darfur
Abdullah
Hasaballah Domee
AFP citing
Akhbar AlYoum
Orshu
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Osman Bushra,
SLM/A delegate
Justice and
Equality
Movement (JEM)
AFP; AP;
IRIN
IRIN
Idriss Deby
Jebel Marrah
Koulbous
Karnoi
38
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
8 Nov
A military spokesman, General Muhammad Bashir

Suleiman, admitted that some aerial attacks had taken
place over the weekend in North Darfur, but that they
were targeting a different rebel group, the smaller
Justice and Equality Movement.
Armed Arab militias sacked and burned villages in
West Darfur state in clashes with police. Zalinje
district commissioner Nihaidh Saleh said numerous
armed Janjaweed militiamen from North Darfur
invaded and burned down six villages. The militiamen
imposed taxes on people in markets and commercial
trucks. They attacked a police station and two men
were killed.

North Darfur
AFP, citing
Akhbar Al
Youm and AlAyam;
Kas
Zalingie
Ahmed Abdel
Rahmen Abu LuLu
West Darfur
Nihaidh Saleh
Adam
Hamid Mussa
Another recent report claims that 17 persons were

killed by Janjaweed near Kas, northwest of Nyala.
Militas burned down 69 villages, displacing 12,000,
according to Kas MP Ahmed Abdel rahmen Abu
Lu-Lu.
9 Nov
9 Nov
South Darfur Governor General Adam Hamid

Mussa denied the report.
Zilinije district commissioner urges Khartoum to
intervene to rein in Janjaweed. Commissioner
Mohamed Nihaidh Saleh said events had grown out
of control and beyond capabilities of local and state
resources. The commissioner alleged the Janjaweed
were armed by the GoS to fight the SLM/A. 32
villages burned and 88 killed; 32,000 feddans of
farmland burned.
Meanwhile, a local tribal chieftain was abducted by
gunmen at Kukul marketplace north of Al-Fashir
and North Darfur Gov. Osman Yousuf Kibir
accused the SLM/A.
US officials complain that they have been barred from
entering South Darfur to assess humanitarian situation.
The Charge daffaires and other embassy personnel and
USAID officials were granted permission by Sudan
Foreign Ministry but barred by Humanitarian Aid
AFP
AFP
39
Zalingie
Nihaidh Saleh
Kukul
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
South Darfur
10 Nov
10 Nov
11 Nov
12 Nov
12 Nov
14 Nov
Commission (HAC) a GoS agency.

UN alleges Khartoum bureaucracy impeding adequate
humanitarian relief response. Ben Parker, spokesman
for UN Humanitarian Coordinator in Sudan
(Mukesh Kapila) said some aid operations havent
been able to start. Permit applications (promised on
24 hour turnaround) have been delayed according to
Parker. In the case of Darfur we remain concerned
because procedures as currently followed remain a
hindrance. Parker warned Darfur may emerge as
the worst humanitarian crisis in Sudan since 1998.
GoS denies it banned US officials from entering South
Darfur. Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Hassabu
Mohamed Abdel Rahman said US officials failed to
fill in special form for foreigners.
Unidentified gunmen kill 15 in four separate attacks,
the private Sudanile website reports, quoting MP
Bashir Ibrahim Yahyah. No dates were given. The
GoS claims that it has stopped supporting Janjaweed
militias but that they had run out of control.
The Netherlands pledges 3.5 million Euros to aid
post-war Sudan. Dutch International Development
Cooperation Minister Agnes van Ardenne said The
Netherlands also offered 1.2 million euros in
humanitarian assistance to Darfur.
Meanwhile, the UK has pledged $1.6 million and
Norway $400,000 towards the UN goal of $23 million.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Ruud
Lubbers claims up to 70,000 Sudanese have left
Darfur for Chad. He said hundreds of thousands
suffering might remain inside Sudan.
International relief agencies sounding alarm over food
crisis in Darfur. UN Coordinator for Humanitarian
Affairs Mukesh Kapilas office estimates 400,000500,000 internally displaced, 70,000 fled into Chad
amidst a growing number of displacements resulting
from militias burning villages and farmland.
AFP
Ben Parker
AFP
Hassabu Mohamed
Abdel Rahman
AFP, citing
Sudanile
website
Bashir Ibrahim
Yahyah
AFP
Agnes van
Ardenne
AP
Ruud Lubbers
AFP
Medair, Swiss NGO, appeals for other NGOs to
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El Geneina
Ben Parker
West Darfur
Mukesh Kapila
14 Nov
14 Nov
17 Nov
18 Nov
19 Nov
21 Nov
21 Nov
23 Nov
23 Nov
23 Nov
assist in West Darfur state as current relief agencies

on the ground (Medair, Save the Children; ICRC,
UNICEF, WFP) stretched thin. Medair tending to
60,000 in el Geneina.
Lubbers, who visited Sudan this week, expresses
concern over the deteriorating situation in Darfur. He
urges authorities to grant full access to humanitarian
organizations.
SLM/A political director Abdulaziz Yahya says that
the Janjaweed have attacked 49 villages in northern
and western Darfur over the past two weeks.
GoS Humanitarian Aid Commissioner (HAC) Sulaf
Eddin Salih accuses SLM/A of murdering two aid
HAC workers during an attack on a GoS relief convoy.
HAC appealed to international community to stop
support political, material or moral to rebels.
4 Medair relief workers reported missing (they
disappeared on Nov. 11) Later reports say JEM was
holding them. (See 20 Nov. AFP article)
Government of Chad protests attacks by Sudanese
militia on Chadian civilians. Radio Chad reports
Haroun Saleh, Governor of Ouaddai prefecture
complained to the Sudanese consul general Khalid
Abbas Hamid about cross border attacks by the
Sudanese Peoples Army.
At least 10 civilians killed during a bombing raid on
SLM/A positions and villages in Cornei region (130
Km north of al-Fasher), according to SLM/A official
Abdallah Hassaballah.
Government newspaper accuses SLM/A of killing
policemen in Darfur. SLM/A rebels allegedly
launched attack on 21 Nov in Merinshik in South
Darfur. SLM/A accused of kidnapping 5 policemen
and holding them at SLM/A Kidnair camp in Jebel
Marrah.
Four Sudanese Medair relief workers freed in Chad.
GoS First Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed
Taha warns opposition Popular Congress that their
actions have been negative in respect to fanning
IRIN
Ruud Lubbers
IRIN
Abdulaziz Yahya
AFP
North Darfur
Sulaf el-Din Saleh
AFP; AP
Koulbus
Erik Volkmar,
Medair director
AP, citing
Radio Chad
Silaya
Ouaddai
Haroun Saleh
Khalid Abbas
Hamid
AFP
Cornei
AFP, citing AlAnbaa daily.
Merinshik
Abdallah
Hassaballah
Kidnair Camp
Jebel Marrah
AFP
AP; AFP
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Chad
Zalingie
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
sedition in Darfur. (AP)

AFP reports Taha as saying that ever since the
release of its leader (Turabi) the Popular Congress
has never ceased fanning sedition in Darfur. AFP
also reports that Taha charged Popular Congress
Party members with infiltrating the SLM/A delegation
to the Chad peace negotiations to block progress.
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
Mohammed AlAmin Khalifa
Meanwhile, State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs

Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah said 120 villages were
recently burned in Darfurs Zalingi area, about 150
km from Chad border. Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah said
over 55,000 people were affected. (AFP)
26 Nov
27 Nov
Khalil Ibrahim, exiled chairman of the Justice and

Equality Movement (JEM), a Darfur rebel group,
says that marginalized groups in Sudan, including rebel
groups fighting in Darfur, will not accept a bilateral
peace agreement between the government and the
SPLA, because the SPLA only represents Southern
Sudan and such an agreement could never be
comprehensive. Ibrahim said fighting would flare up
in eastern Sudan and Kordofan, as rebel groups who
felt their causes were not being represented would
emerge: After a peace agreement between the SPLM
and the government there will be heavy fighting. It
will be a period of dictatorship sponsored by the
international community. Ibrahim said the JEM had
already established some contact with other groups
such as the Beja in eastern Sudan, as was moving in
the direction of a coordinated military response.
Amnesty International blames Khartoum for human
rights and humanitarian crises in Darfur. Amnesty
claimed it had evidence (including refugee testimony)
that the GoS was mainly to blame for the violence in
Darfur. Refugees claim militias armed with
Kalashnikovs, bazookas and dressed in green army
uniforms raided villages, burnt houses and killed cattle.
There were also allegations of abduction and rape by
IRIN
South Sudan
Mohammed Khalil
Ibrahim
Kordofan
AFP; IRIN
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2003
the Arab militias, charges that the GoS planes bombed

villages and that military security officials tortured
detainees. Amnesty warned the situation in Darfur is
at risk of rapidly degenerating into full-scale civil war.
UNHCR says the security situation along the Chadian
border is deteriorating, as militias launch bolder and
more aggressive attacks.
GoS kill 14 civilians in bombing raid. SLM/A claims
Antonov planes bombed the town of Bishau in North
Darfur State and the Ashmara region in West
Darfur, according SLM/A leader Abdel Wahed
Mohammed Ahmed al-Nur.
GoS and SLM/A are due to restart negotiations to
reach comprehensive settlement in Chad on Dec. 4.
In November 2003, Janjaweed attacks kill at least
twenty in Mango and nearby villages of Angar,
Bayda, Nyorongta and Shushta in the TerbebaArara area.
IRIN
Chad
AFP
Bishau
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Ashmara
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Angar
Janjaweed
/2004/sudan0504/
Janjaweed
/2004/sudan0504/
Bayda
Mango
Nyorongta
Shushta
Nov and
Dec
2003
In November and during the first week of December

2003, 112 killed in two attacks on Urum, near Habila.
During the first attack, in November 2003,
eyewitnesses reported that Janjaweed came without
the army and burnt eighty of 300 huts. They took
3,000 head of cattle and killed forty-two men, most of
them young men.
A second, joint attack by army and Janjaweed
followed in the first week of December variously
reported as December, 6 or 7, 2003. The Janjaweed
returned, this time with the army, at 6:00 a.m. Eighty
people, including women and children, were killed in
the second attack, which lasted four days while the
army watched.
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Terbeba-Arara
Urum
Habeela
43

1 Dec
2 Dec
3 Dec
Antonov planes bomb Jibal Nun region on 1

December, leaving 47 dead, according to Abdel
Wahed Mohammed Ahmed al-Nur, President of
SLM/A.
GoS shuts down independent newspaper Al-Ayam,
purportedly for publishing news about fighting in
Darfur.

AFP
Jibal Nun
El-Geneina
AP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Mohamed Salih,
editor in chief
Kamal al-Sadek,
managing editor
3 Dec
8 Dec
8 Dec
9 Dec
9 Dec
The SLM/A says the resumption of a ceasefire

agreement with the Sudanese government is highly
unlikely, claiming that they have no interest in going
to peace talks as long as there is continued aggression
from the government. The agreement was renewed on
November 4, 2003, for one month.
One million affected by strife in Darfur, says UN
envoy for humanitarian affairs Tom Vraalsen. UN
and US officials estimate at least 7,000 killed, 600,000
displaced. Vraalsen is on one week visit to Sudan.
The UN Head of Emergency Relief Coordination,
Jan Egeland, expresses concern over the deteriorating
humanitarian situation in Darfur and urges both sides
to resist attacking civilians. He says the insecurity in
Darfur has now reached unprecedented levels and
labels the humanitarian situation in the region as one
of the worst in the world.
Egeland says that only $12 million out of the $22.8
million requested by the UN under the Greater
Darfur Special Initiative, launched in September,
had been received.
SLM/A President Abdel Wahed Mohammed al-Nur
warns that the North-South peace process, driven by
US pressure, should not neglect Darfur. There will be
no comprehensive peace in Sudan without a settlement
of all Sudanese problems al-Nur warned.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan expresses worry
over Darfur. His spokesman, Fred Eckhard says that
Annan is alarmed at the rapidly deteriorating
humanitarian situation in the Darfur region, and by
IRIN
AP
Tom Vraalsen
IRIN
Jan Egeland
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
AFP
Kofi Annan
Fred Eckhard
44
Darfur one of the

worst humanitarian
catastrophes in the
world according to
the UN Head of
Emergency Relief
Coordination, Jan
Egeland
10 Dec
10 Dec
reports of widespread abuses against civilians,

including killings, rape and the burning and looting of
entire villages.
Chadian President Idriss Deby flies to Khartoum to
discuss Darfur issues. Humanitarian figures for
displaced now range from 500,000 to one million.
MSF claims 13,000 refugees arrived last week in the
area around border town of Adre.
Chadian newspaper NDjamena Hebdo notes last
months visit by new head of AU Secretariat, former
Malian President Alpha Oumar Konare to Chad
could signal involvement of other points of view to
settle Darfur conflict.
Western diplomats in Sudan express concern for
greater need of humanitarian aid for Darfur. France
and Germany strongly support an Abeche initiative
for Chadian government mediation between
Khartoum and SLM/A. Negotiations were postponed
from 4 Dec to 10 Dec. and again for 5 more days.
AP
Adre
Alpha Oumar
Konare
Michel Francoys,
MSF head of
mission in Chad
AFP
Abeche
Nyala
11 Dec
15 Dec
Issa Maraut, France

Charge dAffairs,
Khartoum
Hans Gunter
Gnodtke, German
Ambassador
French and German diplomats met with 16 chieftains

representing 8 local tribes. Chieftains invited
diplomats to Nyala for a conference.
10 Dec
Idriss Deby
Chadian President Idriss Deby and Sudanese

President Omar al-Bashir meet in Khartoum to
discuss Darfur.
On 11 December 2003, Janjaweed and soldiers attack
three villages in the Bareh area Arey, Haskanita
and Terchana killing 111 people.
AFP
More than 10,000 flee to eastern Chad over the past

week, according MSF senior aid worker Sonja
Peyrassol. Peyrassol says 20,000 refugees have
arrived in Birak area; 60,000 elsewhere in Chad.
AP
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Mohammed Osman
al-Mirghani,
opposition leader
Omar al-Bashir
Arey
Idriss Deby
Janjaweed
Haskanita
AP article notes that when activated by the

Government, the militias are usually allowed to loot
45
Terchana
Birak
Sonja Peyrassol
/2004/sudan0504/
15 Dec
16 Dec
16 Dec
16 Dec
17 Dec
16, 17
Dec
18 Dec
18 Dec
villages as compensation for their services.

Darfurian members of Sudans National Assembly
appeal for international intervention to stop killings and
displacement in the region. The MPs have demanded
that Darfur be discussed at the current peace talks in
Kenya between the government and the Southern rebel
group, the SPLA.
Peace talks resume between SLM/A and GoS in
Ndjamena.
Darfur peace talks break down. Chadian minister says,
we note with regret that the rebellion set out
unacceptable terms and thus blocked the talks.
According to Chadian Communications Minister
Abdramane Moussa, the SLM/A claimed autonomy
for Darfur, wanted their own armed force to control the
region and to be given a percentage of Sudanese
national oil revenue.
US criticizes SLM/A and GoS for breakdown in peace
talks. US State Dept. Spokesman Richard Boucher
says that the US deplores the parties lack of
engagement to end hostilities in Darfur, despite efforts
by the United Nations and the government of Chad to
facilitate talks and a humanitarian cease-fire.
GoS accuses political parties of meddling in Darfur
peace talks. North Darfur Governor Osman Yousuf
Kibir said demands made by the SLM/A bore
fingerprints of some parties and powers, then
accused Hassan al-Turabis Popular Congress Party
of standing behind the rebels.
GoS gears up for renewed fighting in Darfur. North
Darfur Governor Osman Yousuf Kibir announces a
statewide mobilization on 17 December and orders
curfews; South Darfur Governor Adam Hamid
Mussa instructs authorities to be on alert and also
orders a curfew in Nyala beginning on 16 December.
EU pledges normalization of ties with Sudan upon
signing of North-South peace accord and resume
development cooperation.
IRIN
AFP
Ndjamena
AFP
Abdramane
Moussa
AFP/AP
Richard Boucher
AFP
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
AFP
Nyala
Beshir Adam
Rahmah, Popular
Congress political
affairs secretary
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Adam Hamid
Mussa
AFP
46
Alfredo Mantica,
Italian foreign
ministry official,
head of EU
19 Dec
Head of GoS delegation to Ndjamena peace talks,

Major General Abdel Karim Abdallah claims that
the SLM/A is backed by Eritrea and Popular
Congress, which has resulted in collapse of talks.

delegation
Abdullah Abdul
Karim
AFP
Suleiman Jamous
Abu Bakr Hamid
Ahmed Keir
Jebreel
19 Dec
19 Dec
20 Dec
20 Dec
23 Dec
23 Dec
UN Refugee expert Francis Deng says 670,000

displaced.
GoS closes the Khartoum office of Arabic satellite
television station al-Jazeera and detained one of its
correspondents. The country's official news agency
accused al-Jazeera and its reporter Islam Salih Bello of
lies and distortion in part for reporting on crisis in
Darfur.
West Darfur Governor Major General Suleiman
Abdullah imposes curfew on Geneina.
On 20 December 2003, government soldiers and
Janjaweed all wearing similar uniforms and supported
by three helicopter gunships attack Habila Canare,
twenty-five kilometers east of El Geneina killing fifty.
President Omar al-Bashir requests Sudan
Parliament to extend state of emergency for one
more year - in part based on rebellion in Darfur.
UN Refugee agency to send emergency team to Chad
to assist some 91,000 refugees from Darfur scattered
along Chadian eastern border. If there ever was an
invisible emergency, this is it, UNCHR spokesman
Ron Redmond tells the press.
Beshir Adam
Rahmah
Francis Deng
BBC News
website
Islam Salih Bello
AFP
El Geneina
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Habila Canare
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
Janjaweed
El Geneina
AFP
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Chad
Ron Redmond
Farachana
Refugee Camp
Abeche
24 Dec
The team will go to Abeche and then help transfer

refugees to a new site in Farachana which has been
designed to hold 10,00 refugees.
SLM/A leader Abdel Wahed Mohammed al-Nur
AFP/AP
47
Displaced estimate
rises to 670,000
Kabkabiya
Abdel Wahed
/2004/sudan0504/
says that the GoS launched a massive offensive against

SLM/A in eastern Kabkabiya region in North
Darfur, which he claimed the SLM/A repelled, killing
84 GoS troops. According to al-Nur, GoS used tanks,
armored vehicles, supported by Antonovs.
24 Dec
25 Dec
27 Dec
28 Dec
29 Dec
29 Dec
29 Dec
30 Dec
Khartoum blames SLM/A for breakdown in talks,

citing their unacceptable demands.
Sudans government and southern rebels agree to a
50/50 split of oil revenues once the civil war ends.
The Sudanese Army reports an attack by Darfur rebels
on Kulbus, the second assault in 24 hours. According
to the GoS military, the first attack was carried out
jointly by SLM/A and JEM . GoS says it repulsed both
attacks by bandits.
GoS State Foreign Minister Al-Tigani Salih Fidahil
and Intelligence Chief Major General Abdel Karim
Abdallah (head of peace talks delegation) visited
Ndjamena on 25 Dec to deliver a message from
President Omar al-Beshir to Chadian President
Idriss Deby.
On 28 December 2003, soldiers and Janjaweed kill
twenty-four people in Kondoli, in the Misterei area.
The GoS accuses Eritrea of fomenting trouble in
Darfur. President Omar al-Bashir says Eritrea
supplying arms and training rebels. (AP)
AFP reports President Bashir accuses Eritrea taking
care of wounded rebel soldiers. Eritrea later denies
accusations (see 30 Dec. AFP article)
On 29 December 2003 Janjaweed and army troops,
supported by two helicopter gunships, attack the area
of Nouri, near Murnei with anywhere between 136170 killed.
Sudanese Parliament renews the state of emergency
for one year, beginning 1 Jan.
President Omar al-Bashir says skirmishes between
GoS and insurgents in Darfur will not affect talks with
SPLA
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
NYT
AFP
Koulbous
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
Ndjamena
Abdullah Abdul
Karim
Omar al-Bashir
Idriss Deby
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
AFP/AP
Kondoli
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Nouri
Janjaweed
Omar al-Bashir
Janjaweed
Murnei
AFP
AFP
48
/2004/sudan0504/
Omar al-Bashir
/2004/sudan0504/

30 Dec
31 Dec
Popular Congress leader Hassan al-Turabi denies

involvement with Darfur conflict.
President Omar al-Bashir threatens to annihilate
Darfur rebels and announces war against western
insurgent groups as a top priority. We will use the
army, the police, the mujahedeen, the horsemen to get
rid of the rebellion, al-Bashir said.

Hasan al-Turabi
AFP/AP
49
Omar Al-Bashir
Note President Omar

al-Bashirs reference
to horsemen.
2004 Events
Event
Date
2 Jan
3 Jan
Publica
tion
Date
3 Jan
4 Jan
5 Jan
6 Jan
6, 7 Jan
Event
Source
Locations
Names
SLM/A claims that on 2 January GoS troops and allied

militias killed more than 200 civilians in a village west
of Marra Mountain and east of Zalingie province.
Ahmed Abdel-Shafi Yagou, SLM/A spokesman,
accused the GoS of vigorous ethnic cleansing and
said GoS used artillery and air defences to raid
civilians.
On 3 January rebels kill six security officers in an
attack on Shiariyah town in northeast South Darfur,
according to Governor Adam Hamid Mussa.
Sudan lodges official complaint with UN Security
Council accusing Eritrea of supporting rebellion in
Darfur. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
accuses Eritrea of being unhappy that Khartoum and
the SPLA were about to reach a peace deal as reason
for allegedly supporting the rebellion.
UK denies Sudanese media charge that it was stoking
conflict in Darfur. UK Ambassador William Patey
responded to commentary in official Al-Anbaa
newspaper and other dailies accusing Britain of
attempting to internationalize the rebellion. Patey said,
The UK does not support any party to the conflict in
Darfur and has continuously called upon all parties to
address the problems in Darfur through dialogue, to
maintain a cease-fire and allow unrestricted
humanitarian access. Patey had suggested Chad be
assisted in its bid to mediate in Darfur by a fourth party
to help in implementation of any agreement. He said
UK was willing to offer good offices to help reach
settlement in Darfur.
UN Special Envoy for Sudan Tom Vraalsen to head
to Chad on 7 January to enlist Ndjamenas support for
humanitarian ceasefire to assist refugees caught in
Darfur fighting. Vraalsen also will stop in Abeche to
AFP
Marra Mountain
Ahmed AbdelShafi Yagou
Zalingie
AFP
Shiariyah
Adam Hamid
Mussa
AFP; AP,
citing SUNA
Eritrea
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Chad
William Patey
AFP; AP
Ndjamena
Tom Eric Vraalsen
Chad
50
Notes
7 Jan
7 Jan
29, 31
Dec
2003
5 Jan
8 Jan
8 Jan
assess refugee situation. Vraalsen says there are

90,000 refugees in Chad at the moment. (AFP, 6 Jan.;
AP, 7 Jan.)
GoS delegation returns from nine-day tour of West
Darfur and South Darfur the group concluded
contracts with two transport companies for delivery of
relief supplies. Delegation says GoS armed forces are
working to tighten their grip on the situation which
would ease the delivery of relief supplies.
The European Union (EU) calls for ceasefire in
Darfur. In a statement issued by Irish Presidency, EU
called on the GoS and SLM/A to respect the 3 Sept.
ceasefire: The EU urges the parties to deploy the
maximum effort to ensure the full respect for human
rights and the protection of the civilian
population.the EU urges the parties to ensure full
and unimpeded access by relevant UN bodies and
agencies and other humanitarian actors.
Chadian independent weekly Le Progres reports that
16 members of the Sudanese government-sponsored
militia, janjaweed were killed in a 29 Dec. clash
with Chadian government troops near the Chadian
border town of Agam. One Chadian officer was also
killed. Two days later on 31 Dec. Chadian troops
repulsed another Sudanese militia incursion near AmDjerima, another border town.
SLM/A field commander killed in major battle with
GoS earlier this week. Abdallah Abbaker,
commander of the SLM/A was killed in a fierce battle
over Abugamrah which GoS forces retook, according
to North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf Kibir.
Speaking to SUNA, Kibir said that many other rebels
were killed or captured. Governor Kibir claimed the
rebels had been weakened by the battle and predicted
that security problems (in Darfur) will be resolved in
the next few days, giving way to a lasting peace.

Abeche
AFP
West Darfur
South Darfur
AFP
AP (citing Le
Progres)
Chad
Janjaweed
Agam
Am-Djerima
AFP
Abu Gamrah
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Um Kutkout
Abdullah Al-Baker
Um Kaddadah
Governor Kibir claims that the SLM/A attacked Um

Kutkout village in Um Kaddadah county that same
week and attacked a Popular Defense camp housing
51
2003 Janjaweed
incursion into Chad
7 Jan
8 Jan
a number of mujahedeen (holy fighters) who protected

the civilians against the bandits.
The Sudanese government and Southern rebels come
close to a final peace agreement as they sign a deal to
share the countrys wealth and to work for a united
Sudan. The deal calls for a referendum on the Souths
possible secession in six years. Two remaining issues
exist: how to share political power and the status of
three contested areas. Diplomats believe a complete
peace package will be agreed in the next two weeks.
(Guardian, NYT)
Guardian,
WP, NYT
Jack Straw
Hilary Benn
George W. Bush
While Britain lauded the agreement, Foreign

Secretary Jack Straw and International
Development Secretary Hilary Benn also expressed
deep concern over the fighting in Darfur.
(Guardian)
9 Jan
9 Jan
Pushing hard for an agreement, President Bush invites

both sides to the White House once they reach a
comprehensive settlement. (WP)
Sudanese refugees arriving in Chad are reporting that
marauding militia groups are burning, looting and
emptying entire villages in Darfur. AFP notes that
UNHCR Spokesman Ron Redmond did not touch on
the sensitive issue of the relationship between
Khartoum and the militia known as the Janjaweed.
Redmond said the descriptions that we got are that
they are Arab militia. Redmond said there were
reports of rape and abduction of women and girls by
militia and some have alleged ethnic cleansing was
taking place. Redmond said reports could not be
confirmed as humanitarian agencies were unable to
work in Darfur, but the UN regarded these reports as
credible.
A senior US State Department official speaking on
the condition of anonymity says that Darfur is getting
worseit could be a military disaster and that an
eventual North-South peace deal could be marred by it.
The official believed that the North-South peace
AFP
Chad
Ron Redmond
Janjaweed
AFP
52
Washington
John Garang
10 Jan
12 Jan
13 Jan
13 Jan
agreement could have served as model for Darfur

settlement and hoped John Garang and the GoS could
cooperate to solve Darfur. What is in the North-South
deal easily is transferable into this western problem.
All these things that are in the deal will help alleviate
the western problem if we can get the deal in time to
turn it on the west.
The AU promises to investigate claims by GoS of
Eritrean meddling in Sudanese affairs.
GoS planes bombed town of Tine, according to a
diplomat in Chad. The bombardment comes after an
ultimatum from GoS several days ago demanding the
town be evacuated or it would be raised. JEM, which
controls Tine, confirmed in a statement that the
Khartoum government had launched a bombing raid on
the town and the other areas in Darfur on Monday, 12
Jan, killing 45 people. The town of Kornoi and the
village Forawya were also hit, along with villages of
Bassaw and Be-Ter.
Sudanese embassy in Chad refused to comment, but
responded that no civilians live in Tine, only rebels.
An embassy spokesman claimed that JEM and SLM/A
are one and the same. JEM military spokesman,
Colonel Abdallah Abdel Karim acknowledged to the
AFP that the two groups coordinate military
activities.
SLM/A accuses GoS of conducting ethnic cleansing in
Darfur. Khartoum uses foreign and MiG planes to
bomb civilian areas and is carrying out a policy of
ethnic cleansing according to SLM/A SecretaryGeneral Mani Arkoi Minawi. SLM/A also denied it
was supported by Eritrea or Israel. SLM/A
welcomed the American vision of settling the problem
in Darfur along the lines of the solution set up to
overcome the difficulties in Southern Sudan.
AFP
Eritrea
AFP
Tina
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Kornoy
Forawiyah
Bassaw
Be-Ter
AFP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Ghazi Suleiman
Sudanese human rights group calls for release (or trial)

of 35 Darfurian detainees accused of involvement in
the rebellion, according to the head of the Sudan
53
13 Jan
14 Jan
14 Jan
15 Jan
Human Rights Group, Ghazi Suleiman.

UN special envoy Tom Vraalsen calls on Sudan to
grant greater access to aid agencies. (AP)
UN special envoy Tom Vraalsen defends UNHCR
decision to move 9,000 refugees further inside Chad
away from border. UNHCR built a safer camp in an
area called Furchana, 55 km inside Chad. After
visiting camps in Chad, Vraalsen appeals for $4.3
million in order to launch a three-month emergency
operation (administered by UNHCR and WFP) to
meet the immediate needs of 95,000 Sudanese refugees
from Darfur who have fled into Chad.
Darfur rebels abduct 13 civil servants and ransack a
market place, according to SUNA. President Omar
al-Bashir denies insurgency arises from neglect of
Darfur region, but instead argues that it stems from
certain politicians pursuing their interests. (AP)
North Darfur Governor Osman Yousuf Kibir
announces a crackdown on SLM/A saying he had
ordered police to pursue and arrest everyone
suspected of conducting rebel activities or of colluding
with the rebels. Charges would include terrorism,
premeditating murder, criminal collusion, formation of
unlawful armed organizations, waging war against the
state, attempting to undermine the regime, agitating
army servicemen. Espionage and collusion with foreign
state. (AFP)
Reaffirming US support for the North-South peace
process, US envoy John Danforth arrives in
Naivasha, Kenya to urge the Sudanese government
and the SPLM to reach an agreement quickly.
UN humanitarian envoy to Sudan Tom Vraalsen
urges greater Khartoum engagement on economic and
social front in solving Darfur problem. Vraalsen
believes that a North-South agreement had to first be
concluded, saying, I would expect that whenever an
agreement is signed for North-South, that the problems
of Darfur would have to be addressed.
AFP; AP;
IRIN
Farchana
Refugee Camp
AP; AFP
Tom Eric Vraalsen
Omar Al-Bashir
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
IRIN
AFP
54
Naivasha
John Danforth
Tom Eric Vraalsen

16 Jan
16 Jan
17 Jan
19 Jan
20 Jan
US envoy for Sudan, Senator John Danforth calls

for ceasefire and renewed negotiations between
SLM/A and GoS. Danforth said a peace deal between
Southern rebels and GoS would not solve problems in
Darfur because it involves a different set of rebels.
MSF complains about GoS treatment of 10,000
refugees in Darfur forcing them into camps near
fighting and denying them access to food, water, or
medical treatment outside the camps.
In response to the North-South peace process, which it
views as only a partial solution to Sudans problems,
the SLM/A forms an alliance with an eastern
Sudanese rebel group, the Beja Congress of Eastern
Sudan to continue their struggle together until they get
rid of marginalization, poverty, ignorance and
backwardness. Beja Congress members said that
both groups problems concerned the whole of Sudan
and they would fight together if no agreement was
reached.
Assistant USAID Administrator Roger Winter, part
of a US delegation to support the Naivasha peace
process, comments on the violence in Darfur: Just as
this peace process is coming to fruition, you have this
burgeoning crisis in Darfur. It calls into question the
sincerity of the government. They cant be good guys
in the south and do what theyre doing in Darfur.
Sudan accuses Eritrea of spying through Khartoum
community clubs. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman
Ismail renewed accusation that Asmara was supporting
Darfur rebels, citing a statement he claims was jointly
issued by Darfur rebels and Beja Congress with
Eritrean coordination.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says that
the GoS is committed to finding a political settlement,
even though it has been forced to resort to a military
option. Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed
Hussein and Presidential Advisor Mubarak al-Fadil
al-Mahdi are soon to leave for Libya on a tour of
several African and Arab countries to brief heads of

AP
John Danforth
IRIN
Ali al-Safi,
member of Central
Committee of Beja
Congress
NYT
Naivasha
Roger Winter
AFP
Eritrea
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Libya
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Mubarak al-Fadil
al-Mahdi
Mustafa Osman
55
20 Jan
22 Jan
23 Jan
15 Jan
23 Jan
23 Jan
24 Jan
state on Darfur conflict.

President Omar al-Bashir claims war in Darfur will
stop in days and by then peace will be restored and life
will return to normal.
announces that GoS troops on 20 Jan forced their way
into Ein Seru, defeating rebels and killing their
commander Yahia Libis. The situation is now under
control said Kibir, the outlaws have no cause but are
sheer gangs of armed robbery. Due to security
concerns, all high school entrance exams in North
Darfur state would be administered in Al-Fashir.
15,000 refugees from Darfur pour into Chad as GoS
and rebels wage a fierce battle. UNHCR spokesman
Albert Katumba says this is one of the biggest
movements of refugees in such a short time. GoS
reportedly attacked a group of villages near the border
town of Koulbouss.
UNHCR opens its first official refugee camp at
Farchana, Chad, 55 km [west] of the border town
Adre, designed to hold 9,000-12,000 people. The
refugee agency is in talks with Chadian authorities to
find safer sites, at least 50 km away from the dangerous
border.
Sudan Vice President Ali Osman Taha and Darfur
opposition leader Ahmed Ibrahim Draij meet in
Nairobi, Kenya to discuss peace on 23 Jan. Draij, a
former Fur governor of Darfur during 1970s and exiled
by Jafar Nimeiri, called for immediate halt to fighting.
AFP
Ein Seru
al-Fashir
Ismail
Omar Al-Bashir
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Yahia Libis
AFP
Kulbus
Albert Katumba
Kitty McKinsey,
UNHCR
spokesperson
IRIN
Farchana
Refugee Camp
Adre
Abu Gamrah
Ali Osman Taha
Mallit
Ahmed Ibrahim
Drajj
Tina
Jafar Nimeiri
24 Jan
25 Jan
Meanwhile Sudan Media Center reports 87 children

arrived in al-Fashir after fleeing abduction by armed
gangs in raids on Abu Gamrah, Mellit and Tinah.
Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) accuses Khartoum
of shutting down a camp for displaced people in the
Darfur town of Nyala and forcing its residents to move
to an area the group called unsafe.
UNHCR spokesman Yvan Sturm reports difficulties
managing the refugee situation in Darfur. Due to
security concerns, relief deliveries were delayed
Nairobi
NYT
al-Fashir
Nyala
AFP
Ade
Tizi
56
Yvan Sturm
between Ade and Tizi. Chadian authorities claim

18,000 new arrivals recently and UNHCR says that
figure could rise to a total of 103,000, swollen by those
fleeing a 16 Jan attack on Koulbouss. UNHCR says
new refugees have spread out between Birak and Tine.
New camp at Kounoungo (125 km from frontier)
being built this week.
Kulbus
Birak
Tine
Kounoungo
Refugee Camp
AFP reports Darfur rebels want greater share of

regions growing oil revenue.
26 Jan
26 Jan
26, 28
Jan
27 Jan
Farachana
Refugee Camp
Tina
Both AP and AFP report GoS aerial bombing of Tine.

AFP reports that Abubeker Hamid Nour, head
coordinator for JEM was showing journalists the town
when the bombardment took place.
AFP, AP
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
WFP warns that the status of more than 110,000

Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad will soon
deteriorate. 40% of the refugees from Darfur are under
the age of five and 75% of the adult refugees were
women.
WFP renews its appeal to international donors for $11
million to buy 14,000 tons of food and transport it to
Chad by May, before the rainy season would make the
roads impenetrable. To date, WFP had received $2.8
million from the US government in addition to a
$800,000 contribution from the Swiss.
Intense bombing raids against insurgent camps cripple
rebels, according to GoS; SPL/A dismisses these
claims, alleging that the bombing has largely killed
civilians. Gutbi el-Mahdi, President Omar alBashirs political advisor told AP that the rebels
suffered a lot of losses. SLM/A spokesman Hassan
Mandela said GoS had destroyed 180 villages in the
past week.
IRIN
Eastern Chad
IRIN
Chad
Ramin Rafirasme,
WFP spokesman
AP
Habeela
Gutbi el-Mahdi
Ishmael Haggar,
school teacher,
quoted by AP
Ramin Rafirasme,
WFP spokesman
Hassan Mandela
Zakaria
Mohammed Ali
Refugees from Habila have informed UN officials that

aircraft and helicopters bombed their home 10 days ago
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17 Jan
28 Jan
29 Jan
29 Jan
on 17 Jan and then armed men entered village on

horseback and camels, stealing cattle and chasing away
people. Zakaria Mohammed Ali, Secretary-General
of JEM said the GoS wanted to deal with the issue as a
security problem rather than a political issue.
JEM coordinator Abubker Hamid Nour calls on
international community to condemn and stop what he
calls GoS criminal action. Nour claims 15 to 20
villages they are bombing every day by Antonov.
During the past week, Khartoum claimed it launched a
major relief operation in Darfur and state television
reported convoys of supplies heading towards the
region. Nour claims over the last weeks, 2,000
people have been killed. Nour also said, There can
be no peace in Sudan without solving the problem in
Darfur. He said we want the unity of Sudan, an
equal distribution of wealth, we want a federal system
that shares power. Nour acknowledged that JEM and
SLM/A are conducting joint military operations. He
claims JEM had 9,000 active fighters and SLM/A had
16,000.
AFP reports that UNHCR opened its first camp in
Chad on 17 Jan, housing 826 refugees.
The SPLA condemns GoS for targeting civilians in
fighting. SPLA spokesman Yasir Arman tells AP,
we condemn in the strongest terms the indiscriminate
bombardment of innocent civilians in Darfur by the
government and the continuous violation of human
rights by the government army and militias against the
inhabitants of Darfur.
In Geneva, UN acting High Commissioner for
Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan called on all
sides to end the fighting.
AFP reports that most of the worlds attention is
focused on North-South peace talks, neglecting the
Darfur conflict. MSF coordinator Nuria Serra says,
world leaders dont see any urgency. UNHCR
officials agree with MSF, noting that only 40 foreign
AFP
AFP
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
Chad
AP
Yasir Arman
Bertrand
Ramcharan
AFP
Chad
Yvan Sturm,
UNHCR regional
operations manager
Peter Casaer, MSF
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aid workers are present in eastern Chad, and that due

to lack of large groups of refugees concentrated in one
area, media attention has been limited.
29 Jan
Local officials at the refugee camp in Tine, Chad

report that between 50 and 100 [refugees] are arriving
every day from Tine [Sudan] and the surrounding
villages.
Nuria Serra
IRIN
Tine, Chad
Tine, Sudan
One Chadian Red Cross official says, They [the

refugees] are coming because of the aircraft bombing.
There is nowhere safe in Sudan.
29 Jan
30 Jan
29 Jan
30 Jan
Robbie Thomson,
International
Federation of Red
Cross and Crescent
organizations
Barout Margui
Sawa, local official
at refugee camp in
Tine, Chad
Abubakar
Mohammed Chaib,
Chadian Red Cross
GoS forces regain control of the Sudanese part of Tine

and bomb the Chadian sector as well. Several
civilians are reported to have died and the attack comes
as the acting UN High Commisioner for Human
Rights called for an independent commission of
inquiry to assess systematic human rights abuses in
the region.
The Sudanese army claims to have defeated the Darfur
rebels. Military Spokesman General Mohamed
Beshir Suleiman said that the army, supported by
police, popular police and Popular Defence Forces
launched a major offensive on the armed robbery
gangs and recaptured eight rebel-held positions and
strongholds. Suleiman also claimed the army captured
rebel camps of Abu Gamrah and Jumaizah and
secured Ein Seeru, Jirjerah, Um Maraheik, Amberu
and Kernawe. No date given as to when attacks were
launched.
AFP
MSF reports that Sudanese aerial bombs fell on Tine,

Chad early in the morning, killing three Chadian
IRIN, NYT
Tine, Chad
Bertrand
Ramcharan
Tine, Sudan
AFP
Abu Gamrah
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Jumaizah
Ein Seeru
Jirjerah
Um Maraheik
Amberu
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Kernawe
Tine, Chad
civilians and wounding 14 others. It is unknown

whether the bombing was intentional or accidental (as
Sudanese bombs are often inaccurate). A UN official
said it was the first time since war broke out in Darfur
that Chadian territory had been bombed. (IRIN, NYT)
30 Jan
30 Jan
16, 29
Jan
20 Jan
23, 30
Jan
30 Jan,
4 Feb
30 Jan
Dec
2003,
Heavy bombing by the Sudanese army continued

throughout the day, and by the afternoon the Sudanese
army captured Tine, Sudan, which had previously
been held by the JEM rebel group. (IRIN)
Chadian Foreign Minister Nagoum Yamassoum
downplays GoS bombing of Chadian Tine by Sudan
saying it was not deliberate.
UN aid agencies face massive financial shortfall in
their Chad operations. Kris Janowski, spokesman for
UNHCR said, so far we have not received any
contribution for the Chad emergency for 2004.
UNHCR estimates 113,000 refugees in Chad, a figure
that may swell up to 135,000. Christine
Berthiaume, spokeswoman for WFP said her agency
needed $11 million to feed refugees.
UNHCR says about 18,000 refugees from Darfur
arrive in Chad following attacks on 10 villages in
Djerbira by GoS forces and Arab militiamen on
January 16, who burned villages and dynamited wells.
GoS Presidential Advisor Gutbi al-Mahdi confirms
that government planes bombed four targets this week
but insists they were camps run by rebels fighting for
autonomy in the region.
UNHCR reports that the village of Habila is deserted
after all 1,750 residents fled an air attack ten days ago.
Residents reported that Antonovs bombed the village
immediately. Then 500 armed men on horses and
camels and between 40 and 50 army vehicles arrived
and stole cattle. Ten women were reportedly raped.
Chadian President Idriss Deby says that Chad will
make another attempt to bring peace to Darfur.
In two attacks, in December 2003 and January 2004,
Janjaweed and army troops attack Kenyu, near
Tine, Sudan
AFP
Tine, Chad
AP
Nagoum
Yamassoum
Christiane
Berthiaume
Kris Janowski
Guardian,
IRIN
Tine, West
Sudan
Gutbi el-Mahdi
Kris Janowski
Chad
Djerbira
Guardian
Habeela
AFP
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
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Idriss Deby
Kenyu
Janjaweed
/2004/sudan0504/

Jan
2004
Forbranga killing fifty-seven.

3 Feb
3 Feb
Sudan welcomes Chadian President Idriss Debys

decision to renew mediation. North Darfur Governor
Osman Yousuf Kibir said he was notified by his
Chadian counterpart the Wadi Ferra State Governor
about the new mediation bid. Tine Commissioner
Colonel Ahmed Musa Nimir would visit Chad to
further coordinate on refugee issues. Kibir said 28
trucks carrying relief supplies arrived in Kutum.
UNHCR registers more than 4,300 refugees fleeing
Tine bombardment and moves them deeper inside
Chad.
Forbranga
AFP
4 Feb
5 Feb
Ahmed Musa
Nimir
Wadi Ferra
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Idriss Deby
AFP/AP; IRIN
Tine, Sudan
Iriba Refugee
Camp
According to Amnesty International, the majority of

casualties are civilians.
The Sudanese government denies claims in Amnesty
Internationals latest report that there is clear
evidence of cooperation between government forces
and government-aligned militia. Amnesty says, The
Sudanese government should cease all support to the
Janjawid or establish a clear chain of command and
control over them, including making them accountable
for abuses of international humanitarian law.
Khartoum also dismisses Amnestys assertion that the
killings committed by GoS and Janjaweed point to a
pattern of extra judicial executions and unlawful
killings.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir attempts to get
refugees to return from Chad. President Bashir
orders the GoS Refugee Commission to conclude a
deal with UNHCR and Chad for voluntary return of
refugees to Darfur. West Darfur Governor Major
General Suleiman Abdallah Adam said his state is
arranging for return claiming security has prevailed.
Governor Adam said that the Minister of Humanitarian
Affairs is providing assistance to those in Kulbus,
Morni, Wadi Salih.
Darfur rebel groups express willingness to negotiate
Kutum
Jennifer Clark,
UNHCR
spokesperson
Janjaweed
Guerada Refugee
Camp
AFP
Kulbus
Omar Al-Bashir
Morni
Sulieman Abdallah
Adam
Wadi Salih
AFP/AP
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Chad
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
Geneva
Al-Haj Atta al-
with GoS. SLM/A, JEM and Sudan Federal

Democratic Alliance say they will participate in talks
in Geneva beginning Feb. 14.
5 Feb
6 Feb
7 Feb
7 Feb
7 Feb
8 Feb
9 Feb
9, 10
Feb
The GoS however will not talk to rebels outside Sudan

citing a need to prevent internationalization of the
Darfur problem. One unnamed GoS official said any
talks would be limited to flow of humanitarian
assistance. The GoS negotiating team consists of
National Congress party member Al-Haj Atta alMattan; Industry Minister Sherif Ahmed Omar
Badr; State Humanitarian Affairs Min. Mohamed
Yousuf Abdallah.
Canadian Foreign Minister Bill Graham on 5 Feb
urged fighters in Darfur to end year-long uprising and
all parties to put an immediate stop to the violence.
Graham called for unimpeded humanitarian access,
and respect for international humanitarian law.
Chad appeals for help for Sudanese refugees both in
terms of substantial contributions in international aid
and support for Chads mediation efforts.
Sildi, south east of Geneina was attacked, first by
aerial bombardment and then by land, on February 7,
2004 with twelve killed.
Tunfuka, south of Murnei was attacked, by aerial
bombardment and then by ground forces on February
7, 2004, resulting in at least twenty-six people killed
and village burned.
GoS announces it would open up roads next week to
allow humanitarian organizations to send relief to
Darfur.
declared an amnesty for any children who leave the
ranks of rebel movement.
President Omar al-Bashir announces the end of
major military operations in Darfur and offers an
amnesty to rebels who surrender. On state-run
television Bashir announced GoS armed forces are in
Mattan
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
AFP
Bill Graham
AFP
Chad
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Sildi
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
El Geneina
Tunfuka, south
of Murnei
AFP
AP; AFP;
IRIN
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/2004/sudan0504/
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Jebal Marrah
Omar Al-Bashir
Jabal Moun
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
full control of Darfur. He said, We hereby declare

amnesty on all those who carried arms, provided that
they hand over their arms to the nearest military units
within a months time. (AP)
Tine
Karnoi
Ambara
JEM denies rebel loss to GoS. JEM military

spokesman, Colonel Abdallah Abdel Kerim said of
Bashirs claims that the army had crushed the Darfur
rebellion: this information is false. We still control all
of our positions in the Darfur region, notably in Jabal
Marrah and Jabal Moun. Abdel Kerim said JEM
was observing a unilateral ceasefire for humanitarian
reasons, but promised military surprises in the
coming days. (AFP)
Siraj al-Din Hamid,

Sudanese
ambassador to
Uganda
Abu Bakr Hamid
al-Nur
The Sudanese government also pledges to open up

access to humanitarian aid in the region. Government
representative Abu Bakr Hamid al-Nur says, The
government and the people of Sudan will mobilize
resources and provide assistance to the people of
Darfur. The government is prepared to give immediate
access to the region.
9 Feb
9 Feb
JEM says that although the rebels had fled the three
main towns of Tine, Karnoi and Ambara due to
government bombings, rebels were fully in control of
the regions rural areas and outlying towns.
(IRIN 10 Feb)
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says that the UN
is concerned about the humanitarian situation in
Darfur: We are doing our best to gain access to the
those in need and we are in discussions with the
government. (AP)
The GoS says it will not attend talks organized by the
Geneva-based NGO, the Center for Humanitarian
Dialogue (CHD) to discuss humanitarian access with
rebels from Darfur, even though both the SLM/A and
JEM agreed to participate.
AP
Kofi Annan
IRIN
Said Khatib
Mutrif Siddiq Ali
Government spokesman Said Khatib said, We are
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10 Feb
10 Feb
10 Feb
10 Feb
10 Feb
not going to attend, because nobody invited us.

Sudanese Foreign Ministry Under-Secretary Mutrif
Siddiq Ali added that the issue of humanitarian access
had been politicized too much and was being used
as a tool for political and military gains.
IRIN reports that the largest concentration of displaced
persons is currently around Kutum, North Darfur,
where numbers have increased from 38,000 IDPs in
November 2003 to 60,000 today.
SPLA denounces GoS military solution to Darfur
conflict, saying it will not succeed. SPLA spokesman
Yasser Arman argued the problem in Darfur was
political and that the GoS had to opt for a political,
peaceful and just solution.
Sudan said it would guarantee the safety of everyone
taking part in a proposed peace conference in Darfur,
but Information Minister Al-Zahawe Ibrahim Malik
said we will not go to suggested peace talks in
Geneva.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland
describes President Omar al-Bashirs offer to allow
aid workers access to Darfur as a breakthrough. He
added the UN is ready to seize this opportunity to
increase the amount of assistance we provide within
Darfur.
Acting assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs Charles Snyder on his way to Sudan to NorthSouth peace talks, set to resume 17 Feb. Snyder will
also address the Darfur issue.
Differences emerge between the Sudanese government
and Southern rebels over the structure and mandate of a
proposed UN-supported peace-monitoring team to
operate following the signing of the final peace
agreement. The SPLM says that a monitoring team is
not enough to separate the two groups and that
peacekeepers are essential, while Khartoum dismisses
the idea of peacekeepers in favor of peace monitors.
On 10 February, 2004, Antonov planes bombed the
village of Tullus in advance of an attack on the village
by Janjaweed, resulting in at least twenty-seven killed.
IRIN
Kutum
AFP
Yasir Arman
AFP
al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
AFP/AP
Jan Egeland
Omar al-Bashir
AP
Charles Snyder
IRIN
Samson Kwaje,
official spokesman,
SPLM
Said Khatib, GoS
spokesman
HRW, Darfur
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Tulus
Janjaweed
/2004/sudan0504/
11 Feb
Geneva-based Darfur humanitarian discussions called

off.
AFP/AP
Andy Andrea,
spokeman for
Dunant Center
AP reports JEM Secretary-General Zakaria

Mohammed Ali claims GoS refused to attend because
it wants to pursue a military solution. Ali disputed
President Omar al-Bashirs claim that GoS was in
full control of Darfur, and warned that we will teach
them a lesson that we are still alive. Just now there is a
really big battle in Darfur.
9 Feb
10 Feb
11 Feb
11 Feb
11 Feb
Presidential spokesman Abbas Ibrahim al-Nour said

on 10 Feb that President Omar al-Bashir wanted
peace talks held in Sudan.
Acting US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa
Charles Snyder meets with GoS officials. GoS Min.
State Minister for Humanitarian Affairs
Mohammed Yousself Moussa said the American
delegation will be allowed to visit Darfur and IDP
camps, we assured the American delegation that we
have now opened a number of safe routes for delivery
of relief and humanitarian assistance.
JEM says the Sudanese government has bombed the
Girgira area near the Chad border. Meanwhile, the
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Uthman Ismail
says that military operations in Darfur had been put
behind us and that the government had now entered
the political phase of the conflict.
A Darfur MP reports that several villages have been
attacked and burned by militias in the Shattay area in
South Darfur. On the same day, JEM reports that
military aircraft bombed an area 60 km north of ElFashir in North Darfur.
US Acting Assistant Secretary of State for African
Affairs Charles Snyder and USAID Assistant
Administrator Roger Winter meet with GoS
officials. Snyder meets with Vice President Ali
Osman Taha and Winter with GoS Minister of State
for Humanitarian Affairs Mohamed Yusuf
Zakaria
Mohammed Ali
Abbas Ibrahim alNour
Omar al-Bashir
Charles Snyder
Mohammed
Yousself Moussa
IRIN
Girgira
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
IRIN
Shattay
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
al- Fashir
AFP
Roger Winter
Charles Snyder
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
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Abdallah.
12 Feb
GoS opens corridors for trucks and aircraft to deliver

aid to Darfur. Minister of State for Humanitarian
Affairs Mohammed Yusuf Abdallah said aid groups
could return to Darfur on Friday, 13 Feb. Ambro, elFasher, Genaina, Kornoy, Kulbus, Kutum, Morne,
Tine and Zalinge were declared accessible.
AP
Ambro
Mohammed Yusuf
Abdallah
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
al-Fashir
El Geneina
Kornoy;
JEM claims to have shot down two army helicopters

and cut off roads to el-Fasher.
Kulbus
Kutum
Morni
Tine
Zalingie
11 Feb.
12 Feb
12 Feb
12 Feb
GoS releases 33 rebel suspects under a pardon granted

by President Beshir, according to SUNA. SUNA
reports that North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf
Kibir told the group at a ceremony on Wed (11 Feb)
they were freed under amnesty that stipulated they had
to hand in their weapons.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
briefs acting Assistant US Secretary of State Charles
Snyder on Darfur
AFP, citing
SUNA
JEM claims it has retaken several towns and road links

from the GoS and resumed fighting to prove to
Sudanese Government that the statements by its
president are completely false according to JEM
spokesman Abdallah Abdel-Kerim. Kerim claimed
rebels occupied the vast majority of Darfur.
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Ndjamena
Charles Snyder
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Mohamed Ahmed
El-Agbash
The GoS maintains it has control over Darfur. GoS

Commissioner for Refugees Mohamed Ahmed ElAgbash visited Chadian capital of Ndjamena to
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13 Feb
13 Feb
9-13
Feb
inform them of cessation of hostilities in Darfur.

A high level delegation, led by Assistant
Administrator USAID Roger Winter, and the UN
special envoy for Sudan Tom Vraalsen arrives in
Khartoum to discuss the promise by Sudanese
authorities to grant humanitarian access to war-affected
populations in Darfur. Vraalsen is also to discuss the
possibility of implementing an all-inclusive
humanitarian ceasefire in Darfur to allow relief
agencies unimpeded access to the population.
The UN OCHA described the governments
declaration as a breakthrough after months of
humanitarian organizations having minimal access to
Darfur to provide humanitarian aid.
UN rushing food aid to Chad. WFP sends in 40-ton
airlift of high-energy biscuits and logistics equipment
to Chad.
WFP flies its first shipment of food aid, 13 tons, to
NDjamena, Chad to assist refugees from Darfur who
have fled into eastern Chad. Prior to WFPs shipment,
local Chadians had been supporting the Darfurian
refugees with their own food stores and in some cases,
shelter. (IRIN)
JEM accuses Chad of taking GoS side in Darfur
conflict; Chadian Government spokesman Moctar
Wawa Dahab says that Chad is not involved nor has it
allowed anyone to use its airspace or territory.
Meanwhile, GoS Interior Minister Abderahim
Mhamat Hisseine meets with President Idriss Deby
in Ndjamena.
11 villages were reportedly bombed including Habila
Kareinik, Kereinik, Magornay, Mornay, Gurnyu,
Mejmeri, Effendi, Urbi, Liri, Kastara and Nuri
Last. People fled to the four largest villages/towns of
Mornay, Habila, Magornay, and Kereinik.
IRIN
Tom Eric Vraalsen

Roger Winter
AFP/AP; IRIN
NDjamena
Philippe Guyon Le
Bouffy, WFP
representative
AFP
Ndjamena
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Chad
Mouckhtar Wawa
Dahab
Idriss Deby
Amnesty
International
(At the mercy
of killers
destruction of
villages in
Darfur)
1 Jul 2004
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Habeela
Kareinik
Kereinik
Magornay
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Morni
Gurnyu
Mejmeri
Effendi
Urbi
Liri
Kastara
12 Feb
14 Feb
15 Feb
15 Feb
16 Feb
GoS and allied militia launch major offensive over past

48 hours, with dozens of civilians killed, according to
SLM/A spokesman, Bahr Ibrahim. Troops and
militia killed dozens of civilians and burnt more than
200 villages in an offensive launched Thursday 12
Feb. Ibrahim said Antonovs bombed the area north
and northeast of Kuttum.
GoS reiterated its commitment to development of
Darfur and to making humanitarian assistance
available. GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman
Ismail and UN Special envoy for humanitarian
affairs in Sudan Tom Vraalsen discussed a possible
UN role in helping Khartoum reach a settlement with
rebels in Darfur.
Terbeba attacked by army and Janjaweed on
February 15, 2004, killing anywhere between 26 and
31 people.
League of Darfur Students Association urged

formation of a UN inquiry to shed light on acts of
genocide and to guarantee that those responsible are
brought to trial and given a fair hearing.
AFP
Nuri Last
Kutum
AFP
Bahar Ibrahim
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Tom Eric Vraalsen
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
PHR Darfur:
Assault on
Survival
Terbeba
AFP
Khartoum
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/2004/sudan0504/
http://www.phrusa.or
g/research/sudan/pdf/
sudan_report.pdf
The students delivered a statement to the UN office in

Khartoum, then attempted to stage a protest which was
dispersed by riot police.
16 Feb,
19 Feb
16 Feb
17 Feb
17 Feb
An EU delegation led by Dutch charge daffaires in

Khartoum voiced concerns about humanitarian
situation at meeting with GoS officials. Two sides
agreed to create a joint six-member committee three
representatives from each side to monitor efforts to
bring humanitarian relief to people in the region.
Despite Khartoums claims to have opened relief
corridors, Refugees International claims that
humanitarian access to Darfur remains limited: There
is absolutely no access to any place, no humanitarian
access. Things are not changing at all. If they are
changing, they are changing for the worse.
UN envoy Tom Vraalsen concurs: Ironically, at the
moment we receive access clearances, [but] insecurity
on the ground precludes us from accessing populations
in need. The parties must immediately cease
hostilities, so that IDPs and refugees in Chad can
voluntarily and safely return to their homes and start to
rebuild a peaceful Darfur.
US and EU offer food and funds to drill water wells in
Darfur. Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs
Mohammed Yusuf Abdallah said USAID offered
enough food for six months. After an earlier visit, the
EU decided to donate one million dollars to drill water
wells in Kutum. Abdallah claims 4,500 tonnes of
food were stocked in al-Fahsir, of which 190 tonnes
has been transported to Umbru, Kernawe Abelah and
Forawiyah.
SLM/A spokesman Hassan Ibrahim said rebel forces
seized control of the city of Khazzan Jadid, about 120
Km south of Nyala in South Darfur State on 16 Feb.
GoS troops together with Janjaweed forces attack
Millebeeda village and area, south-west of Geneina
killing fifty-nine civilians.
IRIN
Chad
Tom Eric Vraalsen
AFP
Kutum
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
al-Fahsir
Hasan Ibrahim
Umbru
Kernawe Abela
Forawiyah
Khazzan Jadid
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Nyala
Millebeeda
El Geneina
69
Janjaweed
17, 18
Feb
10-13,
15 Feb
18 Feb
UN airlift of relief supplies begins to Chad and

Western Sudan. MSF reports catastrophic mortality
rates within displaced populations of more than 2 per
10,000 per day.) (AP)
AFP reports that the first planeload of WFP food
arrived in El Fasher. A total of seven flights have
been scheduled to delivery 256 tons of emergency aid
this week. (AFP 18 Feb)
On Sunday 15 Feb, a Janjaweed attack spills over into
Chad, as an administrative building in Terbeze comes
under attack with 30 killed, according to Le Progres.
On Friday 13 Feb, 10 Chadian civilians killed when
Janjaweeed attacked four villages in the border area.
(AFP, in part citing Le Progres)
AP/ AFP
Chad
al-Fashir
AP/AFP
Terbeze
Bradley Guerrant,
WFP deputy
country director for
Sudan
Zakaria
Mohammed Ali
Janjaweed
Amnesty International says it has received reports of

horrifying attacks against civilians in Darfur.
Amnesty said GoS-backed militias attacked five
villages in Southern Darfur on 11 Feb, killing between
68-70 civilians. Between 10 and 12 Feb, GoS aircraft
also bombed 11 towns and villages in west Darfur,
while pro-Government militia killed people fleeing
their homes. GoS soldiers also allegedly abducted 30
girls in an attack in west Darfur last week.
10 Feb
18 Feb
Zakaria Mohammed Ali, Secretary-General for the

JEM dismissed Amnestys allegations that SLM/A
and JEM were also involved in attacks on civilians,
instead explaining that GoS-backed militia were
claiming to be members of the SLM/A. (AP)
US-based Center for the Prevention of Genocide
(CPG) claims that 81 civilians in Darfur were
massacred on 10 Feb by government-sponsored Arab
militias in the town of Shatatya and its surrounding
villages. The Sudanese government denies
responsibility for the attacks, stating that sanctioning
militia attacks on civilians contradicts the
governments overall objective of bringing stability to
IRIN
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Shatatya
Siraj al-Din Hamid,

Sudanese
ambassador to
Uganda
17 Feb
18 Feb
18 Feb
19 Feb
19 Feb
the region.
After a break to celebrate the Hajj pilgrimage, peace
talks between the Sudanese government and southern
rebels resume in Kenya. Both parties had made
substantial progress in the areas of wealth-sharing and
security arrangements in earlier talks.
13-person UN Rapid Response/Assessment Team to
tour Darfurs regional capitals Nyala, El-Fasher and
el-Geneina to assess humanitarian situation in region,
according to UN OCHA. UN envoy Tom Vraalsen
says ironically, at the moment we receive access
clearances (from the government) insecurity on the
ground precludes us from accessing populations.
(AP/AFP)
Amnesty International calls on Sudan to allow
international observers into Darfur and insists that the
GoS brings to justice all members of its armed forces,
including janjawid militia, suspected of having
participated in human rights abuses in the region. AI
also calls on JEM and SLM/A to respect international
humanitarian law. (AFP)
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin
warns that ending Darfur crisis is critical for regional
peace and called for additional emergency aid for
refugees. We must all be engaged, de Villepin said
of the conflict after meeting with Chadian President
Idriss Deby, stability depends on it. De Villepin
said, the regional and international community also
have a part to play in this.
De Villepin visited Forchana Refugee Camp. De
Villepin recalled that President Omar al-Bashir (in
early Feb) proposed a conference to negotiate peace in
Darfur and said both France and Chad were ready to
participate.
US-based group Center for the Prevention of
Genocide (CPG) confirms that tribal leaders in Nyala
were arrested by the Sudanese government after they
had met representatives of USAID to provide first-hand
IRIN
Naivasha
AP; AFP;
IRIN
Nyala
Tom Eric Vraalsen
al-Fashir
Janjaweed
El-Geneina
AFP
IRIN
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Farchana
Refugee Camp
Dominique de
Villepin
France
Idriss Deby
Chad
Omar Al-Bashir
Nyala
accounts of the violence in Darfur.
20 Feb
21 Feb
24 Feb
24 Feb
25 Feb
The CPG said, In a clear case of minority and

political oppression, the leaders were arrested in the
town of Nyala, following their meeting with
representatives from USAID.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin
arrives Friday in Khartoum, in part searching for ways
to solve Darfur problem.
SLM/A forces attack a GoS convoy near Khazan
Gadid town in South Darfur. According to SLM/A
spokesman Hassan Mandela, some 200 rebels
attacked a convoy of 700 soldiers killing 150 troops
and destroying 10 trucks and a tank. GoS was
unavailable to confirm this account.
Mandela says the SLM/A has changed its tactics to
attacking, then withdrawing from towns after expelling
GoS forces in order, they claim, to prevent reprisals
against civilians.
GoS Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim
Mahmoud Hamid says stocks of humanitarian aid in
Darfur are enough for the next four months.
Hassan al-Turabi criticizes GoS policy on Darfur,
saying that the conflict should not have been separated
from the peace process in South Sudan. The Southern
problem and the Darfur issue are two faces of the
same coin and should not be separated from each
other, Turabi said. He said his Popular Congress
Party was opposed to GoS Darfur policy and
supported the regions demands for better
representation and economic aid, though it was also
opposed to violence. The government agitates the
tribesand incites tribal sedition, according to alTurabi.
US pledges $9 million in aid for Darfur refugees in
Chad. The US Embassy in Chad releases statement
pledging money for international aid groups, UNHCR,
WFP, ICRC and Red Crescent and backing Chadian
efforts.
AP
Khartoum
Dominique de
Villepiin
Khazan Gadid
town in South
Darfur.
Hassan Mandela
AFP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
Hasan al-Turabi
AFP
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Chad
24 Feb
26 Feb
27 Feb
26 Feb
MSF reports 17,000 displaced people in Krenik and

Sisi, northwest of Mornay are without access to
drinking water, medical treatment and enough food.
AFP
27 Feb
Thousands more Sudanese refugees have poured into

Chad in recent weeks, according to UN. 13,000
people from Darfur crossed into Tine two weeks ago
and 10-15,000 fled to Bahai, according to Alphonse
Malanda, head of UNHCR in Chad. The refugees
say they are fleeing bombing by the Sudanese army.
Malanda confirms rebellion still active with major
towns in Darfur secure, but rural areas still unsafe.
Darfur rebels begin operating outside Darfur.
Humanitarian sources report ambushes in Western
Kordofan and Reuters reports an SLM/A attack on 24
February100 km north of El Obeid, the capital of
North Kordofan.
AP
27 Feb
27 Feb
28 Feb
28 Feb
The SLM/A warns: If the government is not ready to

sit for negotiations, we will be active everywhere in
Sudan. JEM adds: We will fight government troops
anywhere.
USAID Assistant Administrator Roger Winter says
that violent attacks by government-connected militias
continue in Darfur. What feeds into the ethnic
cleansing scenario is that the government does not
seem to be interested in protecting the Darfur people
against the raids It seems that no real steps are being
taken by the government to stop the uprooting and
attacking of these civilian populations.
GoS forces launch a series of raids beginning shortly
before noon on 27 Feb when about 300 militia fighters
assaulted Tarne, killing at least 70 civilians and
forcing 50,000 to flee, according to SLM/A spokesman
Hassan Mandela. GoS Humanitarian Minister
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid said he was not aware
of any raids.
SLM/A claims to have killed more than 50 GoS
soldiers and militiamen in response to an army
offensive. SLM/A spokesman Hasan Ibrahim claims
Krenik IDP
Camp
Sisi IDP Camp
Chad
http://www.msf.ca/pr
ess/index2004.htm
Alphonse Malanda
Bahai
Tine, Chad
IRIN
West Kordofan
Hasan Ibrahim
El Obeid
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
North Kordofan
IRIN
Roger Winter
Omar Al-Bashir
AP
Tarne
Hassan Mandela
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
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Hasan Ibrahim

rebels repulsed an Army offensive against villages in
Karnei region, which was supported by Antonovs.
More than 80 civilians killed in Tawila district, in
Northern Darfur during an attack by the Janjawid on
at least 10 villages between Kabkabiya and AlFasher.
27-29
Feb
29 Feb
29 Feb
1 Mar
28 Feb
1 Mar
GoS suspends contacts with umbrella opposition group,

the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) for
admitting Darfur SLM/A into its ranks. First Vice
President Ali Osman Taha informed NDA envoy
Jaafer Ahmed Abdallah that contact would be halted
until NDA corrected its decision to admit the rebels.
GoS and NDA had been in talks to implement an
agreement they signed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in
December.
North-South Peace negotiations stall on power sharing
issues. Meanwhile, GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail, after speaking with Arab League
Secretary-General Amr Mussa said that GoS had
formed a 100-member committee to prepare for a
conference of national reconciliation on Darfur.
Lubbers due to begin 3-day visit to Chad on 2 Mar to
visit Sudanese refugees.
The Sudanese government and Southern rebels extend
the ongoing ceasefire for another month. Both sides
anticipate that the final accord will be signed as soon as
the two remaining issues of power-sharing and the
disputed regions of the Nuba Mountains, southern
Blue Nile and oil-rich Abyei are resolved.
Amnesty
International:
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians
AFP
Tawila
Janjaweed
Kabkabiya
al-Fashir
Jeddah
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Asmara
Jaafer Ahmed
Abdallah
Mohammed Osman
al-Mirghani, NDA
Chairman
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Amr Mussa
AFP
Chad
Ruud Lubbers
IRIN
Nuba Mountains
Charles Snyder
Blue Nile
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Abyei
John Garang
Naivasha
On the same day, US Assistant Secretary of State for

African Affairs, Charles Snyder, met with Sudanese
Vice-President Ali Uthman and SPLM leader John
Garang to put pressure on both parties to speed up the
negotiations and quickly reach a comprehensive
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Feb
2 Mar
2 Mar
2 Mar
2 Mar
agreement.
Lubbers in Abeche to meet President Idriss Deby
and to visit tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees.
UNHCR spokeswoman Helene Caux said Lubbers
would then visit Forchana Camp and then travel to
Touloum, near Tine.
Attacks on at least 10 villages in Tawilla town between
Kabkabiyah and Al-Fashir in North Darfur occur
between 27 and 29 Feb. GoS reports at least 67 people
have been killed; locals report seeing up to 80 bodies.
The State Government promised to send police officers
to secure the area. Residents give UN accounts of gang
rapes and of abductions. (UN, IRIN, AI)
The UN says that the Tawilla attack confirms that
pattern of Janjaweed attacks all over Darfur, where
village looting are accompanied by killings,
especially of young and middle-aged men. (UN)
GoS troops killed several rebel field commanders and
seized 20 vehicles, according to Osman Yusuf Kibir,
Governor of North Darfur. The actions occurred as
government troops repelled rebel troops attacking
villages of Al-Twaishah near Taweelah on 28 and 29
Feb. Governor Kibir believed that Khatir Toar alKhala, a prominent rebel leader was among the dead.
Kibir believes that a radical solution to the Darfur
problem will be found only with reinforcing the
armed forces and intensifying the military pressure to
reach dialogue. He said the rebels destroyed several
houses, local police and water utility offices and AlTwaishah hospital.
UN reports systematic burning of villages in Kass area
and an attack on the village of Gereisa, South Darfur
(11 km from Nyala) by armed horsemen with 15
people killed, 30 wounded.
Several cases of rape being reported daily to police in
the Kutum area. ICRC, UNICEF, Save the
Children-UK and Oxfam are collecting data on rape
AFP
Abeche
Ruud Lubbers
Farchana
Refugee Camp
Idriss Deby
Helene Caux
UN Situation
Report, IRIN,
AI
Touloum
Refugee Camp
Tawila
Janjaweed
Kabkabiyah
al-Fashir
AFP
Al-Twaishah
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Tawila
Khatir Toar alKhala
UN Situation
Report
Gereisa
Kas
UN Situation
Report
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Kutum
First mention of overt

targeting of males
2 Mar
2 Mar
2, 3 Mar
3 Mar
3 Mar
4 Mar
4 Mar
cases.
Official Al-Anbaa newspaper quotes President Omar
al-Bashir as ordering the release of all people detained
in connection with recent events in Darfur.
US State Dept. describes President Omar al-Bashirs
pledge to open humanitarian corridors as limited and
that relief material is being delivered in on-again, offagain manner. State Dept. spokesman Richard
Boucher said GoS has not responded to US offer to
help with negotiations to allow the distribution of aid.
Boucher noted that US has not been able to get as
much aid into the region due to fighting. (AP, 2 Mar)
In a strongly-worded statement, the US government
warns that one million people are at imminent risk of
life and livelihood in Darfur due to a lack of civil
order and the refusal of local and national authorities to
permit unrestricted access for relief workers.
Particularly troubling are the government-supported
militias, known as the Janjawid who continue to attack
and burn undefended villages, murdering and raping
the inhabitants and forcing survivors to flee to nearby
towns or cross the border into Chad. (IRIN, 3 Mar)
UN refugee agency chief Ruud Lubbers visits
refugees in Chad.
ICRC head, Jakob Kellenberger meets with senior
GoS officials, including President Omar al-Bashir to
discuss Darfur.
GoS State Foreign Minister Najeib al-Khair Abdel
Wahab said ICRC has been invited to join a
multilateral aid structure for Darfur.
Sudanese militia are launching cross-border raids into
Chad to attack and loot from refugees, according to
Ruud Lubbers, UNHCR. UNHCR spokeswoman
Kitty McKinsey noted eight refugees killed by militia
fighters south of Adre, Chad.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud
Lubbers, says there is no immediate prospect for an
estimated 110,000 Darfurian refugees to return home
AP, citing AlAnbaa

AP; IRIN
Omar Al-Bashir
Chad
Omar Al-Bashir
Richard Boucher
Janjaweed
IRIN
Chad
AFP/AP
Ruud Lubbers
Omar Al-Bashir
Jakob Kellenberger
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
AP
Adre
Ruud Lubbers
Kitty McKinsey
IRIN
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4 Mar
5 Mar
5 Mar
6 Mar
and that it could be months and months before it

would be safe to go back.
EU voices serious concern over humanitarian crisis in
Darfur. Brussels condemned attacks by Janjaweed
militiamen urging GoS to put an end to the
Janjaweed atrocities and to thoroughly investigate the
militia practices and ensure that the perpetrators are
brought to justice.
AFP reports that UNHCR estimates110,000 refugees
at this time in Chad.
On 5 March 2004, government and Janjaweed forces
execute at least 145 men belonging to the Fur tribe in
Wadi Salih, one of West Darfur states six provinces.
The men were killed on the same day in different
places nine Fur chiefs in prisons in Mugjir and
Garsila, where they had been taken a week earlier,
seventy-one captured Fur men in a valley south of
Deleig, and another sixty-five captured men in a valley
in the Mugjir area west of Deleig.
ICRC claimss GoS impeding humanitarian access.
6 Mar
15 civilians killed by Janjaweed at Al-Kureinik, in

Western Darfur.
8 Mar
Twelve civilians, including three children, reportedly

killed in 'Aish Barra, a village west of al-Jeneina,
near the Chad border.
9 Mar
Water shortages hamper efforts to relocate 100,000
AFP
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil, State
Foreign minister
Janjaweed
AFP
Chad
HRW, Darfur
Destroyed
Wadi Salah
Janjaweed
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Mugjir
Garsila
Deleig
AP
Amnesty
International:
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians)
Amnesty
International(
At the mercy
of killers
destruction of
villages in
Darfur)
Jul 1, 2004
AFP
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Al-Kureinik;
Kereinik
'Aish Barra
El Geneina
Gauthier Lefevre
10 Mar
10 Mar
11 Mar
11 Mar
(AFP);
12, 16
Mar
(IRIN)
Sudanese refugees to safety before rainy season makes

desert inaccessible. ICRC/Red Crescent federation
spokesman Gauthier Lefevre said problems
compounded in south by arrival of Sudanese with
cattle. 20 army surplus all terrain trucks from
Norwegian Red Cross arrive.
Residents of Birkat Saira, a village about 75 km from
Kabkabiyah (North Darfur), have paid the
Janjaweed $7,000 since August 2003 not to attack
them, according to the deputy community leader there.
Two residents said they had individually paid $326 and
$96 to the Janjaweed. Others pay the Janjaweed to
allow them to farm their own land, or to return home to
their villages.
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha scheduled
to return to peace talks on 11 Mar with southern rebels
in Naivasha, Kenya, following three days of
consultations in Khartoum with President Bashir to
avert a breakdown the talks. Despite the obstacles,
Bashir was upbeat on the prospect of arriving at a
solution.
Roger Winter, USAID Assistant Administrator calls
Darfur Arguably....the worst humanitarian crisis in
Africa, and perhaps in the world. Winter told a
Congressional panel that atrocities being committed in
the region include ethnic cleansing and massive
patterns of rape against African girls and women by
jenjaweed militia of ethnic Arabs attacking from the
north.
IRIN
Birkat Saira
Janjaweed
Kabkabiya,
IRIN
Naivasha
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP; IRIN
Roger Winter
Charles Snyder
Janjaweed
Winter accused the GoS of not engaging in good faith

bargaining to help resolve the crisis, but rather
engaging in spin control closing its eyes to attacks on
civilians. Without a strong hand by the Government
to rein in the Janjaweed, the atrocities against civilians
will continue. Winter continued. Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs Charles Snyder
directly blamed the GoS these militias are proxies
for the government and Khartoum bears responsibility
for their conduct, whether they say they have control or
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not.
Winter says robust international presence including
UN forces is needed to ensure flow of humanitarian aid
and respect for human rights.
Winter accuses the Sudanese government of following
a scorched-earth policy to crush the Darfur rebellion
and adds that the government police and military
forces in the area do nothing to stop the violence.
(IRIN)
US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs,
Charles Snyder, adds that the US rejects the claim that
while the Sudanese government originally supported
the Janjaweed in Darfur, the militia was now out of its
control. Snyder adds that achieving peace in Sudan
was one of President George Bushs highest
priorities in Africa. (IRIN)
Janjaweed reportedly attack Al-Shariya (east of alFashir), in Northern Darfur.
12 Mar
14 Mar
14 Mar
GoS claims flow of relief is continuing satisfactorily

to Darfur, according to GoS top humanitarian official
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid.
Foreign Min. Mustafa Ismail accused Roger Winter
of siding with rebels after his congressional testimony.
On 2 Mar, US State Department criticized the
refusal of local as well as national authorities to
permit unrestricted access to humanitarian workers.
US, European, and African officials attempting
intensive preparation and efforts to arrange talks
between GoS and Darfur rebels. Currently Andrew
Natsios, USAID Administrator is in Ndjamena
Amnesty
International:
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians)
AFP
Al-Shariya
Janjaweed
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Roger Winter
AFP
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15, 16
Mar
consulting with Chadian Government on evaluating

humanitarian situation.
GoS rejected proposals by UN, EU and NGOs wishing
to extend operations into areas controlled by rebels in
Darfur. State Foreign minister Najeib al-Khair
Abdel Wahab told reporters the request had been
rejected for fear that equipment might fall into the
hands of rebels. (AFP, 15 Mar)
AFP; UN
Situation
Report; IRIN
Buram,
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Nyala
Greida
Abdel Wahab said two Chinese workers had been

abducted by Darfur rebels in Buram town in South
Darfur State. The two Chinese were water well
experts. Buram had been attacked by rebels on 13
Mar and two policemen were killed. (AFP)
12 Mar
16 Mar
14 Mar
16 Mar
15 Mar
16 Mar
16 Mar
SLM/A reportedly attack Buram, 140 km south of

Nyala, reportedly killing six civilians and seizing two
Chinese workers. SLM/A also reportedly attack
Greida, 60 km northeast of Buram, where they loot
bank and tax offices. (UN Situation Report, 16 Mar)
SLM/A reportedly attack the village of Thabit in
North Darfur, approximately 50 km southeast of
Tawilla.
Sudanese aircraft bomb the villages of Wad Jahar and
Goweighin in South Darfur, killing at least eight
people and injuring at least 20.
Sudanese ambassador to the US, Khidr Harun
Ahmad, appeals to the US to normalize relations, lift
sanctions and invest in the country, saying that Sudan
is on the brink of peace and will be a good place for
American companies to invest with peace and the
lifting of US sanctions. The US has renewed sanctions
against Sudan annually since 1997, saying that
Khartoum must improve its poor human rights record
and cooperate in counter-terrorism efforts if it seeks to
have sanctions lifted.
UN reports bombings and Janjaweed attacks on
Matorit in Ed Dein, Um Shegaira, 21 km east of
Shariya; attacks and bombings on El Meram village,
11 km south of Nyala.
UN Situation
Report
Thabit
Wad Jahar
Goweighin
IRIN
UN Situation
Report
Khidr Harun
Ahmad
Matorit
Ed Diein
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Janjaweed

Um Shegaira
16 Mar
17 Mar
6 Mar
17 Mar
8 Mar
17 Mar
16 Mar
18 Mar
17 Mar
18 Mar
18 Mar
18 Mar
18 Mar
18 Mar
The UN reports that Chadian troops successfully

crossed into Darfur to rescue cattle stolen by
Janjaweed. For the past few weeks, Janjaweed had
been mounting almost daily attacks on Chadian
territory to steal livestock from Darfurian refugees.
Amnesty International says the Sudanese government
has made no progress to ensure civilian protection in
Darfur, but instead encourages the Janjaweed to
continue daily raids of looting and burning of villages.
Amnesty notes that for the past year, no member of
the Janjaweed has been arrested or brought to justice
for a single unlawful killing.
Janjaweed with three Land-Cruisers and some 60 men
on horseback reportedly attack al-Kuraynik, east of El
Geneina, West Darfur. 15 villagers killed.
12 people reportedly killed in Aysh Barrah, a village
west of El Geneina, near the Chad border.
UN reports major attack on Korma near El-Fashir
reportedly displaces a large number of people.
IRIN
UN reports village of Adwah in Shareya locality,

South Darfur, east of Nyala-El Fashir Road, is
attacked.
China appeals to GoS for help in rescuing two Chinese
abductees.
UN Situation
Report
UN calls for release of two Chinese nationals.

Three killed at Mayo camp for Darfur refugees (20
km. southwest of Khartoum).
UNHCR relocates 10,000 Sudanese refugees from
Darfur deeper into Chad to avoid Sudanese militias
daily border raids which are accompanied by rape,
murder and looting of refugee camps along the 850mile Sudan-Chad border.
UN reports an attack on Tawilah which left 67 dead.
16 schoolgirls were abducted and 41 schoolgirls and
teachers were reported raped.
El Meram
Chad
IRIN
Janjaweed
IRIN
al-Kuraynik
IRIN
El Geneina
Aish Barra
UN Situation
Report
Janjaweed
Korma
al-Fashir
Adwah
AFP
Mukesh Kapila,
UN Humanitarian
Coordinator Sudan
Mayo IDP Camp
Guardian
Chad
Guardian
Tawila
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18 Mar
Week of
5 Mar
19 Mar
Three months after talks between Darfur rebels and the

Sudanese government broke down, Khartoum agrees
for the first time to attend talks that are internationally
monitored by EU representatives and other observers.
The US said it would be present if talks took place.
UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, Mukesh
Kapila says Darfur conflict was is now the worlds
greatest humanitarian and human rights
catastrophe. Kapila said attacks against tribes in
Darfur were close to ethnic cleansing. He cited
reports of systematic burning of villages, displacement,
women being raped and forced disappearances. (AFP)

IRIN
AP AFP; NYT
Tawila
Mukesh Kapila
Rwanda
John Danforth
Korma district
Janjaweed
Kapila said systematic rape and scorched earth policies

were tantamount to war crimes and that the only
difference between Rwanda and Darfur is the numbers
involved of dead, tortured and raped. He cited one
incident two weeks ago (week of 5 Mar) where at least
100 women were raped in a few hours in Tawila.
Kapila says Darfur is possibly worlds hottest war.
(AFP/AP)
Kapila declined to use the term genocide but noted
attacks were being carried out on Furs, Masalit, and
Zigawaa ethnic groups.
20
March
2004
In the Korma district, in Northern Darfur the

Janjaweed along with government of Sudan troops
reportedly kill 47 civilians, abduct scores of women
and burn villages.
21 Mar
Sudan blasts UN Humanitarian Coordinator for

Sudan Mukesh Kapila for remarks it describes as a
heap of lies in response to Kapilas declaration that
Darfur was the worlds greatest humanitarian
catastrophe.
Amnesty
International:
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians)
AFP/AP
Mukesh Kapila
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab,
Junior Foreign
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21 Mar
22 Mar
18 Mar
23 Mar
19 Mar
23 Mar
19-21
Mar
23 Mar
22 Mar
23 Mar
23 Mar
23 Mar
22 Mar
24 Mar
(Kapilas tenure as UNHCS ends this month and GoS

accused him of concocting the allegations, perhaps in
response to GoS pressure on him to leave Sudan for
what it calls flagrant failure in discharging his duty.)
One of two Chinese engineer-abductees escapes
JEM says it is prepared to hold talks with GoS in a
neutral country if certain conditions are met: a
ceasefire, immobilization of the Sudanese air force and
international inquiry into war in Darfur. JEM made
this statement after the announcement last week that
Chad offered its good offices to mediate in the
conflict. We do not want Ndjamena, JEM
spokesman Colonel Abdallah Abdel Kerim said,
claiming the Chadian government allows the GoS air
force to use its airspace. The war has cost some
10,000 lives the report notes UN as claiming.
Janjaweed reportedly attack a refugee site 30 km north
of Tine, on the Chad side of the border.
UN reports attacks on 24 villages around Tawilla,
North Darfur.
UN reports military activity and Janjaweed attacks
and looting in various South Darfur villages,
including Biatra, Mersheng, and Wad Almeram (30
km south of Nyala).
UN reports an SLM/A attack on Buram in South
Darfur.
GoS and western rebels (SLM/A and JEM) agree to
meet in Chad beginning 26 Mar. Ahmat Allam-mi,
an adviser to Chadian President Idriss Deby said
Deby will mediate the talks and international
observers, including representatives from the AU have
agreed to sit in on the negotiations.
AP reports that rebels are seeking 17% of countrys oil
revenue.
SLM/A says its trying to find a way to release
Chinese engineer safely.
GoS blames Darfur rebels for blocking deliveries of
AFP
AFP
Ndjamena
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Note that AFP now

considers JEM to be
main rebel group;
Also UN death toll
reaches 10,000, after
months of hovering
round 3,000 in
reporting.
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Tine, Chad
Janjaweed
Tawila
Biatra
Janjaweed
Mersheng
UN Situation
Report
AP
Wad Almeram
Buram
Chad
Ahmad Allami
Idriss Deby
AFP
AFP
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This article reports

isplacement figures at
more than 800,000.
24 Mar
22 Mar
24, 25
Mar
25 Mar
26 Mar
humanitarian aid. State Foreign Minister Al-Tigani

Salih Fidhail told reporters that USAID officials had
no specific ideas about how to facilitate delivery of
food.
The Sudanese government says it is committed to a just
and peaceful solution to the Darfur conflict through
political dialogue. However, the government said this
does not mean that it would give up its constitutional
responsibility in defending the country and its
citizens.
The government asserted that the situation in Darfur
was characterized by marked stability.
Six Arab tribe leaders killed in insurgent attack in
Buram, according to South Darfur Governor Adam
Hamid Mussa. The attack, which occurred on
Monday night, 22 Mar purportedly killed prominent
Habbaniyah tribe leaders including deputy chief
Omar Ali al-Ghali, and his brother Al-Ghali Ali alGhali, who is head of the legal department in the state.
(AFP 24 Mar)
Fighting has been ongoing since 22 Mar and led to
casualties on both sides. (UN Situation Report, 25 Mar)
A survey conducted by an NGO, Intermediate
Technology Development Group (ITDG) in February
and March revealed that displacement caused 40,000
households in North Darfur to miss this years
cropping season. Many who were able to cultivate had
their crops stolen.
GoS Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs
Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah leaves for Brussels to
meet with rebel leaders, according to Omdurman
Radio.

Fidahil
UN Situation
Report
Nairobi
Mukesh Kapila
AFP; UN
Situation
Report
Buram
Omar Ali Al-Ghali

Al-Ghali Ali alGhali
Adam Hamid
Mussa
IRIN
North Darfur
AFP, citing
Omdurman
Radio.
Brussels
Mohamed Yusuf
Abdallah
Moses Machar
Four trains carrying relief supplies leave Khartoum

over past four days, according to officials. Vice
President Moses Machar and Humanitarian Affairs
Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid saw off the
transports carrying 600 tons of sorghum, sugar,
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
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26 Mar
26 Mar
26 Mar
27 Mar
27 Mar
29 Mar
29 Mar
cooking oil, biscuits honey and other food.

Eight UN human rights experts, reporting to the UN
Human Rights Commission in Geneva are gravely
concerned over abuses in Darfur. The panel, which
includes Theo van Boven, Francis Deng, Asma
Jahangir, and Paul Hunt cite rape of women and
girls, burning of villages, and destruction of livestock
by militias.
The panel concluded that the GoS is encouraging the
actions of the militias in order to pursue a strategy of
forced displacement of the non-Arab population of the
region.
(See also AFP, 29 Mar)
The International Crisis Group (ICG) says the
international community has been too quiet on Darfur
in order to quicken a IGAD-led final peace agreement
between the Sudanese government and the SPLM:
The international community has responded to the
Darfur crisis largely with quiet diplomacy, fearing too
much pressure on Khartoum would endanger the
IGAD peace talks. It is clearer by the way, however,
that the conflict there must be resolved if there is to be
overall peace in Sudan.
Darfur rebels free Chinese engineer. The SLM/A
releases a Chinese engineer they have held since
March 14 to the International Committee of the Red
Cross (ICRC). The engineer, who works for a
Chinese company which has been drilling in North
Darfur, was taken captive along with a colleague, who
escaped a week ago. (See also, IRIN, 29 Mar)
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, who has
provided harrowing accounts of the Darfur conflict,
goes beyond the term ethnic cleansing to describe the
Sudanese governments campaign: Sudans behavior
also easily meets the definition of genocide.
Talks between rebels and GoS to start in Ndjamena on
Tuesday, 30 Mar.
The GoS clamps down on the Popular Congress
Party, purported by the Government to be linked to
AP; AFP
Geneva
Theo van Boven

Francis Deng
Asma Jahangir
Paul Hunt
IRIN
AFP, IRIN
p.org/home/index.cf
m?id=2550&l=1
North Darfur
NYT
AFP
AFP
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Nicholas Kristof
Ndjamena
Abdullah Hassan
Ahmed, Deputy
30 Mar
30 Mar
30 Mar
Darfurian involvement in a recent, alleged Army coup

plot. Authorities launch a wave of arrests and transfer
officers of Darfurian origin.
GoS upbeat over latest round of negotiations with
Darfur insurgents. Foreign relations dept. head of
National Congress Party Kamal al-Obaid said we
expect success. (AP)
GoS Delegation is led by Investment Minister AlSherif Ahmed Omar Badr.
GoS arrests opposition leader Hassan al-Turabi, as
well as army officers. Hassan al-Turabi was taken
into custody by police in a pre-dawn arrest, allegedly in
connection with coup-plotters in Darfur. (AP, 30 Mar)

Leader Popular
Congress
AFP/AP
Kamal al-Obaid
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
AP/AFP/ IRIN
Ndjamena
Hasan al-Turabi
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
Meanwhile a group of approximately 10 army officers

were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a military
coup related to ongoing conflict in Darfur. Sources
told AFP there was an attempted coup detat. The
officers reportedly were members of the Popular
Congress. (AFP, 30 Mar)
Idriss Deby
Kofi Annan
GoS delegation refuses to participate in the opening

ceremony of the negotiations with Darfur rebels in
Ndjamena, Chad. A diplomat present claimed the
GoS delegation objected to the presence of
international observers at the talks. The US, EU,
French and AU have observer status. (AP)
Sudans Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Tidjani al-Fidail said Apparently there are others
who are trying to play at being observers, which was
not planned. (AFP)
The government said the Sudanese delegation would
first meet with Chadian mediator, President Idriss
Deby, before joining the talks. However, the talks, a
joint initiative by the US and EU, commenced despite
the boycott. At the talks, a statement by UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan is distributed, which urges the
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27-28
Mar
30 Mar
parties to work intensively towards declaring an

effective humanitarian ceasefire and stresses the need
for relief organizations to receive safe and unimpeded
access to all those in need. (IRIN, 1, 2 April)
GoS accuses UN experts of lying about reports of
systematic human rights abuses in Darfur. Foreign
Minister Mustafa Ismail told reporters that some UN
officials do not keep to the truth when speaking about
the situation in Sudan to the extent at which we can
label some of their statements as lies and acts of
deception.
Heavy fighting in South Darfur. Villages of Tur and
Tulus burnt and looted by the Janjaweed on March 27
and 28. Abu Ajouma, located southwest of Nyala,
was looted.
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Tur
Janjaweed
Tulus
Abu Ajouma
31 Mar
31 Mar
31 Mar
31 Mar
CARE reports that 9 villages in the Kass and Kailiek

area of IDP camps in South Darfur were burnt to the
ground recently. Locals describe women being beaten
and raped while fetching water and other supplies in
outlying areas.
Indirect talks begin in NDjamena with mediators
shuttling back and forth between GoS delegation and
two rebel groups.
The growing needs of Darfur refugees and displaced
persons are overwhelming the current capacity of
aid, according to the UN Office for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Affairs (UN OCHA). UN OCHA
notes that while humanitarian access in the region had
improved slightly relief operations were still
constrained by the volatile security situation.
A Nicholas Kristof column in the New York Times
mentions that President Bush raised the issue of
Darfur in a private, unpublicized telephone
conversation with President Omar al-Bashir last
week.
Human Rights Watch slams Sudan for massive
atrocities in Darfur. HRW accuses the GoS of
indiscriminately bombing civilians while
government and militia forces are systematically
Kas
Kailiek, South
Darfur
Ndjamena
IRIN
NYT
Nicholas Kristof
George W. Bush
Omar al-Bashir
AFP
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destroying villages and conducting brutal raids against

the Fur, Masaalit and Zaghawa ethnic groups.
The report, Darfur in Flames to be released on 2
April.
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Event
Date
Mar
Publica
tion
Date
1 Apr
Event
Source
Locations
SLM/A attack reported on Abu Zereiga, North

Darfur, 30 km south of El Fashir on the road to
Nyala. GoS reports 70-75 soldiers killed and 140
injured.
UN Situation
Report
Abu Zereiga
Names
Al-Fashir
Nyala
1 April
12-26
Mar
1 Apr
1 Apr
Chad tries to convince GoS and rebels to hold face-toface talks. Chadian mediation team member (and
foreign relations advisor to President Deby) Allami
Ahmat says, we had the impression that both sides
had the right frame of mind for direct talks.
Atrocities in Darfur are jeopardizing delivery of UN
aid, according to UN emergency relief officer Daniel
Augstburger. Augstburger said there is systematic
removal of populations of non-Arab origin by the
government. Augstburger said that during a mission
from 12 Feb to 26 March, we witnessed rape, gang
rape, systematic looting. Augstburger said aid was
seized by GoS -recruited militias.
Janjaweed reported to be moving from North Darfur
southward toward Nyala and Shareya. In areas close
to Nyala, such as Abu Djara, reports of looting and
attacks continue. SLM/A reported to be moving
around Manawashi, Dogo, and Shengeltobai in South
Darfur.
Ahmad Allami
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Daniel Augstburger
Nyala
Janjaweed
Abu Djara
Dogo
Manawashi
Shiariyah
1 Apr
1 Apr
2 Apr
Nine villages between 5-20 km west and south of El

Geneina, West Darfur revisited by Janjaweed over the
week and burned.
Sudanese government confirms that 10 military
officers and opposition leader Hasan al-Turabi have
been detained for planning a coup since 2002.
US State Dept. calls on GoS to take immediate steps to
UN Situation
Report
Shengeltobai
El Geneina
Janjaweed
IRIN
Hasan al-Turabi
AP, AFP
Adam Ereli, US
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Notes
2 Apr
2 Apr
2 Apr
2 Apr
2 Apr, 3
Apr
stop militias and to allow for outside monitoring of the

situation; blames Sudanese militias backed by
Khartoum government for creating a massive
humanitarian crisis.
UN appeals for $30 million to help refugees along the
border. Elizabeth Byrs, spokeswoman for the UN
OCHA said the money is needed to help 110,000
people along the borders. Ron Redmond, UNHCR
spokesman said his agency moved more than 20,000
Sudanese away from the border to five camps and is
trucking 1,000 people each day.
The UN says it will investigate allegations of
widespread atrocities by GoS-backed militia in Darfur.
The High Commissioner for Human Rights hopes to
deploy a fact-finding mission in the coming days, said
Jose Diaz, UNHCR spokesman.
Christiane Berthiaume of the WFP said her agency
could only reach 300,000 of the estimated 1.2 million
people who need aid, due to security concerns.
UN Security Council issues a Presidential statement
expressing deep concern about the massive
humanitarian crisis in Darfur. German ambassador
to UN Gunter Pleuger, President of Security
Council says every effort has to be made to find a
settlement to the conflict. The US is very very
concerned about the situation according to US
Ambassador Stewart Holliday.
In the New York Times, former US ambassador-at-large
for war crimes David Scheffer calls for the UN
Security Council to ask the International Criminal
Court to investigate the atrocities in Darfur.
UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian
Affairs Jan Egeland addresses UN Security Council
and says Darfur is ethnic cleansing. Egeland noted
212 civilians killed in Darfur in March but did not have
figures for earlier months due to inaccessibility to
region. Egeland describes pattern of systematic
depopulation of areas. People are not necessarily killed
then. They are moved away.I would say it is ethnic

State Dept.
Spokesperson
AP
Elizabeth Byrs
Ron Redmond
Daniel Augstburger
AFP
Jose Luis Diaz
UN to investigate
atrocities.
Christiane
Berthiaume
AFP,
Gunter Pleuger
Stuart Holliday
First UN Security
Council statement on
Darfur.
http://www.unis.unvi
enna.org/unis/pressrel
s/2004/sc8050.html
NYT
David Scheffer
NYT, AP,
IRIN
Jan Egeland
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
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cleansing, but not genocide. Egeland described a

pattern of attacks supported by government aerial
bombardment. Therefore it seems to be condoned.
Sudans UN Ambassador Elfatih Mohamed Erwa
said Egelands figures on refugees were inflated.
2 Apr
2, 3 Apr
3 Apr
4 Apr
4 Apr
5 Apr
Egeland says he personally knows of many instances

where the Sudanese government refused to intervene in
ongoing massacres. As per the negotiations, the UN
official said they had descended into talks about talks
while people continued to die. (NYT)
A Human Rights Watch report classifies Darfur
displacement and Janjaweed attacks as crimes
against humanity. (IRIN)
HRW says that the government of Sudan and allied
Janjaweed, are implementing a strategy of ethnicbased murder, rape and forcible displacement of
civilians. (See also WP from 3 April)
Hassan al-Turabi charged with offenses against the
state. (Turabi blamed the Darfur fighting on the
governments neglect of the populations demands
which pushed it into military action. Turabi said the
GoS had deliberately sown discord between the
formerly nomadic Arab tribes and the indigenous Fur,
Zaghawa and Maasalit minorities and allowed proGoS militias to kill innocent civilians and rape
women.
On Friday UN Security Council gave full support for
talks in Chad. (AFP)
GoS sends 50,000 tons of food and other relief to
Nyala by rail.
Peace Talks in Ndjamena continue.
President Omar al-Bashir says Darfur calm now,
after announcement of general pardon and cessation of
major military operations. Calm has been restored and
most of the people have now returned to their areas.
The government has now opened all corridors for
IRIN
Janjaweed
AFP
Chad
Hasan al-Turabi
AFP
Nyala
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
AP
Ndjamena
Ahmed Ibraim ElTahir
Elizabeth Hodgkin
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delivery of relief to the affected persons.
Omar Al-Bashir
Elizabeth Hodgkin from Amnesty International says

we dont have any reason to believe that is true.
5 Apr
5 Apr
9-13
Feb
6 April
2004
Speaker of Sudan Parliament Ahmed Ibraim ElTahir said we back the government efforts against the
allegations of some organizations that seek to smear
the reputation of Sudan.
GoS continues crackdown on Popular Congress
Party, arresting member Faruq Abu al-Naja.
Peace talks inch forward as GoS accepts Chadian plan
as basis for negotiation that includes a ceasefire,
guarantees of safety for civilians and measures to
resolve humanitarian crisis.
Peace talks bog down, however as GoS continues its
refusal to allow international observers to attend
negotiations. The rebel negotiators insist that the
international community witness the talks, according to
JEM delegation head Abubker Hamid Nour.
Reports emerge of incidents in February where 11
villages bombed including: Habila Karainik,
Karainik, Magornay, Mornay, Gurnyu, Mejmeri,
Effendi, Urbi, Liri, Kastara and Nuri Last, in
Western Darfur.
AFP
Faruq Abu al-Naja
AFP
Ndjamena
Amnesty
International(
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians)
Habila Karainik
Karainik
Magornay,
Morni
Gurnyu
Mejmeri
Effendi
Urbi
Liri
Kastara
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Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
http://www.amnestyu
sa.org/countries/suda
n/document.do?id=26
0DD8B83E67817480
256E6F0041C48D
23-27
Feb
6 April
2004
Reports emerge of incidents in February where 157

civilians killed and nine villages torched in Wadi
Saleh area in Garsila province, including: Kaskildo,
Arwalla, Zaray, Forgo, Ndjamena, Masa, Whu,
Kaare, Wususu, in Western Darfur.
Amnesty
International:
SUDAN
Deliberate and
Indiscriminate
Attacks
against
civilians)
Nuri Last
Wadi Salah
http://www.amnestyu
sa.org/countries/suda
n/document.do?id=26
0DD8B83E67817480
256E6F0041C48D
Kaskildo
Arwalla
Zaray
Forgo
Ndjamena
Masa
Whu
Kaare
Wususu
6 Apr
4 Apr
6 Apr
6 Apr
6, 7 Apr
UN probe into GoS-backed militias atrocities begins.

Technical fact finding mission on the human rights
situation in Darfur is starting today, said Annick
Stevenson, UN spokeswoman in Geneva. The
mission will start in Chad and interview refugees and
then visit Sudan later. At present, mission does not
have permission from GoS to enter Sudan.
Janjaweed attack Abu Adjura (southwest of Nyala),
South Darfur.
10 year anniversary of start/height of Rwandan
genocide.
US officials say lingering remorse over American
brush-off of the Rwandan genocide is influencing US
response to developing crisis in Darfur.
Sudanese rebels and GoS representatives met face-toface for first time in Chad during peace talks brokered
by Chadian President Deby.
AFP
Annick Stevenson
Bacre Ndiaye,
UNHCHR mission
leader
UN Situation
Report
AP
AFP; IRIN
Abu Adjura
Abu Bakr Hamid

al-Nur
Idriss Deby
93
The leader of the JEM delegation, Abubker Hamid

Nour said the rebels had withdrawn certain points,
added some and agreed to others. Chadian officials
say they have proposed a humanitarian ceasefire that
takes account of the concerns of everyone. It is a
document that opens the way to resolve the crisis.
7 Apr
7 Apr
(Also see 7 April AFP article, Sudan rebels

government hold first direct talks on Darfur conflict.)
Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the start of
the Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000
Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered, leaders
from South Africa, Kenya and Sudan attend
memorials in Rwanda but most European nations and
the US only send a few ministers and junior officials to
attend.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the same day
that recent reports left him with a deep sense of
foreboding. Annan said that if full humanitarian access
is denied, than the international community must be
prepared to take swift and appropriate action. By
action in such situation I mean a continuum of steps,
which may include military action. But the latter
should always be seen as an extreme measure, to be
used only in extreme cases.
Ahmad Allami
Guardian
AP; AFP
Kigali, Rwanda
Omar Al-Bashir
George W. Bush
Kofi Annan
The GoS invites Annan to send high-level mission to

Sudan.
US President George Bush calls on GoS to provide
unrestricted humanitarian access. the government of
Sudan must not remain complicit in the brutalization of
Darfur said Bush, who condemned atrocities noting
the displacement of hundreds of thousands. I have
expressed my views directly to President Bashir of
Sudan he said.
AFP reports President Bush as further saying: The
Sudanese government must immediate stop local
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militias from committing atrocities against the local

population and must provide unrestricted access to
humanitarian aid agencies. I condemn these atrocities,
which are displacing hundreds of thousands of
civilians.
7 Apr
7 Apr
7 Apr
7 Apr
7 Apr
Canada urges Sudan to take immediate action to

defuse Darfur conflict. Canada calls on the GoS to
take immediate action to peacefully defuse the crisis in
Darfur and to fulfill its responsibilities to ensure the
protection of civilians, said Canadian Foreign
Minister Bill Graham.
US Assistant Secretary of State Charles Snyder
predicts GoS and SPLA will sign peace accord. He
comments that lack of political will in the face of
what is happening in Darfur is not acceptable, but
suggests that advances on the main Sudanese peace
talks would be very encouraging for the process in
Darfur.
US State Dept. plays down UN suggestion that an
international force might be needed to intervene. US
State Dept. spokesperson Adam Ereli, referring to
possible military action brought up by UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan responds, for now, what were
focusing onare those diplomatic
actions.werenot really actively considering
alternatives at this point because the focus is on the
diplomatic.
Ereli stated, fully normal relations between us and
Sudan are predicated on a settlement of the civil war
and a resolution of the Darfur issue.
On 10th anniversary of Rwanda genocide, the US State
Dept. declines to publicly describe Darfur as
genocide. I think we have a good sense of whats
going on thereweve called it a humanitarian crisis
Deputy State Dept. Spokesman Adam Ereli said.
But I really hesitate to use the G-word at this point
not really having considered it in that light.
Sudans Commissioner General of Humanitarian
AFP
Bill Graham
AFP
Charles Snyder
AFP
Adam Ereli
AFP
Adam Ereli
IRIN
Sulaf el-Din Saleh
95
Aid Commission, Sulaf al-Din Salih, says the

international community has been misinformed about
the reality in Darfur and that the situation has really
improved since December 2003. He criticizes the UN
for being part of what he calls a political campaign
against the government orchestrated by the Darfur
rebels and that the Sudanese government is
considering an option of taking the UN out of the
area.
7 Apr
8 Apr
8 Apr
8 Apr
Refuting comments from humanitarian actors that the

majority of IDPs would not be able to return to the
places they had fled from and would instead move to
urban centers such as Khartoum or remain in peripheral
towns in Darfur, Salih said that people were already
able to return to their villages in Darfur: People are
already going back home. (See also IRIN reporting
from 19 April)
In Geneva on the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan
genocide, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns
that a Rwandan-style genocide could be in the making
in Sudan and says international military force could be
needed.
He declares that the international community cannot
stand idle. The risk of genocide remains frighteningly
real. (WP)
The US says Sudan and SPLA must reach cease fire
deal in order to spur on Darfur peace talks. Acting
Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Charles
Snyder warns, as I originally intended to take back
with me my entire delegation to begin to take a serious
look at where we were going in Sudan giventhe
serious violence and ethnic cleansing thats going on in
Darfur. Snyder however was persuaded by Vice
President Ali Osman Taha and John Garang who
expressed confidence that a peace deal would be
reached soon.
GoS and Darfur rebels agree on humanitarian issues
and appear likely to reach ceasefire agreement.
UN Situation
Report, WP,
Guardian,
IRIN
Geneva
AP
Kofi Annan
Charles Snyder
John Garang
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AFP
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Ndjamena
Janjaweed
See 7 Apr reporting
8 Apr
8 Apr
8 Apr
9 Apr
According to sources at the talks in Ndjamena, GoS

delegates did not want any eventual agreement to
contain references to the Janjawid.
Sudan rejects UN calls for international intervention in
Darfur. We are not in need of foreign forces in
Darfur Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said. All
we want from the international community is more
humanitarian aid in addition to the governments
commitment, he said.
Ismail said the GoS had established a cabinet
committee to ensure aid reached the people of Darfur
and to rein in the pro-GoS militias. The committee is
composed of ministers of defence, interior, foreign
affairs, finance, humanitarian affairs and agriculture
and has been charged with rounding up and
controlling armed groups.
GoS and Darfur rebels sign ceasefire agreement. The
ceasefire goes into effect three days from signing and
will last 45 days. The agreement calls for final peace
talks to begin to begin within two weeks. GoS
investment Minister Sharif Amed Omar Badr
signed on behalf of GoS (he heads Darfur
reconciliation committee.) Minni Arkoi Minawi,
Secretary-General for SLM/A and Mohammed
Saleh Hamid, leader of JEM signed for the two rebel
groups.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomes the
ceasefire agreement, and a spokesman said that Annan
trusts this agreement will result in an immediate
cessation of hostilities and an end to attacks against
civilians, as well as full humanitarian access to all
people in need of assistance and protection. (IRIN)
AFP
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
NDjamena
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Mohammed Saleh
Hamid
WP, NYT,
IRIN
Idriss Deby
Janjaweed
Kofi Annan
Human Rights Watch welcomes the ceasefire, but

expresses concern that no monitoring mechanism for
its implementation has been established. (IRIN)
8 Apr
(See also reporting for 14,15 Apr)

UN reports ongoing military operations near Tine on
UN Situation
97
Tine, Chad
Janjaweed
Cabinet committee
8 Apr
the Chadian border. In South Darfur, the Janjaweed

have reportedly surrounded Nyala to defend the town
against rebel attacks.
UNOCHA says new arrivals at Kalma IDP camp in
South Darfur report that Janjaweed militias have
committed major atrocities in the Shetaya and
Kailiek areas of Darfur, killing and torturing up to 200
men and raping women. Those fleeing Kailiek report
being forced to pay the Janjaweed to leave the area.
Report
US welcomes Darfur truce calling the cease-fire a

crucial first step toward ending atrocities and
reversing a humanitarian crisis.
AU welcomes ceasefire deal. AU Commission
chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare commended
parties for their political will and flexibility. The
agreement also guarantees safe passage for
humanitarian aid, freeing prisoners of war and
disarming of militias.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail urged the
international community to help the people of Darfur
as he began a tour of the region along with other
Sudanese ministers, and representatives of the UN and
US and French embassies.
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail warns
of dire humanitarian needs in Darfur. The Foreign
Minister said, the displaced people in Kassab camp
will run short of food, medicines and other sanitary
services in only a few days after visiting a camp in
Kutum that hosts 65,000 IDPs.
Ceasefire goes into affect at 8:00 PM (1700 GMT).
North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf Kibir attends
ceremony to release 63 prisoners. State Foreign
Minister Al-Tigani Salih Fidhail said the
government is determined to bring the militias under
control so that those groups will not violate the
ceasefire.
AP reports displacement numbers reach 860,000.
AP
Nyala
IRIN
Kalma IDP
Camp
Janjaweed
Kailiek
Nyala
Shataya
9 Apr
9 Apr
9 Apr
10 Apr
11 Apr
11 Apr
AFP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Kutum
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Kassab
AFP
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
AP
98
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP reports
displacement
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid

announces high-level UN mission to arrive in Darfur to
assess humanitarian situation. We have agreed to
cooperate and work together in accordance with the
principles of the United Nations. We have also agreed
on setting up a committee to work out an emergency
relief program for Darfur.
Omar Al-Bashir
numbers reach
860,000
Jan Egeland
President Omar al-Bashir visits Chad to thank

President Idriss Deby for mediating latest round of
talks.
11 Apr
12 Apr
12 Apr
10 Apr
13 Apr
A 10-member team, led by UN UndersecretaryGeneral for humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland will
visit each of the three Darfur regions from 18 April to
21 April.
President Omar al-Bashir vows to respect ceasefire.
We have come to confirm to President Deby that we
are committed to respecting the Ndjamena
agreements, said Bashir.
South Darfur State Governor Adam Hamid Mussa
said ceasefire signaled approaching peace for
stricken region.
Rebels say ceasefire holding. Abdallah Abdel Kerim
of the JEM said up until now the ceasefire has been
respected, but also added that instead of disarming the
Janjaweed, the GoS has been integrating them into the
national army, contrary to the Ndjamena accords.
US believes GoS and affiliated militias are in violation
of ceasefire. US State Dept claims that situation on
the ground has not changed. Despite early reports of
diminution of fighting following the ceasefire, State
Dept. Spokesman Richard Boucher said we do still
have reports that government-supported Arab militias
are attacking parts of western and southern
Darfur.There are, also, reports of continuing aerial
bombardment, such as at Anka, northwest of
Khartoum, this morning.
Janjaweed attacks in South Darfur continue, as
AFP
Ndjamena
Omar Al-Bashir
Adam Hamid
Mussa
AFP
Ndjamena
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Janjaweed
AFP
Anka
Richard Boucher
UN Situation
Gemeiza
Janjaweed
99
At odds with JEM

reporting
13 Apr
13 Apr
13 Apr
13 Apr
13 Apr
9
Apr
14 Apr
12 Apr
14 Apr,
15 Apr
militias loot relief supplies. Local sources allege that

the Janjaweed attacked Gemeiza village near
Koroma a day after the WFP delivered assistance,
looting food stocks and other items.
UN reports Janjaweed attack in the area of Kalma
camp.
UN human rights probe blocked from entering
Sudan. UN Human Rights spokesman Jose Diaz said
that despite promises of safe passage for international
aid, investigators were not allowed to cross into Darfur.
Meanwhile, new talks are set for 20 April in
Ndjamena for permanent peace accord.
US says situation in Darfur appears to be calming.
State Dept. spokesman Richard Boucher says were
still not in a position to really confirm specific reports
of violence that we had yesterday. Boucher said the
situation appears to have clamed down. At this point,
it appears to be, I guess Id say scaling down. The
violence appears to have diminished significantly.
Chadian mediators say that Darfur ceasefire
scrupulously respected. One anonymous mediator
told AFP that we have recorded no formal complaint
of a ceasefire violation. Consultations underway
between Chad and the AU for setting up of a
commission to oversee the ceasefire in conformity
with the clauses of the Ndjamena accord.
The EU raises possibility of military intervention in
Darfur. Sudan is on the list of the UN (for some form
of peacekeeping mission).there is no reason why the
EU could not go to, for instance, Sudan. I see it to be
very possible, said EUs top military official Gustuv
Haaglund.
UN launches appeal for $115 million in humanitarian
aid for Darfur. Current appeal replaces $23 million
appeal launched in Sept of last year.
Report
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof reports

that the Sudanese government marked the first day of
the cease-fire, Monday April 12, by bombing the town
of Anka. (IRIN)
NYT, IRIN
Koroma
UN Situation
Report
AFP
Kalma Camp
Janjaweed
Jose Luis Diaz
AFP
Richard Boucher
AFP
AU to oversee
ceasefire
AFP
Gustuv Haaglund.
IRIN
Anka, Kalma
Nicholas Kristof
Ahmad Allami
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Now US saying
Darfur calming
EU force in Sudan
mentioned.

Janjaweed
14 Apr
14 Apr
15 Apr
16 Apr
16 Apr
US alleges that the Sudanese government and the

Janjaweed have already violated the ceasefire just a
day after it came into effect. On 12 April, a
Janjaweed attack was reported outside Kalma camp
for IDPs in South Darfur. Ahmad Allami,
spokesman of the Chadian mediation team, said the
US allegations could refer to the period between last
Thursday, when the ceasefire was agreed, and Sunday
when it went into effect. (IRIN)
President Omar al-Bashir expects North-South peace
deal to be inked in today, tomorrow or the next two
days.
US calls for urgent creation of a commission to
monitor truce. There is an urgent need to set up a
cease-fire commission says Richard Boucher, State
Dept. spokesman.
Ceasefire agreement mandates the establishment of a
civilian commission to monitor compliance with the
truce. The panel is expected to be named by the AU at
a meeting in Addis Ababa next week. The US has
offered logistical support to the mission.
The African Union says it will send military observers
from Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal and Namibia to Darfur
to ensure that government soldiers, militias and rebels
adhere to a 45-day cease-fire agreement.
GoS and SPLA call in mediators to help them break
impasse in North-South peace talks.
On Thursday 15 Apr, the MJE (JEM) accused
Janjawid militiamen and Army troops of violating the
ceasefire in an attack that left 32 dead, though the
report is unconfirmed as it the date of the actual attack.
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
Richard Boucher
NYT
AP
AFP
Doung-Diresa
Lazaro
Sumbeiywo, Chief
mediator
Abdallah Abdel
Karem
Janjaweed
JEM accuses GoS of breaking ceasefire. JEM

spokesman Col. Abdallah Abdel Karim said
Janjawid had attacked the town of Doung-Diresa in
South Darfur, killing 13 civilians. Karim added that
the Janjaweed also looted 300 cows and 600 sheep
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and goats.
US demands that GoS allow UN Human Rights
monitoring team access to Darfur. US State Dept.
Spokesman Richard Boucher said We are concerned
that the GoS has not moved to normalize the situation
in Darfur and continues in not fully facilitating
humanitarian access.
UN Human Rights Assessment team returns to
Geneva after GoS refused to allow entry into Darfur,
UNHCHR spokesman Jose Diaz announced.
According to Human Rights Watch spokesperson
Loubna Freih, the Sudanese are buying time to finish
off their clean-up.
US encourages SLM/A and JEM not to boycott peace
talks.
GoS delegation heads to peace talks in Ndjamena,
despite reported Rebel boycott. SLM/A spokesperson
Mussa Hamid al-Dhaw said that the JEM and other
groups declared they would not attend.
Khartoum pledges to disarm militias. GoS will disarm
militias and scoffed at proposals by rebel groups to
bring in Eritrea as mediator. Foreign Minister
Mustafa Ismail said that GoS was serious about
disarming the militias and taking to court everyone
suspected of involvement in militia activities. GoS
Information Minister Al-Zahawe Ibrahim Malik said
the Eritrean regime is opposed to the peace, security
and interests of Sudan and that Khartoum would not
tolerate any Eritrean involvement in the Darfur
question.
The Federal Minister of Humanitarian Affairs Sulaf alDin Salih reiterates that following the signing of the
cease-fire, all areas in Darfur are now accessible to
humanitarian organizations. He referred to the recently
reported attacks as part of a tribal conflict that can
only be resolved with social reconciliation processes.
GoS approves visit by UN Human Rights monitoring
team to Darfur. Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail
said the delegation could visit the Sudan at any time.
AFP
Richard Boucher
AFP
Jose Luis Diaz

Loubna Freih
AFP
AFP
Ndjamena
AFP
Eritrea
Joanne Moore, US
State Dept.
spokeswoman
Mussa Hamid AlDhaw
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
UN Situation
Report
AFP/AP
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Sulaf el-Din Saleh
Taringa
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
(AFP)
Jose Luis Diaz
The UN Commission on Human Rights is due to

decide on 21 or 22 April on draft resolution that calls
on the Sudanese government to ensure all attacks on
civilians are stopped.
Jose Diaz, UN Human Rights spokesman said we
hope that they will be there in the next few days and
will complete the work they set out to do. (AP)
20 Apr
Peace talks postponed by one day as split emerges

within JEM delegation. Hassan Khames Jorru, selfdescribed JEM political coordinator said we are not
ready to disucss any political issue, only an agenda.
But JEMs military spokesman, Abdallah Abdel
Karim said Jorru was not a member of JEM, even
though his name appeared on JEMs delegate list.
AFP (2
articles)
Hassan Khames
Jorru
Mohammed Khalil
Ibrahim
Jorru said JEM President Khalil Mohammed

Ibrahim, his brother Jibril, General-Secretary
Mohammed Bechir Ahmed and coordinator Abubker
Hamid Nour have been ejected from JEM.
Abdel Karim denied the claim.
20 Apr
At the opening ceremony of peace talks, rebels accuse

GoS of violating ceasefire, saying local Arab militia
fighting with the Sudan army burned down 10 villages
in Darfur.
New figures showed the humanitarian disaster was
much worse than previously thought. UN claims one
million have been displaced, well above the earlier
700,000 figure previously cited.
Abdallah Abdel
Karem
Jibril Mohammed
Ibrahim
Mohammed Bechir
Ahmed
Abu Bakr Hamid
al-Nur
AFP
GoS delays crucial UN aid mission to Darfur until next

week. Some UN officials privately expressed
frustration at the delay suggesting it was retaliation
after UN emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland
accused the GoS of waging scorched earth policy
against non-Arabs.
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21 Apr
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21 Apr
21 Apr
21 Apr
UN OCHA reports that IDPs in the Sirba and Saliea

areas of West Darfur continue to experience
harassment from the Janjaweed, especially women
who travel outside the areas to collect firewood,
building materials and water.
The European Commission donates 1.5 million Euros
to support peace talks between the Sudanese
government and Southern rebels as it believes talks to
be in the home stretch.
The UN says that the conflict in Darfur has displaced
over one million people in the last 14 months, in
addition to more than 100,000 people who have fled to
Chad.
Talks between the Sudanese government and two
Darfur rebel groups resume in Chad to discuss a
political solution to the Darfur conflict. The talks will
only be witnessed by Chadian mediators and African
Union observers. The talks follow the declaration of a
45-day truce which took effect on April 11, although
the rebels have since accused government forces of
violating the truce and international relief agencies
have complained about continued limited access to
government-controlled regions of Darfur.
Peace talks commence after awaiting AU delegates
arrival. We are not going to leave Chad without a
definite and global peace agreement to the problems of
Darfur, said Badour el-Sherif, head of GoS
delegation. Spokespersons for the JEM and SPLM/A
said that current ceasefire is fragile and wanted a
monitoring committee set up to review accusations of
cease-fire violations.
UN human rights report leaked. UN team finds
possible war crimes by GoS. Sudanese forces are
raping non-Arab women and girls, bombing civilians
and committing other atrocities, according a
preliminary UN Report by team of experts visiting
refugee camps in Chad. The report says atrocities
were committed by both Arab militias and the GoS.

UN Situation
Report
Sirba
Janjaweed
Salaya
IRIN
IRIN
Chad
IRIN
Chad
One hundred
thousand refugees in
Chad
AFP (2
articles)
Badour el-Sherif
AFP;
Guardian (22
Apr)
Joanna Weschler,
HRW
Janjaweed
The report was to be presented to the UN Human
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reporting
Rights Commission but publication was delayed after

GoS finally allowed UN experts into Darfur for an
assessment of the human rights situation. Human
rights groups have said it was a tactic by Sudan to
delay presentation of report. (The report was not to be
released while UN investigators were on the ground in
Darfur, for their safety).
Report describes patterns of aerial attack followed up
by army and janjaweed ground assault. The report
says both janjaweed and army were dressed in combat
fatigue uniforms and well-armed. It said there was a
policy of using rape and other serious forms of sexual
violence as a weapon of war. Rape was often
committed by more than one man, sometimes in front
of the victims family.
21 Apr
21 Apr
22 Apr
The report calls for an international commission of

inquiry and note that the patterns of violence point to
an intent on the part of the Sudanese authorities to
force the population to disperse.
US President George Bush unhappy with what he
calls stagnant peace process in North-South talks, but
has decided not to impose sanctions in either side as
available under US Sudan Peace Act which calls for
assessment every six months on whether parties are
negotiating in good faith.
UN reports fighting between nomads and residents in
Narti, about 30 km south of El-Fasher (North
Darfur), when nomads attempted to loot the village.
No report on number of casualties.
AFP
UN Situation
Report
George W. Bush
Narti
Janjaweed
Al-Fashir,
Riyad Camp
22 Apr
Janjaweed continue to attack IDP camps in and

around El Geneina. Apr 21 attack reported in Riyad
camp, where Janjaweed attacked IDPs while
attempting to loot livestock.
Muslim delegations to the UN Human Rights
Commission protest leak of Darfur human rights
report. Pakistani Ambassador Shaukat Umer, joined
by delegates from Bahrain and Sudan, demanded an
El Geneina
AP
Shaukat Umer
Richard
Williamson
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investigation of who leaked the report. The document

was not to be released while UN officials were still on
the ground in Darfur (for safety reasons).
22 Apr
22 Apr
US Ambassador Richard Williamson said such

criticism was misplaced and should focus on the
substance of the report. The Human Rights
Commission finishes its current sitting this week.
The UN Human Rights Commission discusses the
situation in Darfur. The leaked report notes 80% of the
estimated 110,000 refugees in Chad were women and
children. The report suggests that perhaps men had
stayed behind to tend to livestock or participate in
rebellion, or it is also possible that men have been
more acutely targeted by the government of Sudan and
the janjaweed.
A vote on a Darfur resolution is delayed. The
resolution urges an end to violence and the
appointment of a special UN expert to monitor the
situation. The proposal, a draft resolution by the EU,
voices concerns about grave violations of human rights
and international humanitarian law in Darfur and also
criticizes a lack of government help during the unrest
and refers to widespread recourse to rape and other
forms of sexual violence.
A new softer, more conciliatory statement on Darfur
emerges at UN Human Rights Commission. The new
draft expresses deep concern over the scale of
reported human rights abuses and the humanitarian
situation in Darfur. By contrast the EU version
referred to grave violation of human rights and
international humanitarian law.
AFP (2
articles)
AFP
Chad
Janjaweed
Beatrice Quadranti
Peter Splinter
Amnesty International representative Peter Splinter

responded, People are dying in Darfur now. The
commission is failing these people. Beatrice
Quadranti, a spokesperson for International
Federation of Human Rights asked, will Kofi
Annan come back here in 10 years to commemorate
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22 Apr
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23 Apr
23 Apr
The debate on the resolution is scheduled for 23 April.

The AU asks for $10 million to fund a ceasefire
observer mission, according to Ki Doulaye Corentin,
head of AU conflict management office.
UN team arrives in Sudan to probe allegations of
atrocities by government-backed militia in Darfur.
US donates $6.5 million to WFPs $19.4 million
project to reconstruct roads and dikes in southern
Sudan.
US delegation UN Commission on Human Rights
expresses grave reservations at new softer Darfur
resolution. Ten years from now, the only thing that
will be remembered about the 60th Commission on
Human Rights is whether we stand up on the ethnic
cleansing going on in Sudan, said Ambassador
Richard Williamson.
Report of attacks by armed men on horseback on
refugee camps near Geneina.
AFP
Ki Doulaye
Corentin
AFP
IRIN
AFP
AFP
Richard
Williamson
El Geneina
al-Wahda Camp
23 Apr
UN aid mission, led by WFPs James Morris will

depart for Darfur next week, according to Christiane
Berthiaume, spokeswoman.
AFP
23 Apr
Peace talks in Ndjamena stalled.
AFP
23 Apr
Sudanese officials defend GoS policies against war

crimes claims. West Darfur State Governor
Abdullah Suleiman Adam said authorities had been
making efforts towards peace and social coexistence.
Adam announced that a popular force has been set up
of herders and farmers to ensure security. The force
would be armed but under the surveillance of regular
forces and the civil administration.
AFP
James Morris
Christiane
Berthiaume
Ndjamena
Article: Still no talks

in Chad for Sudans
Darfur region.
Mahmud Zein alAbidin
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
Adel Youssef
West Darfur state civil defence coordinator

Mahmud Zein al-Abidin said the government had
called on civilians to fight alongside regular troops
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against the rebels. Many citizens, members of Arab

and non-Arab tribes, have responded to these calls and
were armed by the army through the Popular Defence
Forces militia.
23 Apr
23 Apr
5 Mar
23 Apr
Adel Youssef, a militia official, said no group was

operating separately from the regular army adding that
the janjaweed do not exist.
UN Human Rights Commission avoids harsh critique
of Darfur. The weakened draft resolution, the result of
a compromise between the EU and a bloc of African
nations, requests appointment of a special human
rights envoy to Sudan. German ambassador to
UNCHR says it does not reflect all our concerns. It
contains weak language concerning the situation on the
ground but it did contain, he added the most important
element, a call to action. (AFP)
The US criticizes the text for failing to explicitly
condemn ethnic cleansing and is the only country to
vote against the resolution.
There were two abstentions including Australia. In a
report prepared for the UN Human Rights Commission
meeting, the Bush administration accused the
Sudanese government of denying assistance from
reaching its own people and called for the
international community [to] stand united and
denounce the violence and ethnic cleansing taking
place in Sudan. (IRIN, Reuters)
The US demanded an emergency session of the Human
Rights Commission to further discussion Darfur issue
and a second vote on a stronger draft resolution. US
demand rejected.
Richard Williamson noted that 30,000 people had
been killed and there were 900,000 IDPs in Sudan.
A new Human Rights Watch Report documents the
reign of terror inflicted on the people of Darfur by
government-supported Janjaweed militias through
descriptions of killing and raping of civilians, forced
AFP, IRIN,
Reuters
http://daccessdds.un.
org/doc/UNDOC/GE
N/G04/162/00/PDF/
G0416200.pdf?Open
Element
AFP
AFP
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Richard
Williamson
Garsila
Janjaweed
Mugjir
Ken Roth
See also 5 March

Reporting
24 Apr
displacement of black Africans, and aerial bombings

by Sudanese military planes. Human Rights Watch
says GoS troops routinely assist Arab militias in
execution of Sudanese men. The Janjaweed are no
longer simply militias supported by the Sudanese
government said Ken Roth of HRW. These militias
work in unison with government troops, with total
impunity for their massive crimes. HRW documents a
March 5 massacre of 136 men in West Darfurs
Garsila and Mugjir areas. All were members of the
Fur ethnic group and between 20 and 60 years old.
Sudan welcomes UN Human Rights Commissions
softer text with Information Minister Al-Zahawe
Ibrahim Malik saying the vote was a victory for
law.
AFP/AP
al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
The AP quotes Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa

Osman Ismail on Sudanese television saying, thank
God we won..This is the most vicious, hostile
campaign this government has ever faced since it came
to power. Ismail further said, I would say not more
than 600 people (have been killed) at most.
24 Apr
Ismail continued: The Government may have turned a

blind eye toward the militias. This is true. Because
those militias are targeting the rebellion. (AP)
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail acknowledges
rights abuses have occurred in Darfur, but denies ethnic
cleansing. Yes, human rights abuses have occurred in
Darfur, but one cannot in anyway talk of ethnic
cleansing or collective extermination. With regards to
the UN human rights monitoring team, Ismail said
we have nothing to hide and this mission can go
wherever it wants.
AFP/AP
Ismail said the rights violations were lack of medical

treatment, of forcing people out of their homes, of lack
of food and insecurity just like in other countries,
including the US. (AP)
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Naivasha
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
25 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
26 Apr
The Foreign Minister also alleged that the Darfur

peace talks in Chad were being used to put pressure
on us in the Naivasha talks. (AFP)
Latest round of Darfur peace talks concludes.
The publication and discussion of a report on abuses in
Darfur by the five-member UN investigative team,
which was leaked to the press a few days earlier, is
suspended by the acting High Commissioner on
Human Rights, Bertrand Ramcharan, following an
announcement from the Sudanese government that it
will allow the UN team into the country. Ramcharan
said that the teams report contains only allegations
of human rights abuse. The Washington Post
characterizes Ramcharans actions as bargaining
access for silence.
ICRC boosts Darfur aid operation, hoping to have 50
expatriate-staff on the ground (nearly quadrupling size
from 15 currently there), according to spokesman Juan
Martinez
UNICEF appeals for $35 million in aid for Darfur as
rainy season approaches.
SPLA leader John Garang offers assistance in Darfur
peace process. We are ready to give our advice and
opinion on how to end the conflict. We are a very
important force in Sudan politics and we cannot be
ignored said SPLA spokesman Yasser Arman.
The EU demands unhindered access to Darfur. EU
foreign ministers expressed grave concern at the
situation in the region and called on GoS to allow full,
unhindered access to region for UN and other
humanitarian aid groups. They urged the GoS to get all
armed groups under its control and expressed particular
concern about the Janjaweed.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell presses GoS on
Darfur. The situation in Darfur is very bad. Powell
spoke to Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail
on 25 April to press for full and unhindered access to
Darfur.
GoS and rebels sign political agreement in Chad to
WP
Bertrand
Ramcharan
AFP
Juan Martinez
AP
Paula Claycombe,
UNICEF
spokeswoman.
Yasir Arman
AFP
See 21 Apr reporting
John Garang
AFP
Janjaweed
AFP
Colin Powell
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
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Idriss Deby
Ceasefire monitoring
26 Apr
form commissions to monitor cease-fire and to set up

an international conference to address problems in
Darfur. Chadian President Idriss Deby said we are
going to make the cease-fire monitoring commission
and the joint commission rapidly operational with the
support of the international community.
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios says that
there are reports of as many as 30,000 dead, but could
not confirm the figures. Natsios said there was clearly
an ethnic cleansing campaign going on involving
bombing of irrigation systems so crops cant be
replanted, and systematic rape and branding of
women.

commission
established
AP
Nairobi
Andrew Natsios
He said US, Canada, EU and Japan are ready to

mount a massive relief effort. Natsios said a 28member disaster response team was standing by in
Nairobi awaiting visas to enter Sudan.
26 Apr
26 Apr
27 Apr
27 Apr
Natsios warns of catastrophe with approaching rainy

season.
WFP appeals for $98 million to feed 1.2 million
people affected by the conflict in Darfur. WFP says it
needs the funds to provide aid through the end of
December, when crops planted in May should be
harvested.
Reuters quotes a Western diplomat observing peace
negotiations between the GoS and Darfur rebels who
says there was a general consensus among the
internationals present that there was a definitely
Chadian bias towards the Sudanese government. The
SLM/A and JEM have repeatedly expressed their
mistrust of Chadian President Deby and their desire
to have international observers more deeply involved in
the mediation.
President Omar al-Bashir said that Darfur has
abandoned war and ushered in peace at a rally in elFashir. we have entered a new state of peace,
security and tranquility. We have bidden farewell to
military operations, war and insecurity he said. Lets
IRIN
IRIN citing
Reuters
AFP
Idriss Deby
Al-Fashir
Omar Al-Bashir
Izz al-Dinn alSayyed
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US claims 30,000
dead
join hands and embark on development projects.
27 Apr
Izz al-Dinn al-Sayyed, an official planning a

conference on development, said that a total of 255
development projects are planned for Darfur.
JEM says Khartoum has failed to disarm rebels and
continues to violate the ceasefire and has established
centers (in Kapkabia, Sierp-den-Hussein; Kouma
and Rihete) throughout Darfur where janjaweed
militias are to be integrated into the GoS army.
AFP
Kabkabiya
Kocholongue
Kouma
JEM says GoS and militias attacked villages of

Kocholongue and Billel-Gas.
Sierp-denHussein
Rihete
27 Apr
28 Apr
UN reports that Kailiek IDP camp in South Darfur is

a catastrophic humanitarian situation with
traumatized persons, appalling sanitation conditions,
and severe infant malnourishment. Despite the severe
conditions, the roughly 1,700 IDPs in the area told UN
officials they would not want to receive assistance
unless their security and protection is guaranteed. IDPs
remain in constant fear of the Janjaweed, who attack
them on a daily basis.
Janjaweed continue to attack IDPs in Ardamata camp
in West Darfur, including nightly attacks and rapes.
EU head office announces it was preparing $12 million
in new aid for Darfur victims. EU commissioner Poul
Nielson said he would quickly submit a proposed aid
package to EU governments for approval.
UN Situation
Report
Billel-Gas
Kailiek IDP
Camp
Janjaweed
Ardamata
AP and AFP
(four articles)
Poul Nielson
Gutbi al-Mahadi
Adam Ereli
US State Department denounces Sudan for barring

US aid experts from inspecting humanitarian needs in
Darfur (their visas were apparently held up) Gotbi elMahadi, an adviser to President Omar al-Bashir said
a high-level UN delegation on the ground in Sudan
was all that was needed now. We dont need such as
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U.S. visit at this time, he said.

State Dept. spokesman Adam Ereli said, This we
view as unacceptable.
Luke Zahner, USAID spokesman, said, every
possible humanitarian effort needs to be made to fend
off a greater crisis.
28 Apr
28 Apr
28 Apr
Past few
weeks
events
28 Apr
AFP reports Ereli as saying, it also draws into

question (Khartoums) commitment to the well being
of the people Sudan and their intent to resolve the
situation in Darfur.
The AU pledges tougher action against continents
conflicts.
AU preparing observer mission to Darfur. Said
Djinnit, AU Commissioner for Security said the AU
has begun drawing observers from six countries to
monitor ceasefire in Darfur.
UN WFP team led by James Morris arrives to assess
Darfur humanitarian situation. The team also includes
the UN Secretary Generals Special Envoy for
Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan, Tom Eric Vraalsen.
Team met with President Omar al-Bashir and
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid, and then traveled to Darfur. (See also IRIN,
29 April)
In a TV interview last week, Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail said the Janjaweed took up
arms to defend themselves, against rebel attack.
AFP
AP
Said Djinnit
AFP
James Morris
Omar Al-Bashir
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP
Bayda
Tom Eric Vraalsen

Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Mukjar
Janjaweed
West Darfur Governor Adam Sulieman said any

atrocities are the work of bandits, outlaws and rebels.
The AP notes past attacks on Baidha and Mukjar
areas (with three attacks since last October).
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
Saad Abdul
Rhaman
Fur chief Saad Abdul Rahaman said, our request is

simple, we want plastic sheets, seeds and food that will
take us up to the harvest season.
Ahmed Sabah
Rizzigallah, deputy
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Article: Sudanese
officials say rebels,
not Governmentbacked militia,
responsible
29 Apr
29 Apr
29 Apr
29 Apr
Sudanese militia launch raid into Chad, killing

Chadian soldier. Janjaweed, joined by Sudanese
troops raided the town of Koulbous, according to
Chadian Presidential spokesman Ahmed Allammi.
AU can deploy observers in Darfur within three weeks,
if both sides allow unhindered access to entire region
said Sam Ibok from the AU.
GoS grants permission to USAID disaster response
team to enter Sudan. GoS acting foreign minister
Najeib al-Khair Abdel Wahab said that the GoS had
no reservation whatsoever, towards USAID. Abdel
Wahab told US charge daffairs Gerard Gallucci on
28 April that as soon as the UN mission completes its
assessment, entry visas would be granted.
On 29 April USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios
accuses GoS of holding up a massive relief effort by
intentionally blocking access to Darfur and suggested
Khartoum might be doing so in a bid to cover up ethnic
cleansing and systematic rape. Natsios said Khartoum
was withholding visas from US teams for reasons
unrelated to Darfur (allegedly related to accreditation
problems for Sudanese diplomats in Washington).
The ICRC says humanitarian situation in Darfur is
grave and needs are far from being covered by the
current capacity of humanitarian agencies, according
to Vassily Fadeev of the Red Cross.
Chad accuses of GoS of continuing to back Janjawid
militias, as Janjawid continues to attack Chad.
Allami Ahmat, diplomatic advisor to President
Deby and member of the Chadian mediation team
said the situation is all the more unacceptable because
the Sudanese army tolerates and offers land and air
backup to Janjawid militias. Ahmat said we can
confirm that the Janjawid militia is still very active
and has not been disarmed backing accusations made
by rebels that the GoS had breached the 8 April
AP
Koulbous
director of Kuwaiti
relief organization
Ahmad Allami
Sam Ibok
AFP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Gerard M. Gallucci
Andrew Natsios
AFP
Vassily Fadeev
AFP
Ahmad Allami
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ceasefire.
Humanitarian agencies working in Darfur express
concern over indications that the Sudanese government
is using the Janjaweed to provide security for IDP
camps. The government has also encouraged IDPs to
return to their villages and says it plans to relocate all
IDPs in the Geneina area by May 21.
Continuing reports of attacks and violence against IDPs
in Geneina-area camps and those who have tried to
return to their villages.
GoS aircraft bomb Kolbus village in Chad and the
Janjaweed attacked refugees and Chadian civilians
across the border.
UN Situation
Report
El-Geneina
Janjaweed
Amnesty
International
Press Release
Koulbous
Janjaweed
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of hijacking relief convoy

and assassinating Abdel Rahman Ali Mohamadain,
the Sultan/native administrator of the Ambro
district.
Rebels kidnap passengers on a bus.
AFP
Abdel Rahman Ali

Mohamadain
AFP
Zalinigie
James Morris, executive director of the WFP says the

situation in Darfur will worsen dramatically unless
security is improved. In Mornei, where 60,000
displaced are encamped, health care is over-stretched.
Morris says an additional $140 million is needed to
meet humanitarian needs. Morris says displaced
families continue to fear for their lives.
Tom Vraalsen says the 8 April ceasefire is holding
and is observed by the three signatories (GoS, JEM,
SPLM/A). WFP chief James Morris said however,
that refugees are eager to return home have been
hampered due to renewed attacks.
UN reports allegations from South and West Darfur
that Janjaweed militias are formally integrating into
government security and military structures, some at
high-level posts.
UN human rights mission to Darfur confirms
disturbing findings about massive abuse of refugees.
AP
Al-Fashir
Mornei
AFP
James Morris
James Morris
Tom Eric Vraalsen
UN Situation
Report
South Darfur
West Darfur
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Findings will be made public later.

US delegation walks out of UN ECOSOC meeting as
Economic and Social Council votes to keep Sudan on
Human Rights Commission. US Ambassador
Sichan Siv called the vote an absurdity and accused
Sudan of massive human rights violations and ethnic
cleansing. Siv was dismayed by the ramifications of
standing by and allowing the commission to become a
safe-haven for the worlds worst human rights
violators, especially one engaged in ethnic cleansing.
Sudans deputy UN Ambassador Omar Bashir
Manis responded by pointing to the US record in Iraq,
calling US protests crocodile tears while turning a
blind eye to atrocities committed by the American
forces in Iraq.
AP (two
articles);
Guardian,
NYT
Sichan Siv
Omar Bashir Manis
Richard Grennell
A coalition of African nations worked to ensure

Sudan, Kenya, Guinea and Togo were guaranteed the
four available seats on the Commission. A last minute
effort by the US to get another African nation to apply
for a seat to make it a contested race failed.
4 May
4 May
4 May
The last minute announcement that Sudan will be

unchallenged by another African country is extremely
disappointing said Richard Grennell spokesman for
US Ambassador John Negroponte. (AP)
A USAID air-lift arrives in Darfur delivering 650 rolls
of plastic sheeting for shelter. $750,000 worth of aid,
including blankets and sheeting are slated to arrive this
week.
Darfur crisis reaches enormous proportions,
according to WFP head James Morris. He pointed out
that the April 8 ceasefire was holding. Morris
expressed hope that the Janjawid and other people
who are causing difficulties would also begin to respect
the terms of the ceasefire and bring the hostility to a
conclusion.
IDPs report banditry incidents by armed men on
camels and horses in South Darfur on the following
routes: Nyala-Kass (in BulBul), Kass-Zalingei (in
AP
Roger Winter
AFP
James Morris
Janjaweed
UN Situation
Report
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South Darfur
4 May
4 May
5 May
5 May
5 May
5 May
Tur), Nyala-Taasha, Nyala-El Fasher and Nyala-Ed

Daein.
The UN says the crisis in Darfur will still last another
18 months if the Sudanese government disarms the
Janjaweed soon.
Arab League delegation visits Darfur. League
Secretary-General Amr Mussa ordered the mission
to examine how member states could help alleviate the
crisis. Samir Hassan Hosni, the Leagues official in
charge of Sudan affairs toured refugee camps on 4
May.
GoS accuses rebels of violating Darfur ceasefire. The
Sudanese embassy filed an official complaint with
Chadian mediators accusing JEM of recruiting youths
and reinforcing its positions in Darfur. The complaint
also stated that rebels are looting and threatening
civilians and cattle rustling.
Janjawid and Chadian soldiers clash on Chadian
soil. Chadian Government spokesman Moctar wawa
Dahabune said the clash took place 25 km inside
Chad in the town of Birak. This clash is the
consequence of several frequent and repeated
incursions by Janjawid militiamen into Chadian
territory, Dahabune said. The Chadian
government deplores these incursions and demands
that the Sudanese government get control over the
Janjawid army so as not to damage relations between
the two countries.
lashes out at US criticism and walkout during
ECOSOC meeting saying, we did not want this
confrontation, but so long as the US wanted it in
response to a pressuring group, it should be aware that
Sudanese diplomacy will remain vigilant.
NYT
AFP/AP
Amr Mussa
Samir Hassan
Hosni
Hossam Zaki
AFP
AFP
Birak
Janjaweed
Moctar Wawa
Dahabune
AFP
Juldu, Olu
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdullah
Roky Ru
Ambro
Tina
Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs minister

Mohammed Yusuf Abdullah also warned aid
organizations not to take positions on the matter since
political disagreements would greatly harm their
performance and the affected people will be harmed
Kornoy
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Mustafa Osman
Ismail
likewise.
6 May
6 May
6 May
5 May
6 May
6 May
Abdullah said the GoS has agreed to open new aid

distribution centers in Juldu, Olu, and Roky Ru, and
Ambru, Tina and Kornoi.
GoS responds to AU proposal to establish a mechanism
to monitor ceasefire. Details were not released.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said simply that the
GoS response was positive and in conformity with the
agreement.
A UN report claims GoS is deliberately starving
civilians in Kailek. Report says that IDPs were
prevented from obtaining food, with relief deliveries
hijacked by Janjaweed. 8-9 children are reportedly
dying in Kailek each day. The report also noted that
while Fur villages have been destroyed, Arab
settlements remained untouched. The report accuses
GoS of deliberately deceiving the UN by refuting
claims of seriousness of the situation in Kailek.
Congo backs Chad peace effort for Darfur. Congo
President Denis Sassou Ngueesso and Chad
President Idriss Deby recommend that the Economic
Community of Central African States participate in
follow up committee set up by Darfur peace talks.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell rules out sending
foreign troops to Darfur. There is no army that is
going to go in there and put down the insurrection. We
have got to use the pressure of the international
community on Khartoum.
We have to have greater response from the
international community to put pressure on the
Sudanese to call off these militia units that are causing
trouble so we can get relief to these people, the US
Secretary of State said.
Human Rights Watch releases a report, Darfur
Destroyed, on abuses in Darfur, noting that the GoS
not only supports the Janjaweed by providing salaries
and equipment (a charge the GoS denies) but that they
created the janjaweed, organizing them and building
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Kailiek
Janjaweed
AFP
Congo
Denis Sassou
Ngueesso
Idriss Deby
AFP
AP; WP
Colin Powell
Dar Masalit
Janjaweed
Jemera Rome,
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them up, establishing janjaweed offices in the three

Darfuri capitals. (AFP)
7 May
7 May
7 May
7 May
The report describes 14 attacks on Dar Masalit, where

more than 770 civilians were killed between September
2003 and February 2004. (WP)
UN describes GoS-backed reign of terror in Darfur
with indications of war crimes and crimes against
humanity, according to UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan.
Sudan denies ethnic cleansing. Sudanese Foreign
Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said what is
happening in Darfur is neither ethnic cleansing nor
genocide. It is a state of war, which resulted in a
France urges GoS to rein in Janjaweed. We are
worried by corroborating reports saying that he armed
militia called the Janjawid are still active, not only in
Darfur but also in neighbouring Chad, said Herve
Ladsous, French Foreign Ministry spokesman.
The AU is about to send a military reconnaissance
(assessment) mission to Darfur in which the
representatives of France and the EU are expected to
take part said Ladsous.
Chad urges Sudan to rein in Janjaweed. President
Idriss Deby states, Sudan, which is a friend and
brother of Chad, must take all steps to control this
militia which is attacking Chad.
HRW Africa Division director Peter Takirambudde
said, There can be no doubt about the Sudanese
governments culpability in crimes against humanity in
Darfur.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
Bertrand Ramcharan presents report on Darfur to
Security Council. The report, based on a recent
assessment mission identified massive patterns of
human rights abuses perpetrated by the GoS and its
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Bertrand
Ramcharan
AFP
Janjaweed
Herve Ladsous
AFP
Janjaweed
Idriss Deby
Peter
Takirambudde
AFP (two
articles);
NYT; WP
Bertrand
Ramcharan
James Morris
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proxy militia, many of which may constitute war

crimes and/or crimes against humanity. The report
notes that the attacks appear to have been mainly
ethnically based.
Stuart Holliday
Ramcharan and James Morris, head of WFP urged

UN Security Council to take action. US
Ambassador Stuart Holliday said the international
community had come to a fork in the road over Darfur.
We will not hesitate in continuing to address this issue
in the Security Council should we not see progress,
he said. (AFP)
Ramcharan urged the Security Council to send
human rights monitors to Darfur, establish an
international commission of inquiry to investigate
violations, and provide access to humanitarian relief
officials in Darfur. (WP, NYT, AFP)
7 May
7 May
8 May
8 May
Ramcharans report, while blaming the rebels for

starting the conflict, made clear that the Sudanese
governments response had been excessive: It is the
manner of response to this rebellion by the government
of Sudan which has led to the current crisis. There is a
reign of terror in Darfur. (See also NYT citing AFP,
WP, Guardian from 7-8 May, 13 May).
AU reconnaissance (assessment) mission leaves for
Sudan to assess existing conditions for establishment of
Ceasefire Commission (CFC) The mission will travel
to El Fasher, Nyala, and Al Geneina and identify
suitable locations for the CFCs camps as well as to
assess the security and military situation.
Chad blasts belligerence of Sudan, warns GoS is
testing its patience. Chadian acting Defence
Minister Emmanuel Nadingar said that on 7 May
two GoS helicopters flew in Chadian airspace for two
hours while Janajwid penetrated the Kono region in
Adre.
GoS (Deputy) Foreign Minister Najeib al-Khair
Abdel Wahab denies ethnic cleansing in Darfur.
AFP
Al-Fasher
Nyala
El-Geneina
AFP
Kono Region
Emmanuel
Nadingar
Adre
Janjaweed
AFP
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Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
8 May
8 May
last
week
9 May
9 May
9 May
He noted that President Omar al-Bashir has formed a

fact-finding commission to probe alleged violations of
human rights in the region. The commission
supposedly consists of prominent independent legal
experts including former Chief Justice Dafaallah alHaj Yusuf. Abdel Wahab blamed the EU and US for
aggravating the humanitarian crisis by imposing
economic sanctions on Sudan.
The Acting UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights does not hold GoS directly responsible for
atrocities, but rather says the government clearly has
supported the militias, organized the militias, and this
is taking place with the knowledge and support and
active complicity of the government. Bertrand
Ramcharan condemned the GoS but said, I do not
think it was responsible.
German Deputy Foreign Minister Kerstin Mueller
calls events in Darfur ethnic cleansing.
James Cunningham, Deputy US Ambassador to UN
said the Security Council would watch the response of
the GoS and other militia groups before deciding on
further action. He noted that the Janjaweed militia is
responsive to the GoS.
West Darfur governor Suleiman Abdallah Adam
says it is time for the IDPs in Sudan to return home.
Adam insists that the government has restored order in
the region and says that most of the IDPs are eager to
return home and those that are still fearful are simply
misinformed.
Hundreds of Arab militiamen raid village inside Chad,
with dozens dead, last week.
Sudan decries US moral high-ground on human
rights after revelations of prisoner abuse in Iraq. GoS
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail asked If this is
genocide, where are the mass graves?
Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds says
Darfur faces genocide. There is absolutely a risk (of
genocide). There are signs that could develop into
Dafaallah al-Haj
Yusuf
AP
Bertrand
Ramcharan
Kerstin Mueller
James Cunningham
Janjaweed
NYT
AP
Sulieman Abdallah
Adam
Chad
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP, citing TT
news agency
Laila Freivalds
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something very, very serious.

Sudan consults with Chad on cross-border incursions
by Janjaweed. (AFP/AP)
AFP (AP on
10 May)
Nyala
Janjaweed
Adam Jamaa Adam
10 May
10 May
11 May
11 May
11 May
GoS commissioner for Nyala, Adam Jamaa Adam

accuses rebels of attacking five villages in the district.
(AP)
Germany denounces ethnic cleansing in Darfur urges
UN Security Council to take a clear position and
action. Up to this point, Germany has donated four
million euros in humanitarian aid to Darfur.
US contributes additional $432,500 to assist Sudanese
refugees in Chad.
MSF faults UNHCR for not doing enough to help
refugees in Chad, as security and health conditions in
refugee camps deteriorate.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer in
Washington, DC discusses Darfur with Colin Powell,
agreeing that everything must be done within the next
few weeks to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
The Foreign Ministry issued a statement rejecting
charges of rapes and sexual harassment noting such
crimes were, against the values and morals of
Sudanese society.
AFP
AFP
AFP
Washington
Joschka Fischer
Colin Powell
AFP
Dafallah al-Haj
Yusuf
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Foreign Ministry statement attributes Darfur violence

to the quashing of a rebellion and without any ethnic
component.
6, 9
May
11 May

Mahmoud chastised western critics for failing to note
abuses committed by rebel forces.
The UN reports clashes between GoS and SLM/A
forces at Abu Ghamri (northeast of Kebkabya),
North Darfur on May 6 and 9, resulting in 22 GoS
and 8 SLM/A fatalities. Approximately 380 GoS
forces were surrounded by SLM/A in Banduga
village, close to Korma. An SLM/A attack left 23
GoS dead and 17 wounded.
There were also reports of heavy movements of
UN Situation
Report
Abu Ghamri
Banduga
Korma
Nyala
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12 May
12 May
12 May
12 May
13 May
13 May
Janjaweed toward Nyala in West Darfur.

Sudan and Chad agree to quietly settle border tensions
bilaterally. Gen. Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein,
GoS Interior Minister described the violence as tribal
and long-standing, but remained optimistic because
our intentions are good toward each other.
Sudan is calm because there are no more villages to
burn according to UN emergency relief official
Daniel Augstburger. Forced migrations have largely
ceased Augstburger claimed, although terrorization of
civilians continued especially in the form of gang rape.
UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary
or Arbitrary Executions, Asma Jahangir due to visit
Darfur and Upper Nile from 2-12 June.
The Sudanese government again reacts to the UN
Human Rights assessment teams report on Darfur,
saying the report had been based on hearsay, claims
and presumptions and failed to show the basic facts
that the government was compelled after the
aggravation of the rebellion to appeal on all the citizens
to assist the Armed Forces to contain the violence and
destructive actions.
Khartoum added, however, that it agreed with part of
the report which stated that the rebels were the first
party which instigated the crisis in Darfur.
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) warns that
thousands of Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad may
die of hunger and disease if the international
community does not immediately act to provide
sufficient water, food and shelter. MSF predicts that
there is a very great risk that the situation will
worsen given the approaching rainy season.
Canada gives $2.2 million to UNICEF for Darfur,
according to Canadian International Development
Agency (CIDA)
The UN reports that in North Darfur, GoS and
SLM/A forces have been clashing in the area of
AP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
AFP
Daniel Augstburger
Asma Jahangir
IRIN
IRIN
Chad
AFP
UN Situation
Report
123
Aileen Carroll,
Minister for
International
Cooperation.
Borno
13 May
12 May
14 May
14 May
14 May
5 May
14 May
Borno, now under SLM/A control. SLM/A troops are

said to be patrolling the Tawila area. GoS-SLM/A
clashes have also been reported in Korma.
Tawila
In South Darfur, the UN reports that GoS helicopters

have resumed activity over Nyala. The purpose of the
flights is not known.
Following criticism from the British government and a
scathing UN report, Sudanese Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail says that militia activity has
been reduced by 80% as the GoS has been taking
action to rein in the militias. Ismail said that the UN
report concluded there has been no genocide and no
ethnic cleansing, and added: Only 1,000 people have
been killed we challenge anyone to tell us which
ethnicity has been removed and which one has replaced
it.
UN Secretary Gen. Kofi Annan sends a letter on 12
May urging Sudans President Bashir to act
immediately to end the Darfur crisis by maintaining
ceasefire, opening humanitarian corridors, allowing
AU observers to deploy and disarming militias.
GoS refuses to disarm pro-government militias in
Darfur, as long as weapons remained in rebel hands.
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail said those
who want us to interrupt the actions of the militias now
must understand that this is not possible.
The UNHCR says it desperately needs more money
to finance relief operations in Darfur. UNHCR
spokesman Kris Janowski said the agency needed to
move 50,000 people further west in Chad before the
coming of the rainy season.
Chads Defense Minister Emmanuel Nadinger
reports that on 5 May the Chadian army clashed with
Janjaweed forces 25 km inside Chadian territory and
killed 60 of them. One Chadian soldier was killed and
seven were wounded, according to Nadinger. He said,
Once more the intervention of our forces was
necessary to push them back. We are in such a
situation that we fear our patience could have limits.
Nyala
Korma
Guardian
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
Kofi Annan
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP, citing Al
Hayat
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Kris Janowski
IRIN
Emmanuel
Nadinger
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14 May
15 May
17 May
17 May
17 May
Reports from the field indicate that Janjaweed forces

are beginning to operate on their own initiative without
necessarily following orders from Khartoum. One
Janjaweed fighter, Abakora Aboo Sakhairoun, said,
Nobody sent us to Chad. The Sudanese government
equipped us with light weapons kalichnikovs and
bazookas to fight the rebels in Darfur. But we take
advantage of this to steal cattle in Chad, though we
perfectly know that it is not our mission.
Libyas Muamar Gadhafi calls on 20-member
African regional bloc (Community of Sahel and
Sahara States CENSAD) to take the lead in
resolving Darfur conflict. Colonel Gadhafi voices
skepticism at western powers attempting to solve what
he calls a tribal conflict. Presidents Bashir and Deby
are in attendance as Sudan and Chad are members of
CENSAD.
Khartoum accuses NGOs of supporting Darfur rebels.
Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Hussein and
Humanitarian Minister Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid
insist that some NGOs used humanitarian operations
as a cover for carrying out a hidden agenda and proved
to have supported the rebellion in the past period.
Hussein announces the dispatch of a new police unit to
Darfur which is equipped with modern weapons and
130 vehicles. The police force is going there to
enforce law and order and to protect the people of
Darfur and their property, Hussein says. Hussein
disputes the ethnic character of the conflict, noting
Darfur is not an ethnic problem but an economic one
connected with pasture and farming and was politicized
by the rebels.
US Department of State says GoS putting up
obstacles preventing 11 US relief experts from entering
Sudan. Three-day visas are issued but require 72-hour
notice to use, and so are rendered useless.
International Crisis Group (ICG) calls on UN to
threaten military force against Sudan. ICG urges the
UN Security Council to pass a resolution condemning

IRIN
Janjaweed
Abakora Aboo
Sakhairoun
AP
Libya
Muamar Qadaffi
Omar Al-Bashir
Idriss Deby
AFP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP
AFP
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18 May
GoS for violations of international humanitarian law.

ICG urges Security Council to authorize application
of military force on responsibility to protect
principles and calls for an arms embargo against
Khartoum.
SLM/A has threatened to expand war zone to
encompass Khordofan, Khartoum and the East if
the rebels are excluded from all-round peace talks
according to SLM/A leader Abdel Wahed
Mohammad Ahmad Nour.
SLM/A joins forces with Sudanese Federal Alliance,
a leading opposition group in Darfur.
AFP
Kordofan
Khartoum
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Mohammed
Mersal, Director of
SLM Secretariat
office
Sherif Hariri,
Alliance Vice
President
18 May
US Secretary of State Colin Powell removes Sudan

from non-cooperative on Terrorism list. (AP)
Ahmed Ibrahim
Drajj, President of
Alliance
Colin Powell
AP/ AFP
Richard Boucher
18 May
16-17
May
19 May
19 May
US State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher

says the move doesnt change the kind of strong
pressure were bringing on Sudan to change their
behavior in Darfur.
Lubbers warns that it is unacceptable to celebrate a
peace agreement (in the North-South conflict) while
Darfur continues being bombarded.
Botched mutiny aimed to assassinate Chadian
President Deby. Report attributes coup attempt to
Debys crackdown graft in military, but notes growing
dissent by Chadian Zaghawa over Debys handling of
Darfur conflict.
US government calls on Sudan to allow aid workers
into Darfur, where it says aid is being blocked by
AFP
AFP
IRIN
126
Ruud Lubbers
Chad
Idriss Deby
Richard Boucher
19 May
20 May
20 May
20 May
20 May
21 May
21 May
Khartoum. US State Department spokesman

Richard Boucher says that the Sudanese government
has continued to play games with travel permits.
Conflicts in parts of Bahr al-Ghazal, South Sudan,
have escalated this year, in part because of a purported
need to settle scores before the signing of a peace
agreement between the SPLA and Khartoum.
IRIN
Bahr el-Ghazal
President Bashir urges Darfur residents to return and

denies ethnic cleansing and genocide has taken place in
Darfur. At a highly-scripted ceremony in Nyalas
main square where horsemen from Arab and African
tribes are on parade, Bashir challenges critics who
have alleged genocide and ethnic cleansing to
differentiate between who is Arab and who is not
Arab. These are the people of Darfur he says.
Mass starvation looms in Darfur, according to MSF.
The whole population is teetering on the verge of
mass starvation, MSF says. Most of the children died
from simple causes such as hunger, diarrhea and
malaria.
First meeting of Darfur ceasefire commission to occur
this weekend (22-23 May), says Sam Ibok of the AU.
Ibok says the parties to the conflict disagree over
composition of the observer team and the rebels are
not convinced we should have the US in the team.
Meanwhile, the GoS objects to the team having its own
military protection and insists it could provide security.
Meeting set for Addis Ababa.
Foreign Minister Ismail says aid workers no longer
need visas to visit Darfur, beginning 24 May. UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcomes the
announcement.
Donors conference for Darfur planned for 1 June.
AP
Nyala
Keer Bol Weet,

community
development
officer with Pact
Kenya (NGO)
Omar Al-Bashir
Addis Ababa
Sam Ibok
AU ceasefire commission inaugural meeting delayed

until 26-27 May, AU Peace and Security
AFP
AFP, IRIN
AFP
AFP (two
articles), IRIN
AFP
127
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Kofi Annan
Heidemarie
Wieczorek-Zeul,
German Overseas
Development
Minister
Said Djinnit
21 May
21 May
22 May
20 May
23 May
Commissioner Said Djinit says.

US pushing for United Nations to issue strong
warning against Sudan on Darfur, with sanctions a
possibility. Unnamed State Department official
wants strong presidential statement or resolution with
teeth.
Refugees International says the UN and aid agencies
have underestimated the number of refugees from
Darfur who have crossed into Chad, and must revise
their appeals to donors for more funding. RI concludes
that the real number of Darfur refugees in eastern
Chad is around 200,000, not the 110,000 planning
figure used by the UN.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail denies GoS
involvement in rights abuses in Darfur, acknowledges
tribal violations, but says There is no ethnic cleansing
in Darfur. It is even wrong to say that there are Arab
and African tribes there, no one can differentiate
between their colors.
Janjaweed kill 45 villagers in Abquarajel last
Thursday according to SLM/A member Mohamed
Mersal. SLM/A claims attack took place after
President Beshir and Janjaweed chiefs met in Nyala.
AP/AFP (on
22 May)
IRIN
AP
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Nyala
Janjaweed
Abquarajel
Omar Al-Bashir
Mohammed Mersal
18 May
24 May
24 May
25, 26
May
South Darfur Gov. Lt. Gen. Adam Hamid Mussa

claims rebels torch Abga Rajil village, reportedly
killing at least 56 villagers. Mussa says outlaws
continue to breach ceasefire agreement contending that
on 18 May rebels attacked Labarwa village and have
been hitting roads between Nyala and Dayein and
Buram. North Darfur Governor Yusuf Kibir claims
there have been 26 rebel violations of the April
ceasefire.
Oxfam expands operations in Darfur.
UN Security Council calls on GoS to facilitate
deployment of international monitoring force. The
Council expresses its grave concern over deteriorating
humanitarian and human rights situation in the Darfur
region of Sudan.
AP, NYT
Nyala
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Dayein
Buram
Labarwa
Abga Rajil
AFP/AP
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AU inaugurates its own security council. AU

Commission Chairman Alpha Oumar Konare calls
for urgent exceptional action to prevent a
humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur.
UN aid operation gains pace as Sudan eases access.
The roads are open again, says WFP spokesperson
Christiane Berthiaume. We have better access to
the region since the ceasefire, we can reach more
territory and more people. UNICEF warns that
although it has managed to double the number of
people receiving clean water to 300,000, about 700,000
more are barred access, according to UNICEF
spokesman Damien Personnaz.
UN Refugee Agency said it would begin emergency
airlift of relief supplies on Wednesday.
ICRC chief Jakob Kellenberger says access to Darfur
for humanitarian relief has improved in recent days but
could still be improved.
US airlifts 20,000 blankets to Nyala, South Darfur.
State Dept. Spokesman Richard Boucher says that
violence is preventing aid from reaching recipients and
in some cases makes the recipients afraid to receive
supplies for fear of being exposed to theft and
pillaging.
AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) decides to set
up an inquiry team to assess the human rights
violation in Darfur and to report to the AU summit in
July.

AFP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
Damien Personnaz
Christiane
Berthiaume
AFP
AP
AFP (two
articles)
The PSC calls on Khartoum to pursue the

disarmament and control of the militias vigorously.
AU military observers to deploy in Darfur in next few
days. The PSC decides to send a 60-member observer
team, with (if necessary) a 100-300 member protection
force, according to AU Peace and Security
Commissioner Said Djinnit.
Djinnit says: In the past, the OAU was accused of
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Richard Boucher
Said Djinnit
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complicity. We are replacing the principle of noninterference with the principle of non-indifference.
US optimistic on imminent North-South peace deal.
Secretary of State Colin Powell says he is pleased
by progress and is hopeful and optimistic that there
might be some signings tomorrow.
US State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher
is more cautious saying the US has its fingers
crossed.
GoS and SPLA peace agreement stalls, but eventually
sign three protocols after marathon talks between Vice
President Ali Osman Taha and SPLA leader John
Garang.
On Tuesday (26 May) Arab militia attack five villages
in Darfur killing 46 civilians, according to Human
Rights Watch (in the same article).
EU calls on GoS to publicly condemn the actions of
the Janjaweed militias in Darfur and bring the militias
under control. The EU in a statement also welcomed
the lifting of restrictions on humanitarian workers
traveling to Darfur.
JEM spokesman Abdallah Abdel Kerim threatens to
renew fighting unless firm action is taken to stop the
GoS and Janjaweed from repeatedly violating the
shaky ceasefire agreement. There is no ceasefire.
The Sudanese government and the militias have
violated it several times. According to terms of
ceasefire, the accord will be renewed for another 45
days automatically except if one of the parties
expresses its opposition.
Ceasefire commission is due to hold its first meeting
on Thursday and Friday (27, 28 May) in Addis Ababa.
Germany plans to keep pressure on Sudan over Darfur
unrest.
UN Security Council considers eventually sending
peacekeeping mission to Sudan to follow up a finalized
North-South peace agreement.
AFP
Colin Powell
Richard Boucher
AP, Guardian
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
John Garang
AFP
AFP
Janjaweed
Addis Ababa
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Janjaweed
AFP
AP
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Hina Jilani, UN special representative of Secretary

General on human rights defenders, concerned over
alleged arbitrary arrests and detentions of human rights
defenders monitoring and reporting on human rights
situation in Darfur. Jilani cites the case of Salih
Mahmoud, a member of the Sudan Organization
Against Torture whom she says was reportedly
arrested and imprisoned without charge in February.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan praises NorthSouth protocols, but calls on Khartoum and the rebels
to seize the momentum created in Naivasha to reach a
political solution in western Sudan, putting an end to
the grave humanitarian and human rights situations
there.

AFP
Hina Jilani
Salih Mahmoud
AFP, NYT
Naivasha
Kofi Annan
John Garang
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
John Garang says about the tragedy in Darfur, We

hope this peace process in Naivasha will have a
favourable knock-on effect on the situation there.
27 May
Vice President Ali Osman Taha certain that

Wednesdays protocol signing is going to assist very
much in addressing the situation in Darfur.
US and Libya in discussion about using Libya as
transit point for delivering aid to Darfur.
AP
Andrew Natsios
AP
Jan Egeland
USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios rejects as

impractical the deployment of an international force
to safeguard safe arrival of aid. Any such process, he
said, would take months and we dont have months.
We have a month.
27 May
28 May
There can be no normalization of relations between

the US and Sudan until the crisis in Darfur is dealt
with, says Natsios.
UN has $50 million for donors but needs four to five
times as much to care for 2 million in Darfur,
according to Jan Egeland, UN Undersecretary for
Humanitarian Affairs.
UN to hold high-level donors conference on Darfur in
Geneva on 3 June. Consultations will be chaired by
AFP
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the UN, US and EU, according to Elisabeth Byrs,

spokeswoman for UN Office for Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs.
GoS and Darfur rebels to meet in Geneva on 3 June.
Germany, Italy, France and the Arab League all
issue double-edged messages about North-South
protocol signing and concern about Darfur.
Air strikes against Al Fasher kill twenty. An Antonov
jet and two helicopter gunships were used to attack
market in town of Tabet, said Mohamed Mersal of
the SLM/A.
US says Darfur truce monitor agreement crucial to
peace.
GoS and Darfur rebels agree that first AU ceasefire
observers would deploy next week.
UK commends the protocol signings in North-South
conflict, but remains deeply troubled by Darfur
situation.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan says, We
urge the government of Sudan to use the positive
momentum created by the peace agreement to reverse
the tragic human rights and humanitarian crisis
unfolding in Darfur.
Human Rights Watch releases study on crisis in
Darfur, based on research on-the-ground from 14
attacked villages and from witness statements. These
are not attacks by militias, but by government militias,
writes HRW.
tells the Security Council that Sudan continues to
harass UN officials and block access to aid agencies,
delaying the delivery of supplies to the region for
months.
Sudanese government and Darfur rebel groups agree to
allow international observers to monitor cease-fire, as
fresh attacks on villages in Darfur emerge.
AP
AFP
Geneva
AFP
Tabet
Mohammed Mersal
Al--Fasher
AFP
AFP
AFP
Jack Straw, British

Foreign Secretary
Hilary Benn
Scott McClellan
AFP
WP
WP
WP
(Witnesses say 12 people killed after Antonovs and

helicopters bombed village of Tabit, 25 miles
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southwest of Fashir, North Darfur)

GoS claims rebels rob bank vehicle and attack Tabit.
GoS forces assault village of Adjidji, south of
Geneina in West Darfur. Khartoums forces
launched air strike and then Janjawid and army
attacked the village and killed 24 civilians, according
to JEM spokesman Col. Abdallah Abdel Kerim.
Attacks on villages southeast of Kass, South Darfur
have led to displacement of 1,500 families. Further
attacks reported in Gemel, displacing around 160
persons.
UN OCHA reports that humanitarian access in Darfur
is fairly smooth, one week after Khartoum says it
will allow aid workers into Darfur within 48 hours.
OCHA notes, however, that some relief assistance,
equipment and vehicles needed for aid delivery were
being delayed.
International agencies claim they have been hampered
by a purported requirement to use local NGOs to
deliver aid.
GoS announces that relief organizations are now free to
enter Darfur after notifying authorities. Measures for
granting entry visa to Sudan within 48 hours of
submission of application should continue and no
travel authorization to Darfur is demanded only a
notification is requested.
AU ceasefire monitoring team arrives in Khartoum on
their way to Darfur
WHO urges greater aid for Darfur to ward off looming
epidemics. WHO said it needs US $7.6 million for
programs including campaign to immunize 2 million
children against measles.
UK introduced Security Council resolution that
would give a green light for the UN to begin preparing
for a peacekeeping operation in Sudan (for NorthSouth matters).
GoS troops and some 600 rebels clash when rebels
attack troops based in Ain Saro in northern Darfur.
US deeply disturbed at reports of renewed clashes in
AFP
AFP
Tabet
Adjidji
Janjaweed
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
UN Situation
Report
Kas
Gemel
IRIN
Ramesh
Rajasingham, head
of OCHA Sudan
AP
AFP
AP
Jong-wook Lee
Hussein Gezairy
AP
AFP
AFP
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Darfur and demands that The GoS must end the

violence in Darfur, rein in the Arab militias.
UN donor conference begins in Geneva, attended by
GoS and rebel groups.
Dr. Sharif Harir, top negotiator for SLM/A
cautiously optimistic about Geneva talks, dismisses
notion that North-South peace talks would free GoS
military to crackdown in Darfur.
UN asks $236 million for Darfur relief. US has
pledged it would add $188.5 million over next 18
months and the EU pledges $12.2 million.
Jan Egeland admits that the response to the crisis has
been slow: We admit we are late.
Norway pledges US $5.3 million for Darfur relief.
This is a catastrophe that has political causes, said
Norwegian Deputy Foreign Minister Vidar
Helgesen, and it is therefore necessary that the
parties, especially the government in Sudan, take
responsibility for protecting and helping their own
people by stopping violence, disarming militia and
restoring law and order.
US and UN warn that great death toll in Darfur is
inevitable. We estimate right now if we get relief in,
well lose a third of a million people, and if we dont
the death rates could be dramatically higher, says
Andrew Natsios, USAID Administrator. UN Under
Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland
says internally displaced are continuing to report more
atrocities, more rape, more pillage, more murder.
AU observer mission and GoS to sign agreement
setting out relationship between two parties.
AU observers and GoS sign agreement setting out
terms of mission. Abdel Wahab Al Sawy, GoS
director of AU Department in the Foreign Ministry
signed for the GoS. Agreement gives observer
mission free entry into Sudan and free movement
inside the country.
GoS air force bombs market in Tabet, midday Friday,
according to unnamed Chadian mediator, in what he
Janjaweed
AFP
Geneva
AP
Geneva
AP, Guardian
Sherif Hariri
Tom Kitt
Jan Egeland
AP
Vidar Helgesen
AFP
Andrew Natsios
Jan Egeland
Tom Kitt
AFP
AFP, citing
SUNA
AFP
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Ali Sugar
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calls a another violation of the ceasefire at the

moment when the AU has begun deploying its observer
mission. Ali Sugar, an SLM/A leader said there
were at least 15 casualties. Chadian mediator also
noted inordinate Sudanese troop movements
observed on Friday.
Canada announces another $4.4 million USD for
Sudan.
Darfur rebels seize 16 UNDP aid workers in
Malit/Mellit.
Rebels free UNDP aid workers. Jan Egeland says the
detention of aid workers was totally unacceptable,
and contradicts solemn promises made by the SLM/A
last week.
ICG calls on G-8 leaders to act urgently to head off
impending disaster in Darfur, urges G-8 to press
Khartoum to open access for humanitarian relief and
take measures to stop further fighting.
Amnesty International calls for protection of human
rights, justice, noting that women, victims of rape need
more attention and medicine.
UK warns Sudan facing major emergency, worlds
worst humanitarian crisis. What has gone on may
constitute war crimes, and/or crimes against
humanity, says UK International Development
Secretary Hilary Benn. (AFP)
US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
blames GoS for Darfurs brewing crisis. Rice said,
Darfur is a brewing disaster for which the Sudanese
government bears a lot of responsibility. We will look
to them to act responsibly to defuse that crisis.
President Bashir pledged to end Darfur crisis, saying
we are committed and determined to resolving the
current conflict in Darfur.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan pledges UNs
continuing support for talks aimed at ending conflict in
southern Sudan. Annan says the UN plans to send an
advance team ahead of scheduled peace talks between
Khartoum and the SPLM.
AFP/AP
Mallit
Ben Parker
AFP
Jan Egeland
AFP
Gareth Evans, ICG
AP
Gaetan Mootoo
AFP/AP
Benedicte
Goderiaux
Hilary Benn
AFP
Condoleezza Rice
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
IRIN
Kofi Annan
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Rebels seize trucks loaded with relief items, according

to Sudan Media Center.
Amnesty International urges any GoS-held Darfur
detainees to be freed or brought to trial.
SPLM/A leader John Garang says Darfur is
important to us. We dont want anybody in any part of
country to die.
UK to grant additional $27 million in relief aid to
Darfur.
UN reports that due to insecurities of Nyala-El Daein
road in West Darfur, food distributions in the region
have been delayed.
AU observers establish headquarters office in AlFashir, North Darfur. Observers would be coming
from Nigeria, Senegal, Ghana and Namibia.
UK says GoS primarily responsible for resolving

Darfur crisis. The GoS must bear the primary
responsibility for bringing the fighting to an end, for
reining in the Janjawid militia and for seeking a
political solution for what is a crisis of security, said
Hilary Benn.
Benn cited reports by refugees that GoS had attacked
them and criticized the GoS for delays in aid delivery.
He said that Khartoum was in a state of denial over
the crisis as late as last December.
As peace talks with Khartoum are set to resume, SPLA
leader John Garang tells his supporters that we are
at the threshold of peace.
G-8 leaders look to UN to lead the international effort
to avert disaster in Darfur. Statement by G-8 voices
concerns about gross violations of human rights and
reports of ethnic cleansing campaign against black
Africans.

AFP (citing
SMC)
AFP
AFP
John Garang
AFP
Hilary Benn
UN Situation
Report
AFP
Nyala
El Daein
Al-Fashir
George Mikouy,
Deputy Chairman
of AU disputeresolution
mechanism
Ki Doulaye
Corentin of
Burkina Faso
Hilary Benn
AFP, Guardian
Janjaweed
NYT
AP/AFP
John Garang
Kenya
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Riek Gai
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GoS Vice President Ali Osman Taha strikes back at

the West saying you made Darfur you in Europe and
the Western World through sanctions which he said
kept Darfur poor. The war in Darfur was deliberately
spurred to disturb peace negotiations in Kenya, he
adds. (AP)
Riek Gay, chairman of Southern States
Coordinating Council implores the Darfur rebels to
put down their arms and go to the negotiating table.
(AP)
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Taha criticizes the EU refusal to release approximately

$482 million in development funds unless the GoS
resolved the Southern conflict. Taha claims that the
GoS wanted to use the money to develop Darfur,
They hold your money and tell you to heal myself,
Taha says. (AFP)
EU to help fund AU peacekeeping force. EU says it
will contribute US$14.5 million to support quick
deployment of AU force to Darfur.
On 6 June, SLM/A reportedly hijacked four petroleum
tankers near Shangaltubai, North Darfur. GoS
military reportedly responded by attacking area with
four gunships. Number of casualties unknown.
UN Security Council unanimously approves
resolution (sponsored by UK) authorizing
peacekeeping operation for South Sudan following the
5 June signing of a landmark power-sharing declaration
by GoS and SPLA.
Republic of South Africa receives request to send 10
military observers to join AU Darfur mission.
In a joint statement, G-8 members call on Sudanese
government to immediately disarm the Janjaweed and
other armed groups responsible for violence in Darfur.
Darfur rebels threaten to end truce within 24 hours
unless GoS forces stop attacking their positions,
AP
Poul Nielsen
Jean-Charles
EllermanKingombe
UN Situation
Report
Shengeltobai
AP
South Sudan
org/doc/UNDOC/GE
N/N04/386/26/PDF/
N0438626.pdf?Open
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IRIN
AFP
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Ahmad Allami
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Chadian mediator Allami Ahmat says. Ahmat

draws attention to the actions of supposedly
uncontrolled elements of the Janjaweed who continue
to operate on Chadian and Sudanese territory.
Ahmat says GoS armed forces are intensifying their
offensives on rebel positions.
UNICEF says half a million children in Darfur are
endangered.
SLM/A officials deny that its leadership has been
ousted. Ali Sugar said there has been no change
despite SLM/A splinter group contention that Nour
and Minawi had been ousted.
13 June

says Sudan is blocking aid groups from giving food
and medicine to hundreds of thousands of IDPs in
Darfur. Although Egeland says most UN relief
groups have access to the region, non-governmental
aid groups such as MSF are experiencing delays in
getting visas and transporting food and supplies.
UNICEF director Carol Bellamy visits Darfur.
13 June
Displaced women in refugee camps tell Bellamy they

do not feel safe returning home.
UNICEF appeals for additional funds.

Janjaweed
AFP
Carol Bellamy
AFP
Ali Sugar
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed al-Nur
WP
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Jan Egeland
AFP/AP
Carol Bellamy
AFP/AP
13 June
UN Human Rights Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings Asma Jahangir accuses GoS, Popular
Defense Force (PDF) and pro-Government militias
of carrying out summary executions of civilians.
However serious, the situation in Darfur does not
amount to ethnic cleansing in my view, she said.
AFP, Guardian
14 June
Rebels abduct nine people after attack on Almalm,

according to Sudan Media Center.
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland criticizes GoS
AFP, citing
SMC
AP
14 June
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Kas
James Elder,
UNICEF news
desk, Nyala
Asma Jahangir
Mallam
Jan Egeland
UN Human Rights
Special Rapporteur
on Extra-Judicial
Killings does not find
ethnic cleansing
but does find
summary executions
of civilitians
for blocking Darfur aid, noting some ministers are

helping us, but some of their subordinates are
sabotaging us.
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Red tape has also prevented ships carrying food and

equipment for Darfur from unloading for weeks.
GoS appeals to Organization of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) for assistance in enforcing the
Darfur ceasefire. Foreign Minister Mustapha
Osman Ismail says, We have asked the
Organization of the Islamic Conference for help in
enforcing the ceasefire especially in light of the fact
that the OIC sent a delegation when the truce was
signed in April. Ismail then notes the interest shown
by the international community in this issue and
presence of AU observers makes it more difficult for
rebels to violate the ceasefire.
US renews harsh criticism of Sudan for blocking
Darfur relief efforts. US State Department
Spokesman Richard Boucher accuses GoS of
continuing to harass or delay humanitarian workers.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says the US
government is considering whether the massive
displacements and killings in Darfur constitute
genocide. He says the matter is being discussed interagency and that lawyers and policy officials are
looking into it.
UNICEF head Carol Bellamy meets with President
Bashir and tells him of hearing reports of sexual
assaults on women and girls, many afraid to leave
refugee camps to collect firewood for fear of attack,
and urges more police be sent to the region and that
particular attention be paid to the plight of women and
children.
UNHCR appeals for $55.8 million of extra funding to
help refugees.
On Monday UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan
warns of a humanitarian emergency of catastrophic
proportions and that the world must insist that the
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Richard Boucher
IRIN
Colin Powell
AP
Carol Bellamy
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
AFP
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Sudanese authorities neutralize and disarm the militia.

Continued fighting and general insecurity along
border between Nyala and Sheriya in South Darfur.
Heavy fighting south of the border with North Darfur
has also been reported.
Human Rights Watch receives reports of SLM/A
attacks in the Malam area, including on a nomadic
settlement on 21 April, in which ten civilians were
reportedly killed, and an attack on Um Dashur on 6
June in which six civilians were reportedly killed.
Additional serious allegations were made which
Human Rights Watch was not able to verify,
including an incident on 15 June, 2004 in which eight
unmarried Beni Mansour women were allegedly raped
by SLM/A fighters near Malam.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan will pay a visit to
Sudan to personally assess Darfur situation.
EU agrees to release 60 million euros of 407 million
euros in assistance for humanitarian operations in
Darfur that had been frozen. International
Cooperation Minister Yusuf Suleiman Takanah is
quoted as saying half of the money would help meet
food shortages and the balance would be spent on
water, health and education. (AFP citing Al Anbaa)
Roger Winter of USAID testifies that Darfur
continues to deteriorate and that GoS restrictions and
obstructions on aid continue to endanger lives.
Christian aid groups band together to launch 18-month
appeal for aid to Darfur.
Chadian soldiers kill 69 Janjaweed militiamen who
had crossed the border from Darfur to raid a Chadian
village, according to Chadian Communications
Minister Mouckhtar Wawa Dahab. (Cites 9 May
raid into Chad where hundreds of Janjaweed attacked
Chadian village).
Returning from a trip to the region, UNICEF head
Carol Bellamy reports that the crisis in Darfur is
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
Shiariyah
HRW, If we
return, we will
be killed
Mallam
http://hrw.org/backgr
ounder/africa/darfur1
104/
Um Dashur
AFP/AP
Kofi Annan
Yousuf Suleiman
Tekenah
AFP
Washington
Roger Winter
AP
Vatican City
Duncan MacLaren
AP
Birak
Mouckhtar Wawa
Dahab
Janjaweed
IRIN
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worsening and that immediate action is necessary to

avert a humanitarian disaster
US government threatens to take action against Sudan
over violence in Darfur. Deputy Assistant Secretary
for African Affairs Charles Snyder, in a statement
before the US Senate Committee on Foreign
Relations on Tuesday, says the US does not intend to
stand by while violence and atrocities continue in
Darfur. Our message to the government of Sudan is
clear: Do what is necessary now, and we will work
with you. If you do not, there will be consequences.
Time is of the essence. Do not doubt our
determination.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan not ready to
describe Darfur situation as ethnic cleansing or
genocide yet. His remarks are based on the reports
he has received.
Increased GoS and SLM/A presence continue to be
reported throughout North Darfur. GoS and SLM/A
troops reportedly clashed on June 15, 20 km east of
Shangal Tuba.
Following Janjaweed attacks on several villages north
of Babbaa, South Darfur, IDPs move towards Nyala.
Many villages report casualties.
EU urges Sudan to disarm militias and open up region
to humanitarian aid agencies.
US considers imposing sanctions on Sudanese officials
blamed for crisis in Darfur. State Department
Spokesman Adam Ereli says we are reviewing
available information to determine which specific
individuals could be designated as responsible.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appoints Dutch
environment and development expert Jan Pronk as
top UN envoy in Sudan.
Chad threatens to abandon its role as mediator of
Darfur peace talks, as conflict spreads across the border
into Chad. Ahmad Allami, advisor to Chadian
President Idriss Deby, says that a former Chad rebel
movement, Renewed National Front of Chad
(FNTR), is being revived in Sudan and that Janjaweed
IRIN
Charles Snyder
AP/AFP
Kofi Annan
UN Situation
Report
Shengeltobai
UN Situation
Report
Babbaa
Janjaweed
Nyala
AFP
AFP
Adam Ereli
AP
Kofi Annan
IRIN
Jan Pronk
Ahmad Allami
Idriss Deby
Janjaweed
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militia are recruiting Chadian Arabs into their ranks.

AU chief Alpha Oumar Konare will visit Darfur on
Sunday (20 June).
Sudan vows to rein in pro-government militias.
President Bashir orders disarmament of Janjaweed.
Bashir calls for complete mobilization of GoS army
and security forces to disarm all of Darfurs warring
parties.
GoS and Darfur rebels to meet in Paris on Tuesday (22
June). State Humanitarian Affairs Minister
Mohamed Yusuf Abdallah to fly to Paris to meet
with JEM and other factions with French participation.
French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier
arrives in Geieina, capital of West Darfur state.
GoS delegation leaves for Germany for peace talks
with representatives of Darfur rebels. Talks were
arranged by German mediators, according to
Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmad.
In Berlin, the German Foreign Ministry said it had
no scheduled meeting with any GoS delegation.
Ahmad said the delegation would be led by Ibrahim
Omar, Secretary-General of the Congress Party.
MSF claims Sudanese militia terrorizing Darfur
refugee camps with men being killed if they leave
camp to forage and women raped after looking for
food.
200 people die in Mornay every month.
US impatient with Khartoum over disarmament of
militias. Certainly the US would very much welcome
the government taking action, finally, in this region to
stop the attacks and to really abide by the cease-fire.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns UN
member-states not to use him as an excuse for their
own inaction in Darfur. He again raised the possibility
of international intervention: It is the responsibility of
the government to protect but if the government cant
do it, it should be prepared to ask for the help of the
AFP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
AP, NYT
Omar Al-Bashir
Janjaweed
AFP
Paris
El-Geieina
Berlin
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah,
Renaud Muselier
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
Ibrahim Ahmed
Omar
AFP
AFP
Morni Camp
Richard Boucher
Omar Al-Bashir
AP
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Kofi Annan
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22 June
22 June
22 June
23 June
international community.
EU to send cease-fire observers to join AU team. The
consolidation of the cease-fire is crucial to prevent a
real humanitarian crisis in Darfur, says EU foreign
policy chief Javier Solana.
MSF says thousands of displaced civilians from Darfur
still short of desperately needed relief assistance and
warns that an entirely man-made famine could wipe
out tens of thousands of lives in the region.
French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier
signs agreement to donate three million euros in
French aid to Sudan during a meeting with President
Bashir. The agreement, signed between France, GoS
and WFP will channel one million euros to Darfur.
Muselier stressed to Bashir the need to eliminate all
problems related to the practices of the janjaweed.
WHO warns of polio outbreak in Africa, including in
Darfur.
UN reports that Janjaweed militias attacked, looted
and burnt six villages around Golo, South Darfur on
June 21, reportedly killing six civilians. Army and
police elements in the area did not intervene to prevent
the attacks.
Looting and attacks by Janjaweed reported on edge of
Kalma camp and on a village near Bilel camp on
June 21 in South Darfur. Militias also reportedly
attacked looted and completely burned the village of
Hagir Tono, 30 km southeast of Nyala.
US reviewing whether Darfur situation is genocide,
under US inter-agency review. I believe what is
occurring in Sudan approaches the level of genocide,
says Rep. Jim Kolbe. Rabbi Marvin Hier, of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center believes that in the US
view, it is close to if not bordering on genocide.
AP
Javier Solana
IRIN
AFP
Renaud Muselier
Omar Al-Bashir
Janjaweed
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Golo
Janjaweed
UN Situation
Report
Kalma
Janjaweed
Bilel
Hagir Tono
AP
Jim Kolbe
Marvin Hier
Adam Ereli
For now, US administration is only sticking with

ethnic cleansing label with so many dying in
Darfur, says State Deparatment deputy spokesman
Adam Ereli, legal distinctions about genocide versus
ethnic cleansing are going to seem rather hollow, and
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24 June
24 June
the focus should be on helping victims.

Physicians for Human Rights claims genocide is
underway in Darfur. Theres a clear intent to destroy
non-Arab families in Darfur and all means of
livelihood, says John Heffernan of PHR.
Sudan Deputy Humanitarian Affairs Minister
Mohammed Youssef Abdallah arrives in Paris and
prepares for talks with JEM representatives, according
to the Sudan embassy. The SLM/A will not take part.
President Bashir appoints Atta el-Mannan as new
governor for South Darfur, firing Gen. Adam Hamed
Moussa during a National Congress Party meeting.
National Congress Party Secretary-General
Ibrahim Ahmed Omar says this is the beginning of
reshaping the structure of the leadership in Southern
Darfur and Greater Darfur to restore order and improve
loose security to open the road for humanitarian relief
aid.
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamed
says the government has withdrawn the work permits
of several international humanitarian groups working
in Darfur, accusing them of harming national security.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell to visit Darfur.
AP, NYT
AFP
AP
24 June
Paris
Mohamed Yousef
Abdallah
Omar Al-Bashir
Atta el-MAnnan
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Ibrahim Ahmed
Omar
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP
Andrew Natsios puts blame for Darfur crisis squarely

on GoS, saying they arm them, they use them, and
now they have to stop them. Natsios says US was
using NASA satellite imagery to analyze 576 villages,
300 of which are completely destroyed, 76 of which
are substantially destroyed.
Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, a US State
Dept. expert on Sudan (Special Advisor for Sudan),
says until now, we have not seen any systematic
action to rein in the Janjaweed What weve seen is
a series of half-steps by the government in response to
international pressure.
President Bashir accuses foreigners of trying to take
advantage of Darfur crisis in order to interfere with
John Heffernan
Colin Powell
Michael
Ranneberger
Andrew Natsios
Janjaweed
AFP
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Omar Al-Bashir
Sudans affairs.
24 June
24 June
24 June
25 June
25 June
GoS and SPLA to start final round of talks to clinch

definitive peace deal on Friday (25 June).
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to depart this
weekend on 3 week trip which includes visit to Darfur
around 30 June/2 July.
I can tell you that we see indicators of genocide and
there is evidence that points in that direction, says
Pierre Prosper, US Ambassador-at-large for war
crimes in testimony before House International
Relations Committee. Prosper says that a conclusive
legal determination has not been made yet. He says
Janjaweed need to be investigated and brought to
justice.
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher says
a genocide determination is under intense review.
Boucher accuses the Janjaweed of systemically
attacking and destroying at least 301 villages and that
the government did not undertake any action by the
government to bring this under control.
Congressional Black Caucus urges President Bush
to intervene militarily to prevent genocide in Darfur.
We are here to push the international community and
the Bush administration to act because a genocide is
taking place, says Donald Payne, Democratic
representative from New Jersey and president of
the Caucus.
House minority leader Nancy Pelosi says we must
act now to avoid more slaughter and avoid a repetition
of the genocide in Rwanda 10 years ago. This is a
crisis, an emergency. We have the legal obligation
under international law to act.
UN Refugee Agency begins operations in Darfur for
the first time this week.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan again raises the
specter of international military intervention in Sudan.
I dont think we are ready to send in the cavalry,
AFP
Kofi Annan
AFP
Pierre Prosper
Richard Boucher
Janjaweed
AFP
Rwanda
George W. Bush
Donald Payne
Nancy Pelosi
AFP
AP
145
Kofi Annan
http://wwwc.house.g
ov/international_relat
ions/108/94510.pdf
25 June
Annan says, but notes the willingness to go in and

help must also be there and be demonstrated, and I
think we should all begin thinking about that.
US announces it is providing an additional $14 million
in emergency support for Darfur and Eastern Chad for
humanitarian relief.
AP (two
articles)
Eastern Chad
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdullah
Sudans minister for humanitarian affairs,

Mohammed Yousef Abdullah, denies accounts of
famine, saying that the humanitarian situation is fully
under control. There is no widespread disease in the
area, no widespread death, Abdullah says.
25 June
25 June
25 June
26 June
26 June
Abdallah says police forces are being sent into Darfur

on a regular basis.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to meet with US
Secretary of State Colin Powell in Sudan to press
GoS on Darfur. Annan refuses to call Darfur genocide,
saying the issue is not to discuss what name to give it.
We should act now and stop arguing about which label
to put on it.
Talks underway in Paris between JEM and GoS
Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs
Mohammed Yusef Abdallah confirms, and adds that
talks with SLM/A would begin very soon.
US Senate approves $95 million in emergency
humanitarian assistance to Darfur. Senate Minority
Leader Tom Daschle says consideration should be
given to non-US troops including from Europe and
Africa; the Security Council should consult with the
African Union to make clear to Khartoum that the
international community is serious and to be ready if it
is necessary to intervene.
Janjaweed target men, who account for three out of
every four deaths, according to MSF. French Deputy
Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier notes a lot of
women and children and very few men after visiting
Darfur.
EU and US call on GoS to stop the violence
perpetrated by jingaweit, disarm the militias, provide
AFP
Kofi Annan
Colin Powell
AFP
Paris
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
AFP
Tom Daschle
AFP
Janjaweed
Renaud Muselier
AFP/AP
146
Janjaweed
unimpeded access for humanitarian groups and insist

that those responsible for the atrocities must be held
accountable.
25 June
26 June
Recently Italian Deputy Foreign Minister

Margherita Boniver; Swiss Foreign Minister
Micheline Calmy-Rey, UNICEFs Carol Bellamy
and French Deputy Foreign Minister Renaud
Muselier have visited Sudan.
US to impose sanctions on Darfur militia members.
US says it will identify individual janjawid militia
members for sanctions and US Ambassador-at-large
for War Crimes Pierre Prosper announces at least
seven have already been identified: Musa Hilal,
Hamid Dawai, Abdullah abu Shineibat, Omar
Babbush, Omada Saef, Ahmad Dekheir, and Ahmed
Abu Kamasha.
Margherita Boniver
Micheline CalmyRey
Carol Bellamy
Renaud Muselier
AFP/AP
Janjaweed
Pierre Prosper
Musa Hilal
Hamid Dawai
Abdullah abu
Shineibat
Omar Babbush
Omada Saef
Ahmad Dekheir
Ahmed Abu
Kamasha
27 June
27 June
GoS says it is doing everything it can in order to

restore normalcy in Darfur and welcomes the
assistance of the international community to help it
achieve this, according to Foreign Minister Mostafa
Osman Ismail, who also cites the appointment of
Interior Minister General Abdel Rahim Mohamed
Hussein as President Bashirs special
representative in Darfur. Husseins main task is to
see that Janjaweed are in deed disarmed.
Saudi Arabia dispatches two planeloads of aid to
Darfur.
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP, citing
SPA (Saudi)
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Janjaweed
Saudi Arabia
First mention in
chronology of Musa
Hilal and other
specific Janjaweed
leaders
r/pa/prs/ps/2004/3393
9.htm

27 June
27 June
US working with Libyan government to open routes

for US aid to Darfur, says National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice, speaking on Fox News Sunday.
Weve been putting a lot of pressure on the Sudanese
government to stop the Janjaweed militia from doing
the horrible things that theyre doing in that region.
Congressional delegation visits refugee camp in North
Darfur. Senator Sam Brownback and Rep. Frank
Wolf visit Abu Shawk refugee camp and met with
State Gov. Osman Mohammed Youssef. Foreign
Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail meets with Gerard
M. Gallucci charge daffaires at the U.S. Embassy to
discuss preparations for Powells visit.

AFP
Condoleezza Rice
Janjaweed
AP
Abu Shouk
Sam Brownback
Frank Wolf
Osman Mohammed
Youssef
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Gerard M. Gallucci
27 June
28 June
28 June
28 June
28 June
Sudanese opposition leader Sadek al-Mahdi accuses

Khartoum of failing to manage the Darfur crisis.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell to visit Darfur on
Tuesday (29 June) and US officials say his message to
Khartoum on solving the Darfur crisis will be act or
face the consequences.
Khartoum media accuses SPLA of airlifting weapons
to Darfurian rebels.
Some 3,000 displaced Darfurians return to their homes
around Al-Fashir, according to state-controlled
newspaper, on the eve of visit by UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan and US Secretary of State
Colin Powell. The first batch arrived at their villages
in Touweila, south of Al-Fashir reported Al-Anbaa.
Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein
also visits al-Fashir round the same time.
Washington Post reports that Sudanese government
dispatched 500 men to Abu Shouk IDP camp of
40,000 near El Fashir, North Darfur, who warned the
refugees to keep quiet about their experiences when US
AFP
Colin Powell
Sadek al-Mahdi
AFP
Colin Powell
AFP
AFP, citing
Al-Anbaa
Al-Fashir
Kofi Annan
Tawila
Colin Powell
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
WP
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Abu Shouk
Colin Powell
Al-Fashir
Kofi Annan
29 June
29 June
29 June
29 June
Secretary of State Colin Powell and UN SecretaryGeneral Kofi Annan will visit the region this week.
The men also told the villagers that they would
impersonate victims when the US and UN delegations
arrive, telling them the government had done nothing
wrong.
UN investigator reports indications of crimes against
humanity in Darfur. Asma Jahangir, UN
investigator on executions tells a news conference
that she found absolutely clear indications that Arab
militias were protected by the GoS and ta the number
of black Africans killed by Arab militias was bound
to be staggering. Jahangir calls for the culture of
impunity to be ended and those who ordered, planned
and carried out the killings to be brought to justice.
GoS bans political rally against UN SecretaryGeneral Annan and US Secretary of State Colin
Powell which was to be staged to protest alleged US
and UN double standards.
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of attacking FAO food
convoy and looting 57 tons of food, according to
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid.
WFP could not confirm allegation.
Same article notes President Bashir telling US
Secretary of State Colin Powell on Tuesday night that
all reasons for rebellion in Darfur had been eliminated.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell in Khartoum,
issues blunt warning to GoS to take action or face
action. Powell spells out three main demands of the
GoS: 1) rein in janjaweed; 2) open humanitarian
access; 3) start negotiations with two rebel movements.
Powell warns unless we see more moves soon in all
these areas, it may be necessary for the international
community to begin considering other actions, to
include Security Council action. GoS Foreign
Minister Mustafa Ismail says, we admit there is
problem in Darfur. There is no famine, there is no
epidemic disease. Ismail promises that GoS would
unveil a package of measures before end of Powells
AP
Asma Jahangir
AFP
Kofi Annan
Colin Powell
AP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Omar Al-Bashir
Colin Powell
AFP, WP
Colin Powell
Janjaweed
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
149
visit.
Powell says a review in the State Department
currently taking place has found indicators and
elements of genocide.
29 June
29 June
30 June
30 June
30 June
Powell is negative about a UN peacekeeping force,

saying the size and remoteness of Darfur would make it
problematic, and arguing that the better answer is to
the Sudanese government take control.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, on his way to
Sudan says the international community has to do
something if the GoS is unable or unwilling, and that
the world cannot sit idle and complain that yet again
we have had mass killings.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says Darfur
moving towards genocide, but we are not there yet.
US calls for UN sanctions on Arab militias in Darfur.
US draft resolution calls for arms embargo and travel
ban on militia members; requires UN Security
Council to decide whether an arms embargo and travel
ban against the militias should be extended to any
other individuals or groups responsible for atrocities
in Darfur.
UN Security Council President, Philippines
Ambassador Lauro Baja says resolution sends a
Strong signal to GoS that action must be taken.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell visits Darfur
region accompanied by Sudanese Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail. Meets with AU monitoring
team, North Darfur Gov. Osman Yusuf Kibir, and
walks through Abu Shouk camp near El-Feshir.
Powell says we are anxious to see an end to
militarism out here. We are anxious to see the
Janjawid brought under control and disarmed so
people can leave the camps in safety and brought back
ot their villages.
Darfur ceasefire commission to hold talks in
Ndjamena at the weekend. Commission chaired by
AP
Kofi Annan
AP
Colin Powell
AP (2 articles)
Lauro Baja
AFP
Abu Shouk
Camp
Colin Powell
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Janjaweed
AFP
150
Ndjamena
Festus Okonkwo.
Powell visits Darfur
30 June
30 June
30 June
30 June
30 June
Nigerian General Festus Okonkwo.

World must act quickly to avoid repeat of Rwanda in
Darfur, says Chadian President Deby. I ask the
international community to act very quickly. If not,
what is happening in our border could become a
humanitarian tragedy. He evoked Rwanda
experience in his remarks.
Deby noted the pattern of Janjaweed attacks that had
left 300 Chadian civilians killed and thousands of
cattle stolen by armed men from Darfur. I do not
want conflict with Sudan..but if the raids are not
brought under control, we will take measures to
guarantee the security of refugees and Chadians who
live in these regions.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher calls for
calm talks over threats of military actions or talk of
sanctions. Maher said Egypt believes it is better to
treat the Sudanese question in a clam fashion, away
from threats and allusions to sanctions.
SLM/A calls for international force to be deployed in
Darfur. Mohammed Hamed Ali, spokesman for
SLM/A demanded deployment of international UN
forces in Darfur and calls on US Secretary of State
Colin Powell to fly over Darfur in a helicopter to see
the villages that have been torched and abandoned.
In response to US Secretary of State Colin Powells
demands, Sudan announces that we will do our best to
bring more police and more armed forces to Darfur
and that GoS will combat any militia or Janjawid to
protect civilians and that were going to enhance the
speed of negotiations, according to Foreign Minister
Ismail.
One US diplomatic official accompanying Powell
accuses Sudan of being in denial over Darfur.
White House spokesman Scott McClellan says the
President is deeply disturbed by the human rights and
humanitarian situation in the Darfur region of Sudan.
AFP
Rwanda
Idriss Deby
Janjaweed
AFP
Ahmed Maher
AFP
Mohammed
Hamed Ali
Colin Powell
AFP, IRIN
Colin Powell
Janjaweed
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Scott McClellan
George W. Bush
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SLM/A spokesman
calls for UN forces in
Darfur
Event
Date
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June
30
June
Publica
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Date
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1 July
1 July
1 July
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1 July
Event
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Locations
Names
After visiting a refugee camp in North Darfur, US

Secretary of State Colin Powell describes the
conditions in the region as a humanitarian
catastrophe and says the Janjaweed militias must be
prevented from perpetrating acts of violence against
the Sudanese population.
The US proposes a UN Security Council resolution
imposing an arms embargo and travel ban on the
Janjaweed. The draft resolution does not promise
action against the Sudanese government, but leaves
open the possibility of sanctions if there is no
improvement.
Libya offers to help resolve Darfur crisis says
Abubakr Younis Jabir, Libyas envoy in Khartoum.
WFP begins food airlift to Darfur.
The UN reports that close to 600 IDP families from
Mallam, Tawilla, Jebel Marra and other areas in
South Darfur have begun settling close to Kalma
camp, following Janjaweed and GoS attacks on their
villages.
Guardian
North Darfur
Colin Powell
Kofi Annan visits ZamZam camp in Darfur near AlFashir. The UN Secretary-General is told by
refugees there was no food, medical care and school.
Annan was then supposed to visit another camp,
Mashtel, but by the time he and his entourage got
there, the camp was empty.
AFP
Janjaweed
Guardian
Janjaweed
AFP
Abubakr Younis
Jabir
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Mallam
Tawila
Jebel Marrah
Kofi Annan urges GoS to contain Janjawid and not

fight side by side with them, after talking with Interior
Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein and
North Darfur state Governor Mohammed Osman
Kibir. Kibir said we are preparing ourselves to
pursue them. The government has nothing to do with
the Janjawid. The government is not fighting side by
Kalma
ZamZam Camp
Kofi Annan
Al-Fashir
Janjaweed
Meshtel
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
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Notes
1 July
2 July
side. They have a separate agenda.

Hours before UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and
other UN officials travel to Meshtel settlement local
authorities load the IDPs onto trucks and move them to
another already overcrowded camp, Abu Shouk.
NYT,
Guardian, WP
Meshtel
Kofi Annan
Abu Shouk
Al-Noor
Muhammad
Ibrahim
Al Noor Muhammad Ibrahim, Minister of Social

Affairs for North Darfur, insists that it is not
because the Secretary-General of the UN is here that
we moved them, but that the conditions were too bleak
for the camps inhabitants, so the GoS decided to move
them.
1 July
1 July
1 July/2
July
2 July
2 July
Jan Egeland, UNs emergency relief coordinator,

commented that the camp would probably fill up again
once Annan left: Probably these people will be back
tonight at Meshtel. (Guardian)
Kofi Annan arrives in Chad for talks with President
Deby.
Annan says we the international community will do
everything to work with the Sudanese government and
President Deby who has begun negotiations to find a
solution and appease the situation, because if not, the
tragedy we are witnessing now will be nothing
compared to that which is looming. (AFP article from
2 Jul, Annan urges political solution)
Several rebel-held villages in South Darfur, including
Marla, Labado and Muhajiriyah, bombed on July 1,
according to relief workers.
Jan Egeland
AFP (two
articles one
from 2 July)
IRIN; AFP
Kofi Annan
Idriss Deby
Marla
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Labado
Workers report seeing helicopter gunships flying over

Kalma camp, outside Nyala, South Darfur, on the
same day (July 1) and then traveling east.
Mahadjiriya,
GoS air force bombs three villages in Darfur, according

to JEM rebels. Col. Abdallah Abdel Kerim of the
JEM said three Antonov aircraft bombed the towns of
Lobodou, Mahadjiriya and Samfodo, east of Nyala.
WHO expert David Nabarro says 10,000 will die next
Samfodo
Kalma
Nyala
AFP
153
David Nabarro
2 July
2 July
2 July
2 July
30
June
and 1
July
2 July
2 July
2 July
2 July
2 July
2 July
month unless a strong and effective relief operation,

on the scale of those supported by military forces is
employed.
Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim
Mahmud Hamid reports that the humanitarian
situation in Sudan is getting better.
Sudanese Interior Minister and special
representative for Darfur, Abd al-Rahim
Muhammad Husayn, says that since the governments
disarmament of the Janjaweed in North Darfur on
February 26, there has not been a single attack by the
Janjaweed
US warns citizens not to travel to Sudan
US raises possibility of sanctions against Sudan if it
does not take quick action to rein in Janjawid. The
US is only willing to wait a few weeks for the GoS
to demonstrate that it wants to end the Darfur conflict.
Were talking days, weeks, not months not a month
to see whether or not they do what they said they
would do said Charles Snyder Acting Assistant
Secretary of State for Africa.
GoS Army accuses rebels of attacking an army unit
escorting a humanitarian convoy heading from Nyala
to Ed Diein in Southern Darfur.
GoS to set up 18 settlements in Darfur to house more
than a million people and will train refugees in carrying
weapons to defend themselves, according to Interior
Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein.
Denmark gives additional $2.47 million in aid to
Darfur. Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller
denounced irresponsible politics which threaten to
claim the lives of hundred of thousands of innocent
people and said, international efforts are necessary.
Finland to provide an additional $1.35 million in aid
for Darfur.
Civilians dying behind rebel lines due to starvation and
militia attacks, according to Norwegian Peoples Aid
Director for Sudan Oddvar Bjorknes.
After meeting with President Omar al-Bashir in
IRIN
Ibrahim Mahmud
Hamid
IRIN
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
AFP
AP
Charles Snyder
Janjaweed
AFP, citing
Radio
Omdurman
Nyala
Ed Diein
AFP, quoting
Al-Sahafa
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
AFP
Per Stig Moeller
AFP
AFP
Oddvar Bjorknes
AFP/AP
Dan Eiffe
Omar Al-Bashir
154
Khartoum, Kofi Annan demands that the violence

must stop and that the Janjawid must be disarmed.
2 July
3 July
3 July
2,3
July
3, 4 July
Annan says he secured a number of undertakings from

Bashir including a pledge to arrest and prosecute those
involved in atrocities and to compensate victims.
AU President Alpha Oumar Konare announces
Darfur peace talks to begin on 15 July in Addis
Ababa. The problem with Darfur is political, its
solution is political, said Konare.
JEM will not attend AU brokered peace talks in Addis
Ababa on 15 July. JEM cites GoS breaches of April
ceasefire as reason. JEM spokesman Abdallah
Abdel Kerim also gave no credence to GoS pledges
to disarm Janjaweed.
Charles Snyder announces that evidence of war
crimes in Darfur currently being gathered. Therell be
interviews by trained kinds of people in the displaced
person camps in Chad to begin to gather this evidence
for possible prosecution he said.
Joint Statement and Agreement between GoS and
UN concluded. Agreement says that GoS will take
immediate steps to disarm Janjaweed, and deploy a
strong, credible police force to protect refugee camps
and other susceptible areas. Joint statement also
promised that GoS would allow deployment of human
rights monitors and ensure that all individuals and
groups accused of human rights violations are brought
to justice without delay. (AFP/AP)
Kofi Annan
Janjaweed
AFP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
AFP, citing
Radio France
Internationale
Charles Snyder
AFP; AP; WP
Khartoum
Janjaweed
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
GoS pledged to ensure that no militias are present in

all areas surrounding IDP camps. (AFP/AP)
The agreement also calls for Khartoum to develop a
system to allow women who have been raped during
the crisis to bring charges against alleged perpetrators.
(WP)
155
describes the commitments as voluntary and not

because of pressure from the UN. Rather he says, we
made [the commitments] voluntarily, because we feel
we should do it. (WP)
4 July
(See also WP, July 4: An estimated 30,000 have been

killed in the conflict.)
GoS plans to return Darfur refugees. Returnees will be
provided with services, shelter and food that will be
adequate for three months said Interior Minister
Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein. He said that
GoS has deployed 2,000 extra police in the region and
another 2,000 are on their way.
AFP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Kofi Annan
Colin Powell
The US and UN have demanded formation of an

independent fact-finding commission on Darfur,
according to Hussein.
5 July
5 July
Hussein also said that UN Secretary-General Kofi

Annan and US Secretary of State Colin Powell
came with the notion that there is ethnic cleansing and
genocide operations in Darfur, a situation they did not
find during their visit.
The Netherlands, holding current EU Presidency
pledges additional 10 million Euros for Darfur.
UK delegation visiting Darfur urges Europe, US to
boost aid for Darfur. Calls for every western European
government to match UKs $65 million contribution.
AFP/AP
AP
Hilton Dawson,
UK Parliamentary
delegation
David Drew, UK
Parliamentary
delegation
Jenny Tonge, UK
Parliamentary
delegation
John Bercow, UK
Parliamentary
delegation
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5 July
5 July
5,6 July
6 July
6 July
France calls on Sudan to immediately disarm

Janjaweed. French Foreign Ministry Spokesman
Herve Ladsous said disarmament is the only way to
re-establish trust and thus to encourage the civilian
population to home to their villages.
UN Undersecretary General for Humanitarian
Affairs, Jan Egeland, says that because no other
country is offering to send forces into Darfur to disarm
the Janjaweed militia, the international community has
to pressure Khartoum to be a real government and to
disarm and demobilize.
Aid workers report that villagers in the Jabal Mara
area face serious water and food shortages, after
Janjaweed militias smashed their water wells and
burned both their food and seeds. Villagers from the
Jabal Mara say the Janjaweed threw dead bodies into
some open water wells.
AU said it planned to send 300-strong armed protection

force to Darfur to bolster its observation team. AU
Peace and Security Director Sam Ibok said Nigeria,
Rwanda and Tanzania have already been approached
to provide troops and was optimistic that GoS would
accept the plan. We have had continued activity of
the Janjaweed Ibok noted.
IRIN notes that Botswana has also indicated the
possibility of contributing to the force
GoS accuses SLM/A of killing 47 people when it
intervened in a tribal conflict.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns of an
even greater humanitarian catastrophe that could
unfold in Darfur unless concrete action is taken to stop
the Janjaweed. The climate of impunity must end
now, Annan told the opening session of the AU third
summit in Addis Ababa. Such a catastrophe could

AFP
Janjaweed
Herve Ladsous
IRIN
Jan Egeland
Janjaweed
IRIN
Jebal Marrah
Janjaweed
Dan Eiffe, director
of the Sudan
Development Trust
Oedvar Bjorknes,
country director of
Norwegian
Peoples Aid
Janjaweed
AFP/IRIN
Sam Ibok
AP, citing
Alwan
newspaper
AFP (2
articles)
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destabilize the region he said.

US Congressman Frank Wolf calls Darfur ethnic
cleansing. Senator Sam Brownback says I believe
that clearly the seeds of genocide have been sown in
Darfur.
Fighting in Darfur continues, hampering emergency
aid, according to WFP spokeswoman Christiane
Berthiaume, who said the situation has not improved,
the degree of insecurity is really complicating an
already difficult humanitarian situation. But
Berthiaume said SLM/A is also to blame along with
the Janjawid for insecurity. Fighting has intensified
in the south of Darfur around Ed Daein, according to
Berthiaume.
Germany urges UN to slap arms embargo on Sudan.
Any UN weapons embargo should concern all of
Sudan, said Overseas Development Minister
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul.
GoS announces new measures for Darfur. GoS orders
police stations to be opened up within IDP camps.
Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohammed Hussein
said police would receive complaints about human
rights abuses and adopt all measuresto restore
justice. GoS to facilitate travel for relief workers and
list all restrictions on aid activities including customs
duties on humanitarian material for three months.
The UN notes that insecurity has increased in North
Darfur with fighting between the GoS and militia
groups in Umm Sayala.
UN agencies report that although most IDPs are
hesitant to return to their villages because of insecurity,
300 IDPs have reportedly returned to Korma and
Tawilla (North Darfur) from El Fasher on July 5.
Authorities reportedly arrest three IDPs who interacted
with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annans delegation
at Abu Shouk camp.
The number of IDPs in Kalma camp continues to
increase due to recent fighting in Ed Daein, and
agencies estimate the number of IDPs at 40,000. The
UN notes an increased presence of military around
AP
Sam Brownback
Frank Wolf
AFP
Ed Diein
Christiane
Berthiaume
Janjaweed
AFP
Heidemarie
Wieczorek-Zeul
AFP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
UN Situation
Report
Umm Sayala
UN Situation
Report
Korma
Tawilla
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Al-Fasher
Abu Shouk
Kalma
Ed Diein
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7 July
Kalma camp, including armed PDF inside the camp.

Fighting between the government and rebels [in
Darfur] has displaced about two million people, with
up to 200,000 seeking refuge in neighboring Chad.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair warns Sudan not
to block humanitarian aid or the UK would consider
what further measures to take.
John Bercow, shadow international development
critic for the Conservative Party praised UK efforts
but blasted other European contributions as pitiful.
New US Ambassador to UN John Danforth warns
that US will demand tough UN action against Sudan if
it does not begin to rein in Janjaweed within days.
The GoS is clearly on a short leash, he said.
IRIN
AFP/AP
Two million
displaced
Tony Blair
John Bercow
AP
John Danforth
Janjaweed
Yishan Zhang
Germanys ambassador to UN Gunter Pleuger said

Security Council must be ready to act now against
both the Janjaweed and GoS if necessary.
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8 July
Chinas deputy UN envoy Zhang Yishan stressed

that the Security Council had not agreed on a
timetable for action.
Chadian Foreign Minister Nagoum Yamassoum
urges JEM to attend peace talks in Addis Ababa.
AU Peace and Security Council welcomes the
commitment made by the government to disarm and
neutralize the Janjaweed militia. The Council said
that despite the grave loss of life, and destruction of
infrastructure, the situation cannot be defined as
genocide.
US Senator John McCain says Khartoum is lying in
its denials of ties to Janjawid. The government does
not oppose the militias as they suggest. The
government and the Janjawid are on the same team,
McCain said.
UN spokeswoman Marie Okabe says that despite
Khartoums July 3 pledge, armed men continue to
attack humanitarian convoys in Darfur: Military
personnel, uniformed men and unidentified persons on
Gunter Pleuger
AFP
AP
Nagoum
Yamassoum
Janjaweed
Adam Thaim, AU
spokesman
AFP
John McCain
Janjaweed
IRIN
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Marie Okabe
8 July
8 July
camels stopped and attacked clearly marked convoys

of humanitarian workers in the west and north of
Sudans volatile Darfur region.
The Dutch Foreign Ministry said it will send three
helicopters to Darfur to assist in distributing
humanitarian aid, said Development Cooperation
Minister Agnes van Ardenne.
Presidents of Chad, Sudan, Nigeria and South Africa
meet on sideline of AU summit in Addis Ababa to
discuss Darfur.
AP
AFP
Agnes van
Ardenne
Addis Ababa
Omar Al-Bashir
Idriss Deby
Olusegun Obasanjo
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8 July
8 July
8 July
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France doubtful that sanctions against GoS would

improve situation in Darfur. It would be better to help
the Sudanese get over the crisis so their country is
pacified rather than sanctions which would push them
back to their misdeeds of old said French Deputy
Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier. Muselier said
given the imminent North-South peace, sanctions for
Darfur might not be appropriate.
AU calls on Khartoum to stop bombing Darfur. We
have called for a halt to the bombingswe received
promises today from Khartoum on this said AU
Chairman Alpha Omar Konare.
President Omar al-Bashir agrees to allow AU
contingent of 300 armed soldiers to protect AU
monitoring team.
AU force could deploy by end of the month, according
to AU Chair Konare.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says GoS has yet
to follow through on promises to help those in Darfur.
Despite promises of the GoS, we have yet to see
dramatic improvements, said Powell.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to travel
to Sudan over weekend to urge GoS to disarm
Janjaweed. Fischer will travel with State (Deputy)
Minister Kerstin Mueller.
AFP
Thabo Mbeki
Renaud Muselier
AFP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AP
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
AP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
Colin Powell
AFP
Joschka Fischer
Janjaweed
Kerstin Mueller
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New US ambassador to the UN John Danforth says

that Sudan has only days to stop the violence in Darfur
or it may face sanctions by the UN Security Council.
We are talking about days, says Danforth. (WP)
Walter Lindner,
Fischer spokesman
John Danforth
WP; IRIN
Mihnea Ioan
Motoc
Security Council members are to begin discussions on

a US-drafted resolution that would impose arms and
travel bans on militia leaders accused of terrorizing the
populations in Darfur. (WP)
8 July
8 July
Current UN Security Council chairman, Mihnea

Ioan Motoc of Romania, says the Council is studying
the draft resolution on Sudan, and that further action
depended on whether the Sudanese government was
meeting the targets and promises it made.
Fighting breaks out north of Hashaba, near Touri
(South Darfur) between GoS and SLM/A forces on
July 5. Number of casualties or displaced not yet
known.
Recent violence in Eisalaya, Maali, Yassin and
Gereida (all in South Darfur) has caused displaced
persons to travel to Kalma, an already overcrowded
camp.
UN Situation
Report
Hashaba
Touri
UN Situation
Report
Eisalaya
Maali
Yassin
Due to recent conflict in the Ed Daein area, 12,925

Dinka IDPs from Assabaya, Firdous and Abu
Matarik have been displaced.
Gereida
Kalma
Ed Diein
9 July
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, echoing similar

warnings from John Danforth at the UN Security
Council, says that the Security Council will act
against Khartoum if it fails to stop the violence in
Darfur: Despite the promises that have been made, we
have yet to see these dramatic improvements. Only
actions, not words, can win the race against death in
NYT
Colin Powell
John Danforth
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9 July
Darfur. And we will not rest. We will continue to

apply pressure.
Sanctions against Khartoum would only complicate
Darfur crisis, GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail
tells state run media.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail warned
Washington not to spark an Iraq-style crisis over
Darfur. Ismail warned that US calls for UN Security
Council action only weakened his governments
effort to resolve the crisis and complicated its
relationship with the UN.
AU Chairman and Nigerian President Olusegun
Obasanjo says we can say for certain that the
responsibility for Darfur is on the AU and the
government of Sudan working together. (AFP)
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
NYT
Jong-wook Lee
Obasanjo, declares that the AU protection force in

Darfur will expand its mandate from only protecting
AU monitors to protecting civilians: It will not be a
protection force if it is there to prevent [violence] and
protect lives and property and it just stands and stares
while life and properties have been destroyed.
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9 July
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July
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10 July
10 July
The Sudanese government has said that the AU force

has to stick to its limited mandate of only protecting
the monitors, as the protection of civilians remains a
matter for Khartoum alone. (Guardian)
WHO head Lee Jong-wook to visit Darfur.
The New York Times reports that the Bush
administration estimates that as many as 300,000
displaced Sudanese will die by the end of the year.
US Congress approves $311million to help victims of
war and famine in Sudan.
Mahmoud conceded some violence may have taken
place in Darfur but says there was no systematic,
well-organized violence. Instead he blames the major
problems for humanitarian assistance on rebels.
SLM/A head Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nour calls on
AP; WP
http://www.house.go
v/budget/foreignopsa
u071404.htm
AP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
Abdel Wahed
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10 July
international community to address the Darfur political

as well as humanitarian situation in their efforts. Nour
says GoS is giving police and military ID cards to
Janjaweed.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer calls on
Khartoum to ensure immediate access for aid to
Darfur; describes situation as violation of human
rights.
Chad and Sudan agree on joint-force to monitor
border. Presidents Omar al-Bashir and Idriss Deby
agree on creating a security commission and a panel to
review damaged and pillaged property.

Mohammed al-Nur
Janjaweed
AFP
AFP (2
articles); WP
Joschka Fischer
El Geneina
Omar Sl-Bashir
Emmanual
Nadingar
Chadian interim Defense Minister Emmanual

Nadingar and his Sudanese counterpart General
Bakri Hassan Saleh discussed ways and means of
deploying 1,000-strong joint force to patrol border area
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11 July
12 July
12 July
12 July
12 July
(See also WP on 11 July)

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer leaves
for Khartoum, carrying on board his plane 3.5 tons of
medicine. (AP)
Fischer urges GoS to immediately disband militias.
(AFP)
Arab League urges UN not to slap hasty sanction on
Sudan but instead to give latitude to GoS to work with
AU and UN to resolve conflict.
Juan Mendez appointed UN Special Advisor on the
Prevention of Genocide.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer meets
with GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail in
Khartoum. Germany is one of the most intransigent
countries when it comes to Darfur and is constantly
pushing to have the issue dealt with in a draft
resolution at the UN Security Council said Ismail.
EU offers additional 18 million euros for Darfur.
EU warns of sanctions against Sudan government over
Darfur. Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot said
we are waiting for the signals in the coming days and
Idriss Deby
Bakri Hassan Saleh
AP/AFP
Joschka Fischer
AFP
AP
New York
Juan Mendez
AFP
Khartoum
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Joschka Fischer
AFP
AFP
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Bernard Bot
12 July
13 July
13 July
13 July
13 July
13 July
13 July
13 July
14 July
we will then consider whether we will have to

increase pressure on the government and impose
sanctions.
Sudan has not fulfilled its promise to stop violence in
Darfur, says US. There is a mixed picture and some
reports of positive actions and some reports of negative
actions, said Richard Boucher, State Dept.
spokesman. Secretary of State Colin Powell
telephoned GoS Foreign Minister Ismail to remind
him how closely we were following the events on the
ground, how we were looking at every single aspect
that had been discussed.
Head of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, Juan
Manuel Suarez del Toro pledges aid for Darfur.
Nigeria will send relief materials to Darfur
WHO chief Lee Jong-wook heads to Darfur to assess
medical situation.
Rep. Charles Rangel arrested in front of Sudan
Embassy over Darfur protest.
President George Bush on Darfur: For the sake of
peace and basic humanityI call upon the government
of Sudan to stop the Janjaweed violence. I call on all
parties of the conflict to respect the cease-fire to
respect human rights, and to allow for the free
movement of humanitarian workers and aid. Bush
made these remarks at signing of African Growth and
Opportunity Act.
Bill condemning Darfur as genocide introduced in
US Senate by Senators Sam Brownback and Jon
Corzine. A similar measure was introduced in the
House.
UN Security Council considering US resolution
imposing sanctions on militias in Darfur. An unnamed
Security Council diplomat said At least all the
Europeans and the Americans are united but sources
also noted that Pakistan and Algeria called for the
GoS to be given an opportunity to make good on its
pledge to rein in the Janjaweed.
GoS announces it will participate in Darfur peace talks
AFP
Richard Boucher
Colin Powell
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
Juan Manuel
Suarez del Toro
AFP
AFP
AP
AP/AFP
Jong-wook Lee
Washington
Charles Rangel
George Bush
Janjaweed
AFP
Sam Brownback
Jon Corzine
AFP
Janjaweed
AP/AFP
Majzoub Ahmad
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in Addis Ababa and names its delegation: Agriculture

Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa Ahmed; Minster of
State for Foreign Affairs, Tigani Salih Fidhail; and
Minister of State for Humanitarian Affairs
Mohamed Yussef Abdullah.
al-Khalifa
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
Mohamed Yousef
Abdullah
14 July
15 July
15 July
15 July
According to a UN survey of children living in refugee

camps near Tine, high rates of malnutrition are linked
to rampant diarrhea caused by poor water supplies in
the camps. The survey finds a global acute
malnutrition rate of 27% within the refugee camps and
29.2% among refugees outside the camps.
Egypt considers sending observers to Darfur. It is
important that we contribute in restoring stability in the
Darfur region, said Presidential spokesman Maged
Abdul Fatah. Fatah said, The problem of Darfur is
complicated and not a simple one that can be resolved
by imposing sanctions.
Both rebel groups and GoS appear in Addis Ababa for
peace talks aimed at solving Darfur conflict.
SLM/A and JEM insist that GoS withdraw all troops

from Darfur before political talks aimed at permanently
settling the conflict could proceed. SLM/A official
Adam Ali Shogan accused the GoS of bombing a
village in northern Darfur earlier in the week, killing
77 civilians. GoS Agriculture Minister Majzoub alKhalifa Ahmed insisted that the GoS has showed its
commitment and responsibility to solve the
humanitarian crisis, including releasing prisoners and
setting up infrastructure to open humanitarian
corridors. No mention of reining in Janjaweed,
however. (AFP)
IRIN
Tine
AFP
AFP/AP
AFP; IRIN
Maged Abdul
Fatah
Addis Ababa
Said Djinnit
Addis Ababa
Mohamed
Sahnoun, Kofi
Annans special
envoy to Africa
Adam Ali Shogan
Majzoub Ahma alKhalifa
Mohamed
Sahnoun, Kofi
Annans special
envoy to Africa
Janjaweed
Ibrahim Mohamed
It is completely unacceptable and unrealistic as the

militias are not under the control of the government.
Hamid Algabid,
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16 July
The government cannot enter into such a

commitment, says Ibrahim Muhammad, GOS
spokesman. (IRIN)
Libya agrees to open aid corridor for humanitarian
supplies to enter Darfur.
WHO Director General Lee Jong-wook warns of
health catastrophe in Darfur.
Sudanese opposition leaders begin talks in Eritrea.
NDA and SPLA leaders meet, Darfur is not officially
on agenda, although SLM/A is a member of NDA.
US Congressman Bobby Rush (D- Ill.) arrested
during protest rally at Sudan embassy accusing GoS of
committing genocide. Embassy spokesman
Abdelbagi Kabeir said, there is no genocide. There
is improvement.
UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland worried over
enforced movement of refugees back to their
villages.
GoS pledges to try anyone who violated human rights
in Darfur. Those individuals and groups accused of
violating human rights will face justice, said Foreign
Minister Mustafa Ismail after marathon talks with
UN envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk. Pronk had no
comment after the meeting, which was held as followup to 3 July agreement calling for disarmament of
Janjaweed and deployment of 6,000 security
personnel to Darfur.
US Ambassador to UN John Danforth said he
wanted to hear from Pronk before pushing for a vote
in the Security Council on a resolution calling for
travel ban and arms embargo on Janjaweed.
Darfur rebels insist that Janjaweed be disarmed before
further peace talks continue. The two sides (GoS and
Darfur rebel groups) have neither met face-to-face nor
agreed on an agenda, according to AU spokesman
Desmond Orjiako.

AU special envoy
to Darfur
AP
AFP
Jong-wook Lee
AFP
Eritrea
AP
Washington
Bobby Rush
Abdelbagi Kabeir
AP
Jan Egeland
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Jan Pronk
John Danforth
Janjaweed
AP, AFP
Janjaweed
Desmond Orjako
Colin Powell
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, appearing on the

Charlie Rose television program says that US officials
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were on both sides of the Chad-Darfur border speaking

with refugees. Powell said, too many people are
spending too much time arguing about whether its
genocide or not. Thats not the issue.
16 July
Powell tells PBS that the biggest problem that we

have right now is to get the GoS to do everything
possible within their capability or with other
capabilities being brought in by the African Union, to
break the back of the Janjaweed. That was an
obligation of the government we will not turn loose
the pressure. Powell praises Libya for opening new
aid corridor. (AFP, 17 July)
In an interview with The Guardian, senior Janjaweed
field commander Musa Hilal says that his fighters will
not disarm until the rebellion in Darfur is over: As far
as we as a tribe are concerned, whenever we feel the
situation is completely secure and the ceasefire is being
respected, we will hand in our weapons. Whenever the
government is undertaking to gather arms from all the
factions and tribes, we will hand ours in.
Guardian
16 July
Janjaweed
Musa Hilal
Hilal says that at the urging of the Sudanese

government, he raised a militia from his clan to fight
the Darfur rebellion last year: The government was
putting forward a program of arming for all the people.
I called our sons and told them to become armed. Our
sons acquiesced and joined the Border Intelligence [a
paramilitary force]. Some went into the Popular
Defense Force [another militia].
The Guardian says a witnesses in the town of Tawilah
in North Darfur, which was attacked in February,
claims that Hilal has commanded Janjaweed forces in
the field. In the attack, at least 67 civilians were
executed, 16 girls were abducted, and many women
had been publicly raped.
GoS and rebel groups set an agenda for peace talks in
Addis Ababa.
Tawila, North
Darfur
AP
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The European Commissions Humanitarian Aid

Office (ECHO) is to provide $20.4 million in
humanitarian aid to the victims in Darfur.
IRIN
17 July
Darfur rebels refuse direct political negotiations with

GoS. We have no reason to meet the government for
political discussions which (may) lead us to a peace
settlement when the government is not implementing
the demands of the international community (and)
while the Janjawid, supported by the government is
killing innocent people on the ground, said Ahmed
Hussein Adam, spokesman for JEM (and speaking
on behalf of SLM/A)
SLM/A releases Sadek Abbas Dhaw al-Bait, the
nazir of the Berti community of Jebel Marra massif.
Canada presses GoS to end Darfur crisis, with
Foreign Minister Bill Graham urging GoS to
prevent further war crimes and crimes against
humanity.
GoS forms committees to investigate rape in Darfur.
The committees are each to be made up of a women
judge, woman police and woman legal consultant,
according to Justice Minister Ali Mohammed
Osman Yassin. The committees would help enable
rape victims to file lawsuits.
Darfur Rebels walk out of peace talks. JEM
coordinator Ahmed Tagod Lissan said we did not
walk out. We have consulted with mediators until the
last minute. We demand that the government show its
commitment to implement agreements they signed and
promises they gave to the international community.
(AFP)
AFP
17 July
16 July
17 July
17 July
15, 17
July
18,19
July
Janjaweed
Ahmed Hussein
Adam
AFP
Jebel Marrah
AFP
AP
AFP; AP; WP;

IRIN
Sadek Abbas Dhaw

al-Bait
Bill Graham
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
Majreia
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
Ibrahim
Mohammed
Ibrahim
Ahmed Hussain
Adam
The rebels charge that Khartoum has not agreed to their

demand of an internationally-supervised timeline for
the government to disarm the Janjaweed. (WP/IRIN)
Ibrahim Ahmed Ibrahim, spokesman for GoS
delegation said the demands of the rebels are not
acceptable and it is a disrespect to the AU. It is a
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delaying tacticthe rebels are not serious. (AP)
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18 July
19 July
SLM/A delegate Ahmed Hussain Adam said that

Janjaweed attacked the village of Majreia on 15 July
in South Darfur killing 17, but AP notes the story
could not be confirmed. (AP)
JEM signs deal with Free Lions Movement of
eastern Sudan in Eritrean capital Asmara to keep
waging war on Khartoum and unify their military,
political and informational efforts.
Musa Hilal, Janjaweed commander says the term
Janjaweed has been used incorrectly: Janjaweed is a
colloquial word which means thief or bandit or
highwayman. It means nothing and has been used to
mean everything.
US Representative Donald Payne, the ranking
Democrat on the House Subcommittee on Africa and
member of the Congressional Black Caucus, is
pushing to set up an international war crimes tribunal
for Darfur like those in the Balkans and Rwanda.
Payne says: This is a pariah government, which once
harbored Osama bin Laden and took more than 20
years to even begin to end its civil war in the south.
Darfur could happen again if we dont condemn this
governments role in planning and executing the
Janjaweed.
Sweden urges UN Security Council to take greater
steps resolve Darfur crisis. Swedish Prime Minister
Goeran Persson wrote to Kofi Annan saying the
international community must continue to give high
priority to influencing the GoS to take the necessary
measures. Persson went on to say, the normalization
of EU relations with Sudan will depend on immediate
and verifiable progress in Darfur, in particular
disarmament of the militia.
Sudan special tribunal convicts 10 Janjaweed
militiamen. The trial in Nyala, is the first in a process
of bringing GoS-backed militia elements to justice for
atrocities against Darfur civilians. The 10 defendants
were each given six years in prison and were ordered to
AFP, citing Al
Sahafa
Asmara, Eritrea
WP
(See article: Progovernment militia in

south Sudan vows to
fight for survival)
Musa Hilal
Janjaweed
WP
Donald Payne
Osama Bin-Laden
AP
Goeran Persson
Kofi Annan
AFP; AP;
Reuters
Nyala
Janjaweed
Musa Hilal
Gerard M. Gallucci
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have their right hand and left leg amputated. They

were convicted of armed attacks, robbery and illegal
possession of arms.
Musa Hilal, sheikh of the Arab Mahamid tribe tried to
distance himself from the Janjaweed, saying that the
Janjaweed were a group of highway robbers whose
members came from all the tribes of Darfur, not just
the Arab ones. (AFP citing Akhbar al-Youm)
19 July
19 July
19 July
Hilal disclosed that he recently met with US Charge

daffairs Gerard Gallucci to explain the Arab tribes
views on Darfur.
AU will announce another date for further Darfur
peace talks, according to UN special envoy
Mohammed Sahnoun, who was flanked by AU
special envoy to Darfur Hamid Algadid.
Human Rights Watch accuses GoS of arming,
supporting and giving political cover to Janjaweed
carrying out ethnic cleansing in Darfur. HRW said it
had obtained documents from Nov. 2003 and March
2004 that proved GoS directed recruitment, arming and
other support to Janjaweed, according to Ken Roth of
HRW.
AFP
Mohamed Sahnoun
Hamid Algabd
AP; AFP;
IRIN;
Guardian
Qardud
Janjaweed
Ken Roth
Adam Hamid
Mussa
Musa Hilal
One document describes how South Darfur Governor

Adam Hamid Mussa and a Deputy Interior Minister
visited a Janjaweed camp in Qardud in Nov. 2003
and requested that leaders recruit 300 people.
Another document instructs security units to tolerate
activities of Musa Hilal. (AFP from 20 July)
Human Rights Watch publishes excerpts of
confidential documents showing that Sudanese
government officials are involved in a policy of
militia support by arming, recruiting and supporting
the Janjaweed militias in Darfur. Arabic documents
from February and March 2004 call for provisions and
ammunition to be delivered to Janjaweed leaders.
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/docs/2004/07/19/dar
fur9096.htm
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(IRIN, Guardian)
Amnesty International releases a new report accusing
the Janjaweed militias in Darfur of using rape and
other forms of violence as a weapon of war against
black Africans and says the sexual attacks constitute
war crimes and crimes against humanity. Amnesty
calls for the creation of a commission of inquiry to
investigate and bring to justice those responsible for
sexual violence in Darfur. (NYT)
NYT; IRIN;
AP; AFP
Silaya
Janjaweed
Koulbous
One woman interviewed by Amnesty from Silaya,

near Kulbus was five months pregnant when she was
abducted with 8 women in July 2003: Five to six men
would rape us in rounds, one after the other for hours
during six days, every night. My husband could not
forgive me after this; he disowned me. Rape is a
cultural taboo in Sudan and families often ostracize
victims. (NYT)
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Amnesty says the rapes were mainly committed by the

Janjaweed, while the Sudanese army was either
involved or a direct witness in almost all of the cases
recorded. Girls as young as 8 and women as old as 80
were abducted and raped. (IRIN)
The African Union mission in Sudan has deployed 80
unarmed military observers in Darfur to conduct their
first investigations. An additional 300-person AU
force mandated to protect the observers has not yet
been deployed.
Sudanese Foreign Minister in Paris for talks with
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier on Darfur.
US currently making genocide determination about
Darfur. State Department officials are conducting
interviews with refugees from Darfur. Secretary of
State Colin Powell complains that he is completely
dissatisfied with the security situation in Darfur.
Writing in The Guardian, US Secretary of State Colin
Powell says that although Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir had pledged to work for peace, the
international community wants more than promises
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we want to see dramatic improvements on the ground

right now.
Bashmurqa militiamen attack an Arab Rizaiqat
nomad camp north of Ed Diein, with resulting battle
leaving 14 dead.
Darfur Rebels to meet in Geneva with AU, Chadian
and UN representatives.
GoS slams HRW report calling it lies and alleging
that the timing of the report was intended to influence
UN Security Council action.
Human rights groups denounce the latest US-sponsored
draft Security Council resolution, which does not call
for sanctions against Sudanese leaders, only restrictions
on travel and money of Janjaweed officials. Ken
Roth, of Human Rights Watch said, Freezing bank
accounts and restricting travel for people who dont
have bank accounts and dont travel wont do any
good. (NYT)
International opposition to the possibility of sanctions
is growing, with Security Council members Pakistan
and Russia, along with the African Union, the Arab
League and the Organization of Islamic Conference,
saying that sanctions are not the solution to the
problem and that the Security Council should show
restraint. (WP)
Not enough is being done to break the hold of the
Janjaweed. Rapes are still occurring, says US
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
British charities launch Darfur appeal, according to
Sophie Battas, spokeswoman for Disasters
Emergency Committee.
38 killed when Darfur rebels attack relief convoy,
according to Sudan Media Center. GoS has launched a
complaint about the incident with AU ceasefire
monitoring committee in Al-Fashir.
University of Nyala closed after clashes between
student factions.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair pledges to keep up
AFP
Ed Diein
AFP
Geneva
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Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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pressure on Sudan to end Darfur conflict. When asked

about possible international intervention, Blair
responds, we will continue to monitor the situation
very carefully and we rule absolutely nothing out in
this situation.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to visit
Chad, and al-Fasher region in Darfur next week.
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer seeks
Pakistans assistance at UN in pressing Sudan to end
Darfur crisis. What we need is a majority on the
Security Council and full cooperation above all in
establishing security and disarming the Janjaweed,
said Fischer.
US Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D- PA) arrested protesting
outside Sudanese embassy. What is happening in the
Sudan is genocide, said Hoeffel, a member of the
House International Relations Committee.
Kofi Annan warns Sudan to take immediate action to
disarm militia or face possible international action.
The international community must take measures if the
GoS will not perform, said Annan, Should it be
sanctions? Should it be sending in a force and is that
force available, and how quickly? These are issues that
the council will have to take.
Jan Pronk wants UN security Council to back US
resolution with teeth.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell to confer with
Annan on pressuring Sudan on 22 July at the UN.
AFP/AP
Al-Fashir
AFP
Michel Barnier
Joschka Fischer
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Washington
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Joe Hoeffel
Jan Pronk
Kofi Annan
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The Sudanese government announces it plans to move

200,000 IDPs in North Darfur back to their towns and
villages, but does not specify when. Human rights
groups stress that relocation must be voluntary due to
the insecurity in the villages where the GoS proposes
the return.
Senator John Kerry, US Presidential hopeful says
This administration must stop equivocating. These
government-sponsored atrocities should be called by
their rightful name genocide. The GoS and people of
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Darfur must understand that America stands prepared

to act, in concert with our allies and the UN to prevent
the further loss of innocent lives. (Speech before
NAACP, Philadelphia, 15 July)
Janjaweed reportedly attack a village 30 km east of
Kalma IDP camp, South Darfur, reportedly killing 11
civilians.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair denies that he has
drawn up plans to send British troops to Darfur, saying
were not at the stage yet.
Pope John Paul II sends envoy to Darfur. German
Archbishop Paul Cordes will concentrate on
humanitarian situation. Compares Sudan to Rwanda
in slow motion.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf tells German
Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer that he will take a
personal interest in Darfur, after being lobbied to
support German efforts in UN Security Council.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise
Arbour welcomes moves toward intervention in
Darfur. One can only welcome a very high degree of
attention and state of preparation if there comes a point
where the failure, or the inability of the GoS to
discharge its responsibility to protect its own people
calls for some form of intervention, she said.
GoS would withdraw from Darfur if British forces
enter, according to Sudanese Foreign Minister
Mustafa Ismail. But Ismail warned of an Iraqi-style
resistance if foreign troops arrived in Darfur.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw discusses
possibility of sending EU joint civilian-military team to
help AU monitoring team. Straw warns that GoS
faces sanctions if it does not fully cooperate with UN
and does not rule out use of force.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell meets with UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to discuss Darfur,
warns of sanctions if GoS does not rein in Janjaweed.
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail says US,
UK pressure on GoS unfair and similar to that exerted
on Iraq.
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Paul Cordes
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Joschka Fischer
Pervez Musharraf
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Louise Arbour
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Tony Blair
Jack Straw
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Jan Pronk, the UN Secretary Generals Special

Representative, briefs the UN Security Council on
the situation in Darfur. Pronk said the government
had promised UN Secretary General Kofi Annan on
July 3 that it would crack down on the Janjaweed and
other rebel groups, but Pronk said Khartoum had made
no progress whatsoever. (WP, NYT)
Kofi Annan warns that the GoS does not have forever
and may face intervention. (AP)
In response to US Congressional resolution calling
Darfur genocide Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail
says Congress is always biased and points to African
Summit resolution that stated there was no genocide in
Darfur.
UN Spokesman Fred Eckhard said it was up to
signatories of Genocide Convention to decide if action
should be taken and referral made to ICC by UN
Security Council.
AU mediator and Darfur rebels hold talks characterized
as constructive dialogue by AU envoy Hamid
Algabid.
UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw to visit Sudan on 25
August.
US Congress unanimously passes resolution calling
Darfur genocide with Senate concurring. Introduced
by New Jersey Democrat Donald Payne the resolution
stresses that 30,000 have been brutally murdered and
urges Bush administration to consider intervention to
prevent genocide. (AFP, NYT)
The resolution states that the violence appears to be
particularly directed at a specific group based on
ethnicity and appears to be systemized. The resolution
also calls on the US government to refer to seriously
consider multilateral or even unilateral intervention to
prevent genocide should the United Nations Security
Council fail to act. (IRIN)
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that points in that direction, says Pierre Prosper, US

ambassador-at-large for war crimes, who adds that
more investigation is needed to determine whether the
killings in Darfur equal genocide.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail in Paris
called the Janjaweed a gang of faithless thieves and
assassins, who have operated outside the law for some
10 years and who are taking advantage of a state of
war.
US President George Bush demands that GoS stop
Janjaweed violence and provide humanitarian access.
10 children dying each day in Darfur, says UNICEF
German branch official Christian Schneider.
GoS sentences 200 militiamen for crimes in Darfur,
some given death penalty. Judge Mukhtar Ibrahim
Adam chaired the tribunal. The charges included
waging war, assault and armed robbery.
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George W. Bush
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Seven men accused of being Janjaweed members to

execution, crucifixion, cross-amputation, imprisonment
or fines, according to the presiding judge, Mukhtar
Ibrahim Adam. Local police report they have
detained 100 Janjaweed militiamen and other outlaws.
The court in Nyala had previously sentenced 10
suspected Janjaweed members.
Some doubt that the men held by the government are
indeed Janjaweed members.
Jan Egeland says death toll in Darfur cold be as high
as 50,000 and that deaths are increasing.
The US introduces a revised Security Council
resolution demanding that Sudan arrest and prosecute
Arab militia leaders responsible for abuses in Darfur or
face UN sanctions if it fails to comply within 30 days.
The resolution also calls on Sudan to allow UN human
rights monitors into Darfur, and appeals to wealthy
nations to provide more funds for the relief effort. In
the new version of the resolution, the US has dropped a
provision that put a travel ban on Janjaweed leaders,
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saying it would be difficult to enforce such a measure.

Instead, the new resolution calls for an immediate ban
on arms transfers and military assistance to armed
groups in Darfur, including both Janjaweed and antigovernment rebels. (WP)
US Secretary of State Colin Powell brushes aside the
notion of US military intervention in Darfur to stop the
violence, saying it is not a simple military solution
that is at hand. (WP)
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Kofi Annan believes US resolution before UN

Security Council calling for sanctions against
Janjaweed in the event GoS does not crack down
within 30 days likely to pass.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says that despite a
ceasefire signed on April 8, bombings were still taking
place in Darfur through helicopter gunships: I dont
know why Darfur region needs helicopter gunships,
and believe they should be removed to help remove the
specter of fear.
He added that the genocide debate was almost beside
the point and that we need to fix the security
problem, the humanitarian problem. Whatever you call
it, its a catastrophe. People are dying at an increasing
rate. Other Sudan observers say the genocide debate
is extremely important, because of the implications for
punishing the crime.
UN coordinator for Africa, Mohammed Sahnoun is
meeting representatives of Darfur rebel groups in
Geneva.
Egypt urges more time for Sudan on Darfur. Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said that we
cannot tell Sudanese officials you have signed with
us today and tomorrow you should immediately
achieve complete calm.
EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana tells Sudan to
disarm Janjaweed immediately under AU supervision.
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His spokeswoman Cristina Gallach said Solana

urged the GoS to arrest the leaders of the Janjaweed
as a first significant step towards the dismantling of
these militias. Gallach also noted Solanas
satisfaction with GoSs intention to participate in peace
talks over Darfur in Addis Ababa.
Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail insists
GoS will prosecute Janjaweed, saying weve arrested
100 of the Janjaweed leaders and will put them in
court. Ismail was in Netherlands for meetings with
Dutch counterpart Bernard Bot.
Australia considers sending troops to Darfur to join a
putative UN mission expected to be deployed by end of
2004. We are contemplating whether to make a
contribution said Defense Minister Robert Hill.
Pressure for intervention grows following the US
approval of a Congressional resolution declaring that
the Darfur atrocities are genocide. Britain says it
could send 5,000 troops to Sudan very quickly if the
British government decides to intervene in the Darfur
crisis, according to General Sir Mike Jackson, chief
of general staff. (Guardian)
Cristina Gallach
AP
Mustafa Ismail
Bernard Bot
AP
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AFP
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Mike Jackson
Tony Blair
UK Army General Mike Jackson tells BBC that

British troops could go to Darfur if need be. I suspect
we could put a brigade together very quickly indeed.
(AFP)
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Britain has also accused the United Nations of being

slow to respond to the crisis. This week, Prime
Minister Tony Blair says he has not ruled out military
intervention. (WP)
Australia and New Zealand issue joint statement
pitting responsibility for Darfur tragedy squarely on
the GoS as a result of the governments failure to take
action against the Janjaweed militia. The statement
was issued by Australian Foreign Minister
Alexander Downer and New Zealand Foreign
Minister Phil Goff.
Leaders of two Darfur rebel groups agree to participate
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in substantive negotiations for political solution to

Darfur crisis, according to UN Spokesman Fred
Eckhard.
President Omar al-Bashir accuses international
community of targeting Islam in Sudan. The
international concern about the Darfur issue is targeting
the status of Islam in Sudan claimed Bashir.
New Zealand willing to contribute monitors to assist
in Darfur. New Zealand Foreign Minister Phil Goff
urges the GoS to take decisive action to restrain the
activities ofthe Janjaweed.
Oxfam sends 30 tons of aid to Nyala, Darfur
Sudan Interior Minister Abdel-Rahim Hussein
urges Libyas Moammar Gadhafi to take part in AU
force for Darfur.
In telephone conference, German Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer and US Secretary of State Powell
agree that sanctions necessary if Sudan doesnt live up
to commitments, said German Foreign Ministry.
SLM/A spokesman Abdel Wahed Mohammed Nur
calls on US, UN , EU and AU to begin urgent
deployment of troops to ensure delivery of aid and
food in Darfur.
In Khartoum, the National Congress party warned
any power that intervenes in Darfur will be a loser.
National Congress Secretary General Ibrahim
Ahmed Omar said anybody who intervenes will be
confronted by force.
Sudan Foreign Minister Ismail questions need for
international troops in Darfur. In BBC interview,
Ismail asked, Why should we have to rush and to talk
about military intervention as long as the situation is
getting better? My government is doing what can be
done in order to disarm the militia.
AFP; WP
Omar Al-Bashir
AP
Phil Goff
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AP
AP
Nyala
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Muamar Qadaffi
Joschka Fischer
Colin Powell
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Ibrahim Ahmed
Omar
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these atrocities to get away with it, said Ismail.

Central African Republic offers to assist Khartoum in
Darfur crisis.
Pope John Paul II urges the international community
to end the conflict in Darfur, saying it brings with it
ever more poverty, desperation and death.
Sudan rejects US description of Darfur as genocide.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail told Belgian media
that what is happening in Darfur is not genocide. It is
a humanitarian crisis provoked by fighting which is not
our faultthe Sudanese government did not start the
fighting.
Papal envoy Archbishop Paul Cordes calls for Sudan
to cooperate with international community on Darfur.
Sudan asks Libya to sponsor peace talks on Darfur.
GoS Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed
Hussein and Agriculture Minister Majzub alKhalifa Ahmed delivered the message on behalf of
President Bashir during a visit to Libya.
AFP
WP
Pope John Paul II
AFP citing De
Staandard;
Guardian
Mustafa Ismail
AFP
Paul Cordes
AFP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Majzub Ahmad alKhalifa
Nigeria sends special envoy, former military leader

Abdulsalami Abubakar to Chad and Sudan for
Darfur peace talks.
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Olusegun Obasanjo
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US

Secretary of State Colin Powell have discussed
Darfur situation by telephone.
UN Security Council could possibly vote on sanctions
resolution, but some members (including Algeria and
Pakistan) urge caution.
AFP
Abdulsalami
Abubakar
Sergei Lavrov
UNICEF training Sudanese police on investigating

sexual abuse against children.
US rules out troops to Darfur, but continues to press
Khartoum. State Dept. Spokesman Adam Ereli said,
We are in diplomatic high gear at the UN to discuss a
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resolution calling on the GoS to take real action to stop

the violence.
US demands Khartoum follow through on its
commitments to use its forces to protect its people in
Darfur, according to Adam Ereli, State Dept.
Spokesman.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum declares Darfur a
genocide emergency. By hindering and slowing
access for relief, the GoS and its proxies are directly
responsible for the increasing deaths from malnutrition,
lack of clean water and related diseases, said Jerry
Fowler, staff director from the Committee on
Conscience.
Kofi Annan to meet with African leaders to discuss
Darfur later in the week.
After meeting with officials from the AU and the UN,
Darfur rebel groups SLM/A and JEM agree to start
peace talks with the Sudanese government, one week
after peace talks in Addis Ababa collapsed.
EU Council of Ministers urges UN to pass resolution
threatening sanctions against Sudan/Janjaweed.
There is no indication that the government of Sudan
has taken real and provable steps to disarm and
neutralize the armed militia, including the Janjaweed,
EU foreign ministers said in a joint statement.
As foreign ministers meet in Brussels to discuss the
situation in Sudan, the European Union joins the US
in urging the United Nations to pass a resolution
threatening sanctions against Sudan. After meeting
with Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman
Ismail, Dutch Foreign Minister Ben Bot said, Its
almost certain the international community will take
further measures if this situation does not improve.
However, the EU refrains from calling the violence in
Darfur genocide. (WP)
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Adam Ereli
Jerry Fowler
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Bernard Bot
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individuals guiding and supporting them. The EU

states that the Sudanese government will be pressed to
arrest those persons or suspend them from office and
bring them to justice. (Guardian)
GoS Cabinet, in meeting chaired by Vice President Ali
Osman Taha denounces idea of foreign intervention in
Darfur. Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail threatens
that if attacked, definitely we are not going to sit
silent, we will retaliate.
150 Rwandan troops to deploy to Darfur as part of AU
protection force for ceasefire monitoring team. Troops
to deploy first week of August, according to Maj.
General Patrick Nyamvumba, head of Rwandas
Nasho Training Center.
We have already started arresting the Janjaweed
says Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail, but
warns that the militia will not disarm themselves
unless they know that the rebels also do so.
The UN reports that at least twenty women and girls
under the age of 15 were raped and beaten by the
Janjaweed in and around Sisi IDP camp in West
Darfur in the last week. Many of the victims report
that they were raped by multiple men.
In addition, a group of 14 women and girls were raped
on 23 July while trying to retrieve belongings from
their village.
Pakistans President Pervez Musharraf calls for
concerted international efforts to address humanitarian
crisis in Darfur.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier arrives in
Darfur where he met with observers from African
Union monitoring mission.
Arab League opposes sanctions, League Spokesman
Hossam Zaki tells AP.
Dutch announce plans to donate 100 million euros for
Darfur reconstruction once fighting ends.
US revises draft UN resolution, but remains
determined to keep threat of sanctions.
Australia to provide an extra $12Million (unclear
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Mohammed Taha
Mustafa Ismail
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Nyamvumba
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Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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Pervez Musharraf
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Michel Barnier
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whether US or Australian) in aid to Darfur, according

to Alexander Downer.
Russia, which has a large arms contract with Sudan,
has delivered 12 fighter aircraft five months ahead of
schedule. Many victims of the Darfur attacks report
the use of Sudanese government aircraft in the raids.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says it is still too
soon to speak of military intervention in Darfur.
Some nations have gone further and started to talk
about other actions of a military nature but I think
thats premature.
Sudan orders general mobilization alert in the face of
potential military intervention over Darfur. The GoS
will appropriately deal with any soldier who sets foot
on Sudanese territory, said Agriculture Minister
Majzub al-Khalifa Ahmed after an emergency
cabinet meeting. A mobilization includes public
protest demonstrations against foreign intervention.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier says
France is convinced that we will not get out of this
crisis without Sudan, and even less likely by working
against Sudan.
An observer group consisting of UN staff, Sudanese
officials, and representatives of other countries visits
Darfur to see if the Sudanese government is keeping its
pledge to disarm militias accused of attacking and
killing civilians. The three-day joint mission is also
reviewing the overall security situation to determine if
it is safe for the 1.2 million displaced persons to return
to their homes.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier in Abeche,
Chad says sanctions may be useful, but it is necessary
to put pressure on all the parties. Barnier calls the
resolution before UN Security Council equitable.
AU fact-finding team alleges Janjaweed killed
civilians while looting the market of Suleia, burning
some alive on 3 July. In a 5 July incident AU
discovered the entire Ehda village had been burnt. AU
CFC concluded that this was an unwarranted and
unprovoked attack on civilian population by
Guardian
AFP
Colin Powell
AFP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
Michel Barnier
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Janjaweed but could not substantiate allegations that

the Sudanese forces fought alongside the Janjaweed.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell to discuss Darfur
with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo.
Russia cool on US proposal before Security Council.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Yury Fedotov
proposes giving the government of Sudan short but
ample time to fulfill the responsibilities it has
undertaken. Concrete measures, such as sanctions
should be put off until after it becomes clear how the
agreements between Kofi Annan and GoS are being
carried out.
The US presents the UN Security Council with a new
version of a proposed resolution on Darfur, which calls
for the UN and Sudan to work closely to support an
independent investigation into human rights abuses
in Darfur.
As the UN has only collected $158 million of the $350
million it requested in March to run its relief operation
in Darfur, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan issues
an urgent appeal to wealthy European, Middle Eastern
and Asian governments for funding for the Darfur
crisis.
AFP
Hosni Mubarak
AFP
Colin Powell
Yury Fedotov
Kofi Annan
WP
WP
Jan Egeland
Annan will send private letters to Japan, Germany,

France, Spain, Italy and Belgium (which have
collectively provided just over $11.5 million since
March) asking them to increase their funding. A
senior UN official said contributions from the four
wealthiest Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar
and the United Arab Emirates have been totally
insignificant.
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the US has contributed 45% of the UN budget for the
Darfur crisis, and Britain, the Netherlands and
Norway have also made significant contributions.
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denying reports of mass rape and opposing foreign
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intervention in Darfur.
AU envoy Abdulsalami Abubakar says Darfur
problem is a purely African one that has to be resolved
by the African Union.
The AU notes that attacks by armed militias on
civilians in Darfur continue despite a promise by the
government to disarm them. The AU also expressed
gratitude at decisions by Nigeria and Rwanda to
contribute troops for the protection force, and the AU
said it would consider the possibility of transforming
its mission into a full-fledged peacekeeping mission.
The same day, Sudanese Humanitarian Affairs
Minister Ibrahim Mahmud Hamid, told London
newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat that after an extensive
visit by the AU chief, it was clear that there is no
genocide or ethnic cleansing. All African countries
need to support Sudan. The AU decision is that the
problem in Sudan is a domestic one and it is seeking to
solve it with the Sudan government. Also the Arab
countries decision is based on preserving safety, unity
and stability of Sudan.
Chadian Prime Minister Moussa Faki says
Janjaweed still making cross-border attacks into
Chad.
AU considers transforming its ceasefire monitoring
team into a UN peacekeeping force. (AP)
AU Peace and Security Council asks chair Alpha
Oumar Konare to review the possibility of
transforming current AU ceasefire monitoring mission
into full-fledged peacekeeping mission with the
requisite mandate and size and with emphasis on
neutralization of the Janjaweed militia and
protection of humanitarian aid. (AFP)
France says Africa should take lead on Darfur, with
Foreign Minister Michel Barnier, I believe that the
African Union has both the capability and the
willingness to manage this crisis among Africans.
AFP, citing AlAnbaa
Abdulsalami
Abubakar
IRIN
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
Moussa Facki
Mahamat
AP, AFP
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Germany boosts aid for Darfur, providing an

additional 20 million euro.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Cairo meets
with Egyptians. Urges Egypt to pressure Sudan on
Darfur. Cairo argues sanctions are counterproductive. (AFP)
Egypt says it will work to oppose the US-drafted
resolution before the Security Council calling for
sanctions. (AP) Egyptian Foreign Minister Aboul
Gheit said he believes GoS needs more time to
implement commitments that it has made.
Australia considers sending 30 troops to any UN
mission to Darfur.
Canada pledges $1.8 million for Darfur.
Summit of African heads-of-state will address Ivory
Coast issues, not Darfur says Ghana President.
Nigeria and Cameroon Presidents call on GoS to
take the necessary measures to disarm the militias.

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AU protection force to buttress ceasefire-monitoring

team delayed.
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UK assures GoS it has no plans to send troops to

Darfur. The UK is not planning to send troops to the
Sudan and does not harbour any agenda other than
trying to meet the humanitarian needs in Darfur.
Patey said General Mike Jacksons comments were
misinterpreted by the media.
UN Secretary of State Colin Powell comments on the
proposed US-backed Security Council resolution,
which mentions the threat of sanctions against the
Sudanese government: Nobody wishes to make the
situation any worse with respect to the imposition of
sanctions, but at the same time pressure must be kept
on the Sudanese government to make sure that access
is allowed and that security is improving.
US drops reference to sanctions in latest UN draft
AFP
29 July
Ahmed Abul Gheit

Colin Powell
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Robert Hill
John Kufuor,
Ghana President
Olusegun
Obsasanjo
Paul Biya
El Ghassini Wane,
AU Conflict Mgmt.
Center Deputy
Director
William Patey
Mike Jackson
IRIN
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resolution, but threatens further actions (i.e.

sanctions, under Article 41) if GoS does not meet its
obligations.
UN faces $191 million shortfall on contributions for
aid to Darfur.
UN Security Council passes Resolution 1556 giving
Khartoum 30 days to stem conflict in Darfur or face
diplomatic and economic measures. (AP) China and
Pakistan have abstain.
AP
AP; NYT
Colin Powell
John Danforth
US (Colin Powell and John Danforth) defend

measures as same as sanctions. (AFP)
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The US modifies the wording of a Security Council

resolution on Sudan to try and win over countries
reluctant to agree to a resolution including the threat of
sanctions against the Sudanese government. John
Danforth, the US ambassador, said that he had
dropped the term sanctions and replaced it with
measures as provided for in Article 41 of the United
Nations charter. Danforth said that the meaning was
exactly the same and was simply a verbal change.
(NYT)
French troops are mobilized by President Jacques
Chirac to help deliver aid to Darfur. Faced with the
severity of the humanitarian situation in Darfur and the
pressing needs there, the President asked for a
mobilization of French military means positioned in
Chad, a statement read.
The Netherlands will provide aircraft for troop
transport to Darfur, if needed, according to AU conflict
management centre official Col. Jaotody Jean de
Matha.
AU chair Obasanjo called for deployment of
additional African troops to Darfur as signs indicate
first 308 protection force members to deploy next
week.
GoS rejects UN Security Council Resolution claiming
it is in contravention of 3 July GoS-UN agreement.
GoS accused the resolution of focusing more on
AP
Jacques Chirac
AFP
Jaotody Jean de
Matha
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
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and said it failed to cite rebel groups criminal actions.
UK, Germany, Canada, welcome UN resolution
passage.
HRW criticizes weaker and weaker resolutions
before UN Security Council.
The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) reports that the delivery of aid to remove
villages is becoming even more difficult because of the
heavy rains and bad road conditions. The agency says
that some of the displaced are now surviving on wild
food and grasshoppers.
Sudan openly defies the international community after
the passage of the UN resolution. Sudanese
Information Minister Al-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik
expresses the governments discontent: Sudan
announces its rejection of the Security Councils
misguided resolution. Sudanese ambassador Elfatih
Mohamed Ahmed Erwa added that the hasty
resolution came at a time when the Sudanese
government is in a race for time to implement its
agreement with the United Nations. Erwa adds,
What Im seeing is a policy of unfairness, a policy of
injustice, a policy of double standards.
Human rights experts say the resolution is a huge
mistake, as it gives Khartoum another 30 days before
any specific punitive action will even be considered.
French military begin flying humanitarian aid to
eastern Chad and help secure the border, according to
Jean-Pierre Dercot, French Ambassador to Chad.
The deployment was conducted in cooperation with
Chadian military, said Col. Charles Philippe, head of
French forces in Chad.
Sudan steps back from rejection of UN resolution,
with Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
contradicting Information Minister Malik: If we look
closely at this matter, we will find out that there is no
reason to reject the resolution as it doesnt contain
anything other than what already has been signed on in

Malik, Information
Minister
AFP/AP
AP
IRIN
NYT,
Guardian, WP
John Danforth
al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
AFP; NYT
Charles Philippe
Jean-Pierre Dercot
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
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the agreement with the United Nations.

US Secretary of State Colin Powell shrugs off GoS
rejection of UN Security Council resolution,
responding, They can say whatever they wish to say.
The Security Council has spoken in rather strong
vote.I hope the Sudanese government will use the
time provided in the resolution to do everything it can
to bring the Janjaweed under control.
Egypts President Hosni Mubarak sends Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir a message about Darfur
through Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abul
Gheit.
AFP
Colin Powell
AFP
Hosni Mubarak
Omar Al-Bashir
Ahmed Abul Gheit
Gheit said the passing of the resolution in its amended

form reflects to a great extent the observations
supported by Egypt and a number of the Security
Council members. (AFP article Egypt fears an Iraqtype scenario)
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Egypt to send military observers to Darfur to join AU

monitoring team.
Arab League hopes UN resolution will be a helping,
and not impeding factor in the ongoing efforts to
resolve the current crisis in Darfur. Arab League
Secretary-General Amr Mussa conducting intensive
diplomatic efforts to restore political dialogue and
address humanitarian situation.
Sudan reluctantly accepts UN resolution. Minister of
State for Foreign Affairs Neguib al-Kheir Abdul
Wahab said Although we dont like the resolution,
we are already committed to implementation of its
measures on the basis of the agreement that was
concluded with Kofi Annan. Abdel Wahab
complained that the resolution was unnecessarily
rushed and that it sent the wrong signal to the
rebels, who are not the subject of the resolution.
AFP
Amr Mussa
AFP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Kofi Annan
Osman al-Said
GoS ambassador to the AU Osman Elsayed Fad

Elsayed said that Sudan would comply with the
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resolution and has already allowed unimpeded flow of

humanitarian aid. Elsayed said of the Janjaweed,
the so-called Arab militia have no blessing of the
government, they are outlaws like other militants.
They will face justice like any one who is involved in
crime against the people of Darfur.
Nigerian president and AU chairman, Olusegun
Obasanjo, says the AU protection force of 300, which
is supporting 60 AU monitors in Darfur, needs to be
increased, as the plight of the refugees has deteriorated.
Following the approval of a new UN Security Council
resolution on Sudan, US Secretary of State Colin
Powell warned Sudan to accept the terms of the
agreement: I hope the Sudanese government will use
the period in the resolution to do everything it can to
bring the Janjaweed under control.
Osman al-Said, Sudanese ambassador to the AU,
said his government would comply with UN, but would
require help from the UN: We are not happy with the
resolution, but we are going to implement it we have
no other option. It is difficult to implement, so we
need the UNs assistance.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit
renewed an appeal for Sudan to implement UN
Security Council resolution. Gheit predicted a
breakthrough in the next several weeks in Darfur
leading to improvement of the situation and
cooperation between GoS and international
community.
Nigerian President Obasanjo arrives in Khartoum for
talks on Darfur.
GoS Cabinet reviews UN Security Council
Resolution with displeasure, citing the 30-day deadline
as illogical and upset at UNs indifference to Darfur
rebel actions. Cabinet does renew its pledge to
implement the agreement concluded with UN and does
not mind presence of French troops along its Chadian
border.
Guardian
Olusegun Obasanjo
WP
Colin Powell
Janjaweed
NYT
Osman al-Said
AFP
Ahmed Abul Gheit
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP; AP
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
GoS will implement 90-day agreement signed 3 July,
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Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said.

Sudanese armed forces spokesman General Mohamed
Beshir Suleiman said the UN resolution was a
declaration of war and that the Sudanese army was
prepared to confront enemies of Sudan on land, sea
and air. He added, The door of the jihad is still open
and if it has been closed in the south it will be opened
in Darfur, he said, referring to the peace deal which
ended the 21 year civil war in Southern Sudan.
Arab League to hold emergency meeting to discuss
Darfur. The 30-day deadline is unrealistic, it better be
reconsidered, advised Arab League spokesman
Hossam Zaki, speaking about the UN resolution.
Lt. General Mohammed Bashir Suleiman,
spokesman for the Sudanese Army said the
resolution was tantamount to a declaration of war
and noted that the army will fight any western
intervention in Darfur.
Pakistan Foreign Ministry official Riaz Khokhar
travels to Sudan to discuss Darfur.
WFP begins airdrop of food in Darfur.
NYT, IRIN
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
Hossam Zaki
AP
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
AP
Riaz Khokar
AP/AFP
Ramiro Lopes Da
Silva, WFP country
director, Sudan
Egypt airlifts relief supplies to Darfur.
AP
Australian Prime Minister John Howard says loss

of life in Sudan is tenfold whats happened in recent
months in Iraq and yet the UN cant do anything about
it. He said its just an illustration that unless the
major powers decide to do something and do
something in concert, the UN cant be effected.
EU mission will travel to Darfur on Tuesday (3 Aug)
to evaluate how the EU can help implement a
ceasefire.
Rebels accuse Janjaweed of attacking 24 villages,
killing at least 13 people in recent days. On Friday,
Janjaweed allegedly attacked four villages 60 km
southeast of Nyala. The villages include Baraka, and
those between Terty and Doukhoune, said Col.
AP
John Howard
AFP
AFP
Baraka
Janjaweed
Nyala
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Terty
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Abdullah Abdel Kerim of the JEM. On Saturday

more than 4,000 Janjaweed scorched 20 villages.
Rwandan troops to leave for Darfur between 10 and
15 August.
30 days have passed since GoS agreement with UN and
painfully little has been done to improve Darfur
situation, says Adam Ereli, US State Dept.
Spokesman.
35 evangelical Christian leaders send US President
George Bush a letter urging him to send humanitarian
aid and consider sending US troops to stop what they
call the genocide taking place in Darfur. The letter
marks a shift in focus for the evangelical group, which
has previously been focused on stopping violence
against Christians in southern Sudan.
Three Egyptian planes arrives with 60 tons of food in
Darfur.
GoS says its prepared to deploy up to 12,000
policemen in Darfur, according to Information
Minister Zahawai Ibrahim Malik.
The Sudanese government pledges that it will double
the number of security forces in Darfur to 12,000 over
the next four months. Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail says the move is intended to improve
the security situation.
Joint UN-Sudanese observer mission to Darfur reports
no outbreaks of epidemics in refugee camps, enough
food to last until September, but additional security
needed.
WFP says it has only 1/3 of cash needed to finance
Sudan airlift.
Eritrea denies accusations by Khartoum that it is
supporting Darfur Rebel Groups.
GoS announces it is ready for power-sharing and
sharing of resources and genuine federalism in
Darfur according to Information Minister Al-Zhawi
Ibrahim Malik.
Doukhoune
AFP
AFP
Adam Ereli
WP
George W. Bush
AFP
AFP; IRIN
Al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP, citing
Radio
Omdurman
Jan Pronk
AFP
AFP
AFP
Ali Abdu Ahmed,

Information
Minister for Eritrea
Al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
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Malik says that disarmament of Janjaweed should be

carried out Simultaneously with the confinement to
camp of the rebels and that as soon as this begins, we
will resume contact with the [Janjaweed] to disarm
them.
Said al-Hussein
Osman
Malik says GoS will buy back weapons from

Janjaweed and asked for international financial
assistance to bankroll this weapons buy-back.
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The police are pursuing armed groups in order to

allow the displaced persons to return to their homes
and to their normal lives, said police Lt. General
Said al-Hussein Osman.
US unimpressed with GoS vow to boost police
presence in Darfur. The extra security is only one of
many steps they should be taking, said Richard
Boucher, State Dept. Spokesman. Boucher added
that the GoS has the ability to take action to stop these
militias, to arrest senior people, to stop air support, to
stop government troop support.
Kofi Annan welcomes GoS statements on compliance
with UN Security Council resolution, saying I think
that the recent comments from Khartoum indicate that
the government will comply and will want to cooperate
with the resolution.My sense is that they are moving
in the direction of implementation.
EU says we are not asking the Sudanese government
for the impossible, for it to settle all the problems in
Darfur within 30 days, but we are asking to see
progress on the ground. The EU will consider that
progress has been made once specific zones have been
made secure. EU representative in Sudan Kent
Degerfelt said the EU did not underestimate the
difficulties of the task before the GoS.
JEM spokesman Col. Abdallah Abdel Kerim
accuses GoS police of expelling refugees from a Darfur
camp at Kalma, in an effort to force people back to
their villages in order to show the west there has been
progress.
AFP
Richard Boucher
AFP
Kofi Annan
AFP
Kent Degerfelt
AFP
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Kerim

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Francis Deng, UN expert, says contrary to official

statements about improvement of the security situation
and the voluntary return of the displaced, I found a
situation of persistent insecurity and human rights
violations as the paramount concern of the displaced.
New round of Darfur peace talks planned for end of
August, says AU spokesman Adam Thiam.
More than 100,000 Sudanese including government
ministers, religious leaders and students, chanting antiAmerican slogans, march through the streets of
Khartoum to demonstrate against western troops
being sent in to deal with the crisis in Darfur, in a
protest organized by the Organization for the
Protection of Faith and Nation. The demonstrators
headed to the UN offices and accused the organization
of providing cover for an American attack on Sudan.
They handed over a letter demanding that the two
Darfur rebel groups, SLM/A and JEM, be immediately
disarmed. The demonstration follows the approval by
the UN Security Council of a resolution demanding
the Sudanese government disarm the Janjaweed
militias. (IRIN)
At the rally, a senior member of Sudans ruling
National Congress Party, Mohammed Ali Abdullah,
told the crowd their protest was a warning to George
Bush and Tony Blair against invading Sudan:
Targeting Sudan means you will fall into a third
swamp after Afghanistan and Iraq. There are lions
here in Sudan which would like to confront the
Americans. (Guardian)
Fierce fighting reported in Darfur as rebels allege that
5,000 Janjaweed militiamen attack Mahadjiria and
Cheeria between Al-Fashir and Nyala. Ahmat
Toggo, spokesman for JEM said that intensive
clashes have meant that AU observers from the
ceasefire commission have not been able to reach the
front-line of fighting. This attack against our
positions calls into the question the overall ceasefire
and proves once again that Sudan is violating the

AFP
Francis Deng
AFP
Adam Thaim
IRIN;
Guardian;
AFP
Khartoum
Mohammed Ali
Abdullah
George Bush
Tony Blair
Janjaweed
AFP
Mahadjiria
Janjaweed
Cheeria
Ahmat Toggo
Al-Fashir
Nyala
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ceasefire.
AU to increase the number of troops sent to protect
ceasefire monitoring force to 1,800. By accepting the
troop increase, it means we are moving from having a
protection force to a peacekeeping force, said Adam
Thiam, AU Spokesman. UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said that the AU forces mere presence
on the ground would have a positive impact and
dissuade further attacks.
AP
Adam Thaim
Kofi Annan
Annan sends UN military advisor to Addis Ababa to

work with AU on restructuring the force.
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US and Netherlands to front the cost of transport of

AU troops.
Nigeria to send peacekeepers to Darfur, according to
Nigerian Foreign Minister Olu Adeniji. Nigeria will
contribute one battalion, comprised of about 770
troops.
Russia, new president of the UN Security Council
says Sudan would be a major focus.
AU ceasefire commission reports eight violations in
July by both sides, which included attacks on police
stations and humanitarian aid convoys. AU
spokesman Adam Thiam said the attacks, together
with heavy rains have resulted in blocking of
movement of humanitarian aid.
WFP sends first of 16 flights (to land in Darfur)
carrying aid for Darfur.
GoS ready to negotiate with Darfur rebels, but
demands that rebels set no preconditions to talk. If we
accept preconditions, we wont have anything to
negotiate said Tigani Saleh Fadel, Junior Minister
for Foreign Affairs.
The UN reports tribal fighting in the Ed Daein and
Muhujarija areas in South Darfur continue with
heavy fighting causing the displacement of
approximately 1,000 families.
International pressure will continue to increase until
AFP
Olu Adeniji
AP
Andrey Denisov,
Russian
Ambassador to UN
Adam Thaim
AFP
AFP
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
Ed Daein
Mahadjiria
AFP, citing
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Khartoum moves decisively against the Janjaweed,

said US Secretary of State Colin Powell in a
commentary in the Wall Street Journal.
Tanzania agrees to send 100 troops to Darfur as part
of AU peacekeeping effort.
WSJ
GoS downplays likelihood of foreign military

intervention in Darfur. Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail believed that foreign powers fear a
repeat of the military experiences such as Iraq and
Somalia.
President George Bush signs military spending bill
which earmarks 95 million dollars in famine relief for
Darfur. Bush said no amount of aid can substitute for
true and lasting peace. The GoS must stop the violence
of the Janjaweed militias and all parties must respect
the cease-fire and allow the free movement of
humanitarian workers and supplies.
GoS security forces will begin disarming Janjaweed
next week, claims police chief of North Darfur state
Brig. Gen. Jamal al-Hueres. The disarmament will
be carried out by police and judicial commissions.
To date, the Sudanese government has deployed 5,000
policemen to Darfur. Deputy director-general of the
police forces, General Sayed Al-Hussain Osma, tells
SUNA that the number is expected to soon rise to
6,000.
Jan Pronk and GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa
Ismail have reached agreement last night on detailed
steps to be taken in the next 30 days to begin disarming
the Janjaweed.
AP
AFP
Abdulkader
Shareerf, Tanzania
Deputy Foreign
Minister
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
George W. Bush
AFP
Jamal al-Hueres
IRIN
Sayed Al-Hussain
Osman
AFP
Jan Pronk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Denise Cook, UN
spokeswoman
1 Aug
6 Aug
The UN reports that government officials tried to

persuade displaced persons in Kalma camp in South
Darfur to return to their homes. Police fired on the
civilians, who were then driven out of the camp.
Sudanese authorities blocked entrances to the camp.
Guardian
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6 Aug
Refugees told the UN that 50 men from the camp were

driven away in lorries.
The UN sends mixed messages about the compliance
of the Sudanese government to the measures imposed
by a new UN Security Council resolution.
Guardian,
NYT
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Jan Pronk, the UN special envoy to Sudan, met with

Sudanese Foreign Minister Osman Mustafa Ismail to
agree on detailed policy measures to implement the
latest UN resolution on Darfur. The meeting was the
second gathering of the Joint Implementation
Mechanism (JIM), a body set up by the UN and
Sudan to keep watch on the commitments of the
Sudanese government. The Sudanese government
and the UN agreed on a plan (not released), which
contains detailed steps to be taken in the next 30 days
to disarm the Janjaweed, improve security in Darfur,
and provide access to humanitarian operations. Pronk
praised the Sudanese government for halting military
action against Darfurian villages and lifting restrictions
on relief efforts: The government of Sudan has to be
commended for keeping its promise [on action in
Darfur]. We have full access and we have to make full
use of this opportunity by coming in with more food,
more planes, more trucks, more medication. He said
he thought that if there was substantial progress from
Khartoum, sanctions could be averted.
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6
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But Francis Deng, UN representative for displaced

persons, said: Contrary to official statements about
improvement of the security situation and the voluntary
return of the displaced, I found persistent insecurity
and human rights violations.
UN and AU in consultations on possible Darfur
peacekeeping force.
UN observers to be deployed in Darfur by within a
few days says UN Human Rights spokesman Jose
Diaz.
WFP announces it has fed nearly a million people in
Darfur in July. Since the start of the Darfur emergency
Jan Pronk
Francis Deng
AFP
AFP
AFP
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operation on 1 April, WFP distributed 44,000 tons of

food to 1,110,207 people.
UN team, led by Military Advisor Patrick
Cammaert to visit Darfur next week (by Monday)
after meetings with the AU in Addis Ababa and a
stopover in Khartoum.
Germany sends 450,000 euros worth of emergency
medical aid to Darfur.
USAID approves 30 million dollars of additional food
aid for Sudan.
SLM/A demands that any country hosting next round
of peace talks must acknowledge that GoS was
responsible for current humanitarian crisis, and yet at
the same time must remain neutral and impartial to
both sides.
French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie
pledges to support the nearly one million refugees
currently housed in Chad, but calls on other EU
countries to pick up the baton.
GoS approves UN 30-day peace plan for Darfur,
negotiated by Jan Pronk and GoS Foreign Minister
Ismail. While GoS might not be able to fulfill all of
the UN Security Councils resolutions by the end of
30 days, there are several actions that they can take
now to demonstrate commitment to comply the
agreement reads. A formal copy to be signed and
officially promulgated on Monday (9 Aug). (AFP)
AFP
Patrick Cammaert
AFP
AFP
AFP
AFP
Michele AlliotMarie
AFP/AP
Jan Pronk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
John Danforth
Agreement, entitled, Plan of Action for Darfur would

create safe areas within 30 days and would halt all
military operations by GoS, militias and rebel groups in
said safe areas.
US Ambassador to UN John Danforth says signing
agreements and more promises wont do much for the
people on the ground and warns that the Security
Council will be evaluating the situation in roughly 20
days. (See also AP, 7 August article, UN-Sudan
agreement calls for government to create safe areas in
30 days);
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Rwanda asked to contribute an additional 800 troops

for peacekeeping force, according to Charles
Muligande, Rwandan Foreign Minister.
US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tours refugee
camps in Chad, calls Darfur situation genocide.
Frist also vowed to probe what is the relationship
between the Sudan government and the Janjaweed.
(AP)

AP
AP; WP
Charles Muligande
Touloum
Refugee Camp
Bill Frist
George W. Bush
US Senate Majority leader Bill Frist visits Darfurian

refugees who have fled into Touloum camp in Chad
and labels the killings in Darfur as genocide because
the violence was specific to a group of people, with
race playing a major role in intent. (WP)
6, 7
August
Frist believes the 30-day UN-imposed deadline gives

the Sudanese government enough time to round up the
Janjaweed and end the crisis because of the close ties
between Khartoum and the Arab militias: The direct
line between the government of Sudan and the
Janjaweed and the raping, pillaging and murder is so
direct that, with an order from the top, I am absolutely
convinced it could stop within a week. If the president
of Sudan says stop, he can stop it. Frist says he will
take his observations directly to President George
Bush. (WP)
UN Rapporteur on executions Asma Jahangir says
GoS is largely responsible for current humanitarian
disaster and that there is overwhelming evidence
that the killing was carried out in a coordinated and
systematic manner. (AP)
AP; WP
In a critical report, the UN special rapporteur on

extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions,
Asma Jahangir, said it is beyond a doubt that Sudan
bears responsibility for extrajudicial and summary
executions of large numbers of people in Darfur.
Jahangir also noted that some members of the
Janjaweed have been incorporated into the Sudanese
police: Some of the militia leaders have been
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integrated into the Sudanese armed forces and given

official military ranks.(WP)
GoS state media reports surrender of 210 Darfur rebels,
including 10 field commanders, some of whom spoke
at a ceremony where they said, The rebellion was not
launched for the development and rehabilitation of
Darfur, but for destroying the region and displacing its
people. The ceremony was led by North Darfur
Gov. Osman Yusuf Kibir.
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail says that the
international community should also hold rebels to
account.
Arab League Foreign Ministers discuss ways to
extend the 30-day deadline imposed by UN Security
Council Resolution.
AU says peace talks between GoS and Darfur rebels to
begin in Nigeria on 23 August under auspices of
President Obasanjo.
says the Sudan will allow African troops to protect
observers in Darfur, but that any peacekeeping role
would be strictly limited to Sudanese forces.
According to Osmail, the role of peacekeeping forces
is the responsibility of the Sudanese forces. Ismail
adds that Darfur is a regional problem and that
Khartoum is discussing it with the African Union and
the Arab League.
AU Chair Alpha Oumar Konare travels to Cairo to
meet with emergency session of Arab League
convened to review developments in light of UN
resolution 1556 on Darfur.
GoS looks to Arab League to provide political cover
against sanctions. Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman
Ismail asked the Arab League to convince the
international community to send the necessary aid to
Darfur and treat the crisis with understanding and
realism. Sources at the Arab League session say the
League was ready to push the UN to extend the 30-day
deadline.
Sudan may require up to 120 days to bring Darfur
AFP
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
WP, citing
Reuters
Adam Thaim
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Cairo
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Ahmed Abul Gheit
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under control, according to the Egyptian Foreign

Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit. I cannot imagine that
any country, even the US, can solve this crisis within
30 days.
Jan Pronk addresses Arab League session and urges
Arab countries to contribute to humanitarian relief.
Arab League rallies around GoS, urges extension of
UN deadline and calls on international community to
reject any threat of military intervention in Darfur.
(Also see Guardian, 9 August quoting Arab League as
saying that sanctions only result in negative effects for
the whole Sudanese people and complicate the crisis in
Darfur.)
Jan Pronk says that it would be nave for UN to
demand resolution within 30 days, but instead insisted
that the government delineate safe zones within 30
days.
SPLA leader John Garang proposes 30,000 strong
peacekeeping force to prevent genocide in Darfur.
Garang argues that 1/3 of the force could be made up
of GoS troops and SPLA and internationals could
provide the rest.
Nigeria announces that it is training 120 troops who
could soon be deployed to Darfur as part of the
proposed 2,000 person AU peacekeeping force. Army
spokesman Colonel Emeka Onwuamaegbu says that
the troops are only awaiting orders before they can
enter Darfur: At the moment, the troops are having
induction training and when we receive the order from
the Ministry of Defense, they will be ready to move.
Pakistan receives assurances from GoS that it is
complying with UN resolution to rein in Janjaweed.
GoS disputes death toll from Darfur conflict. While the

UN estimates between 30,000 and 50,000 dead, Sudan
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail claims UN
AFP
Jan Pronk
AFP
Jan Pronk
John Garang
IRIN
Emeka
Onwuamaegbu
AFP
Masoon Khan,
Foreign Ministery
Spokesman
AFP
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Riaz Khokar,
Foreign Secretary
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP : Nigerian
president invites
Sudanese govt,
Darfur rebels for
peace talks
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figures are 10 times too high. Ismail estimates that the

conflict has cost 5,000 lives at most, with nearly 500 of
these policemen.
EU delegation finds widespread, silent and slow
killing going on and village burning of a fairly large
scale in Darfur. An EU delegation of civilian and
military experts led by Pieter Feith, personal
representative of EU foreign affairs chief Javier
Solana, also doubted the willingness of the
government of Sudan to protect the civilian
population. However, the delegation announced that
it could not conclude that genocide was occurring.
US State Department says that Arab League
opposition to sanctions threat has not changed or
decreased in significance of UN Security Council
Resolution 1556. Spokesman Adam Ereli said,
Wed prefer for sanctions not to be necessary.so
lets all work toward a resolution of this problem that
doesnt require sanctions. (AFP)
Bush administration endorses UN-GoS agreement to
create safe areas in Darfur within 30 days. Adam
Ereli also said that if GoS and rebels convene for talks
in Nigeria on 23 August as proposed by President
Obasanjo, that would be factored into consideration
over whether sanctions would be applied. (AP State
Dept. affirms Sudan sanctions will be considered.)
President Omar al-Bashir expresses confidence in
AU mediation on Darfur.
Sudan to take part in Darfur peace talks to be held in
Nigeria.
AU delays decision on deployment of peacekeeping
force in Darfur. AU Commission Chair Konare says
he is still working on the modalities and the mandate
of the planned force. Sam Ibok, head of AUs Peace
and Security department said that Khartoum was not
opposed to an African force.
After Nigerian President and AU chairman
Olusegun Obasanjo offers to host peace talks on the
Darfur crisis in Abuja on August 23, the Sudanese
AFP
Pieter Feith
Javier Solana
AFP/AP
Adam Ereli
George W. Bush
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
AP
AFP
Sam Ibok
Alpha Oumar
Konare
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government and the two Darfur rebel groups agree to

participate.
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The proposed talks are to be the continuation of talks

started in Addis Ababa on July 15, which
subsequently broke down after the Sudanese
government rejected conditions set by the Darfur
rebels.
US Senator Bill Frist says I disagree with the
statement made by the European Union saying this
is not genocide. The international community must not
turn its back on this crisis. Senator Frist noted rape,
burning of villages, purposeful killing of hundreds of
civilians and racial overtones qualified the situation
as genocide.
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Senator Frist rejected calls for extending timeframe

for compliance with UN Security Council Resolution
1556, saying the Khartoum government coiuld end
this crisis immediately, I dont think it takes 60 days or
even 30 days.
Human rights groups, UN concerned over pressure
by GoS on refugees to return to villages; and pressure
on victims not to report human rights violations
including rape. UN Spokesman Fred Eckhard said
the world body had received reports that authorities in
North Darfur were paying tribal leaders to encourage
their displaced members to return to villages.
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UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis said her

organization had received reports of increase in rape by
Janjaweed.
Rwanda to send 154 troops to Darfur (to al-Fasher)
on Sunday (15 August).
Locust swarm heading for Darfur, UN spokeswoman
for OCHA Elizabeth Byrs warns.
UN and GoS formally sign Plan of Action for
Darfur on Tuesday with Jan Pronk and Mustafa
Ismail signing for each party, respectively.
AFP
Bill Frist
AFP/AP
Fred Eckhard
Jennifer Pagonis
Janjaweed
AP
al-Fasher
AP
AP
Elizabeth Byrs
Tawilla
Jan Pronk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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Meanwhile, UN Spokesman Fred Eckhard reported

that Janjaweed attack 35 families in Tawilla, North
Darfur and armed attacks by men on horse- and
camel-back supported by uniformed men and military
vehicles continued over the weekend in South Darfur.
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Fresh violence erupted in Darfur with attacks by

government gunships according to UN Office of
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs,
spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs.
AFP
Elisabeth Byrs
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10
August
Nigerian President Obasanjo optimistic about

upcoming Darfur peace talks.
UNICEF says it reaches agreement with JEM and
SLM/A on allowing mass immunization/vaccination
cmapign.
AFP
Jean-Philippe
Chauzy,
International
Organisation for
Migration (IOM)
spokesman
Olusegun Obasanjo
10
August
Human Rights Watch says GoS has failed to provide

security in Darfur with those accused of atrocities
being given jobs in security forces.
EU says UN experts must make the determination as to
whether Darfur constitutes genocide.
Amnesty International accuses GoS of arresting
civilians who speak to westerners, including those who
talked with US Secretary of State Colin Powell and
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier. 15 were
arrested in Abu Shouk camp after Powell visited, and
five were arrested after Barniers visit. (AFP)
AFP/AP
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AFP
David Agnew,
President and CEO
of UNICEFCanada
AP
AFP; IRIN;
NYT
Abu Shouk camp
Colin Powell
Michel Barnier
Hassan Abdin
Sudans Ambassador to the UK, Hassan Abdin said

that the GoS is working hard to finish the job which it
started a few weeks ago on disarming the Janjaweed.
Abdin added, the US Congress is about the only
organization, plus Human Rights Watch who talk
about genocide. Neither the Security Council, neither
the AU, nor the EU do so. Abdin added there is
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no bombing now. The bombing has stopped long ago,

after the signing of the ceasefire last April, the Sudan
government has observed the ceasefire. (AFP)
Amnesty International reports that at least 47 people
were arrested between June 26 and August 3 in North
Darfur by security services or the Sudanese army in
connection with speaking to foreign dignitaries.
Arrests had also taken place in West and South
Darfur. (IRIN)
Amnesty said: The Sudanese government should give
assurances that none of those arrested will be tortured
or ill-treated while in detention and that Sudanese
people can speak freely about Darfur without fear of
reprisals. (NYT)
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Responding to Amnestys report, Sudanese officials

explain that the detentions in Darfur have been security
matters and not because the detainees have spoken to
foreigners. (NYT, citing Reuters)
SLM/A leader Wahed Mohamed Ahmed al-Nur
urges immediate US-British military intervention. The
SLM/A chief said Sudan air force jets have been
over-flying several towns in western Darfur region,
wreaking terror and triggering the exodus of
thousands.
AFP
Shaariyah
Burk
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Biri
Al-Fashir
Kabkabiya
Zalingie
11
August
WFP allowed into rebel-held areas of Darfur to assess

aid needs.
AFP
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August
11
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AU says Rwandan troops should be in Darfur by 14

August.
GoS demands that UN speak through one spokesperson
about Darfur to avoid conflicting or damaging
AFP
AFP
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Sudan Bradley
Guerrant, WFP
Deputy Country
Director
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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statements about Sudan. Foreign Minister Mustafa

Osman Ismail said that Kofi Annans spokesman
Fred Eckhard spoke of new violence which included
GoS gunships, while UNHCR reported that the GoS
was pressuring refugees to return to their villages
prematurely. Ismail warned the UN to control its
statements or the GoS would reconsider its
commitments.
US State Department calls Darfur security situation
wholly inadequate and that the level of arrest and
containment of the Janjaweed was not what was
promised.
President Omar al-Bashir urges tribal leaders to help
GoS collect arms. (AFP)
Omar al-Bashir orders tribal leaders to form security
forces to disarm Janjaweed. The Civil
Administration for Darfurs Grand States was also
told to work with police sent to disarm Janjaweed.
Tribal leaders were instructed to re-establish social
bonds between Darfurs black and Arab communities
and to grant financial compensation for weapons
handed in. (AP article from 13 Aug)
Sudanese Army denies allegations of helicopter raids
and attacks by Janjaweed. General Mohamed
Beshir Suleiman, Army spokesman said the
accusations are false and unfounded.
French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said that
there will be no lasting solution to the Darfur conflict
without a political agreement, writing in Le Figaro.
Nigerian President Obasanjo warns Sudan that if it
does not yield to gentle and African pressure it will
have to succumb to pressure from outside Africa
which might not be so gentle, according to his
spokeswoman Remi Oyo. Oyo stated that by the AU
charter, African soldiers deployed on African soil
could not be considered foreign.
Libya offers to host Darfur peace conference,
according to Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelrahman
Shalgham.
Kofi Annan
Fred Eckhard
AFP
Adam Ereli
AFP/AP
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
AFP, citing le
Figaro
Michel Barnier
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
Remi Oyo
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India announces it will donate 20,000 tons of food aid

for Darfur.
Jan Pronk eases pressure on Khartoum, explaining
that the action plan for Darfur does not set 30 days as
a deadline, but as period which can be renewed and
amended until all provisions of a Security Council
resolution are met.
Warring parties meet in Libya for informal peace talks.
Present are the SLM/A, JEM, GoS , AU, and Chadian
Foreign Minister.
On Tuesday 9 August, President Omar al-Bashir
blasted US and European interest in Darfur as spurred
by gold and petroleum. US denies the charge today.
Tanzania plans to contribute troops to AU
peacekeeping force.
Jan Pronk says that Darfur still too dangerous for
refugees to return home within three weeks.
The UN reports that Sudan has carried out helicopter
attacks in Darfur and that an Arab militia has targeted
refugees trying to escape the conflict.
UN OCHA reports increasing incidents of sexual
abuse and exploitation by Janjaweed of displaced
persons in camps in Darfur. Reports of such abuses
come from Abu Shouk camp near El Fasher in North
Darfur; Moskit camp in South Darfur; and Sissi
camp between Geneina and Zaleingi in West Darfur.
Refugees International details attacks on civilians that
recently took place in Darfur (all in South Darfur):

AFP
AFP
Jan Pronk
AFP
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Adam Ereli
AP
AP
Jan Pronk
WP
UN Situation
Report
Abu Shouk,
Moskit
Sisi
IRIN
Abuhambrah
Abu Noura
-More than 400 armed horseman attacked Donki

Dereisa on July 12, supported by a fixed-wing aircraft
that bombed the village and many military vehicles
with Sudanese soldiers. 150 villagers were killed,
including six young children who were captured and
burned alive. A man trying to save them was beheaded
and dismembered.
-The Janjaweed attacked Talha on July 12, supported
by a military airplane. 20 killed (including several
children).
-Hundreds of armed horsemen attack Tabaldiate on
Amakasarah
Doung Dereisa
Ghanja
Janjawannah
Kayola
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http://www.refugeesi
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July 13, killing 80 civilians and burning the village to

the ground.
-Hundreds of Janjaweed attack Abu Noura on July
12, supported by a fixed wing aircraft and two military
vehicles. 12 men killed, village was looted and burned.
-Two attacks by Janjaweed on Ghanja. First attack
on July 1, launched by 400 horsemen, a fixed wing
aircraft, helicopter, and many military vehicles. 8 men
killed, 17 injured, livestock stolen. Second attack on
July 19, conducted by 200 mounted fighters, escorted
by 4 Land Cruisers full of Sudanese soldiers. 5
villagers killed, 3 wounded.
-20 Janjaweed attack Janjawannah on July 7, killing
3 men and stealing all of their livestock.
-Scored of Janjaweed attack Moraia Jenge in midJuly, accompanied by Sudanese soldiers in vehicles.
Village looted, woman shot in thigh.
-Dozens of Janjaweed attack Mosabikra in mid-July,
accompanied by military vehicles filled with Sudanese
soldiers stole livestock and personal items, shot one of
the villagers.
Kirikos
Moraia Jenge
Mosabikra
Sarmah
Suleia
Talha
Tabaldiate
Refugees International reports other July Janjaweed

attacks in South Darfur: Abuhambrah, Kayola,
Amakasarah, Sarmah and Kirikos
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13
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The attacks documented by Refugees International

all occurred in South Darfur. In Darfurs other two
states, the governments terror campaign has been so
thorough that there are few villages left to attack, RI
said. The AU has, however, documented at least one
chilling incident in West Darfur that took place on July
3, when several civilians were burned alive, following
an attack by Janjaweed militia on the village of
Suleia.
Displaced Arab refugee beaten to death by African
refugees in camp administered by CARE, according to
SUNA.
Mandate for Rwandan protection force for AU
ceasefire monitoring team filled with creative
AP, citing
SUNA
AP
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analyst
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ambiguity according to David Mozersky with ICGBrussels. Rwandan Army spokesman Col. Patrick
Karegeya said the troops will defend civilians if they
are attacked, but they are not going out to hunt for
Janjaweed.
Darfur peace talks in Nigeria scheduled to go ahead.
Patrick Karegeya
AFP
SLM/A says it might not be able to attend Darfur

peace talks in Nigeria due to scheduling conflicts.
Janjaweed can be reined in, President Omar alBashir tells CNN. If there are any groups belonging
to the armed forces or who have been given weapons,
they can be controlled at any time and their weapons
can be reined in, said Bashir. Bashir explained that
there were different interpretations of the word
janjaweed including those who were outside of the
control of the GoS but whom the GoS was chasing.
Other militias are linked to tribes not under the control
of the GoS and Khartoum does not consider them as
janjaweed.
At upcoming peace talks, the GoS will demand that
Darfur rebels remain in specific locations to avoid
future problems.
The conditions for a return to security in Sudan are
not yet in place, said Jean Marie Fakhouri, director
of UNHCR Sudan operations.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq reports that Sudan will
publish list of secure zones for Darfur refugees this
weekend.
Saudi Arabia pledges $10.7 million in aid to Darfur
AFP
UN accuses Sudan police of sexually abusing displaced

women in Darfur. IDPs report increasing incidents of
sexual abuse and exploitation in Abu Shouk Camp
near El Fasher committed by police officers,
according to a UN weekly update on the humanitarian
situation in North Darfur.
AFP, citing
UN Weekly
Update
Omar Al-Bashir
Janjweed
AFP, citing
SMC
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir, North
Darfur Governor
Jean Marie
Fakhouri
AFP
AFP
Farhan Haq
AFP
Abdul Rahman alSweilem, head of

Saudi Red Crescent
Kofi Annan
Article notes that the 3 July agreement between Kofi
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Al-Fasher
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Annan and GoS calls for strong, credible and

respected police force in all IDP areas and the training
in human rights law of all police units.
Ali Osman Taha says that it was not practical for
GoS to disarm Janjaweed by the end of the month.
We are doing our best to meet that deadline but
definitely, due to logical problems and limitations we
have at the moment, I dont think the time frame is
practical.
Sudanese court sentences a number of Darfur
militiamen (unclear who) to death for attack on AlFashir airport last year.
AP (ElBashir slams
plotters
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AP
Al-Fashir
UN aid workers say GoS troops have blockaded

Kalma refugee camp. Jennifer Abrahamson,
spokeswoman for UN OCHA said troops blocked the
gates to Kalma on Friday (13 Aug) after inhabitants
lynched a suspected Janjaweed member.
Kalma refugee
camp
Kalma
Algeria, Egypt, Libya ready to send troops to Darfur,

according to Samir Hosni, pointman on Darfur for
the Arab League.
141 Rwandan troops fly into Darfur (El-Fashir,
North Darfur) as part of a 300-person African Union
force Sudan has allowed into the region. The mandate
of the troops, who are the first foreign armed forces
deployed to the area since the crisis began, is to protect
unarmed military observers monitoring a four-month
ceasefire in Darfur. Rwanda has been pressing African
leaders to allow the troops a formal mandate to use
force to stop attacks on civilians.
AFP
Nigerian troops are expected to arrive in Darfur on

August 25.
Sudan resumes aid access for Kalma refugee camp.
Sudan has furnished UN with list of safe areas for
Darfur inhabitants. On Sunday 15 August Sudan
submitted list of 11 areas that had been made secure.
Abdel Dafe
Khattib, Deputy
Information
Minister
Samir Hassan
Hosni
AP; AFP; WP
Al-Fashir
AP
Kalma
AFP
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Talha Hassan
Talha, Chief judge
on Supreme Court
in Northern Darfur
Jennifer
Abrahamson
First foreign armed

forces deployed to
area since crisis
began
Jan Pronk
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Jan Pronks office, while commending the move,

however expressed concern about the lack of progress
registered so far on the ground and at the fact that the
Janjaweed militia was still active around IDP camps.
Sudan Army resistant to upgrading of AU mission.
General Mohamed Seeed Sulieman, army
spokesman said that the current protection force of
300 troops were present only to maintain protection for
the 80 AU observers and hesitated at expansion of the
project.
Saudi Arabia hails Khartoums efforts to contain the
crisis in Darfur and its persistent effort to reinstall
stability.
UNHCR in eastern Chad reports an increase in
refugee numbers fleeing Darfur, after weeks of
relatively negligible numbers.
There were new rebel attacks on Jemet and Messaoula
according to North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf
Kibir. Kibir accused Chadians of enlisting with the
rebels. Kibir claims this is the 76th rebel violation of
the ceasefire.
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail hopes
upcoming Darfur peace talks in Abuja, Nigeria will
bring a final and justifiable peace.
GoS asks Libyas Col. Muamar Khadafi to
intervene personally to help settle Darfur conflict and
assist with repatriation of refugees.
Unnamed Chadian diplomat worries that Libya
attempting to seize a bigger role in Darfur mediation at
the expense of the AU.
UN Military Advisor and assessment team sent to
assess peacekeeping possibilities in Darfur wraps up
mission, will report to Secretary-General Kofi
Annan.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw to visit Khartoum
with five ministers to discuss Darfur.
In about-face, GoS calls on African peacekeepers to
assist its efforts to restore order in Darfur. GoS
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said that
AFP
Mohamed Seeed
Sulieman
AFP
IRIN
AFP
Jemet
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Messaoula
AP
AFP
Abuja
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Omar Al-Bashir
Muamar Qadaffi
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Patrick Cammaert
Kofi Annan
AFP
Jack Straw
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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Khartoum would increase its own police forces in

Darfur to 20,000. Ismail said the GoS has 40,000
troops in Darfur. For the first time, GoS
acknowledged there were one million people who had
become vulnerable to famine and violence.
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18
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Ismail asked Nigerian President Obasanjo for trucks,

planes, food and the immediate deployment of an
initial batch of 150 Nigerian troops.
Nigerian President Obasanjo asks Nigerian senate to
approve deployment of 150 man company to Darfur
with option to send two more 770-man battalions.
HRW praises Rwandan Government for pledging to
protect Darfur civilians, according to Georgette
Gagnon, Deputy Director of HRW. Gagnon urges
international community to pressure Sudan to accept
peacekeepers with a mandate for protecting civilians.
AU monitoring force in Darfur far too small, says Jan
Pronk. Pronk called for thousands of observers and
supporting forces to deploy in Darfur.
WFP increases operations as rain season worsens.
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
Georgette Gagnon
AFP
Jan Pronk
AFP
Darfur rebel groups confirm they will attend peace

talks in Nigeria.
Number of displaced rising in Darfur as rainy season
arrives. UN Spokesperson Radhia Achouri said the
number of IDPs increased from 1 to 1.2 million in the
last month.
Italy ferrying aid by air to Darfur.
AFP
AFP
Ahmed Mohamed
Haroun.
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19
August
GoS is applying the UN security plan in Darfur 100

percent to the letter according to State Minister for
the Interior Ahmed Mohammed Haroun.
Nigerian Senate approves making 1,500 troops
available for AU peacekeeping force.
President Obasanjo invites Libyas Kadhafi to attend
Darfur peace talks in Abuja.
AFP
Adolphus Wabara,
Senate President
Olusegun Obasanjo
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Hepatitis E outbreak in eastern Chad affecting refugee

camps.
AFP
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19
August
AP
Radhia Achouri
AP
AFP
Muamar Qaddafi
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WFP appeals for additional 40 million dollars to fight

malnutrition in Chad.
As hundreds of refugees flee to Chad in recent weeks,
UNHCR accuses Khartoum of breaking its promises
on Darfur. Lino Bordin, deputy representative of
the UNHCR in Chad, said that the refugees said that
11 villages were attacked from the 2nd to the 10th of
August.
UNHCR warns that 30,000 IDPs are threatening to flee
to Chad unless they receive security guarantees,
according to Jean-Marie Fakhouri, UNHCR Sudan
director, who spoke with refugees at Masteri camp.
The Washington Post reports on the recent Janjaweed
attacks in Darfur and in eastern Chad:
-UN officials report that on August 6 Janjaweed
forces attacked a displaced persons camp near Ardjan,
Darfur;
-On August 10, UNHCR reports that cargo planes
dropped bombs on a section of Djabarmoun
mountains, used by villagers as a common hiding
place;
-Last weekend, refugees in Chad reported seeing 400
Janjaweed on horseback across the border in a
Darfurian town called Senete. The next night, two
Sudanese men on horseback crossed into Chad and
killed four men.
UN claims GoS finally acknowledges ties to
Janjaweed. UN spokesperson Radhia Achouri
announced that the GoS has promised to provide the
UN with a list of Janjaweed fighters which suggests
that Khartoum has influence on some members of the
Janjaweed militias and has ties and connections
with the Janjaweed and can impose on them some
actions and behavior. This represents a sea-change in
the position of the GoS which has previously
absolutely denied any ties with them.

AFP
Guardian
Lino Bordin
AFP
Masteri camp
WP
Ardjan;
Djabarmoun
mountains;
Senete
AP
Jean-Marie
Fakhouri
Radhia Achouri
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
North Darfur Gov. Othman Mohammed Youssef

told Al-Arabiya TV that the GoS does not deny the
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Joint Implementation Mechanism consisting of

UN, GoS Cabinet and international aid groups will
travel to Darfur between 26-29 August.
Majority of UN Security Council members oppose
immediate heavy sanctions on Sudan, according to a
senior UK Foreign Office official. Security Council
members were still debating what to do if Sudan
misses its deadline but severe action unlikely,
according to the source.
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot to visit
Khartoum on 9 September.
Eight days before UN Security Council deadline,
Khartoum says militias will be disarmed gradually
with an initiative for reconciliation among the tribes
through native administration, according to Interior
Minister Abdul Rahim Mohammed Hussein.
UNs International Organization for Migration
(IOM) and GoS agree to ensure that one million
displaced Darfurians will not be forced to return to
their homes without prior approval of the IOM.
AP
AFP
Bernard Bot
AFP/AP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail

dismisses UN warning by Jean-Marie Fakhouri that
additional 30,000 refugees from Masteri could flood
into Chad.
AFP
Masteri
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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22
August
22
August
GoS arrest seven in Darfur for allegedly fabricating a

rape video.
GoS Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa will
lead GoS delegation at Nigerian peace talks.
Nigerian President Obasanjo suggests that AU
protection force could eventually assist GoS in
disarmament process.
AFP
AP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
Olusegun Obasanjo
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August
Sudan gives UN Human Rights Commission a list of

30 members of the Janjaweed suspected of atrocities.
Justice Minister Ali Mohammed Osman Yassin
handed the list to UN Commission observer Emanuel
AFP (two
articles)
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
Jean-Marie
Fakhouri
AFP
Emanuel Akoy
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The government does not deny that human rights

abuses occur and it will not protect those who commit
them said Yassin. He asked for assistance from
international observers to pass along any information
they had particularly concerning rapes.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Mussa to
attend peace talks in Nigeria.
President Obasanjo criticizes GoS for perceived
reluctance to disarm Janjaweed. Obasanjo analyzed
the difficulty of the GoS position: If we disarm
them before the rebels what will happen? But who is
to disarm the rebels, those who armed the Janjaweed?
This is where I believe that the effort of the AU will be
necessary.
Sudan to reduce volunteer paramilitary forces
(Popular Defense Force) by 30% in Darfur as
goodwill gesture on eve of peace talks in Nigeria.
ICRC will start largest airborne operation since Iraq.
GoS negotiator denies need for AU peacekeepers in
Darfur. Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa
said AU force not necessary.
JEM chief negotiator Ahmed Mohammed Tugod
downbeat on peace talks. The government came with
promises about security and development issues, said
Tugod, Were not here to talk about security, were
here to talk politics.
GoS and Darfur rebels meet for talks in Abuja,
Nigeria, under the auspices of Nigerian President
Obasanjo. JEM official Tacudi Bashi Nyan was
cautiously optimistic, but I believe that this
government hasnt demonstrated enough seriousness
and noted that the GoS had yet to put a stop to the
activities of the Janjaweed. GoS State Minister for
Interior Ahmed Mohamed Haroon said that the
level of threat has decreased.
As peace talks begin in Nigeria to help end the conflict
in Darfur, the Sudanese government rejects an
AFP
Amr Mussa
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
Janjaweed
AP
AFP
AFP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
AP
Abuja
Olusegun Obasanjo
Tacudi Bashi Nyan
Ahmed Mohamed
Haroun
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expanded role for AU troops, suggested by Nigerian

president and AU chairman Olusegun Obasanjo.
The expanded role would have had 2,000 AU troops
help to disarm the government-backed militias
terrorizing the population of Darfur.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in Khartoum for
negotiations with GoS. Straw said he had no plans to
deploy troops to Darfur. Instead, the UK will offer
military expertise to AU. Straw supports increasing
the size of the AU observer mission and protection
force and (as AP reports) is willing to finance the
enlarged mission.
Rev. Jesse Jackson urges Libyas Khadafi to step in
and try to resolve the Darfur crisis.
AFP/AP
AP
Khartoum
Jack Straw
Jesse Jackson
Muamar Qaddafi
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GoS accuses rebels of kidnapping four journalists from

Darfur television network.
Brunson McKinley, the director of the International
Organisation for Migration (IOM), praises GoS and
says an agreement between IOM and GoS to ensure
safe return of displaced Darfurians marked a turning
point. I think it does mark an important change in
attitude on the part of the Sudanese government.
SLM/A leader Abdel-Whaid Mohamed Ahmed elNur says that its armed forces are rebels only
security.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki meets with Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit to discuss
Darfur.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail tells le Figaro that
the international community should stop interfering in
the Darfur crisis. He said what started as a longrunning tribal conflict had degenerated after multiple
foreign interventions. Ismail said that USAID had
been trying to stop a peace accord.
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw urges President
Omar al-Bashir to heed calls to fulfill obligations
imposed under Resolution 1556 and voluntarily
accepted under the action plan for Darfur. Straw
acknowledges some improvement in Sudans record
AP
AFP
Brunson McKinley
AFP
AFP
Abdel-Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed el-Nur
Mwai Kibaki
AFP, citing le
Figaro
Ahmed Abul Gheit

Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
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Omar Al-Bashir
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saying what I understand is that there has not been

aerial bombardment since the end of June, that the
ceasefire is broadly holding, but that atrocities have
continued.
Second day of peace talks ends in deadlock as rebel
delegates object to reference to cantonment or
demobilization of their forces in the agenda.
Representatives from both the SLM/A (Abdel Wahid
Mohamed Ahmed el-Nur) and JEM (Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod) said the item was unacceptable.
The meetings broke down after rebels and GoS
officials began face-to-face negotiations.
Jack Straw visits Abu Shouk refugee camp. Straw
says I think that the GoS has made progress in some
fields. Humanitarian access is much better. Security
within the camps is better. (AFP)
Straw warned the Sudanese government: The last
thing we want to be in the international community is
in conflict with the government of Sudan, but we do
have clear responsibilities to the UN charter to ensure
that this kind of humanitarian disaster is averted.
(Guardian)
Preliminary reviews of a study conducted by US State
Department officials and outside legal experts to
collect testimony from Darfurian refugees in Chad
show that nearly one-third of the refugees interviewed
reported hearing racial epithets during the attacks; 60%
reported witnessing the killing of a family member;
20% reported that they had witnessed a rape; 25%
reported witnessing beatings. About half of the first set
of 257 respondents said government soldiers had joined
the Arab Janjaweed militias in attacking black African
villages. 25% of the refugees said they were attacked
by government soldiers alone and 17% said militias
alone attacked them.
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
AFP;
Guardian;
IRIN
NYT
The surveyors conducting the refugee interviews,

known as the Atrocities Documentation Team, will
conduct a more thorough review of 1,100 refugee
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Jack Straw
(200,000 refugees in
Chad, more than 1
million displaced
inside Sudan
according to UN)
25
August
interviews this month.

As deadline approaches, UN begins 3 day fact-finding
mission to Darfur on Thursday 26 Aug to assess
whether the GoS has improved security and begun
process of reining in Janjaweed.
AP
Jan Pronk
Radhia Achouri
Jan Pronk said, we are coming very close to the

moment of assessment. The clock is ticking.
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The most crucial part of this is to demonstrate an

irreversible, substantial and sustainable improvement
of security in the areas selected the government, said
Radhia Achouri, UN Spokeswoman.
UN Security Council hails AU efforts at ending
Darfur crisis. US envoy Stuart Holliday said that
Washington had certainly not given up on sanctions as
a possibility, not while people are still dying and they
are still scared in Darfur.
GoS agrees to accept a larger AU force in Darfur if the
troops are used to disarm rebels. GoS Agriculture
Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa said that, they need
more forces besides the protection of the AU monitors
to protect the cantonment of the rebels, and we agree
about that. (AFP)
Al-Khalifa said that Sudan did not need AU
peacekeepers to protect civilians in Darfur but that the
150 AU troops already in Darfur to guard observers
were welcome to assist the government in disarming
rebel groups: The final role of peacekeeping in Darfur
and the protection of civilians is the mandate of the
government of Sudan only. (NYT)
Rebel groups agree to accept an AU agenda for peace
talks despite reservations to a clause referring to their
demobilization. Rebel spokesmen said they would
raise their objection on laying down their arms when
the talks reached that point, but the negotiations would
continue.
EU announces 20 million euros in additional aid for
Darfur. Continuing violence is seriously hampering
AFP
Stuart Holliday
Andrei Denisov
AFP, NYT
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
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the delivery of humanitarian the delivery of

humanitarian aid, said Poul Nielson, EU Commission
for Humanitarian Aid and Development. (AFP)
Poul Nielson
The situation is still not optimistic from a

humanitarian point of view, said Peter Holdsworth
of the EC Humanitarian Aid Office. (AFP)
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August
The European Commission announces it has

allocated an additional $24.2 million in humanitarian
aid for people affected by the Darfur crisis. The funds
will be dispersed through the ECs Humanitarian Aid
Office (ECHO).
AU talks on Darfur stall over rebel demobilization.
AFP
25
August
UN pleas for more aid for Darfur as it faces $434

million shortfall. Donors had provided $288 million
out of $722 million needed to cover aid for rest of
2004.
AFP
25
August
Elie Wiesel urges swift action in Darfur saying every

day of inaction produces more victims and helps the
killer, the torturer and the victimizer in their inhuman
activity.
AFP
25
August
25
August
25
US Actor Danny Glover arrested at Sudan embassy

protesting GoS role in Darfur.
US State Department completes preliminary report on
Darfur to see whether it legally constitutes genocide.
Jan Pronk says there has been hardly any progress
in the final days before UN Security Council
Resolution 1556 deadline passes. Pronk said, I have
not yet received any list of Janjaweed and that there
was no specific instructions for Janjaweed to
disarm, only general calls for all parties to lay down
their arms.
UN Assistant Secretary-General Tullameni
Haroun
Abdulhameed,
Foreign
commissioner for
JEM
Manuel Aranda da
Silva, UN
Humanitarian
Coordinator for
Sudan
Elie Wiesel
Danny Glover
AFP
AP
Jan Pronk
AP
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Kalomoh told Security Council members that the UN

continues to receive reports of attacks by Janjaweed,
as well as reports of looting by uniformed troops.
Kalomoh also told the Security Council that
humanitarian access had improved and there was good
cooperation from the GoS in identifying safe havens in
Darfur.
Darfur rebels say they will not disarm until Janjaweed
attacks cease. The Janjaweed are carrying out ethnic
cleansing and genocide. If there is a security
arrangement, disarmament will come gradually. But
now we are not ready to speak about disarmament,
said Abdelwahid Muhamed el Nur, Chair of the
SLM/A on Tuesday.
Sudan not bothered by impending UN deadline,
according to Agriculture Minister Majzoub alKhalifa Ahmad, who says the GoS is working
towards our duties.
Sudans interior minister says a cease-fire with
Darfurian rebels was violated twice on the first day of
peace talks.
AU sponsored peace talks in Nigeria enter fourth day.
As joint UN-GoS assessment team visits Darfur,
Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid is
confident on progress saying the security situation has
improved greatly. The delegation here has been
enlightened with regard to the humanitarian effort. The
delivery of relief assistance is now reaching those who
need it by 100%.
The UNs mind has not been made up, however,
cautioned Erick De Mul, UN Deputy Humanitarian
coordinator.
US pushes for increase in AU monitoring force
numbers, according to UN Ambassador John
Danforth. The US will urge an increase and if the
GoS resists, then the US will have been given no
choice but to support sanctions.
WFP enters second phase of air drops, targeting areas

Kalomoh
Janjaweed
AP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Janjaweed
AP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
WP
AFP
AP
Erick De Mul
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP
AFP
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beyond El-Geneina.
Heavy rains disrupt road and rail transport in the
western part of Darfur, trapping trucks and trains
carrying food supplies in thick mud, according to
WFP. Planes used to drop food are also affected, as
airstrips in El-Geneina have become unusable.
West Darfur is the worst affected by the heavy rains
big thunderstorms that are pouring down on people
living without proper shelter or drainage. If this
continues, there could be a significant delay in
delivering food, said WFP Information Officer
Peter Smerdon.
First Nigerian troops to leave for Darfur within 48
hours, says Nigerian Foreign Minister Olu Adeniji.
Darfur peace talks will adjourn until Saturday, August
28, The Sudanese government delayed presenting its
assessment of the humanitarian situation (the first item
on the agenda of the talks) on August 25 because it had
wanted a written copy of the UNs report, which was
not readily available. The Darfur rebel groups JEM
and SLM/A asked for more time to prepare their
report. When talks resume, both sides anticipate
coming to an agreement on humanitarian access and
then moving on to the more contentious issue of
security.
United Nations and Sudanese government officials,
part of the Joint Assessment Mechanism (JIM)
mission, arrive in Darfur on August 26 to assess the
implementation of Khartoums promises to restore
calm in the region. UN Special Envoy to Sudan, Jan
Pronk, and Sudanese Foreign Minister, Mustafa
Osman Ismail, both part of the mission, will present
the teams findings to the UN Security Council, which
will decide next week whether the Sudanese
government has been carrying out its promise to restore
security and disarm the Arab militias terrorizing the
population of Darfur.
HRW alleges that GoS allowing Janjaweed to retain
16 camps in Darfur.
IRIN
AFP
El Geneina
Peter Smerdon,
WFP Information
Officer
Olu Adeniji
AFP; IRIN
Jan Pronk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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Japan to press Foreign Minsiter Mustafa Ismail to

end Darfur conflict when Ismail visits Tokyo on 5
September.
Darfur conflict threatens peace prospects for Southern
Sudan, say Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and top
US Africa envoy Connie Newman. (AFP)
ICRC Sudan Chief Dominik Stillhart says Darfur
has now basically eclipsed the North-South peace
process.
Sudan rebels see little hope for peace at Abuja talks.
JEM leader Ahmed Mohammed Tugold alleged that
over the past 48 hours, Janjaweed militia forces had
attacked villages in Darfur, although the AU
monitoring team could not confirm.
US Senator John Corzine plans trip to Sudan, but
notes that Sudan has not yet granted him a visa.
Corzine said the Bush administration is taking some
but not adequate steps to address the Darfur crisis.
Jesse Jackson visits Darfur.

AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP/AP
Mwai Kibaki
Constance
Newman
Dominik Stillhart
AFP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
AP
John Corzine
AP
Jesse Jackson
ICRC launches major aid push for Darfur.
AP
Human Rights Watch publishes detailed locations of

16 bases for Janjaweed militias in Darfur, very near to
IDP camps, such as those at Masry, Kutum, and Um
Sayala in North Darfur, and near Nyala in South
Darfur. HRW claims that five of the 16 camps are
shared by both Sudanese forces and the Janjaweed.
(IRIN)
IRIN,
Guardian
Assalaya
Kutum
Masry
Nyala
Peter Takirambudde, executive director of HRWs

Africa division, says: Throughout the time Khartoum
was supposedly reining in the Janjaweed, these camps
have been operating in plain sight. These Janjawid
camps should be immediately investigated by the UN
and the African Union ceasefire monitors, then
disbanded The existence of these Janjaweed camps
shows clearly that Khartoum is not at all serious about
ending atrocities and providing security. (IRIN)
Razallah Jawazat
Taisha
Um Sayala
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HRW reports that at least three new bases have been

built since Sudan made a promise to the UN on July 3
that it would rein in the Janjaweed. The camps
opened in July were in Assalaya, Razallah Jawazat,
and Taisha. (Guardian)
Darfur rebels announce 24 hour boycott of peace talks
to protest alleged government attacks on civilians.
While the negotiations are under way in Abuja, the
GoS troops and their militia have violated the cease
fire, read a statement by JEM and SLM/A
Expanded AU troop presence will not be raised at
Abuja peace talks, according to State Minister for
Humanitarian Affairs Mohammed Yusuf.
GoS insists it has done enough to stave off UN action
over Darfur. We are doing our work successfully on
the ground. The interim report that goes to the
Security Council suggests significant improvement in
all the camps in Darfur and even outside the camps,
where there are observer groups, said Agriculture
Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa. With good intentions
and having done all this, I do not think there will be
any problem and we are not afraid of anything, he
said.
GoS and Darfur rebels discuss damning UN report that
estimates nearly 1.5 million people have been made
vulnerable by the conflict and that while the GoS has
improved access for aid, it had failed to halt attacks by
its proxy militia or to pull troops out of refugee camps
as demanded by the Security Council.
Ahead of a UN Security Council meeting to decide
whether to impose sanctions on the Sudanese
government, Pakistans UN ambassador, Munir
Akram, says that there is a growing recognition that
sanctions are not likely to be a productive approach.
However, the Bush administration insists that
sanctions are an option, but asserts that its immediate
goal is to increase the size of the current AU observer
mission with thousands of additional African
peacekeepers. US Ambassador to the UN, John
AP
AP
Abuja
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
WP
Munir Akram
John Danforth
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Danforth said that if [Khartoum] resists that, then, in

my view, the United States will have no choice but to
support sanctions.
UN officials say Khartoum not doing enough to stem
crisis in Darfur. Erick Deumuhl, UN Deputy
Coordinator for Humanitarian Affairs says security
situation around camps still problematic with many
reports of attacks when people venture outside the
camps.
UN Sudan Envoy Jan Pronk says In Khartoum we
hear a lot of fine words, but the situation in Darfur has
not changed much, Pronk said on Thursday (26 Aug).
500 Sudanese militiamen in government service disarm
on August 25 in Darfur at a ceremony attended by UN
Special Envoy to Sudan, Jan Pronk. However, the
men denied they were Janjaweed fighters. Pronk is
on his last trip to Darfur before reporting to the UN on
whether the Sudanese government is honoring its
commitment to disband the Janjaweed and improve
security for refugees.
First food convoy from Libya heads for Chad.
Leaders of Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda ready to
contribute peacekeepers to Darfur. If there is peace
that is being observed, which needs monitoring and
which needs protecting, then we shall be ready to
contribute peacekeepers, said Tanzanian Presdient
Benjamin Mkapa said, flanked by Kenyan President
Mwai Kibaki and Ugandas Yoweri Museveni.
AU asks ceasefire monitors to investigate alleged
attack by GoS troops after rebels walk out of peace
talks.
Darfur rebels propose new peace agreement calling for
international peacekeepers and full access for aid
groups. AU, Nigerian and Libyan mediators will
attempt to draw a compromise plan using rebel and
GoS proposals. Theres a big chance of an
agreement, said GoS delegate Najib Abdulwahab.
AFP
Erick De Mul
Jan Pronk
NYT citing
Reuters
Jan Pronk
AFP
AFP
Benjamin Mkapa
Mwai Kibaki
Yoweri Museveni
AFP
AP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
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Rebels were less optimistic however, as Ahmed

Tugod Lissan, head of JEM delegation said that the
GoS is not interested in solving the problem.
Rebels warn of possible collapse of Abuja talks if
attacks continue. Between August 26 and this
morning a total of 83 civilians have been killed in
attacks by the GoS, said Ahmed Tugod, chief
negotiator of JEM.
Darfur rebels claim that government and Janjaweed
forces continue to bomb villages and kill civilians, with
attacks on six villages in the past three days, including
one that killed 64 people. Protesting the violence, the
rebels said they would boycott the Abuja peace talks
with the Sudanese government for 24 hours.
AFP
WP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
El-Ghassini Wane,
acting head of AU
conflict
management centre
Ibrahim Mohamed
Sudanese government representatives could not

confirm or deny the attacks and commented on the
rebels boycott. GoS delegation spokesman Ibrahim
Mohamed called the walkout very sorrowful and
said that we are here to negotiate and stop such
painfulness.
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30 Aug
Earlier in the day, the Sudanese government nixed any

discussion of an AU proposal to send 2,000
peacekeepers into Darfur.
Prominent Sudanese magistrate and government
advisor on IDPs in North Darfur State concedes that it
remains unsafe for displaced people to return home and
that most of the reasons that caused these people to
flee their homes still exist, according to Salah Eddin
Sir al-Khatim.
GoS and Darfur rebels near deal on humanitarian aid.
Any increase in number of AU peacekeepers must be
approved by GoS says Majzoub al-Khalifa.
AU ceasefire monitors investigate claims that the
Sudanese military has bombed Um Hashab village
with helicopter gunships, just days before a UN
AFP
Salah Eddin Sir alKhatim
AFP
AFP
AP; Guardian
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al-Khalifa
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deadline for Khartoum to stop the violence in Darfur

expires.
UN and Red Crescent workers reported missing in
Darfur region.
Nigeria sends 100 troops to Al-Fasher
A concerned GoS implores the UN Security Council
to make a reasonable decision after Resolution 1556
deadline passes. Of course we are concerned,
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said, we
wishthe relationship with the Security Council will
not be the way of confrontation.
Constance Newman visits Abu Shouk refugee camp.
Foreign Minister Ismail refuses to meet with her in
Khartoum to protest US State Department failure to
help Sudan keep its embassy open in Washington.
We will not accept anything short of the Sudanese
government doing what we expect them to do, says
Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo warns GoS
that attacks by Sudanese forces and Janjaweed must
cease lest the international community conclude that
the Abuja talks are being undermined. AU Ceasefire
Monitoring Commission confirms reports of recent
Government attacks. (AFP)
The leader of Khartoums delegation to the Abuja
talks, Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalifa
replied, Actually the Sudanese government is
enforcing the ceasefire agreement and does not need to
be reminded to do so. (IRIN)
Catholic bishops in Sudan call for halt to genocide.
We are confronted with veritable genocide and are not
on the threshold of a genocide, as the international
community continues to assert, said Bishop Macram
Max Gassis in statement released by the Vatican.
Dennis McNamara, special UN advisor on
displacement says that sexual violence and rape
AP
AP
AP
Abu Shouk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Constance
Newman
AFP
Laila Freivalds
AFP; IRIN
Olusegun Obasanjo
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
AFP
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Macram Max
Gassis
Dennis McNamara
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against women and girls continues to be common in

Darfur, and attacks are undertaken with impunity.
AU drafts humanitarian protocol to protect Darfur
refugees, allowing UN agencies complete access to
cross borders in and out of Sudan and allowing them to
choose their routes of travel within Darfur.
The UN reports that the village of Nortik, 75 km south
of El Fashir, North Darfur, was confirmed attacked
on August 27 by armed men in three vehicles. 48 huts
were burnt; 8 men and 10 women injured; 20 children
missing.
150 members of the Nigerian army join 155
Rwandan soldiers forming an AU protection force
for the ceasefire monitors in Darfur.
Chad and UNHCR to increase security for refugee
camps. 180 extra security agents will be trained and
deployed to guard 10 refugee camps in Chad. The
agents, financed by UNCHR will seize weapons and
protect humanitarian activities.
Federation of Muslim Women Associations of
Nigeria calls on AU to protect women and children in
Darfur, especially those who face sexual violence.
Sudan appears willing to accept increased
peacekeeping force in Darfur after talks with Swedish
Foreign Minister. I can confirm that now at least
they have changed their attitude, that they are open to
the demands the UN has made, that they will be carried
out, says Laila Freivalds.
Jan Pronk expected to report enough progress by GoS
in tackling humanitarian crisis in Darfur to avoid
Security Council sanctions.
Former US Ambassador to UN Richard Holbrook
says that UN, GoS, international community, US not
doing enough to resolve Darfur conflict. Maybe 30
days was an unrealistic timetable. I think the security
and political situation is almost untouched at this
point, he said.
The deadline for the Sudanese government to meet the
UN demands that it disarm Arab militias fighting in
Darfur and restore security to Darfurian civilians has
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AFP
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expired. On Thursday, September 2, Jan Pronk, UN

Special Envoy to Sudan, will report his findings on
Khartoums compliance to the Security Council from
his recent trip to Sudan.
Sudanese aid workers held since Saturday (28 Aug)
released by rebel captors.
Human Rights Watch opposes plan to create safe
areas in Darfur, arguing that it may only consolidate
ethnic cleansing without offering real protection to
civilians. Peter Takirambudde, head of HRW
Africa Division says, It is unrealistic to think that
Sudanese forces will provide security to civilians who
were driven out of their homes by some of these very
same forces.
Connie Newman meets with Sudanese Vice
President Ali Osman Taha and Foreign, Interior
and Humanitarian Affairs Ministers as well as tribal
leaders, pressing them to redouble efforts to end
conflict in Darfur.
Spain takes over UN Security Council Presidency
from Russia.
UN WFP appeals for $12 million to expand special
feeding programs for children and nursing and
pregnant women.
Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds states that
it is too early to impose sanctions on Sudan saying the
threat of sanctions helps move the situation forward.
To actually carry out sanctions now would be counterproductive.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls for a
strengthened international presence in Darfur. Annan
says Sudan has neither disarmed Arab militia in Darfur
nor stopped attacks against civilians. While Annan
does note some progress, he says the government has
not met this obligation fully.

Ismail
AP
AFP
Peter
Takirambudde
AFP
Constance
Newman
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AFP
AFP
AFP
Laila Freivalds
AFP (2
articles), NYT,
Guardian
Kofi Annan
Attacks against civilians are continuing and the vast

majority of armed militias has not been disarmed.
Similarly, no concrete steps have been taken to bring to
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justice or even identify any of the militia leaders,

Annan notes in a report to the UN Security Council.
(AFP, UN says Sudan fails to disarm Darfur militia)
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1 Sep
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1 Sep
Sudan responds to Annans report in a letter from

Sudanese
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, who says
Sudan is making relentless efforts to meet its
promises to the UN and is ready to reach a political
settlement and reestablish law and order in Darfur.
(NYT, Guardian)
GoS and Darfur rebels inch towards compromise on
protection of civilians during Abuja peace talks.
Mohammed Ahmed Tugod, leader of JEM says that
rebels want a guarantee written into the deal that would
allocate a specific proportion of Sudans oil revenue to
pay for aid. The Sudanese government has a lot of
money to pay, but they do not want to pay the money
and the only choice we have is to put this issue on the
draft in order to support the people. They are Sudanese
and they are entitled to get the benefit from this oil.
Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham says there
are no plans for non-African foreign troops to Darfur.
It is important that this matter be managed by the
African Union forces that are there.
GoS and rebels agree on protection of civilians in
Darfur. Talks on security, cantonment of rebel forces,
disarmament, prisoner exchange to continue.
UNHCR signs an agreement with the Chadian
government to station 180 policemen in the nine
refugee camps for Sudanese refugees in eastern Chad
to maintain order and prevent the camps from being
overrun by armed combatants. The agreement follows
riots in July due to overcrowding in the Farchana and
Breidjing refugee camps, where many humanitarian
workers were attacked. Chadian police entered
Farchana camp in a weapons search on July 22 and
shot dead two people.
Sudanese Information and Communications
Minister, Al Zhawi Ibrahim Malik discusses the
AFP
Abuja
AFP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
Bill Graham
AFP
IRIN
Farchana
Refugee Camp
Protection of Chadian
refugee camps
Breidjing
Refugee Camp
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Ndjamena
Al-Zhawi Ibrahim
Malik
Sudanese Minister
says no militias
relationship between the Janjaweed militias and the

Sudanese government: There is no militia allied to the
government. The militias, especially the Janjawid, were
previously working with other rebel militias who have
now became a political front. The rebels in Darfur have
been a part and parcel of the Janjawid itself. They are
all militias working against the government.
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2 Sep
2 Sep
2 Sep
In response to the claim that many Darfurians fear

going back to their villages because attacks are still
occurring, Malik says that is not true because we
[government and Darfur rebels] reached a ceasefire
agreement in Ndjamena, we think that the only
violation taking place is that from the rebels.
UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland, in
a BBC interview, says the Sudanese government has
not done enough to improve the security situation in
Darfur: "There is still rampant abuse, rape and killing
of civilians. We need to see that the Sudanese
government is doing its best to disarm Janjawid
militias as fast as it can. The government has not done
enough."
Asked how many people are dying each day in Darfur,
Egeland says that although the UN does not have an
exact figure, estimated mortality rates were very high
in February and March (about 4 to 6 deaths per 10,000
people each day), but that number has gone down and
now stands at an estimated 2 out of 10,000.
Al Anbaa reports that representatives of rebels are
visiting the US to press for tougher action against
Sudan. Al Anbaa accuses the rebels of conspiring with
Eritrean and Israeli officials.
After reaching a deal on protection of civilians (still
unsigned) the Abuja peace talks turn to the more
difficult issue of disarmament. GoS Minister for
Humanitarian Affairs says we will be talking about
the simultaneous disarmament of the rebels and the
Janjaweed, which has not been done.
Peace talks stall over disarmament issue. We are not
Janjaweed
IRIN
allied to the
government
Jan Egeland
Janjaweed
AFP, citing
Al-Anbaa
Suspect reporting
AFP
Abuja
Janjaweed
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going to accept the cantonment of our forces, even if it

means the collapse of the talks, says Abdelhafiz
Mustapha Musa, a delegate from the SLM/A. We
will be giving the government the opportunity to
bombard our soldiers if we agree to their encampment
proposal.
Mustapha Musa
Ahmed Tugod
Janjaweed
Ahmed Tugod, spokesman for the two Darfur rebel

groups, describes the rebels demands: Basically
were calling for Darfur to be declared a no-fly zone
for all military aircraft, were calling for the
disarmament and disbandment of the Janjaweed,
were asking for an independent body to investigate
their crimes.
2 Sep
Agreed-upon protocol for protection of civilians will

not be signed until all issues are settled.
Jan Pronk gives doubtful assessment to UN Security
Council. Pronk tells the Council that while some
progress has been made toward meeting the
requirements of Resolution 1556, in two key areas,
the government has not met its commitments. First it
has not been able to stop attacks by militias against
civilians, nor to disarm these militias. Second, no
concrete steps have been taken to bring to justice or
even to identify any of the militia leaders or the
perpetrators of these attacks. Pronk calls for an
expanded AU mission in Darfur with thousands more
observers.
AFP (two
articles), IRIN
New York
Jan Pronk
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
Pronk says we urge the government, if it is unable to

fully protect its citizens by itself, to seek, request and
accept assistance from the international community.
2 Sep
2 Sep
Sudan Ambassador to UN Elfatih Mohamed Erwa

says GoS would agree to expanded mission but only
with a monitoring mandate.
GoS deploys additional forces to Darfur, according to
SUNA.
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Council in wake of Jan Pronks report.

International Rescue Committee head George Rupp
predicts that there could be 200,000 to 300,000 deaths
in Darfur if aid and security situation does not
improve. Peter Bell of CARE USA cautions that
sanctions might not change anything on the ground
and may better serve the political interests of some of
the countries demanding them, but does warn that the
international community is absolutely serious about
disarmament and demobilization of the Janjaweed.
US Ambassador to UN John Danforth urges
expanded AU monitoring presence in Darfur and calls
for getting a substantial number of people in there,
and getting them in there as quickly as possible.
The Sudanese government and southern rebel group
SPLM/A extend a cessation of hostilities agreement
signed nearly two years ago for a further three months
from Sep 1 to Nov 30 to allow peace talks to continue.
The two sides have not yet agreed on a comprehensive
peace agreement, a permanent ceasefire and the
means for implementing a final settlement.
The UN reports that attacks on villages south of Zam
Zam in North Darfur have displaced a population of
about 3,000 to 4,000 people.
The UN also reports that there has been a sharp upturn
in the number of attacks throughout the southern part
of North Darfur.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says GoS
will cooperate positively in discussing an increase in
the number of AU-led observers in order to help build
confidence, maintain security and respect for the law
and help achieve peace.
EU ministers mull UN sanctions against Sudan;
ministers to meet with ECOWAS counterparts on
Saturday (4 Sep).
US blasts UN report that understates relationship
between GoS and Janjaweed. The government of
Sudans responsibility is clear, says State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher, citing
AP
George Rupp
Peter Bell
Janjaweed
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John Danforth
IRIN
Naivasha
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Report
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Ismail
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attacks on villages from 24-26 August where GoS

helicopters participated. John Danforth, US
Ambassador to the UN says Jan Pronk is flat out
wrong in claiming there was no evidence of recent
collaboration between Janjaweed and GoS.
The government of Sudan has not fully complied with
UN Security Council resolution 1556 and its failed
to meet fully its obligations to ensure the protection of
its own civilian population, says US State
Department spokesman Richard Boucher.
US plans to introduce new UN Security Council
Resolution as Colin Powell prepares to testify before
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 9 Sep about
Darfur.
AU will send more troops to Darfur if asked, says
President Obasanjo.
GoS continues to demand simultaneous disarmament
of Darfur rebels alongside Janjaweed, accusing
international community of double standards
demanding militias to disarm but not pressuring rebel
groups.
EU threatens possible sanctions against Sudan. It is
necessary to make it quite clear that we may be forced
to impose sanctions at some point in the future, says
Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot. A possible
embargo against Sudanese oil exports is floated.
Rebels report ceasefire violation, alleging that
Janjaweed killed three people in an attack on Friday
that SLM/A spokesman Abdelhafiz Mustafa Musa
says was witnessed by the AU Ceasefire Monitors.
GoS urges UN Security Council to support AU efforts
at mediating a peace in Abuja and not to take any
action while talks continue, according to Sudan
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Najib
Abdelwahab.
President Omar al-Bashir expresses the
governments seriousness and concern about resolving
the Darfur problem in all its dimensions.
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Richard Boucher
Jan Pronk
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Richard Boucher
Colin Powell
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
Janjaweed
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
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Bernard Bot
AFP
Janjaweed
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Abuja
Abdelhafiz
Mustapha Musa
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
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of sanctions. The EU will not impose sanctions and

we reject this and the government is living up to its
duty towards the people of Sudan, says National
Congress Partys Deputy Secretary General Nafie
ali Nafie.
AU peace talks deadlocked over issue of rebel
disarmament. Nigerian President and AU Chairman
Olusegun Obasanjo tries to persuade both sides to
make more concessions. A draft protocol on
humanitarian issues prepared by mediators on 2 Sep is
still unsigned after rebels demand the disbanding of the
Janjaweed as a pre-condition.
UN envoy says it is not yet time for sanctions. Jan
Pronk says you should always keep sanctions in mind
as a last instrument, but it is not yet time to use the last
instrument.
Pronk says progress has been made including
suspension of the disastrous policy of forced returns,
but that the key chapter of disarming Janjaweed was
yet to happen. Pronk says I do not have evidence of
close cooperation between the military and the
Janjaweed. But he goes on to say, What I want to
see is the military fighting the Janjaweed but theyre
not doing it.
Muslim scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian
cleric who has a popular show on Al-Jezeera, says that
reconciliation in Darfur is not impossible and the
conflict should not have even occurred given that the
warring factions are of one faith and one language.
Qaradawi says that Darfur sedition serves enemies
of Islam who seek to halt spread of the faith through
Africa.
Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi
considers extending aid to Sudan but only if fighting in
Darfur subsides.
UK calls on UN to establish clear benchmarks to
measure GoS efforts toward meeting its
responsibilities and resolving the conflict according to
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, addressing the
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Janjaweed
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Yoriko Kawaguchi
Jack Straw
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House of Commons.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan unsatisfied with
security measures to protect civilians in Darfur, saying
the government must redouble its efforts to protect the
population.
WFP cites difficulties in reaching target of feeding 1.2
million people in Darfur; falls short by reaching only
one million.
French troops begin airlift of supplies to Darfur
refugees in Goz-Beida camps, southeast of Abeche, in
southeastern Chad.
AP
Kofi Annan
AFP/AP
AFP
Goz-Beida
Refugee Camp
Abeche
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7 Sep
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8 Sep
8 Sep
Swedish Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds accuses

UN of dragging its feet on Darfur, alleging that Darfur
was put on the Security Council agenda far too late
due to states that do not even have seats on the
Council.
A new report by Save the Children UK, issued on 3
Sep, notes the widespread use of rape by militias as a
weapon of war, with rape survivors ranging between
10-40 years old in Darfur. According to the report,
other violations included killing of childrens family
members or relatives, recruitment into armed groups,
burning of homes and crops, poisoning of wells,
looting of property and animals, harassment and
intimidation.
AU mediators drop key demand in peace talks most
strongly opposed by rebels. Rebel groups would not
have to return to camps before Janjaweed are
disarmed. Instead, AU ceasefire monitors would
accompany both sides troops movements as GoS
disarms Janjaweed, according to revised peace
proposal.
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Ismail claims only
5,000 dead in Darfur fighting, challenging claims of
those who are saying 30,000 to 50,000, we are telling
them, tell us the names.
Additional AU monitors needed in Darfur as soon as
possible according to Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail. Speaking in Tokyo, he says Sudan is
AFP
Laila Freivalds
IRIN
Save the Children

UK report on rape as
a weapon of war
AP
Janjaweed
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP.
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Minister claims only
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fighting
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8 Sep
open. Whatever the AU will suggest, we will adopt it

and we will work on it.
GoS rejects draft protocol presented by AU mediators
which drops rebel cantonment requirement. Sudanese
Deputy Foreign Minister Najeib Abdelwahab says
that some of the latest proposals contradict Sudans
obligations, such as reduction of forces while we have
arelady taken a commitment to the UN to deploy police
forces in Darfur.
US introduces draft resolution in UN Security Council
which calls for another 30 day period for Sudan to
comply with previous resolution, calls for international
commission of inquiry to be established, calls on Sudan
to stop military flights over Darfur and endorses rapid
expansion of AU monitoring mission. The draft also
raises the possibility of sanctions under Article 41
regarding oil.
The proposed resolution is designed to increase
political pressure on Khartoum to accept a UN
proposal to expand a small AU observer mission into a
force of more than 3,000 African peacekeepers.
However, the current draft does not include a deadline
for Sudanese compliance. (WP)
OCHA expresses worry about the humanitarian
situation in North Darfur after thousands of new
IDPs, reporting fresh attacks, arrive in Zam Zam
camp near El Fasher, North Darfur. Jennifer
Abrahamson of OCHA Sudan says, There have
been unconfirmed reports of increased insecurity
around Thabit, south of the camp.
AFP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
AP/AFP, WP
IRIN
Zam Zam IDP

Camp
al-Fashir
Thabit
Kalma IDP
Camp
UNHCR reports that a large number of new IDPS have

arrived in Kalma camp from Yassin area, southeast
of Nyala, South Darfur.
Yassin
Nyala
9 Sep
In testimony before the US Senate Foreign Relations

Committee, US Secretary of State Colin Powell
labels Darfur atrocities genocide and presents evidence
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NYT, WP
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taken from 1,136 refugee witness statements reporting

racial slurs, direct GoS military involvement, aerial
bombardment, rapes. (AFP)
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m
We concluded that genocide has been committed in

Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the
Janjaweed bear responsibility and genocide may
still be occurring, says Powell. (AP, British official
agrees with Powell)
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9 Sep
Yet Powell states that no new action is dictated by this

determination.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell cites Article VIII
of the Convention on Genocide which provides that
signatories may call on the UN to take action as they
consider appropriate for the prevention and
suppression of acts of genocide. Powell calls on the
UN to undertake a full investigation into all violations
of international humanitarian law and human rights law
that have occurred in Darfur, with a view to ensuring
accountability.
UK Foreign Office Minister Chris Mullin appears to
support US conclusion of genocide in Darfur, noting
it may well be genocide and that is why we are
supporting Colin Powells call for the United Nations
to investigate urgently. Whatever you call it, there is
no doubt that grave crimes against humanity have been
committed in Darfur.
EU more cautious on genocide label, with EU
spokesman Jean-Charles Ellermann-Kingombe
saying we are extremely concerned, but that we
have not discussed specifically the use of the word
genocide. For us, we have noted that there is an
extremely serious situation that still requires a huge
humanitarian aid effort.
Sudan Parliamentary Speaker Angelo Beda
confident that UN will not impose sanctions over
Darfur. Commenting on latest US draft resolution,
Beda says, this is our reaction: we dont think the US
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suffering in
Darfur)
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suffering in
Darfur)
Chris Mullin
AP
Jean-Charles
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investigation
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will make it in the Security Council.We are a

member (of the UN), we have our supporters.
Al-Anbaa reports that rebels abduct GoS official Saeed
Sinein Madibu, who is local official tasked with
eliminating kidnappings.
Amnesty International to send eight-person factfinding mission to Darfur.
First convoy of food supplies arrives from Libya by
overland route.
US Senator Chuck Hagel says the US must work hard
on the periphery to combat atrocities in Darfur, but
should not be too quick to contribute troops. This is
an African problem, the Nebraska Republican said,
Yes, its an issue for us, but African nations must
develop mechanisms and structures and associations to
deal with their own problems.
Sudanese Deputy Foreign Minister Najeeb Al-Khair
Abdel-Wahab criticizes Colin Powells remarks. We
dont think this kind of attitude can help the situation in
Darfur. We expect the international community to
assist the process that is taking place in Abuja, and not
put oil on the fire.
NATO ready to cooperate with EU in Darfur. NATO
Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer says I
believe that we have to think creatively how we can
work together. For example by giving logistic or other
assistance to the AU, if it would ask.
Sudan Finance Minister Ahmed Hassan al-Zubeir
criticizes Colin Powells genocide conclusion as, just
another sort of pressure brought against the
Government of Sudan by the US and Western
Governmentsthat shows the US is not a friend of
Sudan. Al-Zubeir says we will prove that...the
conflict in Sudan is an internal tribal problem and not
genocide.
Chairman of US Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, Richard Lugar proposes additional $300
million in relief to stem Sudanese humanitarian crisis
under Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act. (200
million would go directly to Darfur).
AFP
Saeed Sinein
Madibu
Irony
AFP
AFP
Libya
AP
AP
Chuck Hagel
Abuja
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Colin Powell
AFP
Jaap de Hoop
Scheffer
AFP
Ahmed Hassan alZubeir

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Richard Lugar
GoS labels conflict in

Sudan as an internal
tribal problem

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9 Sep
9 Sep
9 Sep
SPLM/A leader John Garang welcomes US

genocide label for Darfur. So indeed it is
genocide, Garang says after meeting with Colin
Powell in Washington.
The US should ensure the immediate deployment of
an effective international force to disarm militia,
protect civilians and facilitate delivery of humanitarian
assistance in Darfur.If I were president, I would act
now.I would not sit idly by, says Senator John
Kerry, Democratic presidential hopeful. US should
also appoint Ambassador to AU, just as to the EU,
Kerry suggests.
UN Security Council divided over latest US
resolution with Russia, China and Pakistan voicing
strong objections. Munir Akram, the Pakistani
ambassador says, We want to concentrate on keeping
the government of Sudan engaged and not go down a
path that could terminate that engagement. The
Chinese ambassador, Wang Guangya, suggests that
China might veto the resolution.
The UN says that witnesses reported attacks on Golol
and Thur villages in South Darfur on 3 Sep.
AFP
US Senator Jon Corzine and former UN

ambassador Richard Holbrooke, both returning from
a visit to Darfur, write in the Washington Post that the
goal of the central government in supporting and
encouraging the Janjaweed seems clear: to
depopulate that is, destroy the villages and create
as many refugees as possible in order to eliminate the
village structure in Darfur.
President Bush appalled by violence in Darfur.
Bush says, Our government has led the international
effort to end the suffering there by speaking clearly
about the crisis and sending assistance to the suffering.
We have concluded that genocide has taken place in
Darfur. We urge the international community to work
with us to prevent and suppress acts of genocide.
WP
Washington,
D.C.
John Garang
Colin Powell
AFP
John Kerry
AFP, NYT
Munir Akram
Guangya Wang
UN Situation
Report
Golol
Thur
9 Sep
10 Sep
Jon Corzine
Richard Holbrooke
Janjaweed
AFP
Bush goes on: The government of Sudan has not
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complied with UN Security Council Resolutions, and

has not respected the cease-fire which it signed. It is
clear that only outside action can stop the killing.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell admits that there
is an overall reluctance by the international
community to impose sanctions amid worries that they
might fail, but says the EU would back the United
States.
GoS Parliamentary Speaker Angelo Beda accuses
Western powers of playing with the word genocide
as a pretext to come in with occupying forces for the
sake of oil.
Norway set to host Sudan donors conference in Oslo
27 and 28 Sep.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail accuses
Bush administration of using Sudan genocide charge as
election ploy, to distract voters from Iraq.
AFP
Colin Powell
Angelo Beda
AFP
Oslo
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
George W. Bush
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10 Sep
26 Aug
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10 Sep,
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10 Sep
10 Sep
Darfur peace talks resume in Abuja, then adjourn for

weekend.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Walter
Lindner labels Darfur a humanitarian and human
rights tragedy with the potential for genocide.
Recent violence produces fresh exodus of refugees into
Chad.
Oxfam claims that between 26 August and 7 Sep,
camp Greda (100 km south of Nyala in South
Darfur) which it helps run, has seen its population
swell from 10,00 to 40,000 within seven days,
putting a massive strain on resources and
infrastructure.
President Bush and President Thabo Mbeki of
South Africa discuss Darfur.
Canada gives $770,000 for Darfur relief through
CIDA. Canada remains deeply concerned by the
ongoing violence in Darfur, says Foreign Minister
Pierre Pettigrew.
AFP (Several
articles)
AFP
Abuja
AFP, IRIN
Chad
Walter Lindner
Gereida IDP
Camp
Gemma Stewart,
Oxfam Canada
communications
officer in Sudan
Nyala
AFP
George W. Bush
AFP
Thabo Mbeki
Pierre Pettigrew
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USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios says NorthSouth peace accords can help serve as model for
Darfur conflict resolution.
Colin Powell is making a big mistake, says Sudan
Deputy Foreign Minister Najeeb Al-Khair AbdelWahab, one which will hurt chances for peace.
AP
Andrew Natsios
AP
Colin Powell
Pakistans ambassador to the UN, Munir Akram,

says Colin Powells statement has weakened the US
case for a commission of inquiry because of the
predetermined outcome: If you already brand it as
genocide even before an inquiry, I think that might be
more difficult.
The SLM/A and JEM say Powells determination
confirms what they have been saying all along.
SLM/A spokesman Abdelhafiz Mustafa Musa:
Weve had the same position all this while that the
Sudanese government has been using the Janjawid
militia to kill innocent people in Darfur. It shows
weve been fighting a legitimate cause.
Rebel Southern Govenor of Equatoria Samuel
Abujohn praises US genocide declaration, but cautions
that Darfur conflict could overshadow needs of
Southern Sudan.
President Omar al-Bashir says the situation in
Darfur is reassuring, contrary to what the others are
saying at present about what is going on in Darfur, in
comments broadcast on state-run TV.
Sudan Deputy Foreign Minister Najeib Abdelwahab
says US genocide position is an isolated one and that
nobody stands with [Powell].
WP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Munir Akram
AU special envoy General Abdusalame Abubakar

intensifying efforts to salvage Abuja peace talks.
Rebel fighters attack five villages in district of Um
Kaddadah, in North Darfur, burning police stations
and looting, according to Al Hayat daily.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari calls for an
effective Arab role, particularly by the Arab League
to help Sudan resolve the Darfur problem, and pledges
AFP
Abuja
AFP, citing Al
Hayat
Um Kaddadah
Colin Powell
IRIN
Colin Powell
Abdelhafiz
Mustapha Musa
Janjaweed
AP
Samuel Abujohn
AP, citing
state-run TV
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
AFP
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that Iraq will support Sudans territorial integrity.

Senator John Kerry, Democratic Presidential hopeful,
calls Darfur genocide and warns we simply cannot
accept another Rwanda.
US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern
Affairs William Burns says international pressure
must be kept on Sudan, including threat of sanctions.
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says
hopefully before the end of this year, we will sign a
final peace agreement ending the conflict in Darfur.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says that the US
needs help from the international community to
pressure Sudan on Darfur. We cant operate alone in
this one, Powell says on ABCs This Week.
US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice
says that the AU should remain in the lead to get an
augmentation of the AU force that is already on the
ground and that the US is prepared to help get them
there.
WHO says that six to ten thousand are dying each
month in Darfur refugee camps. Attacks have killed at
least 50,000 since the crisis began in February 2003,
but WHO estimates 148 deaths/day from disease,
malnutrition among IDP population in West Darfur
alone; in North Darfur WHO estimates 56 deaths per
day, and in South Darfur, WHO finds even higher
mortality rates.
Sudan Ambassador to UN al-Fatih Urwah says US
draft resolution contradicts UN report submitted by
Jan Pronk on situation in Darfur.
US Deputy Secreteary of State Richard Armitage
says US is willing to make changes to draft UN
Security Council resolution but wants as strong a
resolution as possible.
Egyptian and Chinese Foreign Ministers agree on
necessity of not reaching the point when the Security
Council sanctions are imposed on Khartoum.
AFP
John Kerry
AFP
William Burns
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
Colin Powell
Condoleeza Rice
AP, UN
Situation
report
West Darfur
David Nabarro,
WHO crisis leader
North Darfur
South Darfur
AFP
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
Jan Pronk
Richard Armitage
AFP
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Chinese Foreign
Minister
WHO mortality study
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US declaration of genocide very destructive and has

had a very negative impact on the climate of the
negotiations, in Abuja says Sudanese Ambassador
to Nigeria Rahim Khalil. The rebels are now more
intransigent, more demanding. America should have
respected the efforts of the AU, he says.
Human Rights Watch calls for tougher UN Security
Council action including arms embargo on Janjaweed.
AFP
UN Secretary-Generals spokesman Fred Eckhard

says that any genocide investigation would take some
time to be completed.
EU renews sanctions threat against GoS: In the
immediate future the EU willtake appropriate
measures, including sanctions against the GoS and all
other parties if no tangible process is achieved in
disarming Janjaweed. The EU also calls on Kofi
Annan to establish a commission of inquiry to
determine whether genocide has been committed.
Once we have received the report, it will be clear if
we are dealing with genocide or not.
Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Taha denies
genocide and says we believe this was part of the
election campaign and a result of pressure by the
Zionist lobby.There is no genocide in Darfur and
there is no evidence or signs of genocide, not even
mass killings.
SLM/A threatens to walk out of Abuja peace talks.
The AU urges the US to provide more support in
Sudan after US Secretary of State Colin Powells
comments describing the ongoing violence as
genocide.
AFP
China lobbies US to revise its draft UN Security

Council resolution, saying under the current
situation, to exert pressure and threaten to adopt
AFP
Abuja
AFP
Ahmed Abul Gheit,

Egyptian Foreign
Minister
Abdel Rahim Kalil
Peter
Takirambudde,
HRW Africa
division director
Fred Eckhard
AFP
Bernard Bot, Dutch

foreign minister
Janjaweed
Kofi Annan
AFP
AFP
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Mohammed Taha
Abuja
Colin Powell
Sam Ibok, Director
of AUs Peace and
Security Council
Quan Kong
Sudanese VP Taha
says no genocide in
Darfur not even
mass killings
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sanctions will serve nothing but make the Darfur issue

more complicated, according to Foreign Ministry
Spokesman Kong Quan. Quan continues, The
international community should give positive comment
on and support to Sudans effort and allow enough time
to fulfill its commitment.
Turkey to send two planeloads of humanitarian aid to
Darfur.
Egypt backs Sudan with full support for the Sudanese
governments efforts to normalize the situation in the
Darfur region, says Hosni Mubaraks spokesman
Maged Abul Fatah.
Abuja talks at breaking point, with current session to
decide whether it will be the end of the talks or not
for top JEM negotiator Ahmed Tugod Lissan.
France suspends Abeche-to-Sudanese Border air
bridge as food stocks deemed sufficient. French
Foreign Minister Renaud Muselier meets with
Sudan Deputy Foreign Minister El Tijani Fidail and
Deputy Humanitarian Affairs Minister Youssouf
Abdallah.
US softens threat of oil sanctions against Sudan, but
newly revised draft resolution, still shall consider
taking additional measures. Original draft demands
GoS cease all military flights over Darfur while new
draft calls on GoS to cease flights.
AFP
Turkey
AFP
Maged Abdul
Fatah
AFP
Abuja
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
AFP
Abeche
Renaud Muselier
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
Guangya Wang
AP, NYT
The revisions are made in part due to Chinas

opposition with their UN Ambassador Wang
Guangya saying any use of the means of sanctions or
threates of sanctions, is difficult for my government.
14 Sep
14 Sep
The new draft preserves language calling for the UN to

set up an international commission to determine
whether genocide is occurring, and strengthens the
AUs role. (NYT)
GoS Humanitarian Minister Ibrahim Hamid
contests WHO death rate figures.
Fighting reported between GoS and SLA forces in
AP
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Hamid
Medo
14 Sep
Medo, 30 km north of Mellit (North Darfur) on 12

Sep. Six police officers allegedly killed, unknown
number injured.
Report
UN reports that approximately 22 IDPs traveling from

Nertiti, West Darfur to Kass, South Darfur were
attacked by Janjaweed between Thur and Nyama.
One IDP reportedly killed, one reportedly injured.
UN Situation
Report
Mallit
Nertiti
Janjaweed
Kas
Thur
15 Sep
UN Security Council ponders US draft resolution.

Chinese Ambassador Wang Guangya says changes
are cosmetictheres no change in substance.
Politically speaking, it is difficult for my government
to approve.
AP
Nyama
New York
Guangya Wang
Addis Ababa
Andrei Denisov
Abdallah Baali
Russian Ambasador Andrey Denisov says, We

dont like itthose sanctions and specifically
mentioning oil.
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Algerian Ambassador Abdallah Baali says his

country doesnt support an international commission to
investigate genocide because the AU has
alreadydetermined there was no genocide and no
ethnic cleansing at its Addis Ababa summit in July.
NATO considers request from UN to provide military
logistical support to envisioned AU peacekeeping
force.
Limited number of US troops currently assisting AU
ceasefire monitoring team (approximately 2 to 4).
Peace talks collapse in Abuja.
US vows to push through UN resolution despite fierce
opposition. Anyone who vetoes will have to explain
why they did not help protect the people of Darfur,
said Richard Grenell, spokesman for UN
Ambassador John Danforth.
US Senate calls for removal of Sudan from UN
Human Rights Commission.
AP
AP
AP/AFP
AFP
Abuja
AFP
Washington,
D.C.
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Tom Daschle
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GoS claims it is still ready to negotiate at Abuja.

Responding to the latest WHO mortality study,
Sudanese Minister of Humanitarian Affairs
Ibrahim Mahmoud Hamid says that this assessment
is not correct and states that the death rate is
decreasing.
UN officials caution that the results are preliminary
and that death rates might actually be higher. David
Nabarro of WHO says they are worried that they are
underestimating mortality rates.
Mediators hold out hope that SLM/A will still sign
humanitarian protocol despite JEMs refusal to
continue talks. SLM/A spokesman Abduljabbar
Dofa says his group still wants to negotiate.
GoS accuses Southern SPLM/A leader John Garang
of involvement in Darfur conflict. Deputy Foreign
Minister Fidail el Tijani tells Radio France
International that directly, or indirectly, hes there.
China refuses to rule out veto on Darfur crisis.
EU Parliament says Darfur situation tantamount to
genocide. In a vote of 566 to 6 with 16 abstentions,
the resolution passes, urging an end to impunity and
calling on the international community to find a way to
bring those guilty of war crimes including those
responsible in the current Sudanese regime to justice
before the International Criminal Court.
AFP
WP
Abuja
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
David Nabarro
AFP/AP
AFP
Abuja
Abduljabbara Dofa
John Garang
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
AFP
AP/AFP
EU Parliament labels
Darfur situation
tantamount to
genocide
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EU lawmakers also urge UN Security Council to

consider a global arms embargo on Sudan.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan calls for urgent

action to stop attacks on civilians in Darfur and
announces that he is sending UN High Commissioner
on Human Rights Louise Arbour and Special
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Louise Arbour
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Adviser on Genocide Juan Mendez to Sudan over the

weekend.
Peace talks slated to continue in Abuja on 10 Oct.
US circulates third draft of Security Council
resolution. Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile,
who says he will vote for the measure, says, We know
that one should not push a government so far that there
is no cooperation. At the same time, we cannot have a
weak resolution that is so weak it sends the wrong
message. China still has not ruled out a veto.
Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos
will head for Sudan on Friday (17 Sep) for talks with
President Omar al-Bashir, Jan Pronk and a visit to
Darfur. Spain holds EU presidency.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls for
immediate UN Security Council action on Darfur, and
says he is eager to set up a commission of inquiry to
investigate whether genocide has occurred in the
region.
The UN reports the presence of approximately 985
households of IDPs in El Bisharia village, 2.5 km
south of El Fasher (North Darfur). The IDPs,
originally from six villages around El Fasher (Abu
Delieg, Fireash, Shawa, Saroor, Umm Gamina,
Bargo), claim to have been attacked by armed men
whom they believe to be Janjaweed between 29
August and 2 Sep. IDPs report that gunmen raped,
looted and beat many of the residents.

Juan Mendes
AFP
AFP
Abuja
New York
AFP
Heraldo Munoz
Miguel Angel
Moratinos
Omar Al-Bashir
Jan Pronk
Kofi Annan
AFP, NYT
UN Situation
Report
El Bisharia
See IRIN report

below Oct 1
al- Fashir
Abu Dileig
Fireash
Shawa
Saroor
Umm Gamina
17 Sep
17 Sep
Four Sudanese police officers reportedly killed in

attack by Darfur rebels in North Darfur town of Liait
Jar al-Nabi in Um Kaddadah district.
US Congressional delegation to visit Darfur to assess
AFP
Bargo
Liait Jar al-Nabi
Um Kaddadah
AFP, citing
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Amnesty International claims that Sudanese forces in

Darfur do not have orders to disarm Janjaweed. Irene
Khan of Amnesty International reports that witnesses
have told her assessment team that disarming militias
was not part of security forces mandate.
US denies Sudanese allegation that genocide claim
poisoned Abuja peace talks. Any suggestion that
somehow the US determination of genocide was
detrimental or had a negative impact to the talks we
would reject outright, says Adam Ereli of the State
Department.
AU talks in Abuja adjourned for one month.
Sudan pledges strict adherence to the ceasefire on
land and air and the commitment to secure and
facilitate humanitarian access without any restriction
and make the life in Darfur easier and better in a
statement released by GoS negotiators at Abuja peace
talks.
German Defense Minister Peter Struck says that
atrocities in Darfur amounted to genocide and that he
will not rule out sending peacekeeping troops. Struck
says, We cannot simply look on when a part of the
continent is experiencing genocide.
US Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. calls for action
after visiting Darfur.
AFP
UN Security Council approves US resolution (UN

Security Council Resolution 1564) demanding that
GoS rein in Janajweed or face possible sanctions.
Vote is 11-0 with four abstentions Russia, China,
Pakistan and Algeria. Resolution authorizes UN
Secretary General Kofi Annan to appoint
commission of inquiry to determine if genocide has
been committed.
Jim Kolbe
Janjaweed
Irene Khan
AFP
Abuja
AFP
AP
Abuja
Abuja
AP
AP
AP/AFP, NYT
Adam Ereli
Peter Struck
Abou Shouk IDP

Camp
Zam Zam IDP
Camp
New York
Jesse Jackson Jr.
Kofi Annan
UN Security Council
approves Resolution
1564
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1564 warns that the Security Council will envisage

sanctions against the Sudanese oil industry. (AFP 19
Sept, Sudan vows to implement unfair UN
resolution)
Sudanese Speaker of Parliament warns that any
intervention in his country will open seven gates of
hell. If Iraq opened for the West one gate of hell, we
will open seven such gates, says Ahmed al-Taher.
Al-Taher continues, We will not surrender this
country to anybody.
Arab League rejects UN Security Council Resolution
which envisages possible sanctions with League
Spokesman Hossam Zaki saying, Imposing
sanctions will not help resolve the crisis or encourage
the parties to try to end it. In fact, it will have the
opposite effect.
Sudan condemns UN Security Council Resolution
1564. as Sudanese Ambassador Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Eraw calls the resolution the worst form of
injustice and indignity. However, Sudan pledges it
will abide and reaffirmed it commitment to
implementing the Security Council resolution, says
Junior Foreign Minister Naguib al-Khair Abdel
Wahab after a cabinet meeting chaired by Vice
President Ali Osman Taha.
President Omar al-Bashir says We are afraid neither
of the UN nor of its resolution. Meanwhile, UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour
meets with GoS Justice Minister Ali Osman
Mohamed Yassin, who claims there is no genocide or
cases of rape in Darfur.
After the Security Council vote, US Ambassador
John Danforth warns Khartoum that if they continue
to persecute their people or if Khartoum does not
cooperate with the AU, the council will indeed have
to consider sanctions against it and individuals
responsible for the disaster.
Russia calls on Sudan to fulfill its commitments to the
UN to end Darfur violence, but still notes the threat of
sanctions on Sudan is not the best method to induce
AFP
Ahmed Ibraim ElTahir
AFP
Hossam Zaki
AFP, NYT
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Eraw
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AP
Omar Al-Bashir
Louise Arbour
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AP
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Osman Yassin
John Danforth
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21 Sep
Khartoums compliance with its commitments to the

United Nations. We think that to resolve the difficult
crisis situation, the international community has at its
disposal diplomatic instruments that have proven their
effectiveness, says the Russian Foreign Ministry in a
statement.
President Omar al-Bashir says the UN Security
Council resolution could have been much tougher, but
it failed, and the resolution came out less bad than
(Washington) had wanted thanks to the true friends
who stood up in the face of the unfair draft resolution.
Bashir singles out Russia, China, Algeria and
Pakistan, all of whom abstained.
GoS Cabinet begins detailed consideration of UN
Security Council resolution with a view to
formulating a plan to address its demands, according to
Junior Foreign Minsiter Al-Tigani Salih Fidhail.
Sudanese Army denies reports of renewed fighting in
North Darfur, with spokesman General Mohamed
Beshir Suleiman insisting that there had been no battle
in Tawelah, south of El Fasher. The military
situation has been quiet all over Darfur region during
the past days, and life is quite normal, he says.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan vows to establish
Commission of Inquiry with all speed and urges
that during the interim, no one treat this as a respite.
Annan adds, Let no one imagine that this affair
concerns Africans only. The victims are human beings
whose human rights must be sacred to all.
US President George Bush urges GoS to honor
ceasefire and stop the killing in Darfur.
Darfur refugees tell UNHCHR Louise Arbour that
former Janjaweed militiamen are now appearing in
refugee camps as police guards. Arbour tells BBC
Radio that there is a widespread belief they are being
protected by their very oppressors, and that there is a
total sense of impunity.
UN reports an attack on 15 Sep on police post in
Burush, 200 km east of El Fasher (North Darfur).
Burush villagers anxious as they anticipate future
AFP
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Tawila
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
al-Fashir
Mohamed Beshir
Suleiman
AFP
Kofi Annan
AFP
George W. Bush
AFP
Louise Arbour
Janjaweed
UN Situation
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attacks.
SLA reportedly attack police post near Bobay Segili,
71 km west of El Fasher (North Darfur).
UN Situation
Report
UN reports armed Arab militia attacks on Amdur, 16

km northeast of Nyala, South Darfur and Mummu,
28 km from Nyala, on 16-17 Sep. Arab militias
allegedly burning villages along Wadi Amdur for past
three days.
UN Situation
Report
UN officials travel to Kulbus area, West Darfur, to

investigate reports that IDPs of Arab origin being
displaced because of recent attacks by SLA.
UN OCHA spokeswoman Jennifer Abrahamson
says that during the month of August, 100,000 IDPs in
Darfur could not be reached by aid workers because of
insecurity (70,000 in South Darfur, 25,000 in North
Darfur, and 5,000 in West Darfur). Insecurity
remains an enormous concern for us, Abrahamson
says.
Darfur rebels release group of eight hostages, including
aid workers and journalists, kidnapped one month ago.
AU Commission Chair Alpha Oumar Konare says it
is ready to send 4,000 to 5,000 troops to Darfur within
days, weeks especially if it is able to receive logistical
support from UN and western nations.
Arab League will participate in two-day IGAD
(Intergovernmental Authority on Development)
meeting in Norway to discuss efforts to bring about
peace in Sudan.
UN warns of escalating tensions between Chadians
and Darfur refugees.
UN Situation
Report
Guillermo Bettocchi, UN Deputy Representative on

protection says the last cross-border attack happened
three weeks ago.
Canada to give $15.4 million to expanded AU mission
to Darfur, Prime Minister Paul Martin announces
during speech to UN General Assembly.
Bobay Segili
al-Fashir
Amdur
Nyala
Mummu
IRIN
Wadi Amdur
Kulbus
South Darfur
Jennifer
Abrahamson
North Darfur
West Darfur
AP
AP
Alpha Oumar
Konare
AFP
Norway
AFP
Chad
Guillermo
Bettocchi
Breidjing
Refugee Camp
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GoS Justice Minister Ali Mohamed Osman Yassin

says ten members of the regular armed forces are to be
tried for human rights abuses in Darfur. The move is
in line with an agreement with the United Nations for
arresting and trying anyone suspected of committing a
crime in Darfur.
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of launching first attack
outside Darfur in town of Ghibaish in West Kordofan
state, killing eight, according to Interior Ministry.
Chad appeals for help from world to share the
burden of housing refugees. Mahamat Nour
Abdoulaye, Secretary of Chadian National
Commission for Reintegration of Refugees says,
Its high time that Chadians who opened their doors
and hearts also get some attention and relief.
Kingsley Amaning, senior UN official coordinating
UN efforts in Chad says there is an impending
disaster waiting to happen on this side.
Jan Pronk tells GoS it has the responsibility to stop
the militias. If you cannot do it, you dont have the
capacity for it or not enough capacity, then certainly
you have to ask for international support. Pronk
notes a drop in the attacks against civilians by
uniformed personnel.
GoS says it will not disarm Arab militias, claiming that
not all are members of the Janjaweed. The GoS and
international community were not in agreement over
the definition of the Janjaweed, says National
Congress Party Secretary General Ibrahim Omar.
Omar says, Disarming the Janjaweed as we
understand it has begun, but disarming the Janjaweed
as the international community defines them is
unacceptable.
SLM/A urges UN to carry out envisaged sanctions
against Sudans oil sector, with chief negotiator at
Abuja, Sharif Harir noting, The government is using
this oil revenue to buy weapons, guns, Antonovs to kill
people. SLM/A warns that if attacked, they will
resume fighting in Darfur.

AFP
AFP
AFP
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
Ghibaish
Mahamat Nour
Abdoulaye
Kingsley Amaning
AP
Jan Pronk
AFP
Janjaweed
Ibrahim Omar
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AU ready to send up to 5,000 troops to Darfur, says

Nigerian President Obasanjo, but needs hundreds of
millions of dollars more than the 20 million pledged by
Canada.

AP, NYT
Olusegun Obasanjo
Obasanjo says, The internal affairs of every country

today is the concern of the international community
and more so, in Africa, the concern of the AU.
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(The AU currently has about 90 military observers in

Darfur and 300 troops to protect them.)
US Congress approves $680 million in aid for Darfur.
Aid package includes $75 million for AU
peacekeeping, in an amendment added by Senators
John Corzine and Mike DeWine. The real challenge
is to make sure we stop genocide, not just feed the
hungry, Corzine says.
UN says there are approximately 1.5 million IDPs in
the Darfur region: 437,597 in North Darfur, 410,966
in South Darfur, and 601,127 in West Darfur).
IDPs in Birka Seyra, 20 km west of Kebkabiya,
North Darfur, remain fearful of attacks, following
raids by militias last month. Residents of the area
reportedly paying bribes to militias whom they believe
to be Janjaweed to avoid future attacks.
IDPs from Dagali and Tagla in the Taasha area of
South Darfur, arrive at Dreige camp, following
attacks on their villages by armed groups on 22 Sep.
AP
Washington,
D.C.
Mike DeWine
UN Situation
Report
North Darfur
UN Situation
Report
West Darfur
Birkat Saira
Kebkabiya
UN Situation
Report
Dagali
Tagla
Dreige IDP
Camp
The EU says it welcomes last weeks adoption by the
UN Security Council on a resolution threatening
Sudan with sanctions if it fails to protect civilians in
Darfur, and stresses the urgency of ending the climate
of impunity in Darfur by bringing to justice those
1.5 million IDPs in

Darfur
South Darfur
Taasha
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responsible for the abuse.

Lubbers suggests need for some clear partition of
power in Darfur. Lubbers says that such autonomy
will not put the territorial integrity of the Sudan at
risk. Sudan state minister for humanitarian affairs
Mohammed Youssef Abdullah says that GoS might
be willing to discuss autonomy for Darfur. (AP)
AP/AFP, IRIN
Ruud Lubbers
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
Charles Snyder
We are ready to share power and resources in Darfur,

we are ready for genuine federalism, says
Information Minister Al-Zhawi Ibrahim Malik
earlier. (AFP)
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25 Sep
Charles Snyder, US State Department Senior

Representative on Sudan says it could take up to two
years to disarm Arab militia and secure the region for
the return of 1.2 million people who fled their homes.
There are no 30-day, 90-day quick fixes to Darfur,
Snyder says. This is going to take, in my view 18
months to two years to conclude the first phase of
securing Darfur. (AP)
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says US willing
to provide financial assistance to proposed AU
deployment in Darfur. I think the international
community understands the importance of this effort
and the money will be forthcoming, but we have to
have a good handle on how much is needed, what
capabilities are needed and what it will take to put this
force into the field and to sustain it.
UNHCR Ruud Lubbers tells of rising tensions at
refugee camps in Chad on visit to Iriba camp.
Sudan opposition National Democratic Alliance
leader Mohammed Osman al-Mirghani arrives in
Cairo for negotiations with Vice President Ali Osman
Taha next Tuesday.
GoS claims it has foiled a coup attempted on Friday by
supporters of Hassan al-Turabi. SPLA spokesman
Samson Kwaje, however, claims that the government
AP
AFP
AFP
AFP
Colin Powell
Iriba Refugee
Camp
Cairo
Ruud Lubbers
Mohammed Osman
al-Mirghani
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Hasan al-Turabi
Samson Kwaje
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Lubbers suggest
autonomy for parts of
Darfur
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is merely trying to divert international attention and

pressure it is getting over the Darfur conflict.
West Darfur governor General Suleiman Abdullah
Adam says JEM was behind the attempted coup on 24
Sep.
UNHCR Chief Ruud Lubbers says I think [the GoS]
will give Darfur limited autonomy under the
framework of Khartoums territorial integrity. Sudan,
Lubbers notes, is under very great pressure.
Lubbers says to rebel groups, you have achieved
enough to sit down at the negotiating table.
Lubbers tours Darfur and is accompanied by West
Darfur governor Suleiman Abdullah Adam who
says, We hope there will be more autonomy to the
states. We believe this would be a solution to the
problems.
GoS announces convictions of militiamen for murder,
pillage and other crimes in Darfur. Three received
death sentences while six others were sentenced to
terms of prison between 3 and 5 years, according to the
Sudanese Media Center.
GoS agrees to accept proposed increase in AU
protection force supporting monitoring team in Darfur.
GoS Agriculture Minister Majzoub al-Khalia
Ahmed says the GoS has sent official messages to the
AU and UN consenting to more troops.
UNHCR chief Ruud Lubbers pledges more aid for
Darfur, promising to boost relief distribution, after
touring makeshift camp 150 km north of Geneina.
MSF says that malnutrition and mortality rates are
beyond emergency levels in Kalma camp, near
Nyala. 2,500 have died in the camp in the past 7
months according to Vince Hoedt, MSF programcoordinator in South Darfur. 57% of deaths in adults
were related to violence, although diarrhea was the
leading cause of death overall.
Donors meeting on international aid for Sudan begins
in Oslo, Norway .
UNHCR head Ruud Lubbers warns that at least
AP
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
AFP (two
articles)
Ruud Lubbers
Sulieman Abdullah
Adam
AFP, citing
SMC
GoS announces
convictions of
miliamen for crimes
in Darfur
AFP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
AFP
El Geneina
Ruud Lubbers
AFP
Kalma IDP
Camp
Vince Hoedt
Nyala
AFP
IRIN
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Ruud Lubbers
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another 100,000 people are about to flee Darfur to seek

refuge in Chad within the next seven months. UN
coordinator for Chad, Kingsley Amaning, says the
100,000 figure is a best-case scenario and that the
figure could be as many as 150,000.
GoS warns of tribal war if Arab tribal leaders are
pursued in Darfur. US State Department names
Sheik Musa Hillal and six others as coordinators or
Janjaweed atrocities. State Minister of Foreign
Affairs Najeib el-Kheir Abdelwahab defends Hilal
as having nothing to do with the Janjaweed. He is a
tribal leader of a very big, very significant tribe.
Abdelwahab warns of a significant tribal
conflagration leading to the dismemberment of
Sudan if tribal leaders were being fingered as
opposed to Janjaweed leaders.
GoS Junior Foreign Minister Naguib al-Khair
Abdel Wahab backtracks on autonomy for Darfur,
rejecting calls from UNHCR Ruud Lubbers for
geniuine federalism and that self-rule for Darfur would
not be considered until a later stage in negotiations,
currently on hold in Abuja.
Cairo peace talks between NDA and GoS postponed.
UNHCR head Ruud Lubbers notes some
improvements in Darfur and says the commitment on
the part of the GoS to end violenceis visible on the
ground. Lubbers says it is unclear if there was an
organized unit of Janjaweed or whether there were
different Janjaweed.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise
Arbour, currently touring Darfur to assess the
situation, says that refugees continue to live in fear:
People cannot envisage returning home because they
do not trust the government of Sudan to protect them.
At best they feel the authorities respond inadequately
to their concerns, and at worst that they are in collusion
with their abusers.
MSF says the Darfur crisis is not over and that the
situation requires a response and there will be some
accounting for the lack of response, according to
Kingsley Amaning
AP
Musa Hilal
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Janjaweed
AFP
Abuja
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
Ruud Lubbers
AFP
AFP
Cairo
Ruud Lubbers
Janjaweed
Guardian
Louise Arbour
AFP
Kenny Gluck
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Sudanese official
defends Musa Hilal
as having nothing to
do with the
Janjaweed
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29 Sep
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30 Sep
Kenny Gluck, head of MSF international

humanitarian operations.
Uncertainty over when AU will send several
thousand troops to Darfur. Jan Pronk had said
enlarged AU force could deploy in Oct, but some AU
sources say thats not possible.
John Garang accuses GoS of using Darfur crisis to
delay conclusion of North-South peace talks. Garang
says it is necessary to grant self-rule to various
provinces of Sudan especially Darfur, the South and
the East.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says that some
countries, perhaps motivated by commercial interests,
doo not like the possibility of sanctions. USAID
Administrator Andrew Natsios notes that China and
Pakistan, two of the four UN Security Council
members that abstained in a recent vote on Darfur,
have commercial interests in Sudan.
UN Special Envoy for Sudan Jan Pronk appeals to
EU to provide logistical support for expanded AU
mission in Darfur.
GoS allows AU forces to monitor activities of police in
displaced person camps. Radhia Achouri,
spokewoman for Jan Pronk, says the move is aimed
at reassuring displaced persons, many of whom have
lost confidence in the police.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell disappointed that
other nations have not joined US in condemning Darfur
as genocide. I wish other people would have come
to the conclusion that we did that it constitutes
genocide. Maybe that would have ratcheted up more
pressure on the regime.
GoS Agriculture Minister Majzub al-Khalif Ahmed
criticizes Ruud Lubbers comments on automony for
Darfur, branding the UNHCR as unqualified for
handling political issue and accuses him of having
overstepped his limits in the Sudan. Ahmed denies
that the GoS is willing to grant Darfur greater
autonomy saying it does not speak at the moment
about autonomy to any region in the north.
AFP
Jan Pronk
AP
John Garang
AP
Colin Powell
Andrew Natsios
AP
AFP
Jan Pronk
Jumaina I IDP
Camp
Radhia Achouri
Jumaina II IDP
Camp
AFP
Colin Powell
AFP
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
Ruud Lubbers
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SPLM/A says it supports UN sanctions on Sudan to

help end Darfur crisis.
President Omar al-Bashir accuses US of supporting
the rebels in Darfur to the hilt.
Demographic study published in leading UK medical
journal The Lancet says Darfur violence is a
demographic catastrophe. Death rate is between 3
and 10 times higher than comparative rates elsewhere
in sub-Saharan Africa. (AFP)
Survey finds that during attacks and flight across
Darfur to refugee camps, death rates were between
6 and 95 per day per 10,000 people, above the
benchmark of 1 per 10,000 per day that the UN
considers an emergency situation. Inside the
displacement camps, in the Geneina region, death
rate was 5.6 per day, per 10,000. Normal rate for
sub-Saharan Africa is 0.5 per day per 10,000. (AP, 1
Oct.)
Janjaweed have been moved to Ethiopian border and
Southern Sudans oil regions, says SPLM/A leader
John Garang. This move was done to keep them out
of the sights of international monitors, according to
Garang. AU military monitors are investigating these
claims.
Arbour says that GoS and its security forces,
particularly the police and judicial system, are failing
the people of Darfur. Arbour describes a morphing
of the nature of attacks on civilians from one of largescale assaults to individual attacks now committed
on a massive scale.

AFP
AFP
AFP/ AP
AP (two
articles)
Omar A-Bashir
El Geneina
Evelyn De
Poortere,
epidemiologist
The Lancet reports on

death rates in Darfur
Janjaweed
John Garang
AFP (two
articles)
Louise Arbour
Juan Mendez
Juan Mendez, UN Special Advisor on genocide, does

not say genocide occurred, but does conclude that
crimes against humanity, war crimes and breaches of
the laws of war have probably occurred on a large and
systematic scale.
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GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says

Thursday 30 Sep that there is no famine in Darfur.
There is no epidemic in Darfur.(but) Im not saying
it is normal. Ismail also attributes fighting to tribal
conflicts and denies genocide or ethnic cleansing.
UN hopes for expanded AU force in Darfur by end of
October.
Sudan formally agrees to reinforcement of AU force in
Darfur, according to AU Commissioner for Peace
and Security Said Djinnit.
Many IDPs from Zam Zam Camp in North Darfur
reportedly detained at a police checkpoint on 26 Sep
without being told why they were held. Upon their
release, armed men attacked them and raped a number
of women.
3,000 IDPs from six villages around El Fasher (Abu
Delieg, Fireash, Shawa, Saroor, Umm Gamina and
Bargo) who had fled their homes in early September
and settled in El Bisharia camp, 2.5 km south of El
Fasher, reportedly forced to return to their village 10
days ago. Upon their return, many were attacked and
forced to flee to El-Fasher.
AP
Locations
Names
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
AFP
Said Djinnit
IRIN
Zam Zam IDP

Camp
IRIN
al-Fashir
Janjaweed
Abu Dileig
Fireash
Shawa
These IDPs report being initially attacked by armed

men, whom they believe to be Janjaweed, in their
villages between 29 August and 2 Sep. The attackers
raped, looted and beat many of the villagers.
Saroor
Umm Gamina
Bargo
1 Oct
In an interview with Al-Ahram Weekly (published 28

September), Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir
accuses the US of setting up training camps in Eritrea
and arming Darfur rebel groups who have been
fighting the Sudanese government. A US State
WP (citing AlAhram
Weekly)
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El Bisharia IDP
Camp
Eritrea
Omar Al-Bashir
Notes
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1 Oct
1 Oct
Department official in Washington says that the

purpose of US policy in Sudan is to end the violence
and not funding, training, providing armaments to
the rebels.
Epicenter, a research arm of MSF, conducting the first
epidemiological study of the impact of conflict on
populations in Darfur, finds death rates in all four of
its survey sites in Darfur to be 3 to 10 times higher
than normal in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the
survey of 215,000 people confirms the severity of the
crisis, Epicenter does not substantiate the claims of
genocide, instead referring to the situation as a
demographic catastrophe.
Arbour and the UN Special Advisor for the
Prevention of Genocide, Juan Mendez, brief the UN
Security Council on their findings from a recent trip to
Darfur. Arbour says that her mission returned from
the region gravely concerned that the [Sudanese]
government [and] its security forces... are failing the
people of Darfur by not responding to reports of
violence and rape near IDP camps. Mendez stops
short of declaring the violence genocide, saying that a
new UN commission of inquiry will make that formal
determination. Mendez does say that crimes against
humanity, war crimes and breaches of the laws of war
have probably occurred on a large and systematic
scale.
During the first presidential debate for the 2004 US
presidential elections, Senator John Kerry and
President George Bush discuss the situation in Darfur
and agree that the violence constitutes genocide.
Senator Kerry says that the US cannot send American
troops into Darfur at this point because the US is
overextended in its commitments to other parts of the
world, namely Iraq. Kerry says that we cannot allow
another Rwanda. Its a moral responsibility for us in
the world. Bush reiterates Kerrys point that the US
should not be committing troops at this point, and
instead highlights the US $200 million contribution in
NYT
Paris-based
Evelyn De
Poortere,
epidemiologist
Epicenter finds death

rates in Darfur 3-10
times higher than
normal in subSaharan Africa
WP
New York
Louise Arbour
At this point, the

WHO estimates that
6,000-10,000
civilians are dying
each month from
violence and disease
Juan Mendez
NYT
John Kerry
George W. Bush
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2 Oct
29 Sept
2 Oct
2 Oct
3 Oct
aid and the US initiative at the UN on sanction policy

against Sudan.
Tanzania and Gambia urge GoS and rebel groups to
consider AU and UN peace proposals. Joint
communiqu by Presidents Benjamin Mkapa of
Tanzania and Yahya Jammeh of Gambia calls on
the parties to the conflict to respect peace proposals
by the UN and AU.
doubts that the current GoS government is committed
to peace. If the government continues the same policy
as today, we will fight even in Khartoum, Minnawi
warns.
In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations,
Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
discusses the need to increase the AU mandate: We
need to expand their mandate and to give them more
mandates, for protection, mandate for checking,
mandate for investigation, and yes, they need such
mandates.
The Sudanese government agrees to allow 3,500 AU
troops into Darfur, one week ahead of a Security
Council meeting over Jan Pronks new report on
Sudans progress regarding Darfur. Jan Pronks
spokeswoman Radhia Achour welcomes Khartuoms
statement and expresses hope for Khartoum to sustain
this level of cooperation once this mission is
deployed.
Currently, Sudan has only allowed 68 unarmed AU
monitors and 308 armed AU protection troops into
Darfur to supervise the cease-fire agreement.
SLM/A rejects attempt by GoS to hold separate talks
without JEM movement present.
AFP
Benjamin Mkapa
Yahya Jammeh
AFP
NYT
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
New York
NYT
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Jan Pronk
Radhia Achouri
AFP
North Kordofan
Khartoum
Meanwhile, Khartoum officials worry that Darfur

rebellion could spread, with National Congress
spokesman Abdel Wahab Hassan Hussein saying,
Fear grips North Kordofan in anticipation of raids by
the Darfur rebels. Attacking North Kordofan poses a
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threat to the capital Khartoum.

President Omar al-Bashir says GoS is ready to sign
peace deal with SPLM/A now and dismisses as
meaningless talk of autonomy for Darfur.
President Omar al-Bashir slams western role in
Darfur crisis as cover for missionary activity in
Sudan. Bashir claims foes of the Muslim nation are
seeking to deny the needy aid from Islamic groups.
AFP also notes a Khartoum newspaper reporting seven
Arab civilians killed and another nine wounded in
ambush between Mellit and Kumah in North Darfur
on 3 Oct.
GoS delegation heads to Chad for meeting of AU
mission reporting on ceasefire monitoring. EU and US
observers will attend the meeting which is to discuss
ceasefire violations. Junior Foreign Minister AlTigani Salih Fidhail heads the GoS delegation.
Libya to host African mini-summit on Darfur later in
the month with Chad, Egypt and Nigeria also
attending, says Egyptian Presidential spokesman
Maged Abdel Fattah.
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami arrives in
Khartoum for three day visit.
The SLM/A writes to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair
urging that Darfur be placed under international
protection and declared a weapons free zone.
The SLM/A warns that if comprehensive peace is
not achieved during North-South peace talks in
Kenya, then comprehensive war is the alternative.
Death toll in Darfur could reach 300,000 by end of
year due to worsening food shortages for refugees,
says US. William J. Garvelink, deputy assistant
administrator of USAID says the crisis in Darfur
has not yet peaked.
Humanitarian agency CARE reports that insecurity
in Darfur is increasing and people continue to live in
fear and [are] unable to move out of their dismal,
temporary housing and return home. CARE states
that fighting between the Sudanese government and
AFP
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
Mallit
Omar Al-Bashir
Kumah
AFP
Chad
Al-Tigani Salih
Fidahil
AFP
Libya
Maged Abdul
Fatah
AFP
Mohammed
Khatami
Tony Blair
AFP
AFP
Kenya
Yasir Arman,
spokesman for
SLM/A
William J.
Garvelink
South Darfur
Geoffrey Chege,
CAREs regional
director for East
and Central Africa
AP
IRIN
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rebel forces in Darfur has increased in September,

leading to a large influx of people into IDP camps,
particularly in South Darfur.
4 Oct
4 Oct
5 Oct
4 Oct
5 Oct
5 Oct
5 Oct
5 Oct
In a New York Times editorial, Romeo Dallaire, a

former Canadian general who commanded UN forces
in Rwanda during the genocide in 1994, says the
world is not doing enough to stop the killing. He
writes that current UN Security Council resolutions
on Darfur have all but plagiarized the resolutions on
Rwanda 10 years earlier. Dallaire suggests a mix of
mobile AU troops supported by NATO soldiers to
secure IDPs in Darfur and those in the remaining
villages, or if that fails, to bring in troops from middle
nations like Germany and Canada.
Early results from an FAO food and livestock survey
show that up to 90% of cattle in GoS areas and
between 60-90% in SLM/A areas have been looted or
affected by the conflict. The study also finds that
traditional trade routes have been disrupted due to the
crisis, thereby increasing the price of commodities.
UN refugee agency moving refugees westward away
from Chadian border due to raids by Arab militias.
Three thousand people are expected to be moved from
Adre to Farchana deeper into Chad, according to
Jennifer Pagonis, spokeswoman for UNHCR.
GoS and rebel groups both continue to violate ceasefire
in Darfur, according to AU international monitoring
commissions mission chief General Festus
Okwonko.
Iranian President Khatami offers Sudan
humanitarian and political assistance to GoS to help
solve Darfur crisis.
Jan Pronk says that GoS has failed to improve
security for Darfur and failed to bring perpetrators of
atrocities to justice.
Arab militiamen say the GoS arms and pays them.
Arab militia fighters in Mistiria, wearing uniforms, say
they have close ties to GoS. Fighters do not refer to
themselves as Janjaweed but instead call themselves
NYT
Romeo Dallaire
UN Situation
Report
AP
Adre
Jennifer Pagonis
Farchana
Refugee Camp
AP
Festus Okwonko
AP
Mohammed
Khatami
AP
Jan Pronk
AP
Mistiria
Abdul Waheed
Saeed
Ina Saleh
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by names such as the Second Reconnaissance

Brigade or Border Intelligence Division. Sgt.
Abdul Waheed Saeed says, if Im given to the court,
Ill be given with all the government. Because we are
all doing this together. Others named in the piece
include: Ina Saleh, Mohamed Hamdan, and Musa
Hilals lawyer, Omer el Amin.
5 Oct
5 Oct
5 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
Kofi Annan says the most important step to be taken

in the coming weeks is beginning the deployment of
the expanded African Union force. That force needs
to be sizeable. It needs to be speedily deployed.
US says donors not meeting pledges for Darfur aid
EU will await go-ahead from UN before considering
sanctions. The UN will first indicate if it considers it
necessary and useful to impose sanctions, before the
EU takes a decision, says Dutch Foreign Minister
Bernard Bot.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair arrives in Khartoum
for talks on Darfur with message that GoS must
comply with UN resolutions.
Blair issues list of demands for GoS including
identification of all government troops and militias, a
boost for AU forces, and reaching a comprehensive
North-South agreement by years end. Blair warned
the international focus [on Darfur] will not go away
while this issue remains outstanding.
GoS agrees to joint withdrawal of its forces and rebel
forces in Darfur and will accept increased presence of
ceasefire monitors, says Tony Blair.
UN and US express concern that a 4,000-strong AU
peacekeeping force might not deploy in Darfur until
early 2005. If they can only be fully deployed by end
of the year or early next year the international
community should think about a kind of bridging
facility, says Jan Pronk. US Ambassador to the UN
John Danforth says deployment at years end is a
very long time.
SPLA and GoS to resume make or break peace talks
Mohamed Hamdan
Musa Hilal
Omar El-Amin
AFP
Kofi Annan
AFP
AFP
Bernard Bot
AFP (2
articles)
Khartoum
Tony Blair
AP
Tony Blair
AP
Jan Pronk
John Danforth
AFP
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Tony Blair visits

Khartoum for talks
on Darfur
6 Oct
5 Oct
6 Oct
on Thursday 7 Oct.
Sudanese UN Ambassador Elfatih Mohamed Erwa
challenges US to send troops to Darfur. If it really is
genocide they should be committed to send troops.
This is why I dont think theyre genuine about its
being genocide.
Delivering his monthly report on the situation in Sudan
to the UN Security Council, Jan Pronk, UN Special
Envoy to Sudan, reports no systematic improvement
of peoples security and no progress on ending
impunity in Darfur. He says that some of the
continuing attacks include those by army helicopters,
and he says the priority is now to deploy the promised
4,000-soldier AU force into Darfur. Pronk also
pushes for the signing of a peace agreement between
the GoS and SPLA to resolve the North-South
conflict, and reiterates his view that such an agreement
could serve as a basis for a solution to the Darfur crisis.
AP
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
IRIN, NYT,
UN Situation
Report
New York
IRIN
Brussels
Guardian, WP
(citing AP),
NYT
Khartoum
Jan Pronk
Pronk acknowledges that Khartoum has kept some of

its promises made in August, but says that regarding
the governments commitment to the ceasefire,
breaches had continued.
6 Oct
6, 7 Oct
In a briefing paper, ICG warns that international focus

being paid to the conflict in Darfur has led to
inadequate attention being paid to the conflict in
Southern Sudan. ICG admits that the two issues are
closely related and need to be dealt with equally and
urgently but warns that unless the UN puts more
pressure on Khartoum to conclude the peace agreement
with the southern rebels, war could soon resume
around the country.
In the highest-level visit from a Western government
since the Darfur crisis began, British Prime Minister
Tony Blair flies to Khartoum to warn Sudanese
President Omar al-Bashir that he must act
immediately to end the violence and refugee situation
in Darfur. Bashir agrees to all of Blairs suggestions
which include: a joint withdrawal of government and
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rebel forces in Darfur, an increase in international

cease-fire monitors, identifying and locating Sudanese
government troops and weapons in Darfur, and
working towards a comprehensive peace agreement
with rebels in Darfur and Southern Sudan by the end
of the year.
British international development secretary Hilary
Benn, traveling with Blair, says that Darfur rebel
groups JEM and SLM/A have to be part of the
solution and must enter negotiations in good faith
with Khartoum because it is only a political
agreement that, in the end, will bring this to a halt.
6 Oct
4 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
6 Oct
News accounts report more than 50,000 killed in

Darfur, 1.5 million displaced since February 2003.
IDPs in the Saraf Umra area of North Darfur tell the
UN that their movements are restricted and that they
are prevented from going to their farms during the day
to tend to their crops.
On 4 Oct, Sudanese government security forces
prevented an IDP return survey exercise in Kutum
(North Darfur), which was meant to determine IDP
preparedness to return to their villages. The Sudanese
government did not explain why they prevented the
exercise.
Relief agencies report increased banditry on the NyalaKass road in South Darfur over the past three weeks.
Aid agencies are concerned that local authorities did
not inform them about a new IDP site, As Sheref, 10
km southwest of Nyala, South Darfur, which can
hold up to 10,000 IDPs. The site is reportedly being
supervised by the Saudi NGO, Islamic Relief.
International Rescue Committee (IRC) reports a
poor security situation in Um Kheir, West Darfur,
due to the presence of large numbers of armed militias
who prevent IDP movement. IRC calls for an
increased presence of NGOs to improve IDP protection
conditions.
UN Situation
Report
Saraf Umra
UN Situation
Report
Kutum
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
UN Situation
Report
Kas
As Sheref
Nyala
UN Situation
Report
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Um Kheir
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2004
7 Oct
2004
6 Oct
Darfur rebels attack the town of Gabish, killing 8.
6 Oct
GoS forces conduct a helicopter gunship attack on

Labanti, near the village of Douma, South Darfur.
According to eyewitnesses, Labanti had been attacked
earlier that day, at 6:00 a.m. by an unknown number of
armed Janjaweed, who wore khaki/green military
uniforms and military caps
On 7 September, GoS forces attack Abu Dileig (North
Darfur) with Janjaweed support. These forces looted
the town and withdrew, and an hour later two attack
helicopters appeared and fired into the town.
GoS Junior Interior Minister Ahmed Mohammed
Harun says that disarmament of Arab militias will
only happen in the framework of a political agreement
and social arrangements that make civilians feel there
is a suitable atmosphere for coexistence. Harun calls
UN Security Council demands for swift disarmament
only for political consumption.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan appoints
Commission of Inquiry to investigate whether acts of
genocide occurred in Darfur and to produce a report
within three months. Five-member panel will be
chaired by Antonio Cassese of Italy and will include
Mohamed Fayek of Egypt, Diego Garcia-Sayan of
Peru, Hina Gilani of Pakistna and Therese
Striggner-Scott of Ghana.
6 Oct
7 Oct
7 Oct

UN Situation
Report
HRW, If we
return, we will
be killed
Gabish
HRW, If we
return, we will
be killed
Abu Dileig
Labanti
Janjaweed
Duma
Janjaweed
Source?
Ahmed Mohamed
Haroun
AP/AFP, IRIN
Kofi Annan
Antonio Cassese
Mohammed Fayek
Diego GarciaSayan
Hina Jilani
Therese StriggnerScott
7 Oct
7 Oct
7 Oct
Sudan rounds up 189 suspects in connection with last

months alleged coup attempt. All are said to be
members of Popular Congress.
GoS and SPLA resume peace talks in Kenya. Jan
Pronk, UN Special Envoy for Sudan, is in
attendance.
Jan Egeland, UN assistant Secretary-General for
Humanitarian Affairs says we are making progress
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AFP, IRIN
AFP
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Kenya
Jan Pronk
Jan Egeland
on the humanitarian front in Darfur.
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7 Oct
8 Oct
2 Oct
8 Oct
Egeland says death rates amongst displaced are also

decreasing. Aid agencies had reported average death
rates of 10,000/month between June and August, but
deaths were falling to about 5,000-6,000 each month .
US House of Representatives approves
Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act which
condemns genocide in Darfur and calls for sanctions
against Khartoum including freezing of assets of senior
Sudanese officials. Congressman Tom Tancredo,
one of the chief backers of the bill, says, This if the
first time we have declared genocide while it is
happening. How we respond at this critical juncture
has implications for the future of international peace
and security.
North-South peace talks between the Sudanese
government and SPLM/A, and coordinated by Kenyan
and IGAD officials, resume in Nairobi, Kenya after a
two-month gap.
SPLM/A leader John Garang optimistically says that
he is prepared to complete negotiations and
agreements on all outstanding issues and sign a
comprehensive peace agreement. He calls for the
resolution of the conflict in Darfur, saying peace in the
south would be incomplete if violence continued in
western Sudan: Having peace in one part of the
country and having war and instability in other parts
cannot be useful to anybody in the Sudan or the
region.
Speaking at the Commission for Africa, a meeting of
G-8 and EU countries, Tony Blair proposes a 15,000person EU battle force, deployable within 10 days of
instruction, to intervene in African conflicts as early as
next year. Blair explains that there are times when
Africa cannot stop a conflict on its own and the
international community must be there to help.
180 Fur families tell UNHCR that they were displaced
from Um Akasala village, 24 km from Nyala, South
AFP
Washington,
D.C.
Tom Tancredo
Comprehensive
Peace in Sudan Act
cgibin/bdquery/z?d108:s
.02781:
IRIN
Nairobi
Guardian
UN Situation
Report
268
John Garang
Tony Blair, British

prime minister
Um Akasala
9 Oct
9 Oct
10 Oct
11 Oct
11 Oct
Darfur, after militia attacks on 2 Oct.

GoS pledges to cooperate with UN Commission of
Inquiry. Justice Minister Ali Osman Yassin says he
will chair a committee established to work with the
international panel and help it reach the truth.
The US urges the UN Security Council to meet in
Kenya next month to put pressure on the Sudanese
government and southern rebel-group SPLM/A to
finalize a power-sharing agreement and end the civil
war. Both sides are currently in Nairobi to negotiate a
final peace deal.
Nigerian Vice President Abubakar Atiku notes
progress in Darfur security saying, We have registered
progress onsecurity and the African Union is
planning to deploy more troops in the region to further
ensure security of people and property. The Sudanese
government is cooperating towards ending the conflict,
having agreed on security matters in the region. What
is yet to be addressed are the political and social
issues.
EU renews threat of sanctions against Khartoum.
Ahead of next days visit to Khartoum, Dutch Foreign
Minister Bernard Bot says, The Sudanese
Government should continue to feel the pressure from
as many sides as possible.It is very important that
the threat of sanctions be maintained.
200 IDP families at Kalma camp tell the Norwegian
Refugee Council (NRC) that their villages in the
Adwa area, 95 km north of Nyala, South Darfur
(including Kouja, Dolad, Kerenik, Almadou,
Erenga, Baba, Abu Oudam, Talata and Tabaja)
were attacked by armed men on horseback, camels and
vehicles. Eyewitnesses report 3 men killed, 1 woman
killed, 3 men injured, 4 women abducted. AU
monitors plan to investigate the alleged attacks.

Nyala
AFP
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
WP
AFP
Abubakar Atiku
AFP
Bernard Bot
UN Situation
Report
Kalma IDP
Camp
Adwa
Kouja
Dolad
Kereinik
Almadou
Erenga
269
Baba
Abu Oudam
Talata
11 Oct
12 Oct
12 Oct
12 Oct
13 Oct
13 Oct
13 - 14
Oct
IDPs in the Um Kher, Garsilla and Delieg areas of

West Darfur tell the UN that the protection situation is
dangerous, as the IDPs have been restricted in their
movements due to militias surrounding the areas and a
lack of confidence by the IDPs in the local police.
GoS foreign ministry summons EU delegation chief
to protest EU threats. Sudanese Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail says Khartoum would
welcome any international fact-finding effort on
Darfur, but at the same time we reject a visit by any
official with the aim of threatening and pressuring the
Sudan.
Two aid workers from Save the Children killed in Um
Barro area of North Darfur after their vehicle hits
landmine.
UN Situation
Report
GoS says it is working on arrangements to implement

demands of UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. Foreign
Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail and Interior
Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein meet to
discuss the manner in which all aspects of the
agreement will be implemented.
AFP
Australia offers two C-130 military transport planes to

ferry AU peacekeepers to Darfur.
WFP temporarily suspends aid deliveries in some parts
of Darfur due to rising security problems.
We believe that not sufficient progress has been made
in the protection of civilians in Darfur, says Dutch
Foreign Minister Bernard Bot.
AP
Tabaja
Um Kheir
Garsila
Deleig
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP/AFP, IRIN
Um Barro
(AFP later reports

that Jan Pronk
blamed rebels for the
mines. See 27 Oct.
article).
Tony Blair
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
AP
AP, UN
Situation
Report
270
Bernard Bot
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
13 Oct
7-10
Oct
13 Oct

dismisses EU talk of sanctions as a colonial attitude
and an imperialist mentality.
2,000-3,000 IDPs staying in Qussat Ingammat, 60 km
northwest of Nyala, South Darfur, tell UN officials
they fled their nearby villages of Awin Rado and Abu
Jazy after being attacked in April 2004. The IDPs
reported that Arab militias had looted their livestock in
August.
IDPs in Zalingei, Hamedia and Hessa Hissa camps
(all in West Darfur) tell the UN that Arab militias had
attacked IDPs who left the camps to collect firewood
between 7-10 Oct.
UN Situation
Report
Qussat
Ingammat
Nyala
Awin Rado
UN Situation
Report
Abu Jazy
Zalingie IDP
Camp
Hamedia IDP
Camp
Hessa Hissa IDP
Camp
14 Oct
14 Oct
14 Oct
14 Oct
14 Oct
10 Oct
14 Oct
The security situation in Darfur has not seen

improvement since the beginning of October, says
Radhia Achouri, spokeswoman for Jan Pronk.
Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa calls
for Arab troops to be deployed to Darfur if AU
presence is expanded.
Argentina, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Tanzania to
join UN Security Council (which includes the
Permanent 5 plus Algeria, Benin, Brazil, the
Philippines and Romania).
The US Treasury Department freezes the assets of
Khartoum-based organization Islamic African Relief
Agency, and five of its officials for providing direct
financial support for Osama bin Laden.
On 12 Oct, IDPs from Uma Kasara, South Darfur,
tell the UN that gunmen burned their village,
displacing around 650 families from Uma Kasara and
two nearby villages of Gendoul and Goz (both also in
South Darfur). Three policemen reportedly killed,
property looted, ten people missing.
UN reports that on 10 Oct, gunmen attacked and
AFP
Radhia Achouri
AFP
Jan Pronk
Amr Mussa
AP
NYT
Khartoum
UN Situation
Report
Uma Kasara
Gendoul
Goz
UN Situation
271
Fasha
Osama Bin-Laden
Terror financing

burned four villages (Fasha, Tegil, Kemezgi and
Tebeldina, all in the Taasha locality) in South
Darfur. Two people allegedly killed, two injured.

Report
Tegil
Kemezgi
11 Oct
14 Oct
Reported attack on Bashom IDP camp and Hashaba

(both in South Darfur) on 11 Oct displaces 72
families. Attack on Bashom reportedly leaves 11
people dead, 17 injured, 15-20 children missing.
AU will deploy five battalions totaling 4,500 troops by
the end of the month. Nigerian President Obasanjo
says that one battalion from Rwanda will be deployed
by 17 Oct and another from Nigeria by 30 Oct.
UN continuing to receive reports of attacks. UN
spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that villagers of
Uma Kasara in South Darfur reported their village
burned by gunmen on 2 Oct, forcing 650 to flee. Four
other villages were also reported attacked recently.
WHO top crisis official David Nabarro criticizes
international community for shortfall in funding,
saying we still are not able to get the resources we
need collectively to mount the response that is required
to bring death rate down to the level that is acceptable.
Nabarro estimates that 70,000 have died since
March from disease or malnutrition. While Darfur
has made headlines, Nabarro said, the conversion of
information reaching the politicians into resources that
come to us isnt adequate.
President Obasanjo announces that upcoming peace
talks on Darfur move from Abuja to Tripoli, Libya.
UN Situation
Report
16 Oct
Ireland backs UN efforts in Darfur after meetings

between Taoiseach Bertie Ahern and Kofi Annan.
AFP
16 Oct
GoS and SPLA in peace talks and have narrowed

differences, but will break for Ramadan.
Rwanda delays sending contingent of 300
peacekeepers to Darfur because preparations to house
them have not been made. By next weekend we will
AP
15 Oct
2 Oct
15 Oct
15 Oct
15 Oct
Tebeldina
Bashom IDP
Camp
Hashaba
AP
AP
Olusegun Obasanjo
Uma Kasara
AFP
Stephane Dujarric
David Nabarro
Abuja
Tripoli
Bertie Ahern
Kofi Annan
16 Oct
AP
272
Charles Muligande
15 Oct
16 Oct
16 Oct
17 Oct
17 Oct
17 Oct
17 Oct
be ready to send 300 troops, said Rwanda Foreign

Minister Charles Muligande, I understand that a
construction company is going to start building tents
for the troops this weekend.
In a new study, UN health agency WHO reports
70,000 deaths in Darfur refugee camps since March
2004 because of poor camp conditions (hunger and
illness), and estimates that people will continue dying
at a rate of 10,000 a month if no more aid flows into
the region. The new death toll estimate is 20,000 times
higher than one released by WHO last month.
WHO reports that in the month of September, it was
only able to provide food for 1.3 million displaced
Darfurians out of the 2 million who need it.
GoS disputes WHO figures placing death toll at 70,000
since March in refugee camps. Mohammed Yusuf
Ibrahim, State Minister of Humanitarian Affairs
says, the report is totally wrong and estimated actual
numbers at no more than 7,000.
Military helicopter crashes in Nyala after
reconnaissance mission.
Senator John Kerry criticizes Bush administration
response over Darfur as toothless and empty
threats in the form of Security Council resolution.
Kerry says the Bush administration finally did call
Darfur genocide but shamefully it has done nothing
effective to halt this genocide.
Libya hosts summit on Darfur which brings together
Presidents Bashir, Mubarak, Deby and Obasanajo.
Rebel groups do not participate.
WP
David Nabarro,
director of Crisis
Action Group,
World Health
Organization
NYT
Nicholas Kristof
AP
Mohamed Yousuf
Abdallah
AP
Nyala
AFP
AFP
John Kerry
Libya
Muamar Qadaffi
Omar Al-Bashir
Hosni Mubarak
Idriss Deby
Olusegun
Obasanajo
17 Oct
Egypt and Chad want Libya to pressure Darfur
AFP
273
Abuja
The survery does not

include those killed
in violent attacks,
including militia and
government attacks
on villages or fleeing
refugees.
17 Oct
17 Oct
17 Oct
17 Oct
18 Oct
18 Oct
18 Oct
18 Oct
rebels to avoid an internationalization of the conflict

and force them to sign agreements that will not meet
their aspirations, says a JEM official voicing
skepticism over Tripoli summit. An SLM/A official
says his movement had not been informed of a change
of venue for the talks and our delegates are already on
their way to Abuja.
Tripoli summit participants urge Darfur rebels to sign
humanitarian protocol.
Commenting on the Sudanese governments initial
response to the crisis in Darfur, retired North Darfur
Governor General Ibrahim Suleiman explains: We
in the government of Sudan had a number of options.
We chose the wrong one. We chose the very worst
one And [the crisis] would have been so easy to
avoid. None of this had to happen.
The UN notes rising tension in El Fasher and El
Geneina, the state capitals of North and West
Darfur, respectively, within the past two days.
El Geneina airport temporarily closed on 16 Oct
following a GoS helicopter gunship crash. Movement
of UN staff in Geneina was restricted as a result.
Tripoli summit participants issue joint statement
calling Darfur crisis an absolute African issue,
rejecting any foreign intervention in Darfur. Nigerian
Foreign Minister Olu Adeniji said the summit
favorably accepted the decision of the Sudanese
government to sensibly increase the number of African
Union troops in Darfur and appealed to all African
nations to contribute to this force.
US to provide two military aircraft to help transport
AU force.
UN spokesperson Radia Achouri says the situation in
Darfur has remained extremely tense over the past
days as the UN continues to receive reports of attacks
on IDPs and relief workers. Achouri adds that all
attacks on humanitarian teams consisted of being
surrounded and then intimidated by gunshots in the
air.
The Washington Post reports that most livestock looted
AFP
Tripoli
NYT
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
AFP/AP
Ibrahim Suleiman
al-Fashir
El Geneina
El Geneina
Tripoli
Olu Adeniji
AP
IRIN
WP
274
Radhia Achouri
Nyala
Janjaweed
Livestock looting in
from attacks on Darfur villagers ends up in large

markets and slaughterhouses in Darfur, such as Nyala,
or being exported to Chad, Central African Republic
and Gulf states. The Post also reports that
Janjaweed and Janjaweed leaders are getting rich
off of the stolen animals.
16 Oct
19 Oct
19 Oct
19 Oct
19 Oct
19 Oct
14 Oct
19 Oct
UNHCR reports that Janjaweed attacks against

civilians continue in Darfur. UNHCR spokesman
Ron Redmond says attacks against the villages of Abu
Surug and Bir Seiba on Saturday 16 Oct left 11 dead.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges
international community to donate a further US $200
million to help with humanitarian effort in Darfur.
GoS sentences Janjaweed leader, Mohammed
Barbary Ahab el-Nabi, an Awald Zeid tribal leader
to three years in jail for looting and burning property.
Abdel Moniem Taha, director of human rights at
Sudanese Justice Ministry says el-Nabi is first known
Janjaweed leader to be arrested.
US Special Envoy to Sudan, Charles Snyder says
that the road to peace in Darfur is through the NorthSouth peace agreement and urges the international
community to remember [that] there is a bigger
Sudan, where a bigger war took place.
OCHA reports that IDPs in Krinding camp, West
Darfur, have witnessed Arab militias regularly passing
through the camp, discharging weapons and
threatening IDPs.
The UN reports an attack occurred on 14 Oct on
Jongul and Levente villages (around Duma) in South
Darfur. Displaced persons from the attacked have
reportedly moved to Yuruf and Manawashi areas
(both in South Darfur).
Darfur
Chad
Central African
Republic
AP
Gulf states
Abu Surug
Janjaweed
Bir Seiba
Ron Redmond
AP
Kofi Annan
AP
Janjaweed
Mohammed
Barbary Ahab elNabi
Abdel Moniem
Taha
Charles Snyder
WP
UN Situation
Report
Krinding IDP
Camp
UN Situation
Report
Jongol
Levente
Duma
Yuruf
Manawashi
275
First-known
Janjaweed leader
arrested (according to
GoS)

20 Oct
20, 21
Oct
20 Oct
20 Oct
AU Peace and Security Council officially votes to

increase the size of Darfur force to 3,320 troops and
civilian peace. Force will include 450 unarmed
military observers and will add 815 civilian police
and 164 support staff. The operation will cost $220
million.
ICRC warns that up to 2/3 of people in rural Darfur are
at risk of famine unless violence stops, according to
Marco Jimenez, spokesman for ICRC. WFP
spokesman Peter Smerdon adds that an estimated
1.89 million people currently need food aid in Darfur.
Rape cases are in the hundreds and are continuing
says Radhia Achouri, spokeswoman for Jan Pronk.
Those crimes are going on and are committed by the
Janjaweed.
AP, IRIN,
NYT
Said Djinnit, head

of AUs Peace and
Security Council
AFP, IRIN
Marco Jimenez
South Africa will send 10 military observers to join

AU monitoring force.
UNHCR to increase unarmed staff in hopes their
presence will increase security by being the eyes and
ears to let armed perpetrators to know the
international community is watching.
GoS charges that UN is harassing it over Darfur. The
UN has lost its sense of direction in applying the
international charter, says Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail who adds that the UN pays a greater
concern [to Darfur] than it does to the situation in Iraq
and Palestine.
EU, Canada welcomes expansion of AU monitoring
force.
GoS and Darfur rebels resume Darfur peace talks in
Abuja.
Security situation is deteriorating in Darfur for aid
workers,says Jan Egeland, UN emergency relief
coordinator.
GoS draws up list of charges against Darfur rebel
groups to submit to Joint Implementation
Mechanism (JIM). Foreign Minister Mustafa
Osman Ismail accuses rebels of recruiting children,
planting mines, abductions and breaches of ceasefire.
AP
Peter Smerdon
AFP
Radhia Achouri
Jan Pronk
Janjaweed
21 Oct
21 Oct
21 Oct
21 Oct
21 Oct
21 Oct
21 Oct
AP
Ron Redmond,
UNHCR
spokesman
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
Abuja
AFP
Jan Egeland
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
276

21 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
22 Oct
UN emergency relief coordinator Jan Egeland calls

northern Uganda worlds greatest neglected
emergency.
Three US military transport aircraft leave Germany for
Rwanda to begin ferrying peacekeepers to Darfur.
AP
Jan Egeland
AFP
Germany
UK renews criticism of GoS with Minister for Africa

Chris Mullin saying, They have not yet reined in the
Janjaweed and local militias, they have not done
enough yetWe are keeping up a great deal of
pressure for them to do so. Mullin adds, It is for the
rebels as well to observe the ceasefire, to stop attacking
government forces and to negotiate seriously in
Abuja.
The security in all the three states of Darfur remains
highly volatilecutting into the WFPs ability to
provide food according to World Food Programme.
In the past week, unidentified assailants including
some in uniform have attacked WFP-contracted
commercial trucks in South Darfur.
John Garang accuses GoS of genocide in Sudan,
saying the government mobilizes tribes that support
the government against tribes that support the rebels.
EU to provide $125 million to back AU peacekeepers
in Darfur. (AP); EU will pay 100 million with
individuals member providing more. EU foreign
policy chief Javier Solana says, The African Union
is going to be a success with the cooperation of the
international community. Solana does not classify
Darfur as genocide and says, I dont want to get into a
semantic game. I would prefer to see the situation
solved before we get into a definition of what it is.
(AFP, 23 Oct)
Political talks continue in Cairo between National
Democratic Alliance and GoS, with Beja Congress
and Free Lions withdrawing from negotiations.
AFP
Rwanda
Abuja
Chris Mullin
Janjaweed
AFP
South Darfur
AP
John Garang
AFP
Javier Solana
AFP
277
Cairo
According to some
commentators, GoS
is trying to break
domestic isolation by
fostering alliances
with its old rivals,
who in turn see the

international context
as favorable for
forwarding their
agenda
22 Oct
24, 25
Oct
24 Oct
24 Oct
24 Oct
20 Oct
24 Oct
25 Oct
25 Oct
UNMIS spokesperson Radhia Achouri reports that

the number of ceasefire breaches in Darfur has
increased considerably during Sep and early Oct, and
notes that the UN has received reports of heavy aerial
bombing in North Darfur. Such attacks, Achouri
says, are having a very serious impact on the UNs
humanitarian assistance delivery.
EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana in Khartoum
for talks with GoS. Solana urges GoS to unilaterally
sign humanitarian protocol on Darfur as a confidencebuilding gesture. Reiterates EU pledge to finance more
than half of the cost of logistical operations for AU
force. (AP/AFP)
In addition to EU funding, UK has pledged to
contribute $25 million to AU mission. (IRIN)
UN Security Council will travel to Kenya next month
to hold special session on Darfur and North-South
conflict.
IDPs in Kassab, North Darfur, tell the UN that six
leaders who rejected local authorities suggestions for
IDPs to return to their villages were arrested.
To help address the issue of sexual violence against
women when they venture out of their camps to find
wood, German Agro Action (GAA) reports it has
trained 2,700 women in Kutum, North Darfur on
how to make and use fuel-efficient stoves.
On 20 Oct, the UN reports that a group of unidentified
persons looted 400 sacks of sorghum from a WFP
hired commercial truck en route to Nyala, South
Darfur.
AU-sponsored peace talks resume in Abuja with GoS
and Darfur rebel groups present.
Abuja peace talks hit snag as rebels demand security
guarantees. The AU wants us to sign the protocol on
humanitarian issues, but we said no. We will not sign
IRIN
North Darfur
Radhia Achouri
AP/AFP, IRIN
Khartoum
Javier Solana
AFP
Kenya
UN Situation
Report
Kassab
UN Situation
Report
Kutum
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
AFP
Abuja
AFP (two
articles)
Abuja
278
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
it until the issue of security is thrashed out, says

Mohammed Tugod, JEM delegation leader.
25 Oct
21 Oct
25 Oct
25 Oct
26 Oct
26 Oct
JEM delegation walks out of meeting with GoS

government envoys.
GoS refuses to allow AU troops transported on US
aircraft to land in Darfur. We will never accept any
US planes on Sudanese territory other than under an
AU agreement that does not violate Sudanese national
securityand as long as the (planes) leave
immediately after their mission, says Sudanese
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail.
At a JIM meeting on Thursday (21 Oct), Sudanese
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail assures
UN Special Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk that a number
of people (including Janjaweed militia) have been
arrested and 70,000 IDPs in Darfur have been
repatriated. Pronk tells Ismail he needs more
information to establish whether the repatriation has
occurred on a voluntary basis.
On the eve of Abuja peace talks between the Sudanese
government and JEM and SLM/A Darfur rebel
groups, Jan Pronk, UN Special Envoy to Sudan,
reports that two new guerrilla factions have emerged
in Darfur, one on Darfurs northwestern border with
Chad (National Movement for Reform and
Development) and another in southern Darfur.
The National Movements chief negotiator, Ahmed
Tugon Lissan, described the group as a breakaway
faction of the Justice and Equality Movement, with
possible ties to Khartoum and its allies in Chad. The
Sudanese government says it knows nothing about the
group.
GoS to check every new AU soldier arriving in Darfur
for AIDS.
SLM/A spokesman Mahgoub Hussain says, How
can we be happy to be at the negotiating table here in
Abuja while on a daily basis we receive reports of
assault, killing, rape, looting and aerial bombardments
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
IRIN
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Jan Pronk
Janjaweed
NYT
Jan Pronk
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugon
AFP
AFP
279
Abuja
Mahgoub Hussain
Two new guerrilla

factions in Darfur
26 Oct
26 Oct
26, 27
Oct
26 Oct
1 Oct
26 Oct
26 Oct
26, 27
Oct
27 Oct
27 Oct
27 Oct
against our people by government forces?

Manuel Aranda Da Silva, envoy for UN Secretary
General will visit El Fasher to check on GoS claim
that 70,000 people have returned home voluntarily.
The New York Times reports that a recent inquiry by
the Sudanese government on sexual violence in Darfur
turned up only two cases of rape during the last 18
months. UN human rights commissioner Louise
Arbour reprimands the government, saying it is in
denial.
The UN Security Council votes unanimously to meet
in Nairobi on 18 and 19 Nov to bolster efforts to forge
peace in southern Sudan and to provide momentum to
solving the crisis in Darfur.
The UN reports that on 23 Oct SLM/A forces hijacked
seven commercial trucks filled with goods between
Um Kadada and En Nahud, 120 km east of El
Fasher, North Darfur.
UN agencies report that displaced sheiks in South
Darfur regularly receive threats from local authorities
to urge IDPs to return to their home villages. Three
sheikhs were arrested on 1 Oct; two were released on
15 Oct; last one released on 17 Oct. Strong possibility
that all were ill-treated.
IDPs in Hamedia camp near Zaleingi town, West
Darfur, report being increasingly harassed and
questioned by police about their relationship with the
SLM/A.
During peace talks, rebels accuse GoS of conducting
air raids that killed 26 civilians in the town of Allaiat,
eastern Darfur on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lt.
General Mohammed Ismail, deputy chief of staff of
the Sudanese Army denies the report. (See also IRIN,
29 Oct)
WFP reports that almost 22% of children under the age
of five in Darfur are malnourished and close to half of
all families do not have enough food.
On 26 Oct, Japan offers $11.5 million in grants to
UNICEF and UNHCHR to help refugees affected by
AFP
al-Fashir
NYT
Manuel Aranda Da
Silva
Louise Arbour
UN Situation
Report, WP
Nairobi
UN Situation
Report
Um Kaddadah
En Nahud
UN Situation
Report
al-Fashir
South Darfur
UN Situation
Report
Hamedia IDP
Camp
AP; IRIN
Zalingie
Allaiat
IRIN
IRIN
280
Mohammed Ismail
Peter Smerdon
Japan
27 Oct
28 Oct
28 Oct
the Darfur conflict.

UNHCR warns that dwindling water supplies in
Iridimi, a large refugee camp in eastern Chad, have
resulted in sharply-reduced daily water rations for
refugees. UNHCR spokesman Eduardo Cue says
that water scarcity is hindering efforts to find suitable
sites for new refugee camps in eastern Chad.
(UN estimated last week that 2 million people needed
humanitarian assistance in Darfur, of whom 1.6 million
had been internally displaced because of attacks on
their villages.)
Sudan Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says
of Darfur talks in Abuja, nothing much has been
achieved.
Nigeria deploys 43 or 47 troops to Darfur aboard a US
Air Force C-130. Plane lands in El-Fashir.
IRIN
Iridimi Refugee
Camp
Eduardo Cue
AP
Abuja
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP/AFP
Nigeria
al-Fashir
28 Oct
28 Oct
26 Oct
28 Oct
28, 29
Oct
29 Oct
29 Oct
President Omar al-Bashir slams foreign aid agencies,

saying organizations operating in Darfur are the real
enemies in Darfur. Western countries are funding
the unrest in Darfur, he charges.
There continue to be allegations of attacks in Darfur
by both the rebels and the government of Sudan, says
Richard Boucher, US State Dept. spokesman.
The UN reports that three commercial trucks hired by
WFP were stoped at gunpoint on 26 Oct in South
Darfur by six armed men. 3 persons reportedly
injured; one truck stolen, along with some of the
drivers personal belongings.
Darfur rebels accuse GoS of fresh air raids against
towns of Haskanit (South Darfur) on 28 Oct and AlMahia on 29 Oct. If things continue like this, there is
no way we are going to stay in Abuja to talk about
peace, says SLM/A spokesman Mahgoub Hussain.
Ceasefire commission officials claimed no knowledge
of the alleged attacks.
GoS says it is ready to welcome UN Commission of
Inquiry and will provide it with all facilities and
assistance it requires for discharging its mission in
AFP
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
Richard Boucher
UN Situation
Report
South Darfur
AP
Haskanita
Mahgoub Hussain
Al-Mahia
Abuja
AFP
281
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
29 Oct
29 Oct
29 Oct
29 Oct
29 Oct
30 Oct
31 Oct
31 Oct
31 Oct
31 Oct
1 Nov
Darfur, says Justice Minister Ali Osman Yassin.

Rebels demand separation of religion and state as AUbrokered Darfur peace talks enter political discussion.
UN Special Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk reports that
the situation in Darfur has not improved during the past
month and remains grim and humanitarian access is
limited. Pronk blames the JEM and SLM/A rebel
groups for much of the recent violence in Darfur.
50 Nigerian troops arrive in Darfur, boosting the AUs
force in the region. (IRIN)
An American military transport plane delivers 47
Nigerian troops to Darfur, the first of 3,000 extra AU
soldiers that will monitor a shaky ceasefire in the
region.
Charles Snyder, the State Departments senior Sudan
representative, commends the arrival of Nigerian AU
troops in Darfur, saying that the US is making it
possible for African boots to be on the ground.
American boots on the ground is not the answer.
65 Rwandan troops arrive in El-Fashir, as fighting
erupts in Zalingi. This is definitely a ceasefire
violation, says Colonel Anathony Amedoh,
Ghanaian chief ceasefire observer.
100 more Rwandan troops land in El-Fashir aboard
US C-130 transports.
Mauritania will send observers to Darfur, according to
Mauritanian Foreign Minister Mohamed Vall Ould
Bellal.
Darfur rebels threaten to walk out of peace talks, citing
air raids in Kassott, near Kutppum in northern
Darfur.
GoS expresses optimism on reaching long-term
political solution to crisis in Darfur after listening to
JEM proposals which call for greater representation at
national level and more local powers for Darfur. GoS
Ambassador to Nigeria Abdel Rahim Kalil says, I
think the demands being made are all reasonable and
acceptable.
58 new Rwandan troops arrive in Darfur.
AFP
Abuja
IRIN
Jan Pronk
IRIN, NYT
NYT
AFP
Charles Snyder
al-Fashir
Anathony Amedoh
Zalingie
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al-Fashir
AFP
Mauritania
AFP
Kassott
Mohamed Vall
Ould Bellal
Kutppum
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Deputy Commissioner of Kuttum district in North

Darfur kidnapped, according to SUNA. (AP citing
SUNA)
UN reports that Deputy Commissioner of North
Darfur taken hostage, with three aides, on 30 Oct by
group thought to be SLA. (UN Situation Report)
Gambia says it is ready to send troops to Darfur.
SLM/A says it will withdraw field commanders from
Abuja talks to return to Darfur to deal with alleged
attacks by GoS.
AU presses GoS and Darfur rebels to reach deal on
security issues. We presented the best compromise
possible and now we are waiting for their reaction,
says a senior AU official.
UN reports fighting today (1 Nov) in an area 25 km
northwest of Nyala, South Darfur, between GoS and
SLM/A forces.
WFP concerned about security situation in South
Darfur, which has led to food distribution delays.
Food has been delivered to Kass, Kalma, Marla, Ed
Daein, Gildu, Manawashi, and Deliej, but WFP has
had difficulty accessing the areas of Golu, Nertiti and
Zaleingei.

AFP, citing
SUNA; UN
Situation
Report
AP
Kutum
Gambia
Abuja
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
UN Situation
Report
Kass
Kalma IDP
Camp
Marla
On 28 Oct, several commercial trucks carrying WFP

food in Ishma village were looted, seven km east of
Kalma.
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Gildu
Manawashi
Deliej
Gulu
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Zalingie
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UN accuses GoS military and police of surrounding

several refugee camps, denying access to humanitarian
groups. Christiane Berthiaume, spokeswoman for
WFP says agencies have been denied access to these
camps since this morning. Blocked camps were listed
as Golu, Zaleinge and Nertetie in the Nyala region.
AP
Rwanda sends last group of 14 soldiers to El Fasher.

EU warns Sudan that it has not fulfilled many of its
obligations, in particular to rein in and neutralize
the Janjaweed and therefore the EU expresses its
determination to keep up political pressure on the
Sudanese government as well as on the other parties
and does not exclude the use of sanctions.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says GoS
absolutely reject[s] any proposal calling for banning
flights in west Sudan. The latest peace draft at Abuja
proposed turning Darfur into no-fly zone.
Jan Pronk says that GoS continues to pressure Darfur
refugees to return home involuntarily, citing recent
forced displacement of some 2,000 refugees from the
El Geer camp to Sherif camp near Nyala in the
middle of the night. This is a flagrant violation of
international humanitarian law, says Pronk.
GoS Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim
Hamid denies that GoS forces were surrounding camps
and denying aid agencies access.
Sudanese security forces surround several camps in
Darfur and relocate refugees against their will. WFP
says several camps were surrounded, apparently in
retaliation for abduction of 18 Arabs by Darfur rebels.
WFP withdraws 88 relief workers. (AP)
AFP
AFP
GoS security forces encircled and emptied a Darfur

refugee camp at Waddi Sikali camp. The police then
razed the Serief camp destroying shelters and tents
said Medecins du Monde. (AFP)
AFP, quoting an independent observer at the ongoing
Darfur peace talks in Abuja, says the AU draft
agreement includes a ban on undertaking hostile
Gulu
Christiane
Berthiaume
Zalingie
UN reports GoS
denying humanitarian
access to refugee
camps
Nertiti
Nyala
al-Fashir
Janjaweed
AFP
Abuja
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP
El Geer IDP
Camp
Jan Pronk
Sherif IDP Camp

Nyala
AP
AP/AFP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
Sherif IDP Camp
Waddi Sikali
IDP Camp
IRIN citing
AFP
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No-fly zone in Darfur

proposed in Abuja
2 Nov
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2 Nov
military flights to and into the Darfur region. Rebels

say that government planes have continued to bomb
villages in Darfur.
UNAMIS (UN Advance Mission in Sudan) deputy
spokesperson George Somerwill says that some
international relief agencies are scaling down
operations or pulling out completely from Darfur, as
insecurity increases.
MSF reports that the leading cause of death for
persons in Darfur over the age of 5 is violence, not
disease or malnutrition.
According to an MSF survey of 66,000 IDPs living in
Kalma camp, violence was the cause of 78% of
reported deaths of persons aged between 18-49 years.
The UN reports that GoS officials implemented several
forced relocations of IDPs in camps in Nyala on 1 and
2 Nov without prior notice to humanitarian agencies.
IRIN
IRIN
Kalma IDP
Camp
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
2 Nov
IDPs in Duma camp, South Darfur report that last

week, the camp received 2,000 people fleeing attacks,
including looting and burning of villages 8 km west of
Duma.
Due to insecurity in Zaleingi and parts of Jebel Marra
(Nertiti, Golo, Gorno and Gildo), various aid agencies
have relocated staff and restricted staff movements,
affecting assistance to approximately 148,000 IDPs.
Ton Koene,
Emergency
Manager, MSFHolland
El Geer IDP
Camp
Agencies report that all of the 6-8,000 IDPs from Al

Geer camp have been moved to Al Sureif camp; some
IDPs from Otash camp have been relocated.
2 Nov
George Somerwill
Sherif IDP Camp

UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Otash IDP Camp

Duma IDP Camp
Zalingie
Jebel Marrah
Nertiti
Gulu
Gorno
Gildu
3 Nov
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan very concerned

by security situation in Darfur after 18 hostages taken
by SLM/A. The SLA and the militias risk sparking a
AFP
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Kofi Annan
3 Nov
3 Nov
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3 Nov
new round of violence that could claim the lives of

thousands of civilians, Annan warns.
Tanzania says it is willing to contribute troops to
Darfur force but only if GoS provides guarantee that
they will not be targeted with violence, says
Tanzanian Defence Minister Philemon Sarungi.
GoS Junior Interior Minister Ahmed Haroun denies
forced relocation of refugees, saying that the presence
of 12,000 police officers to Darfur has contributed
greatly to stabilizing security conditions and that as a
result, many displaced persons were returning to their
homes.
US State Department demands immediate return of
all displaced persons back to the camp at El Geer
where they were moved from, says spokesman
Richard Boucher.
AU official says Sudanese security forces bulldozed
the El Geer camp near Nyala.
AFP
Philemon Sarungi
AFP
Ahmed Haroun
AP
El Geer IDP
Camp
AP
El Geer IDP
Camp
Richard Boucher
Nyala
3 Nov
3 Nov
4 Nov
4 Nov
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Nov
Responding to the forced relocation of thousands of

Darfurian IDPs by Sudanese officials in recent days,
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges Khartoum
to halt immediately all relocation operations to and
facilitate the retun of the affected persons from the
inappropriate sites to which they have been taken
WFP spokesman Barry Came says that Sudanese
government officials told WFP that the recent
crackdown on IDPs camps in Darfur was aimed at local
people who had infiltrated the camps to collect food
rations meant for those who were displaced from their
villages.
Sudan Media Center reports clashes between SLM/A
and JEM over command of rebel forces, leaving 20
dead.
Oxfam says its teams have witnessed increased
violence and the presence of armed militias in West
Darfur.
Jan Pronk reports to UN Security Council of
worsening security conditions in Darfur.
IRIN
Kofi Annan
NYT
Barry Came
AFP
SLM/A and JEM

fracture
AFP
West Darfur
AP/AFP
New York
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UN envoy says.
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Fighting is breaking out in more and more places,

parties are provoking one another, militias are ganging
up.
Darfur may easily enter a state of anarchy a total
collapse of law and order.
The conflict is changing in character. The
government does not control its own forces fully. It
co-opted paramilitary forces ad now it cannot count on
their obedience. The spirit is out of the bottle. Pronk
also notes a split in rebel leadership with some
commanders now acting for their own private gain.
4 Nov
Pronk says the Security Council must talk tough to

rebels and GoS offering not just a carrot but also a
stick.Strong political language hasnt been used,
but should be. They will listen to it if the big powers
are saying so.
Canadian parliamentarians call on Ottawa to take the
lead on urgent international action for Darfur. David
Kilgour of the Liberal Party says Prime Minister
Martin, due to have talks in Khartoum must demand
more than empty promises fromOmar el-Bashir.
AFP
Ottowa
David Kilgour
Paul Martin
Stockwell Day,
Canadian MP
Alexa
McDonough,
Canadian MP
Omar Al-Bashir
4 Nov
1, 2
Nov
4 Nov
AU ceasefire mission reports that rebels attack convoy

of Nigerian Muslim pilgrims in the Khor Tawaila
area, killing seven.
As security conditions worsen, the UN halts food
delivery operations in parts of South Darfur, cutting
off aid to 160,000 refugees (Tuesday, 2 Nov). The UN
AP
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also airlifted 88 aid workers out of South Darfur as a

safety precaution. (Monday, 1 Nov)
In a monthly progress report to the UN Security
Council on the situation in Darfur, Secretary-General
Kofi Annan says that there appears to be a general
drift toward lawlessness, cases of banditry and
abduction [which] dramatically increased in October.
UN agencies working in South Dafur report clashes
between SLM/A and Janjaweed forces 5 km south of
Khor Abache.
The UN reports a 3 Nov attack on a village northest of
Thur, Jebel Marra by suspected Arab militia,
reportedly killing 5 men and 2 women.
The UN reports that the security situation north of
Geneina, West Darfur remains tense. Reports of
attacks around Kulbus, Silea and Sirba; reported
looting of cattle in village 5 km south of Kulbus by
armed militias on horseback (1 Nov); attack by armed
militias on a village in Hilelat (near Selia) reportedly
killing one person; looting of village 5 km from Jabel
Moon by suspected Janjaweed (2 and 3 Nov).
NYT
New York
UN Situation
Report
Khor Abache
UN Situation
Report
Thur
UN Situation
Report
El Geneina
Kofi Annan
Janjaweed
Kulbus
Silaya
Sirba
Hileat
4 Nov
4 Nov
5 Nov
5 Nov
The UN reports insecurity in Fata Borno camp, North

Darfur with increased reports of robbery, assault,
sexual violence, and presence of militias around the
camp.
The UN reports dramatic increase in sexual harassment
cases by suspected Arab militias outside Kalma camp,
South Darfur. UN investigating reports of 55 women
allegedly attacked by suspected Janjaweed.
Rebel leaders agree to sign proposed security protocol,
but GoS refuses. GoS representatives considered the
draft protocol as not final and said they needed to
review further issues including no-fly zone.
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of killing mayor of a
Darfur town, Haj Aseel Yassin and kidnapping 10
children (students), according to Sudanese Media
Center.
UN Situation
Report
Jabal Moun
Fato Borno IDP
Camp
UN Situation
Report
Kalma IDP
Camp
Janjaweed
AFP
AFP, citing
SMC
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Darfur peace talks deadlocked as rebels warn GoS they

will send commanders back to Darfur as a signal that
we are making our troops ready if they refuse peace,
says Mohammed Tugod.
UK circulates draft UN resolution calling on parties to
redouble efforts to reach Sudan peace accord.
Violence increasing across the region, says UN
Human Rights agency spokesman Jose Diaz, citing
helicopter gunship attacks and forced relocation of
refugees. Diaz says the GoS does not seem to be
carrying out any effort to disarm the Janjaweed or
bring them to justice.
South Africa expected to contribute 200 additional
soldiers to AU monitoring force.
says that the situation in Darfur is not so bad, and
blames the insecurity on rebel groups who increase
their attacks ahead of Security Council meetings.
UN Special Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk tells the UN
Security Council that Darfur is sliding into anarchy.
He labels plans to send 3,300 AU troops to Darfur as
inadequate and says that more than twice that
number is needed to stop the violence.
GoS accuses UN of unfairly ignoring rebel violence
with Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ibrahim Hamid
saying the international community should exercise
pressure on the rebels instead of seeking to condemn
the government over minor issues.
GoS refuses to sign AU-brokered security protocol that
calls for an effective cease-fire on land and air, in
particular: refraining form all hostilities and military
action. Chads Allam-Mi Ahmed, chairman of the
talks, says mediators would not change the wording of
the proposal.
US aid shipment heads to Darfur via Libya.
594 AU protection soldiers on the ground in Darfur
out of 1,703, according to AU conflict management
branch.
GoS suspends forced relocation of internally displaced
camp inhabitants. Col. Anthony Amadoh, chief

AFP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
AFP
AP
Jose Luis Diaz

Janjaweed
AP
IRIN, citing
BBCs Focus
on Africa
Program
WP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
New York
Jan Pronk
AP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AP
Ahmad Allami
AFP
AFP
AFP
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Libya
Anthony Amadoh
6 Nov
6 Nov
7 Nov
7 Nov
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Nov
7 Nov
7 Nov
military observer for AU Ceasefire Commission in

Darfur says, Our forces, our military observers and
protection force stepped in when they heard the
information and they intervened.
Government-controlled Sudan Media Center reports 11
students allegedly kidnapped in Jebel Marra earlier
had been murdered on the order of SLM/A chief
Abdel Wahid Mohamed Nur, by commander named
Abul Qassim.
GoS accuses UN of being in part, responsible for the
deterioration taking place in Darfur as it makes the
rebels freel they are not guilty and puts the blame on
the government.
AU seeks additional funding to send forces to Darfur.
Sudan Media Center reports that aid groups MSF and
GOAL have withdrawn personnel from Golo area in
Jebel Marra due to rebel attacks.
As a result of looting of large number of camels on 27
Oct, fighting between Arab tribesmen and rebel groups
continued from 3-5 Nov in area north of Labado,
South Darfur.
UN agencies report a difficult security situation in
Masteri, Arara, Beida, Sirba, Silea, and Kulbus
areas of West Darfur, and have temporarily halted
travel to those areas.
AFP
Jebel Marrah
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Abul Qassim
AFP
AFP
AFP, citing
SMC
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Assane Ba
Gulu
Jebel Marrah
Labado
Masteri
Arara
Bayda
Sirba
Silaya
8 Nov
UN Commission of Inquiry arrives in Khartoum

(late Sunday, 7 Nov) and holds meetings with Foreign
Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail and Justice
Minister Ali Mohamed Yassin. Ismail says, The
Government welcomes the commission because it has
nothing to hide, and instead, concedes that there is a
problem in Darfur and, if it is offered a chance, any
unbiased body can reach the truth. (AFP)
AFP, AP; UN
Situation
Report (7 Nov)
Kulbus
Khartoum
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
Tony Blair
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UN Commission of
Inquiry arrives in
Khartoum
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UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is a whole

series of measures that have now been laid down for
the Sudanese government to follow. If they dont
follow them, there has to be a reference to the Security
Council and necessary measures taken. (AP)
Darfur rebels free hostage policeman.
AU chief mediator Allam-Mi Ahmad acknowledges
that peace talks between Khartoum and Darfur rebels
are on the brink of failure, due to the no-fly zone
proposal. We [the AU] have done everything possible
to reconcile the different positions, Ahmad says.
AU monitors confirm fighting between GoS and SLA
10 km north of Manawashi, South Darfur, on 6 Nov.
As UN Commission of Inquiry begins investigation in
Sudan, SLM/A spokesman Mahmud Hussein accuses
GoS-allied militiamen of emptying a mass grave in
Kabkabiya, west of El-Fasher in an attempt to
obliterate the truth.
WFP says at least 175,000 people went without food
aid in Darfur due to violence and insecurity.
GoS and Darfur rebels finally sign security and
humanitarian protocols. The deals commit both
parties to halt all hostile operations including
military overflights.
President Obasanjo hails the signing as the
beginning of a good future. You can describe it as the
beginning of peace, security, progress and development
in Sudan. You can call it the beginning of friendship
and harmony.
Germany says it would consider any request to send
transport planes to Darfur.
GoS Humanitarian Minister Ibrahim Muhamoud
Hamid claims that more than 270,000 internally
displaced have voluntarily returned to their homes
and that the situation is improving. UN remains
skeptical.
Darfur peace talks adjourned for one month.
AFP
IRIN
UN Situation
Report
AFP
Abuja
Ahmad Allami
Manawashi
Kabkabiya
Mahmud Hussein
al-Fashir
AFP
AFP (two
articles)
Olusegun Obasanjo
AFP
AFP
Ibrahim Mahmoud
Hamid
AFP
Ahmad Allami
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Chadian chief mediator Ahmad Allam-Mi says,

This document will make it possible to address the
generic issues of power and wealth-sharing, broad
security arrangements and other related matters.
AU names veteran Nigerian diplomat Baba Gana
Kingibe as special envoy to Sudan to head peace
mission to Darfur.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell blasts forced
relocation of IDPs as unacceptable in weekend phone
call to Vice President Ali Osman Taha.
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says time is running
out for Sudan to comply with international demands
to stem the conflict in Darfur. Blair tells House of
Commons that GoS needs to be aware of the fact
there will be a serious response from the international
community if they dont ease the crisis.
UN Delegate to Abuja peace talks, Abdul
Mohammed, warns, In Africa nearly all peace
agreements fail because they are not implemented
honestly. This should be the number one lessonit is
only in implementation that you earn trust, not
rhetoric.
US State Department welcomes agreement, with
spokesman Richard Boucher saying, The most
important thing right now is for the parties to abide by
what theyve just signed and refrain from any
provocations or retaliations.
UN and Amnesty International allege police have
again demolished shacks in El Geer camp. George
Somerwill, UN spokesman in Khartoum says in the
early hours (of Wednesday), four small truckloads of
police drove into El Geer camp and they knocked over
some shacks. Shots were allegedly fired into the air
prompting UN workers on the ground to evacuate.
After two previous rounds of talks, the Sudanese
government and Darfur rebel groups JEM and SLM/A
sign a series of agreements on security and
humanitarian issues in Abuja, including measures to
AFP
Baba Gana Kingibe
AFP
Colin Powell
AP
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
Tony Blair
AP
Abuja
Abdul Mohammed
Richard Boucher
AP
El Geer IDP
Camp
George Somerwill
IRIN
Abuja
Alpha Oumar
Konare
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end further fighting and for Khartoum to observe a nofly zone over Darfur.
10 Nov
6 Nov
10 Nov
10 Nov
Alpha Konare, head of the AU Commission, calls

the Abuja accord the foundation for a comprehensive
and lasting political settlement of the conflict in
Darfur.
A day after the signing of the Abuja accord, the BBC
reports that Sudanese security forces have raided a
Darfur refugee camp near Nyala, South Darfur for
the second time in a week.
GoS and SLM/A forces reportedly engage in fighting
in area between Tibibi and Tunia villages, west of
Abdel Shakur, North Darfur, on 6 Nov. Reportedly
six people killed.
IRIN, citing
BBC
Abuja
Nyala
UN Situation
Report
Tibibi
Tunia
Abdel Shakur
11 Nov
11 Nov
11 Nov
11 Nov
11 Nov
Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit

travels to Darfur to monitor AU mission. Djinnit says,
we are not satisfied with the progress of the
humanitarian situation on the ground. The repeated
violations of the ceasefire are encouraging us to
speed up the deployment.
UN Secretary Generals Representative for Rights
of Internally Displaced Persons, Walter Kaelin
urges GoS to act to prevent its own officials from
engaging in forcible relocation and other human rights
violations.
and UN envoy Jan Pronk visit Serif camp in South
Darfur.
AFP
Said Djinnit
AFP
Walter Kaelin
AFP
Sherif IDP Camp
UNHCR pulls staff out of Nyala citing that the GoS

has prevented them from moving around the region.
It is extremely frustrating for our staff to be forced to
sit idle, says UNHCR operations director for Sudan
Jean-Marie Fakhouri. If we are not going to be
allowed to do our work in South Darfur, then
UNHCR has no choice but to go elsewhere where the
needs are just as great.
Majzoub Khalifa, who headed GoS delegation in
AFP
Nyala
AP
293
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Jan Pronk
Jean-Marie
Fakhouri
Majzoub Ahmad
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9 Nov
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Nov
1l Nov
12 Nov
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15, 16
Nov
11 Nov
15 Nov
Abuja says that security and humanitarian protocols

signed with Darfur rebels demonstrate that the GoS can
solve its own problems without outside pressure or
intervention. We want to tell [the Security Council]
that the resolution of Sudanese questions is in the
hands of the Sudanese people, upon their consent and
on their own will, without any foreign imposition.
Activists including members of the US Congressional
Black Caucus, American Jewish Committee,
Christian Solidarity International, and Salvation
Army press public pension funds to divest $91 billion
in holdings of companies operating in Sudan.
Hours after Khartoum signs a peace deal with Darfur
rebels, Sudanese security forces enter Al Geir IDP
camp in South Darfur, the fourth time over the past 10
days that IDP camps have been attacked. According to
Amnesty International, police fired tear gas, assaulted
residents, and bulldozed shelters, and beat up and
arrested the deputy chief of the camp.
UNHCR announces it is temporarily withdrawing
some staff from South Darfur because of the
obstruction by local authorities. UNHCRs
announcement comes after Sudanese officials have
restricted UNHCR staff to Nyala for nearly three
weeks after they intervened to stop involuntary
relocation of IDPs on Oct 20.
Jan Pronk visits several IDP camps in Darfur with
Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail,
just days after Sudanese authorities attacked Al Geir
IDP camp. Pronk criticizes Khartoum for using too
much violence and says that in the future, relocation
should take place with dignity and without undue
violence on [an] already vulnerable population.
Ismail says the next relocation effort will be arranged
with help from Pronk.
Human Rights Watch calls for sanctions on Sudan
including travel ban and asset freezes, arms embargo
and referral of some suspects to the ICC.
The UN Commission of Inquiry arrives in Darfur to

al-Khalifa
AP
IRIN, UN
Situation
Report
El Geer IDP
Camp
IRIN
South Darfur
Jean-Marie
Fakhouri, UNHCR
operations director
for Sudan
WP
El Geer IDP
Camp
Jan Pronk
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AFP, IRIN
UN Situation
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HRW calls for ICC

referral
Kofi Annan
9-11
Nov
15 Nov
12 Nov
15 Nov
12 Nov
15 Nov
15 Nov
16 Nov
16 Nov
determine whether or not acts of genocide have

occurred. The commission is expected to report to the
UN Secretary-General before 24 January .
Ongoing attacks reported from 9-11 Nov in Taisha
area, 50 km northeast of Nyala, South Darfur.
Report
Civilians from Kalakiti village near Jemesa and Kass

were reportedly attacked on 12 Nov by armed men on
camel and horseback. 3 people killed, 2 seriously
wounded, 20 fled.
UN Situation
Report
Nine of the women and four of the sheikhs arrested

following incident at Al Geer camp on 10 Nov
released from police custody.
The UN reports that the most prevalent morbidities in
North Darfur are acute respiratory infections, malaria
and bloody diarrhea.
Amnesty International calls for UN arms embargo
against Sudan and notes that some EU nations have
violated an existing 1994 ban. AI accuses Russia,
China, Poland, and Belarus, among other countries,
of selling military weapons to Khartoum.
In separate telephone calls, Bush urges SPLM/A
leader John Garang and GoS President Omar elBashir to conclude the comprehensive peace
agreement later this month.
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Taisha
Nyala
Kalakiti
Jemesa
UN Situation
Report
Kas
El Geer IDP
Camp
North Darfur
AP/AFP, NYT
Brian Woods, arms

researcher
AFP (two
articles)
George W. Bush
John Garang
Omar Al-Bashir
13 Nov
16 Nov
It is a matter of days before we reach a final peace

agreement, says Yasser Arman. (See also AFP 17
Nov. Sudan foes say peace deal imminent)
Reports of overnight shootings on 13 Nov in Kalma
camp, South Darfur. 4 people suffered gunshot
wounds, 3 persons suspected to be rebels detained,
unconfirmed reports of four killed.
Yasir Arman
UN Situation
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GoS blames rebel attacks on Sudanese police from

within the camp, forcing an armed response from the
GoS. IDPs say police units inside the camp fired
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UN agencies report increase in presence of armed men
in El Geneina IDP camps, West Darfur. Instances of
looting reported. Some IDP families moving out of
camps and back into Geneina town due to insecurity.
European Parliament calls for UN arms embargo on
Sudan with sanctions aimed at the perpetrators of
systematic attacks on human rights and other
atrocities.
16 people have been killed in a string of incidents
along the El-Fashir-Tawila-Kabkabiya road in gun
battles involving military, civilians and bandits says
George Somerwill, spokesman for UN envoy Jan
Pronk. The road was made impassable for UN
humanitarian aid transport.
Germany provides air transport for AU mission and
German Cabinet has approved plan to commit up to
200 German troops to the mission.
Darfur rebels release 15 government soldier and five
policemen they captured during fighting, according to
AU officials.
UN Security Council holds landmark meeting on
Sudan in Nairobi, largely to address Sudan issues,
including North-South Peace talks and Darfur. US
Ambassador John Danforth currently presides over
Security Council.
US Ambassador to UN John Danforth announces
that SPLM/A and GoS leaders have indicated that
they will sign a memorandum of understanding
committing themselves to signing a peace
agreement by the end of the year, as UN Secretary
General Kofi Annan warns there is no time to
waste. Annan added that the formation of a NorthSouth government in Sudan would add weight and
impetus to the search for a settlement in Darfur and
elsewhere.
US Ambassador to UN and Security Council
President John Danforth says the Nairobi meeting of
the Council is not the appropriate place to meet
rebels from Darfur. Danforth says, its not Abuja,
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but adds that the Council was focused on Darfur and

would adopt a resolution about Darfur.
Human Rights Watch criticizes UN Security Council
for not applying sanctions on Sudan.
WFP warns Darfur crisis overshadowing food needs in
Southern Sudan.
UNICEF reports that violence against women and
children around refugee camps in Darfur is increasing.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan urges Security
Council to issue the strongest warning to all warring
parties in Sudan. I regret to report that the security
situation in Darfur continued to deteriorate despite the
cease-fire agreement signed earlier, Annan tells
council members. When crimes on such a scale are
being committed, and a sovereign state appears unable
or unwilling to protect its own citizens, a grave
responsibility falls on the international community, and
specifically on this council, he notes.
UN Security Council unanimously adopts resolution
on Sudan urging warring parties to make peace, linking
future development aid to the signing of a
comprehensive accord between Khartoum and SPLA
and demanding that the GoS and rebel forces in Darfur
cease all violence and attacks, including abduction
(and) refrain from forcible relocation of civilians.
UN Security Council appears self-congratulatory on
Resolution 1574 with Chinese Ambassador Wang
Guangya saying, history will prove that this will not
only provide a perfect conclusion to the settlement of
the long-lasting question in the Southern Sudan, it
will also be conducive to the solution of the question of
Darfur.
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AP
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the resolution shows that the Security Council is
ready to assume its responsibilities.
Pakistan Ambassador Munir Akfam defends the
absence of a threat of sanctions under Resolution
1574, saying, coercion we have learned, could be
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counterproductive.
Oxfam slams weak and dithering UN resolution
1574 saying that instead of responding to the ongoing
crisis in Darfur, the UN Security Council could only
agree to monitor compliance with previous
resolutions. Oxfam spokeswoman Caroline Nursey
decries, From New York to Nairobi, a trail of weak
resolution on Darfur has led nowhere.
UK calls for halt to Darfur violence with Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw saying, The attacks and
atrocities have got to stop now. Straw comments on
Resolution 1574, conceding that we would have liked
a stronger resolution but we obviously had to work
with partners in the Council to getconsensus.
Under the watch of the UN Security Council,
Khartoum and southern rebel group SPLM sign
memorandum of understanding in which they agree to
conclude a final peace deal by end of the year.
Gemma Swart of Oxfam comments that it is ironic
that there are no deadlines for Darfur. (Guardian)
Two Darfurian refugees, Fadl Ibrahim Mohammed
and Mohammed Gomaa Ali, are the first from the
conflict to win polical asylum in the United States.
AFP
Caroline Nursey
AFP
Jack Straw
IRIN,
Guardian
Nairobi
Gemma Swart
NYT
United States
Fadl Ibrahim
Mohammed
Mohammed
Gomaa Ali
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As part of a prisoner exchange, SLM/A releases 20

prisoners (troops and police forces under the GoS) to
AU forces in Jebel Marra on 16 Nov.
Nigerian President Obasanjo says that a deal on
Darfur is possible by years end to coincide with
North-South deal.
US representative to FAO Tony Hall says fear of
rape, murder and lack of food preventing displaced
from returning to their homes in Darfur.
US Congress pledges $93 million in immediate aid for
next month for Darfur. $75million is earmarked for
AU peacekeeping force, $18 million for humanitarian
aid. A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding before our
eyes, and the worlds response is inadequate.
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AU troops rescue more than 40 aid workers by

helicopter as Tawilla erupts in fighting between rebels
and Arab militia, including aerial bombardment of the
town, said George Somerwill of the UN. The workers
had spent hours hiding in the bush. Kate Haiff, Sudan
country director for Save the Children UK says
more than 30 Sudanese workers from her group were
airlifted.

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articles)
Tawila
George Somerwill
Kalma IDP
Camp
Kate Kaiff
GoS says rebels killed over 20 and blames them for

ceasefire violation which they claim brings total
number of violations since cease-fire to 19.
Somerwill and GoS officials all reported a separate
rebel attack on the Kalma refugee camp.
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Somerwill says AU monitors confirm that air assets

were used but he couldnt confirm hostile action.
WFP chief James Morris warns that 2 million could
be displaced by Dec.
Human Rights Watch says the new Security Council
resolution on Darfur is very weak and a step back
from the two prior resolutions.
Addressing the Security Council on 18 Nov,
Sudanese VP Ali Osman Taha describes the Darfur
conflict as a political war involving local powers
backed by foreign circles that profit from the local
contradictions in Darfur.
Heavy fighting reported early in the morning between
SL/MA and GoS affiliated forces in Tawilla, after
SLM/A attack on town. Significant casualties reported
on both sides and among civilians. (UN Sit Rep)
Jan Pronk reports 15-20 police officers killed by
SLM/A; six civilians killed. AU airlifts at least 45 aid
workers to El Fasher. (NYT)
Humanitarian access to Kalma camp, South Darfur
closed by GoS for about 45 minutes, following fighting
between SLM/A and GoS forces inside the camp,
AFP
James Morris
IRIN
Jemera Rome,
HRW researcher
for East Africa and
Sudan
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
IRIN
Nairobi
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reportedly resulting in death of 6 police officers and 3

rebels.
Within the past week, five WFP-contracted trucks
ambushed by unidentified people while traveling from
Nyala to Kass. Truck drivers forced to give up
personal belongings.
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Report
Nyala
Kas
Manawashi
Within the past three days, 10 WFP-contracted trucks

robbed of cash and personal belongings on NyalaManawashi route. Food was not looted.
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Three WFP-contracted trucks on their way to Zaleingi

stopped by armed gunmen on 15 Nov near Bulbul.
Robbed of cash and personal belongings.
UN reports that a large group of IDPs collecting wood
north of Hamedia camp (near Zaleingi, West Darfur)
were attacked by large number of gunmen said to be
from Arab tribes. Approximately 25 people brought to
hospital after harassment and shooting.
North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf Kibir
declares state of emergency due to rebel attacks,
reports official Al Anbaa.
GoS gives UNHCR clearance to revamp protection
work in South Darfur and begin activities in North
Darfur.
Dutch Cooperation and Development Minister
Agnes van Ardenne says we need other bodies to
intervene to bring other visions and thereby to
contribute to a solution to the problems on the ground.
Van Ardenne says the regime in place cannot
resolve Darfur.
Humanitarian agency Save the Children reports that
more than 30 of its staff was forced to flee Tawilla,
North Darfur, home to more than 30,000 IDPs, when
fighting broke out between GoS forces and rebels.
Save the Children says government warplanes
dropped at least one bomb 50 yards from one of its
feeding centers.
US and UN say Darfur rebels responsible for latest
violence in which SLM/A attacked Kalma camp,
UN Situation
Report
Hamedia IDP
Camp
Zalingie
AFP, citing Al
Anbaa.
AFP
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
South Darfur
North Darfur
AFP
Agnes van
Ardenne
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Camp
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director of
emergencies at
Save the Children
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killing up to 25 (mostly police officers).

WFP suspends most of North Darfur operations,
except in El Fasher, due to security concerns, cutting
off aid to about 300,000 displaced people.
(WFP says the situation near El Geneina, West
Darfur, is also volatile.)
UK criticizes UN General Assembly after committee
blocks resolution condemning Sudan. (On 24 Nov, US
Ambassador John Danforth criticized UN General
Assembly for not issuing strong criticism of Sudan
over Darfur crisis.)
SLM/A pledges to respect ceasefire. We say to
humanitarian organizations that the SLM is ready to
guarantee to them the security to continue working in
Darfur, according to SLM/A leader Abdel Wahid
Mohammed al-Nur. Nurs comments came one day
after a spokesman for the group said it considered the
truce accords null and void.
EU and joint parliamentary assembly of African,
Caribbean and Pacific block of developing nations
calls for comprehensive peace agreement for
Sudan that will contribute to solving Darfur crisis.
Jan Pronk accuses SLM/A of unilateral violation of
peace accords for recent fighting between rebel group
and Janjaweed apparently over livestock dispute.
SLM/A reports that a government warplane bombed a
rebel camp in Tadit village, 25 km southwest of El
Fasher. 25 rebels reportedly killed.
UN reports that heavy fighting between GoS and SLA
forces continues in Tawilla, El Koma (70 km
northeast of El Fasher) and Thabit (40 km
southwest of El Fasher). UN staff movement has
been restricted to El Fasher town only
Tense security situation in areas north of Sirba, West
Darfur including Selah, Kulbus and Jebel Moon
areas. Food has not been delivered to these areas due
to insecurity.
AFP/AP, IRIN
al-Fashir
Peter Smerdon,
WFP spokesman
El Geneina
AFP
John Danforth
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
AFP
AP
NYT
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Report
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al-Fashir
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Kulbus
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UN agencies see increase in new arrivals to camp

ouside Sirba town, West Darfur. New IDPs coming
from seven villages around Birdgig which were
reportedly attacked by armed tribesmen.
Final round of peace talks to settle North-South
conflict opens in Kenya.
EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel visits Sudan.
Head of ICRC Jakob Kellenberger visits Darfur on
assessment mission.
UN OCHA and Brookings Institute issue study
claiming UN is failing to protect internally displaced
Darfurians and that UN approach to their protection is
ad hoc.
North Darfur Governor Osman Youssef Kebir lifts
restrictions on humanitarian aid groups in state. WFP
welcomes gesture, but move has not changed the
operational situation for WFP.
Janjaweed alleged to have killed 16 in a village,
according to SLM/A spokesman Mohammed Hamed
Ali.
UN Situation
Report
EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel condemns

ceasefire violations in Darfur.
EU earmarks extra 51 million Euros in aid to Sudan to
avert major food crisis in Darfur.
Sudan says it has lifted all restrictions on aid workers
and invoked a state of emergency in North Darfur
state, following clashes between GoS and SLM/A
forces.
The UN reports that fighting has subsided in most
locations in North Darfur, particularly in Tawilla,
which was retaken by GoS forces late last week. Most
agencies are conducting security assessments before
resuming operations.
Denmark pledges $4.3 million in aid to Darfur.
US urges Sudan to reconsider expulsions of British
NGO directors for Oxfam and Save the Children
Jabal Moun
Sirba
Birdgig
AFP
Kenya
AFP
AFP
North-South talks in
Kenya
Louis Michel
AP
AP
Osman Mohamed
Yusef Kibir
AFP
Janjaweed
AFP
Mohammed
Hamed Ali
Louis Michel
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UK. GoS accuses the two aid chiefs of meddling in

internal affairs and supporting rebels.
Adwah village (South Darfur, 95 km north of Nyala)
surrounded and attacked from all directions, surprising
both the villagers and the SLA troops who were present
in the village. The attack consisted of militia forces on
camels and horseback and Sudanese army troops in
vehicles supported by helicopter gunships and
Antonovs. Exact death toll from attack is unknown but
was likely in the dozens. Women and girls who had not
managed to escape were reportedly held in the town
and repeatedly raped. Wounded villagers were also
detained in the town without medical care.
Arbour calls for deployment of massive international
presence on the ground in Darfur.
US Ambassador to FAO Tony Hall calls for a lot
more pressure put on the GoS. As it stands, the GoS
and rebels both have the attitude of were gonna do
what we wanna do.
UN launches appeal for $1.5 billion for humanitarian,
protection, recovery and development programs in
Sudan.
The UN reports that the situation in North Darfur is
relatively calm now following GoS-SLM/A clashes
in the area, according to Radia Achouri, UNAMIS
spokesperson.
Khartoum orders expulsion of the heads of Save the
Children UK and Oxfam International, accusing
them of supporting the Darfur rebels. Hours later,
Sudanese officials say they will delay the expulsions
because they had not realized the humanitarian
consequences of the expulsion.
2,000 flee village of Saraf Ayat following attack on
Tuesday (30 Nov) according to Jerome Oberreit,
representative for MSF Belgium.
UN envoy spokeswoman Radhia Achouri says armed
tribesman attacked village Kossa Hill outside of
Tawilla. These attacks follow SLM/A and JEM
attacks in the same area. Fighting on Saturday (27
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Louise Arbour
AFP
Tony Hall
IRIN
IRIN
Radhia Achouri
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AFP
Saraf Ayat
Jerome Oberreit
AFP
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and Kunja.
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AU announces it will hold a fourth round of peace talks

between Sudanese government and Darfur rebels in
Abuja on 10 Dec. The AU hopes both sides will
engage in substantive discussion of the remaining
issues on their agenda.
Chadian members of ceasefire commission come
under fire near Itou town, north of Nyala, with
gunmen setting fire to monitors car and injuring a
Chadian colonel, according to Colonel Abdallah
Abdel Kerim, JEM military spokesman. Monitors
had traveled to Itou to investigate JEM accusations
that 65 civilians had been killed on Tuesday 30 Nov in
a bombing raid by Sudanese air force.
Ceasefire commission would not corroborate rebel
claims that GoS troops shot the monitor.
UN reports heavy fighting southwest of Nyala, South
Darfur and shooting at Kalma camp. In West
Darfur, the area north of Jenina has been declared
no-go area for UN.
Debebat
IRIN
Kunja
Addis Ababa
Abuja
AFP/AP (from
3 Dec)
Itou
Nyala
AFP
Nyala
Kalma IDP
Camp
El Geneina
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2 Dec
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2 Dec
2 Dec
2 Dec
Abdallah Abdel
Kerim
Danish ministers of Foreign Affairs and Defense

visit North Darfur. On the same day, a French
delegation visits camps in South and West Darfur.
2,000 to 4,000 IDPs gather in Fasheriya on Nov 27
(reason unknown). Immediately following a visit by a
UN team, IDPs attacked by armed gunmen and
immediately dispersed.
Heavy fighting reported in Adwa area, 93 km
northwest of Nyala, South Darfur.
UN Situation
Report
Due to overcrowded conditions at Kalma IDP camp,

UN agencies visit new site identified by the GoS,
Kassara Al Buram, to determine appropriateness of
relocating IDPs. Potential capacity of 20,000 IDPs, 19
km southwest of Nyala town.
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Report
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Report
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Buram
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spokesperson for
Kofi Annan
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WFP reports that number of people who had received

food during the month of Nov in the El Fasher area
was 100,000 lower than those reached in Oct, partly
due to insecurities in and around Tawilla.
President Obasanjo says he is unconvinced of US
determination of genocide, remarking, What I know
of Sudan it does not fit in all respects to that
definition.
SLM/A accuses Sudanese military and allied militias
of massacring dozens of civilians in Adoua, north of
Nyala between 29 Nov and 2 Dec. SLM/A
spokesman Mohammed Hamid Ali says 600
janjaweed fighters were involved and up to 100
civilians were killed and that the GoS was currently
removing bodies to cover-up the scene.
Germany to fly Tanzanian troops to Darfur and will
contribute 200 German troops to assist with transport
and logistics.
Jose Diaz, spokesman for UN High Commissioner
for Human Rights claims that widespread sexual
violence including rapes continuing with impunity.
Diaz says that the GoS has failed to respond: Every
case the UN reports is taken up with the authorities.
What happens after that? Not much.
Heavy fighting reported southwest of Nyala in South
Darfur, two days after attacks reported in North
Darfur.
North Darfur Governor Osman Yusuf Kibir accuses
SLM/A rebels of attacks, torture, rape in the town of
Koma, north of el-Fasher. Kibir says another
SLM/A contingent attacked Um Jer Abdu looting
property.
GoS is seeking talks with new rebel groups now
emerging in Darfur, to try to persuade them to observe
ceasefire, according to SUNA. Foreign Minister
Mustafa Osman Ismail said the new rebel movements
are beginning to pose a security threat to IDPs and
refugees and launch attacks on tribes and public
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Report
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al-Fashir
Tawila
AFP
AFP
Olusegun Obasanjo
Adwa
Mohammed
Hamed Ali
Nyala
Janjaweed
AFP
Germany
Tanzania
AFP/AP
Jose Luis Diaz
IRIN
Nyala
AFP
Koma
al-Fashir
Um Jer Abdu
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Yusuf Kibir
property. According to Ismail, the new movement

split from JEM and is made up of one to three
thousand Zagahawa tribesmen and is known as the
Reform and Development Movement. (AFP)
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7 Dec
AP notes two emerging groups, named as National

Movement for Reform and Development and Al
Shahamah (Nobility) Movement.
AU budget increases fourfold to $158 million.
UK criticizes rebel groups, with Minister for Africa
Chris Mullin noting that JEM and SLM/A have been
attacking Arab tribes who have not so far been drawn
into the conflict. Presumablywith a view to drawing
them in. Mullin notes that SLM/A and JEM
continued to attack police stations and aid convoys.
About AU force, Mullin suggests that it is far from
clear that 3,300 will be enough and it is something we
will have to look at in due course.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan says that
optimism generated by recent security and
humanitarian access protocols is being overshadowed
by deteriorating security situation, saying In Darfur,
chaos is looming as order is collapsing.
Violence hit its peak on 22 Nov when SLM/A attacked
Tawilla and Sudanese army retaliated using bomber
planes. Annan says the SLM/A aggressively
violated the 9 Nov accord.
Sudanese foreign minister Mustafa Osman Ismail
says US President Bush is keen on normalizing
relations between Sudan and the US by the end of the
month, after Khartoum plans to sign a peace agreement
with southern rebels.
GoS Minister for Humanitarian Affairs Mohamed
Yusif Abdallah says we are expecting a settlement
for Darfur in the context of broader constitutional
reform and we expect to reach an agreement in the
next two months. Abdallah notes the Southern
peace agreement will have a positive impact on Darfur.
By induction we expect to sign the agreement in Darfur
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AP
AP
Chris Mullin
Tawila
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WP
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Ismail
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in the next two months.

US Senate gives final approval for $200 million aid
package for Sudan under the Comprehensive Peace
in Sudan Act of 2004 which also calls on Bush
Administration to impose asset freeze and travel ban
on senior Sudanese officials. (AFP)
Bill includes an additional $100 million as incentive
for reaching final peace agreement. Bill is S.2781
US Ambassador to the UN John Danforth says that
were getting nowhere with respect to Darfur. Weve
tried everything. Weve tried the carrot approach,
weve tried the stick approach and were getting
nowhere. The rebels and the government and the
militia all sides are complicit in the disaster. They
sign agreements which apparently mean nothing at all.
GoS releases eight SLM/A prisoners. This move
shows the governments commitment to all agreements
it signed and is proof of its observance of international
humanitarian law, said Govenor Osman Yusuf
Kibir.
New Darfur rebel group, Reform and Development
Movement (RDM) said it welcomes opportunity to
negotiate with GoS. RDM Coordinator General
Hassan Khamis pledged his movement would observe
the ceasefire, which it is not a signatory to.
Darfur rebels accuse Janjaweed militias and police of
attacking a village and killing 17 civilians at Tawal
Balal in South Darfur on Monday 6 Dec. SLM/A
claims that a similar attack took place on Tuesday 7
Dec in the village of Tabit, northeast of El Fashir.
A UNOCHA relief convoy, planning to travel from El
Fasher to Thabit to service the estimated 16,000 IDP
population who had fled recent fighting in Tawilla,
was cancelled after GoS informed OCHA that it was
preparing to conduct a major counter-banditry
operation along many of the same roads. There will
be no UN movements along many North Darfur roads
until clearance from GoS.
AFP/AP
Washington,
D.C.
Richard Lugar
AFP, NYT
John Danforth
AP
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
AFP
Hassan Khamis
AFP
Tawal Balal
Tabet
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Report
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Soon after, significant military activity reported

between El Fasher and Nyala, particularly near
Thabit.
Approximatedly 5,000 persons reportedly displaced on
5 Dec due to alleged attacks in Um Gabo/Hashkanita
area, 2 hours east of Muhujariyaha, South Darfur.
Approximately 1,000 families arrive in Duma camp,
after their village, Adwa, 8 km north of Duma, South
Darfur, was attacked on 30 Nov. Eyewitnesses say
that between 80 to 100 people killed; up to 17 women
raped. Many IDPs believe Adwa still under
Janjaweed control and are afraid to return.
UNHCHR spokesman Jos Luis Diaz says that
indicidents of sexual assault have persisted in Darfur,
despite agreements between Khartoum and the rebel
groups. Women and young girls are afraid to leave
camps in some areas, Diaz says.
Sudanese VP Ali Osman Taha and SPLM leader
John Garang resume high level talks, raising the
possibility that a comprehensive peace accord could be
signed before the end of the year.
UN Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs
Kieran Prendergast, briefing the Security Council,
says the humanitarian situation in Darfur is dire as
the number of people affected by the conflict has
risen to almost 2.3 million. Violence and a marked
deterioriation in security characterized November,
according to Prendergast.
Following UN Under-Secretary Kieren
Prendergasts briefing, the UN Security Council
releases a press statement urging all parties in the
Darfur conflict to cease all acts of violence and
implement provisions of Security Council
resolutions.
GoS welcomes US aid under Comprehensive Peace
in Sudan Act but criticizes call for sanctions with
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail saying,
We welcome this humanitarian assistancewe are
aware that Congress has for long been exploiting the
Darfur question politically. Ismail ridicules the
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Report
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Report
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Haskanita
Duma
Janjaweed
Adwa
IRIN
Jose Luis Diaz
IRIN
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
IRIN
John Garang
Kieran Prendergast
IRIN
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Ismail
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9 Dec
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Dec
9 Dec
notion of sanctions and doubted that any senior

government or ruling party official has a single dollar
in any US bank. As for the travel ban, he notes one is
already in place and warns of retaliation. We are
going to reciprocate and will see which side will be
harmed.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail says that if
the RDM rebels responded with the government, they
will have humanitarian assistance delivered to them.
UN Envoy Jan Pronk blames GoS for latest clashes
on 8 Dec and raises fear that renewed fighting may
undo latest round of peace talks in Abuja.
On 8 Dec, clashes between GoS and SLM/A reported
in Thabit, 45 km southwest of El Fasher, North
Darfur.
AFP
AFP
Abuja
UN Situation
Report
Thabit
9 Dec
10, 12
Dec
10 Dec
10 Dec
10 Dec
16,000 IDPs who recently returned to Thabit

following the attack on Tawilla town on 22 Nov have
reportedly fled again due to attacks on Thabit on 8
Dec.
GoS and Darfur rebel groups convene latest round of
peace talks in Abuja, Nigeria. Talks will focus on
political and socio-economic issues.
Abuja peace talks postponed by 24 hours due to late
arrivals of some delegates.
AU urges Darfur parties to halt fighting, noting that the
GoS launched an operation in Bilel and Ishma on
Wednesday (8 Dec) to clear the road of lawless
elements and that such actions cold trigger renewed
clashes with SLM/A. AU Commission Chairman
Alpha Oumar Konare says in a statement that the
new operation constitutes a serious and unacceptable
violation.
AU airlifting 143 vehicles to Darfur to help AU
monitors.
Jan Pronk
al-Fashir
On 9 Dec, fighting between GoS and SLM/A reported

in villages of Ishma and Marla (50 km southeast of
Nyala, South Darfur). Condition and precise location
of approximately 10,000 IDPs in Marla area unknown.
8 Dec
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Ishma
Marla
UN Situation
Report
Nyala
Tawila
Thabit
AFP/AP, WP
Abuja
AFP
Abuja
AFP
Bilel
Ishma
AP
309
Alpha Oumar
Konare

9 Dec
10 Dec
8-10
Dec
2004
10 Dec
10 Dec
11 Dec
11 Dec
12 Dec
Last
week
13 Dec
13 Dec
13 Dec
UN Special Envoy for Sudan Jan Pronk expresses

concern at the possible negative impact of the violence
in Darfur on upcoming Abuja peace talks. This
round of negotiations is headed for failure if the parties
do not show restraint, Pronk says.
Marla, Ishma and Um Zaifa attacked.
Sudanese Interior Ministry claims that rebels

attacked a police convoy in north Darfur near
Tawilla.
GoS delegation arrives in Chad for talks with
Movement for Reform and Development.
Delegation is led by Investment Minister Al-Sherif
Ahmed Badr and includes North Darfur Governor
Osman Yusuf Kibir.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meets with
President Omar al-Bashir in Cairo. Egyptian
Presidential spokesman Maged Abdel Fattah says
that the GoS is doing its best to ease the humanitarian
crisis in Sudan. But Sudan does not have enough
resources. This needs a lot of finance. The
international community should do more to help the
Sudanese government instead of only criticizing the
Sudanese government.
Oxfam country director Shaun Skelton left Sudan
sometime last week.
GoS and Darfur rebels meet together to review
developments on the ground and to conclude
discussions on the declaration of principles which
outlines the broad principles that should guide future
deliberations.
Darfur rebels walk out of peace talks alleging that the
government is currently launching an offensive in all
regions of Darfur. We are suspending the talks until
the situation improves and there is a clear commitment
that the Sudan government will stop the offensive,
says Bahar Ibrahim of the SLM/A. (AP)

IRIN
HRW,
Entrenching
Impunity
Jan Pronk
Marla
Ishma
AP
Um Zaifa
Tawila
AFP
Chad
AP
Cairo
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir
Hosni Mubarak
Omar Al-Bashir
Maged Abdul
Fatah
AP
Shaun Skelton
AFP
Abuja
AP, IRIN
Abuja
Bahar Ibrahim
Assane Ba
310
13 Dec
13 Dec
14 Dec
14 Dec
14 Dec
15 Dec
15 Dec
15 Dec
15 Dec
15 Dec
AU says ceasefire violations growing with 13

violations confirmed in Sep and 54 between Oct and
mid-Dec, according to Assane Ba, spokesman for
AU.(IRIN)
reiterates GoS offer for federal system for Darfur
region and says GoS is prepared to negotiate greater
autonomy for region so long as it does not infringe on
the unity of the country.
UN suspends aid operation in South Darfur after two
Sudanese aid workers from Save the Children killed
as humanitarian convoy comes under fire.
President Omar al-Bashir appeals to Sudanese
national assembly to extend state of emergency for
one more year.
Darfur rebels continue boycott of Abuja talks.
Talks between MRD and GoS begin in Ndjamena,
Chad.
Darfur rebels insist that GoS troops withdraw from
Darfur before resuming talks in Abuja. We are ready
to continue with these talks if the Sudan government
withdraws the troops immediately from where they are
now to their original position, JEM spokesman
Ahmed Tugod says. JEM says that GoS has issued an
ultimatum to the rebels to evacuate 41 different areas
of Darfur within four hours.
German President Horst Koehler says AU mission
was slow to intervene in Darfur, taking place late in
the day - the expulsions, rapes and murders that have
taken place cannot now be undone.
German transport planes will begin airlifting 200
Gambian soldiers and equipment to Darfur with airlift
scheduled to be completed by 24 Dec.
UN announces that 1.65 million people have now been
displaced in Darfur.
GoS agrees to halt military offensive in Darfur in a
move that could bring Darfur rebels back to negotiating
table. AU Chief mediator Sam Ibok says that the AU
would try to verify the information: The government
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP/AFP
South Darfur
AFP
Khartoum
AFP
AFP, IRIN
Abuja
Ndjamena
Omar Al-Bashir
AFP
AFP/AP
AFP
Horst Koehler
Gambia
AFP
AFP
311
Sam Ibok
15 Dec
of Sudan has given an undertaking that it has agreed to

stop the current military attack.it should pave the
way for full discussion on the political issue.
UN reports fighting in villages of Bashom, Eida,
Ishma, Um Zehefa, Reil and surrounding areas to the
east on 12 and 13 Dec
IRIN
Bashom
Radhia Achouri
Eida
Ishma
Um Zaifa
15 Dec
16 Dec
16 Dec
16 Dec
16 Dec
UN says 360,000 people in Darfur are out of reach of

WFP because of fighting (200,000 in North Darfur,
160,000 in South Darfur).
GoS Delegation spokesman to Abuja peace talks
Ibrahim Mohammed Ibrahim says orders were
given last night to all the commanders to stop
fighting. SLM/A spokesman Bahar Ibrahim claims
the government as of this morning is continuing its
attacks on the town of Tawila and other villages.
Amnesty International calls AU monitoring mission
ineffective so far. Their deployment has been slow,
their recommendations are not acted on, and even their
reports on ceasefire violations are usually blocked by
parties to the conflict, says Erwin van der Borght,
deputy director of AIs Africa Program.
In the first known fatalities since July 2004 among
IDPs due to shootings, a 14-year old girl and a man
estimated to be over 90 years old are shot and killed by
two armed men who entered Krinding 2 IDP camp on
11 Dec.
UN says that IDPs in all three Darfur states have
reported cases of gunfire inside the camps with
increasing frequency over the last five weeks.
UN suspends relief operations in parts of South
Darfur due to GoS and rebel clashes in areas east and
southeast of Nyala town, particularly around the town
of Muhujariya. Fighting also occurred in South
WP
Reil
North Darfur
AP
South Darfur
Tawila
Bahar Ibrahim
Ibrahim
Mohammed
Ibrahim
AFP
Erwin van der

Borght
UN Situation
Report
Krinding 2 IDP
Camp
IRIN
Nyala
Mahadjiria
312
Radhia Achouri,
UNAMIS
spokesperson
Darfur villages of Bashom, Eida, Ishma, Um

Zehefa, Reil and surrounding areas on Dec 13 and 14.
Bashom
Eida
AU helicopter patrol reports that villages of Um

Zehefa and Konkora (both in South Darfur) seem to
have been abandoned and burned to the ground.
Ishma
Um Zaifa
Reil
15-16
Dec
Marla attacked by GoS soldiers who began shooting

indiscriminately and setting fire to houses.
17 Dec
8,
12 Dec
17 Dec
GoS and MRD sign accord calling for cessation of

hostilities, freeing of political prisoners and POWs,
voluntary return of displaced and disarmament of
militias. Agreement signed by Sudan Investment
Minister Cherif Ahmat Oumar Badour, Rebel
leader Noureen Mianaoui Barcham, and Chadian
Security Minister Abdramane Moussa.
GoS continues with offensive in Darfur, with AU
ceasefire monitoring mission reporting that the
situation in Darfur has become more dangerous with
the build-up of forces in the last two weeksthe
present situation in Darfur is therefore that of a
timebomb which could explode at any moment, says
General Festus Okonkwo, commander of AU force.
The quantity of arms and ammunition brought into
Darfur to meet the present build-up of troops in the
region is so astronomical that the issue is no longer
whether there will be fighting or not, but when the
fighting will start.
HRW,
Entrenching
Impunity
AFP/AP
Konkora
Marla
Al-Sherif Ahmed
Badr
Noureen Mianaoui
Barcham
AFP/AP, IRIN
Labado
Marla
Abdramane
Moussa
Festus Okonkwo
Majzoub Ahmad
al-Khalifa
Samfodo
Janjaweed
Hashaba
Um Zaifa
Konkono
Sudans chief negotiator Agriculture Minister

Majzoub al-Khalifa says GoS forces had been ordered
to halt their operations, except near Labado where they
were fighting a rebel attack. Okonkwo confirms that as
of 16 Dec, a brigade sized (GoS) force was advancing
313
eight kilometers west of Labado.
17 Dec
17 Dec
17 Dec
17 Dec
18 Dec
18 Dec
Okonkwo also notes that the GoS attacked Marlla on

8 Dec while over 1,000 troops were concentrated at
Sani Afendo. GoS aircraft bombed Marlla. On 12
Dec Janjaweed began looting and burning villages of
Hashaba, Un Zaifa and Konkono.
Save the Children relief workers killed in Darfur in
SLM/A attack, according to AU findings, says
General Festus Okonkwo. All attempts to persuade
some SLA commanders to stop all activities that are
capable of causing insecurity in Darfur have so far
failed, he adds.
JEM dismisses MRD as GoS stooges. This is a new
Janjaweed started by the Sudanese government, said
JEMs Mohamed Ahmed Tugod.
AU Commission overseeing peace talks in Abuja
requests that GoS immediately halt its present military
offensive and withdraw its forces from their present
positions. Commission Chair Mohammed Ali
Abdallah also urges Darfur rebel groups to halt
attacks against commercial activities and government
infrastructure, including police stations. AU sets
deadline for compliance by 1700 GMT on 18 Dec. In
case of non-compliance, the AUs Sam Ibok says, we
will know what to do, referring to a possible
suspension of peace talks.
GoS launches offensive in South Darfur, according to
SLM/A rebel spokesman Mahjoub Hussein who
claims GoS planes had bombed the towns of Adwa and
Labdo in the morning.
GoS rejects AU ultimatum to pull back troops.
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail demands to
know, How can the government troops withdraw from
Darfur region so long as they are responsible for
maintenance of peace and stability in the region?
At 1730 GMT, half an hour after AU deadline for GoS
to cease its offensive, AU reports that up until now
helicopters are firing on Labado, according to
AFP
Festus Okonkwo
AFP
Janjaweed
AFP, WP
Ahmed
Mohammed Tugod
Sam Ibok
Abuja
Mohammed Ali
Abdallah
AFP
Adwa
Mahgoub Hussein
Labado
AFP
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Labado
Assane Ba
Festus Okonkwo
314
MRD labeled as
GoS stooges
19 Dec
19 Dec
19 Dec
19 Dec
Assane Ba, AU spokesman transmitting General

Okonkwos reporting.
GoS Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Najib
Abdulwahab defends GoS action saying it was within
its sovereign rights and that the operation was
defending against an insurgent attack.
GoS tells UN-Sudan joint mechanism that it will halt
military operations in Darfur. Meanwhile, AU says that
one of its helicopters was fired on in Darfur, despite
pledges from warring factions to halt fighting.
Libyan envoy Ali Triki asked by AU to parachute in
and rescue Darfur peace talks.
UN reports fighting in areas east of Nyala, South
Darfur, including Marla and Labado, between 16 and
18 Dec. Expected displacement: more than 40,000
IDPs. Fighting also reported in Nyama on Dec 14 (2
people reportedly killed); also a village 3 km
northeast of Thur (half village burned, 18 people
killed).
AP
Najeib el-Kheir
Abdelwahab
AFP (two
articles)/ AP
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Ali Triki
Nyala
Marla
Labado
Nyama
Thur
18 Dec
19 Dec
20 Dec
AU reports that Sudan has started withdrawing troops

from Darfur ahead of a deadline, but the Sudanese
government says the pullout is conditional on rebels
ending their attacks. Rebels in Darfur deny that the
Sudanese government is pulling back its troops.
Sudan VP Ali Osman Taha and SPLM/A head John
Garang in talks to beat truce deadline of 31 Dec.
NYT citing
Reuters
Darfur rebels reject new Libyan peace proposal,

saying the initiative merely duplicated existing efforts.
AU says Khartoum has failed to comply with deadline
to stop fighting in Darfur, describing fresh helicopter
strikes against a village in South Darfur. AU
spokesman Assane Ba says that government
helicopters attacked Labado and burned the place.
Statement comes just after AU said Khartoum was
complying with the deadline.
Save the Children UK pulls out of Darfur.
AFP
AFP
Nairobi
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
John Garang
20 Dec
20 Dec
21 Dec
NYT citing
Reuters
AP, UN
315
Labado
Assane Ba
21 Dec
21 Dec
21 Dec
21 Dec
21 Dec
AU mission in Darfur denies that it has suspended its

activities. (Previous reporting claimed AU observers
suspend monitoring activities pending probe over who
shot at their helicopter.)
Darfur rebels pledge no new attacks as long as were
not attacked, according to Abduljabbar Dossa of the
SLM/A, as Abuja peace talks end in stalemate, slated
to reconvene in January.
Sudan parliament renews state of emergency for
2005.
UN Secretary General Kofi Annan presses Security
Council to do more on Darfur, raising possibility of
sanctions. There comes a time when you have to
make a reassessment as to whether the approach
youve taken is working or not,
Attack on Birka (b/w El Fasher and Korma), North
Darfur by suspected Arab militias on 17 Dec.
Reportedly five persons killed, five injured.

Situation
Report
AFP (two
articles)
AP
Abuja
AFP
Khartoum
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Abduljabbara Dofa
Kofi Annan
Birka
al-Fashir
Korma
21 Dec
17 Dec
22 Dec
22 Dec
22 Dec
22 Dec
AU says peace talks between Sudanese government

and Darfur rebels have been suspended until January.
AU statement says both sides have recommitted
themselves to the ceasefire. No firm date set for
January meeting.
99 Gambian troops arrive in El-Fasher.
GoS troops shoot dead local MSF worker in attack on
Labado on 17 Dec.
Darfur rebels call for international not just African
Union troops to intervene, with JEM leader Khaliel
Abraheem saying the AU is not able to fulfill it role
and the African troops have failed to protect the
civilians from the Janjaweed attacks.
AU says ceasefire holding with AU political officer
Jean Baptiste saying, It appears to be respected. We
have not heard of any fighing between the
belligerents. UN and aid groups however, continue to
cite insecurity on the ground, with UN spokeswoman
IRIN
AFP
AFP/AP
Assane Ba
al-Fashir
Labado
AFP
Mohammed Khalil
Ibrahim
Janjaweed
AP
Abou Shouk IDP

Camp
Jean Baptiste
Radhia Achouri
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22 Dec
23 Dec
23 Dec
24 Dec
24 Dec
25 Dec
26 Dec
29 Dec
29 Dec
31 Dec
Radhia Achouri noting that Abou Shouk camp had

received 1,100 new refugees.
SPLA spokesman Yasser Arman says talks with the
Sudanese government are going very well and the
SPLA is optimistic that an agreement can be reached
in 3 days on remaining issues.
US President George Bush signs Comprehensive
Peace in Sudan Act of 2004.
MSF confirms shooting and killing of aid worker by
Sudanese government troops in a 17 Dec raid on
Labado, South Darfur.
GoS slams US Comprehensive Peace in Sudan Act
as undue, unjustified and untimely, according to
Abdel Rahman Al-Fadni, Parliamentary Peace
Committee head.
Sudanese troops launch fresh offensive in Darfur,
according to Hassan Khamis, MRD political
coordinator. They are attacking us and the
Sudanese Liberation Army, said Khamis.
GoS and SPLA to sign final peace accord in Kenya on
10 January.
Rumors circulates that the UK is planning to send
3,000 troops to Darfur (AFP); UK Prime Minister
Tony Blairs office denies report (AP)
GoS says Darfur rebels skirmish with Popular Defense
Forces in Western Kordofan, leaving 99 dead.
Interior Ministry sources tell Al-Anbaa the town of
Ghibaish was targeted by rebels in the attack.
WFP suspends aid to Darfur after attack on Ghibaish,
citing security concerns that have effectively
block[ed] overland access from central Sudan to the
Darfur region. (AFP)
IRIN
Yasir Arman
AP
Washington,
D.C.
WP
Labado
George W. Bush
AFP
Abdel Rahman AlFadni
AFP
Hassan Khamis
Kenya
AFP/AP
UK
AFP citing AlAnbaa
West Kordofan
Ghibaish
AFP/AP, IRIN
WFP halted three convoys of 70 trucks carrying 1,300

tons of food. (AP) UN says it is concerned by reports
that rebels have hijacked WFP vehicles.
GoS and SPLA sign two accords, on permanent
ceasefire and implementation of final peace agreement,
Ghibaish
Nairobi
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Tony Blair
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31 Dec
31 Dec
31 Dec
31 Dec
paving the way for signing of Comprehensive Peace

Agreement to be signed in Nairobi on 9 January 2005.
AU Special Representative to Sudan Baba Gana
Kingibe urges Darfur parties to stop attacking
humanitarian convoys saying 250,000 people have
been put at risk because of suspended food
deliveries.
SLM/A leader Abdel Wahid Mohammed Al-Nur
says that North-South peace deal is only a partial
solution to Sudans problems.
US cautiously welcomes Sudan peace deal saying it is
gratifying that they have agreed, but the enthusiasm is
being tampered by the ongoing tragedy in Darfur, says
US Ambassador to Kenya William Bellamy. There
wont be much time to celebrate, we will have to go
and work on Darfur.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell welcomes NorthSouth peace; cautions that the North South conflict is
inextricably related to Darfur conflict.
AFP
Baba Gana Kingibe
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
William Bellamy
AFP
Colin Powell
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Publica
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1 Jan
Event
Source
South African President Thabo Mbeki and

President Bashir visit Darfur.
AFP
Thabo Mbeki
1 Jan
Apparently buoyed by North-South peace talks

success, President Bashir suggests that he may hold
power and wealth sharing talks with Darfur rebels.
EU ready to offer 400 million euro in aid to Sudan
ending a 14-year freeze on development aid. Aid
however is predicated on efforts to improve Darfur
situation.
South Africa considers sending observers to boost AU
monitoring force. It is the African Union that is
charged with resolving the conflict in Darfur and the
challenge we are all facing is that the African Union
will be able to carry out this mission, says South
African President Thabo Mbeki.
Fighting resumes in North Darfur (Monday) in an
area near Mellit, about 50 km. north of Fasher. GoS
and SLM/A blame each other for inciting latest
violence.
SLM/A claims to shoot down two Sudanese army
helicopters.
Southern rebels offer to help resolve Darfur conflict.
AP
Omar al-Bashir
Omar al-Bashir
Ceasefire Commission urges GoS forces to withdraw

from areas they seized during the last peace talks and
discourages rebels from retaking those same positions,
all in order to create favorable conditions for
negotiations to continue.
Five aid workers for Norwegian Church Aid arrested
in Darfur by GoS.
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of attempting to sabotage
AP
2 Jan
2 Jan
3 Jan
4 Jan
5 Jan
5 Jan
5 Jan
5 Jan
5 Jan
Locations
Names
AP/AFP
AP/AFP
AP
Thabo Mbeki
Mallit
AFP
AFP
Pagan Amoun,
SPLA official
AFP
Mustafa Osman
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6 Jan
4 Jan
6 Jan
7 Jan
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8 Jan
North-South peace deal by increasing attacks,

according to Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman
Ismail.
Clash between GoS and SLA on 3 Jan at Saiyah, 97
km northeast of El Fasher, North Darfur.
Reportedly 40 huts burned, market looted, four
civilians killed, thirteen arrested.
Arab militia attack Juruf, South Darfur on 4 Jan,
killing 2 and wounding 3 civilians. Reportedly eight
women kidnapped.
AP notes that Darfur conflict has largely slipped from
the headlines since December 26, when countries
around the Indian Ocean were battered by deadly
tsunami.
UN Security Council expresses hope that agreement
between Khartoum and southern rebels will have a
positive impact on the situation in Darfur.
SPLM/A leader John Garang publicly rejects
military solution to Darfur crisis, and pledges that his
fighters, freed from combat in the South, will not be
sent to Darfur.
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo travels to
Fasher, North Darfur to meet with AU forces
monitoring cease-fire.
US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Nairobi to
observe signing of Comprehensive Peace Agreement
ending North-South conflict, does not say whether
genocide is still being carried out in Darfur. It was
my judgment that genocide was taking place, Powell
said, flanked by Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman
Taha, but he said of the current situation, I have not
seen the [UN] Secretary-Generals latest report, but I
look forward to examining it. Powell believes that the
North-South agreement will provide a basis now to
redouble our efforts in Darfur.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan says we need to
reconsider what measures are required to achieve and
improve security and protection for Darfur. Annan

Ismail
UN Situation
Report
Saiyah
UN Situation
Report
Juruf
AP
IRIN
AP
Ambassador Cesar
Mayoral, Security
Council President
for January
(Argentina)
John Garang
AP
Olusegun Obasanjo
AP (two
articles)
Colin Powell
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AFP
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Kofi Annan
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9 Jan
notes the latest outbreak of violence in 2005 and says

such incidents suggest that the parties are so far
failing to use the momentum offered by the agreement
in Naivasha.
GoS and Southern SPLA rebels sign Comprehensive
Peace Agreement ending 22-year old Sudanese civil
war.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir says the just
concluded deal is not just a dealbut a new contract
for all Sudanese. It is a comprehensive accord that we
must useto resolve the conflict in Darfur.
AFP/AP
http://www.usip.org/l
ibrary/pa/sudan/cpa0
1092005/cpa_toc.htm
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AFP
Omar al-Bashir
Atiku Abubakar
Colin Powell
Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar says,

While the focus today is about the peace process in
Southern Sudan, we cannot overlook the crisis in
Darfur.
9 Jan
9 Jan
10 Jan
10 Jan
US Secretary of State Colin Powell says, These new

partners for peace must work together immediately to
end the violence and atrocities that continue to occur in
Darfur.
UK pledges $94 million towards the UN appeal for
Sudan and eastern Chad, which underlines the UKs
continuing strong commitment to Africa and to
tackling conflict, according to International
Development Secretary Hilary Benn.
US President George Bush says As we celebrate this
positive movement toward peace in the longstanding
north-south conflict, we remember the conflict in
Darfur and the suffering it causes.This
comprehensive peace agreement should serve as an
inspiration and model for both sides in their work
towards negotiating a peaceful resolution of the Darfur
conflict.
AU Peace and Security Council summit opens in
Libreville, Gabon, with Darfur on the agenda.
UN Security Council says it will consider sending
peacekeepers to shore up new North-South
Comprehensive Peace Agreement. Members of the
AFP
Hilary Benn
AP
George W. Bush
AP
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Cesar Mayoral
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13 Jan
13 Jan
Security Council will expeditiously consider

appropriate UN support for implementation of the
peace agreement, including deployment of a peace
support operation. said Security Council President
(and Argentine Ambassador to the UN) Cesar
Mayoral.
UN envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk reports to Security
Council. Pronk appeals to parties to withdraw to preDecember 8 front-line positions and suggested that
Abuja peace talks should de-link political dialogue
(on wealth and power sharing) from security and
humanitarian issues. Sudans Ambassador to the UN
Elfatih Mohamed Erwa responds that Pronks
suggestion is very interesting and constructive
without elaborating further.
Pronk warns that swift action is needed or we may
move into a period of intense violence with fatal and
tragic consequences.
(AFP reports on 12 Jan; AP on 11 Jan; IRIN on 13 Jan)
UN reports repeated attacks by Arab militias on
population of Fugiley, 6 km east of Feina, South
Darfur on 30 December, 3 and 7 January. Reportedly
40 people killed, over 600 cattle looted. Only 20
persons remaining in the town of a previous population
of about 4,000.
UN agencies report tension in Um Kher area, West
Darfur following reports of possible attacks by Arab
militias.
President Omar al-Bashir says, From now on we
shall work for solving the conflict in Darfur and we
shall bring about peace in Darfur as we did in the
south. All concern from now on will be the Darfur
conflict and implementation of the peace agreement.
Bashir announces that Vice President Ali Osman
Taha will take charge of supervising peace
negotiations with Darfur rebels.
Rebels and GoS agree to lay down their weapons
during 3-day polio vaccination program, which began
Monday 10 Jan)
Darfur rebels and police clash in Jarrar, South
AP/AFP, IRIN
Jan Pronk
Elfatih Mohamed
Ahmed Erwa
UN Situation
Report
Fugiley
UN Situation
Report
Um Kheir
AFP/AP
Omar al-Bashir
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AP
AFP
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11 Jan
13 Jan
11 Jan
13 Jan
15 Jan
16 Jan
16 Jan
16 Jan
17 Jan
17 Jan
17 Jan
18 Jan
19 Jan
18 Jan
Darfur, according to Sudanese police.

Vice President Ali Osman Taha says the next few
weeks will witness rounds, decisions and arrangements
for extinguishing the fire of the war in Darfur and
achieving unity of the national rank through the Cairo
talks.
Village of Abu Hambra, South Darfur, 40 km east
of Al-Mallam, reportedly attacked by armed Arab
militias on 11 Jan. Militias allegedly looted items from
village, killed and injured a number of people.
Rebels reportedly attack Kaloquiting, South Darfur
on 7 Jan and Sala Qoya, South Darfur on 11 Jan
(both north of Kass).
Chadian Prime Minister Moussa Facki Mahamat
claims all is calm on the Eastern border with
Darfur, after WFP reported that attacks on 15 Jan by
unidentified gunmen on Chadian villages in the GozBeida region killed 15 villagers.
Attack by armed tribesmen on 9 and 10 January on
Abu Ramlah and Um Sagwada in Shagil Tobayi
area, North Darfur reported.
Rebels reportedly attack Ragaye, southwest of Tulus,
South Darfur, looting vehicles and injuring some
people.
UN Envoy Jan Pronk says that all Sudanese parties in
Darfur have heeded a ceasefire called for by the UN
enabling polio vaccination program.
Foreign Minster Mustafa Osman Ismail says GoS is
determined that next round of Abuja peace talks will
be a final and decisive one in which agreement will be
reached on all issues of controversy.
Indonesian Ambassador to Geneva, Makarim
Wibisono appointed to chair UN Human Rights
Commission.
Amnesty International calls for prosecution of those
responsible for human rights violations in Darfur.
105 civilians, mostly women and children, are killed
and more than 9,000 displaced in a series of attacks in
AFP
Ali Osman Taha
UN Situation
Report
Abu Hambra
UN Situation
Report
Kaloquiting
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Sala Qoya
Goz-Beida
Moussal Facki
Mahamat
Abu Ramlah
Um Sagwada
UN Situation
Report
Shagil Tobayi
Ragaye
AFP
Jan Pronk
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
Makarim Wibisono
AFP
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year in Brief
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South Darfur
18 Jan
South Darfur state. Aid workers and rebels claim

GoS planes bombed the area.
UN reports that insecurity in the Hamada area,
between Muhujarija and Khor Abache, South
Darfur, continues to affect several thousands of IDPs.
AU on the ground in Labado and Muhujarija to
monitor security situation.
2004
Official GoS panel of inquiry determines that serious

human rights violations took place in all three Darfur
states in which all parties to the conflict were involved
to varying degrees, thus leading to human suffering of
the people of Darfur, causing internal displacement and
people taking refuge in neighboring Chad.
The commission has concluded that incidents of rape
and sexual abuses took place in the various states of
Darfur but it has not been proven to the commission
that there was systematic and widespread abuse that
would constitute a crime against humanity.
What had happened in Darfur despite its graveness
did not constitute a genocide crime.
AFP
Dafaallah al-Haj
Yusuf
Khartoum attempts a
panel of Inquiry
AP
Eric Reeves
First mention of
upped death count
above 70,000.
Reeves suggests
200,000.
UN Situation
Report
Hamada
Mahadjiria
Khor Abache
Labado
20 Jan
20 Jan
The GoS commission was formed by Presidential

Order in mid-2004 and headed by former chief justice
Dafalla al-Hajj Yusuf. It also concluded that those
killed on all sides including the Sudanese armed forces
and the police does not exceed a few thousand persons.
The figures widely circulated in the mediaare not
accurate.
Survey conducted by Coalition for International
Justice for US State Department points to many
thousands of deaths directly resulting from violence in
Sudan, in addition to commonly cited estimates of
death toll based on disease and hunger. The key
finding reveals that 61% of 1,136 refugees surveyed
had witnessed a family member killed.
Fritz Scheuren
Juan Mendez
Stefanie Frease,
CIJ Director of
Programs
Eric Reeves of Smith College says if the figure holds

for all of Darfurs 2 million displaced, 200,000 would
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20 Jan
21 Jan
22 Jan
be killed. The surveys methods were endorsed by

Fritz Scheuren, President of American Statistical
Association. Juan Mendez, UN envoy for
prevention of genocide calls the study comprehensive.
ICC welcomes opportunity to investigate alleged
Darfur atrocities. The Prosecutor would welcome a
recommendationto refer the situation in Darfur as a
sign of trust in the International Criminal Court, said
spokesman Christian Palme, it is up to the Security
Council to decide.
Dutch Minister for Development Cooperation
Agnes van Ardenne urges SPLM/A head John
Garang to use his influence to convince the rebel
groups fighting in Darfur to end the violence. I know
he is very influential with both rebel groups.
USAID-funded Famine Early Warning Systems
Network (FEWS Net) warns that the situation in
North and West Darfur is extremely food insecure
and that conflict and civil insecurity will likely
continue to diminish food security in the region.
US rejects European calls for ICC to prosecute Darfur
war crimes, instead the Bush Administration is
pushing for an African tribunal, potentially based out
of the ICTR facility in Tanzania, according to
unnamed high-ranking State Dept. official. Article
notes that the precise casualty toll is not known but
the most recent US estimate is that more than 70,000
have been killed and 2 million displaced. (AP)
Richard Boucher, US State Department spokesman
says we have had a number of objections to the
International Criminal Court, and therefore dont
believe its the best option for this. Boucher also
says, we want to find effective and appropriate means
of accountability and will consider various options for
doing that.
South Africa to command the police contingent of the
AU peace mission in Darfur. South Africa will also
send 100 policemen. An advance team will establish a
police headquarters in Darfur, according to government
AP
Christian Palme
AP
Agnes van
Ardenne
John Garang
IRIN
AP/AFP
Richard Boucher
AFP
Joel Netshintenzhe
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23 Jan
19, 20
Jan
23 Jan
23 Jan
spokesman Joel Netshintenzhe.

UN Envoy to Sudan Jan Pronk reports that fighting
between GoS and Darfur rebels has decreased in the
past month, saying there is more adherence to the
cease-fire than a month ago, between those two
parties. Pronk however notes that violence is still
perpetrated by pro-government militias and other
armed groups who attack villages, abduct people and
increasingly use rape as a tool of war.
GoS accuses Darfur rebels of burning eight villages
and killing civilians in an attack near Malam, 100 km
north of Nyala. The AU monitoring team said it was
investigating the matter.
25 small villages south of Labado, South Darfur (65
km southeast of Nyala) reportedly attacked by GoS
military and armed tribesmen on 19 and 20 January,
forcing unknown number of civilians to flee.
Following last weeks military activity in area of
Hamada, Juruf and Gemeiza villages north of
Nyala, South Darfur, UN determines that close to
8,000 IDPs arrived in Manawashi and nearly 1,250
have gone to Mershing to escape the fighting.
The village of Hamada was almost completely
destroyed and 105 civilians may have been killed.
AP
Jan Pronk
AP
Mallam
UN Situation
Report
Labado
UN Situation
Report
Hamada
Juruf
Gemeiza
Manawashi
Mersheng
24 Jan
US Congressional delegation in Chad to meet with

Darfur rebel groups. Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of
House International Relations subcommittee on
Africa, Reps. Barbara Lee, Jim McDermott, Diane
Watson and Betty McCollum were on the visit. The
delegation was accompanied by US actor Don
Cheadle.
AP
Ed Royce
Barbara Lee
Jim McDermott
Diane Watson
Betty McCollum
Don Cheadle
24 Jan
New Jersey Assembly approves bill that would require

the state to divest its pension fund investments in
companies that do business with Sudan.
AP
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24 Jan
25 Jan
26 Jan
21 Jan
26 Jan
21 Jan
26 Jan
26 Jan
27 Jan
26 Jan
27 Jan
Southern National Liberation Council, the SPLAs

legislative body endorses Comprehensive Peace
Agreement.
GoS signs accord with EU for release of 450 million
euros in aid following unfreezing of 14 year aid halt.
US to present non-ICC options before Security
Council for trying Darfur perpetrators. US Mission
to UN spokesman Richard Grenell says we called
this a genocide last year, we reported regularly on
violations, we called for this commission in a
resolution last year to investigate and we have been
absolutely intent on seeing accountability for those
responsible.
Rebels traveling in about ten trucks allegedly attacked
village of Al Mallam, South Darfur on 21 January
(15 km north of Mershing). 36 people reportedly
killed, 27 injured.
Armed tribesmen reportedly attacked Seleia, West
Darfur on 21 January, allegedly raiding several cattle
and abducting two women. 20 people reportedly
killed.
Congressional delegation calls on UN Security
Council to impose sanctions. This is not a problem
for Africans alone to solve. The whole world must be
engaged, says Rep. Ed Royce. (AP)
We must insist that there are sanctions, says Rep.
Barbara Lee. (AFP)
On 26 January, Reps. Diane Watson and Barbara
Lee meet with President Bush and Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice for black caucus meeting. Lee says
she is very optimistic that theyre going to move
forward more aggressively. (AP)
African Union monitoring mission reports around 100
people killed in GoS air raid on Shangel-Topayi, near
Al-Fashir.
AFP notes a UN report on last weeks attacks round
Hamada, Juruf and Gemeiza villages north of
Nyala where up to 105 people were killed and 9,000
displaced. Assane Ba, AU conflict management
center spokesman confirms that 30 people were killed

AP, IRIN
AFP
AP
Richard Grenell
UN Situation
Report
Mallam
UN Situation
Report
Silaya
AP/AFP
Ed Royce
Barbara Lee
Diane Watson
George W. Bush
Condoleeza Rice
AFP/AP
Shengeltobai
Gemeiza
Hamada
Juruf
327
27 Jan
27 Jan
27 Jan
at Hamada on 13 January in a suspected Janjaweed

attack that included rape, looting and murder.
UK condemns GoS for air raid with Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw calling the bombing
completely reprehensible, and clearly against the
spirit of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement
which he says committed the GoS to peace throughout
Sudan.
US blames all the parties the government of Sudan,
the militias that are allied with the government and the
rebelsfor this increase in violence in Darfur,
according to a statement by State Dept. spokesman
Richard Boucher.
AU reports that GoS air force bombed village of
Rahad Kabolong, 15-20 km south of Shangil Tobai,
North Darfur. Death toll roughly 100.
AFP
Jack Straw
AFP
Richard Boucher
UN Situation
Report
Rahad
Kabolong
Shengeltobai
30 Jan
30 Jan
27, 28
Jan
30 Jan
30 Jan
SLM/A spokesman Adam Ali Shogar urges the AU

to send more troops to Darfur and expand their
mandate to stop GoS and Janjaweed forces from
attacking civilians.
North Darfur Governor Osman Mohamed Yusuf
Kibir denies that the GoS bombed Shangil Tobaya,
saying that he personally visited the area and denied
the lies diffused by the organizations and the Western
media.
AU summit opens in Abuja, Nigeria.
On 27 and 28 January, armed tribesmen attacked IDPs
near Djedja, located near Buram, South Darfur,
reportedly killing six people and displacing over 4,000
persons to areas of Joghana and Gereida.
AP
Adam Ali Shogan

Janjaweed
AP
Shengeltobai
AFP/AP
UN Situation
Report
Abuja
Buram
Djedja
Joghana
30 Jan
Due to continuing insecurity in South Darfur areas,

many routes closed for UN movements including
Gereida, Labado, Muhujarija, Hamada, Marla,
Hijer and Al-Mallam.
UN Situation
Report
Gereida
Gereida
Labado
Mahadjiria
328
Osman Mohamed
Yusuf Kibir

Hamada
Marla
Hijer
Mallam
13- 26
Jan
31 Jan
31 Jan
31 Jan
31 Jan
1 Feb
1 Feb
1 Feb
1 Feb
EU condemned in the strongest terms attacks in

Darfur, saying many villages in Darfur were bombed
between 13 and 26 January by the Sudanese air force.
GoS reports that UN Commission of Inquiry has
cleared Sudan of genocide, with Foreign Minster
Mustafa Osman Ismail saying, We have seen the
report and they did not say there is a genocide in the
Darfur region.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan urges
consideration of sanctions against Sudan saying the
council itself had not been able to move forward
because of divisions. I believe that sanctions should
still be on the table.
UN Commission of Inquiry finds GoS committed
gross, systematic human rights violations including
killings of civilians, indiscriminate attacks, forcible
disappearances, pillage, rape, forced displacement, all
of which likely constituted war crimes and crimes
against humanity, but did not constitute, in the
Commissions opinion, genocide. The crucial
element of genocidal intent appears to be missing,
says the report which recommends that the matter be
taken up by the ICC. (AFP Feb 1)
Sudanese Parliament ratifies Comprehensive Peace
Agreement.
France supports referral of Darfur situation to the
ICC.
GoS accuses UN Commission of Inquiry of bias.
Justice Minister Mohamed Osman Yassin said that
the the violations cited in the report have not been
proven and they rely on information of political color.
US Senator Sam Brownback and Rep. Frank Wolf
call for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign
AFP/AP
AFP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
Kofi Annan
AFP/AP
http://www.un.org/N
ews/dh/sudan/com_in
q_darfur.pdf
AP
AP
AP, citing Al
Anbaa
Ali Mohamed
Osman Yassin
AP
Sam Brownback
329
if UN fails to take aggressive steps to stop violence in

Darfur.
1 Feb
1 Feb
1 Feb, 2
Feb
Frank Wolf
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls on Security

Council to refer Darfur to ICC.
We stand by the conclusion that we reached that
genocide had been occurring in Darfur, said Richard
Boucher, US State Department spokesman. We
think that the continued accumulation of facts on the
ground, the facts that are reported here in the
commissions report, supports the view, that
conclusion that we reached and continue to hold.
Two AU patrols under fire on 1 Feb, but no one injured
one patrol came under fire between Khor Abeche
and Shangil Tobai in North Darfur, a second patrol
fired on near Biritabla, 100 km south of Nyala, South
Darfur.
AP
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
AFP
Richard Boucher
EU supports ICC handling of Darfur situation. We

were always among international institutions who
provided maximum support to that court, so if its
called upon to play a role, we will support it, said
Altafaj Tardio, EU Spokesman.
UK supports ICC handling of Darfur, with Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw saying Our preference is for
the ICC to be used in respect of the findings of the
international commission in respect of Sudan.
Canada calls for referral of Darfur situation to ICC
says Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recommends the
deployment of a peace support operation in Sudan,
consisting of 10,130 troops and 755 civilian police, in
his latest report to the Security Council.
SudanVice President Ali Osman Taha rejects the UN
Commission of Inquiry recommendation to refer the
crimes in Darfur to the ICC: What is being reported
about the trial of some individuals or officials in courts
outside the Sudan is something we will not accept as a
government.
AP
Altafaj Tardio
AP
Jack Straw
AFP
Pierre Pettigrew
IRIN
Kofi Annan
IRIN citing
SUNA
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
UN Situation
Report, IRIN
Khor Abache
Shengeltobai
Biritabla
Nyala
2 Feb
2 Feb
2 Feb
7 Feb
8 Feb
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9 Feb
8 Feb
9 Feb
9 Feb
9 Feb
9 Feb
9 Feb
AU reports that security situation in North and South

Darfur has deteriorated progressively over the past
four month.
AU special representative in Sudan Baba Gana
Kingibe said on Monday 7 Feb that security had
progressively deteriorated to appalling levels over the
last four months, with unacceptable consequences to
the peace and tranquility of the civilian population.
Kingibe adds that although all sides to the conflict are
responsible, the worst perpetrators were the
Janjaweed/armed militia.
Sudan insists that its domestic courts should handle
Darfur abuse cases. Vice President Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha tells the UN Security Council,
We are here to persuade the Security Council to see
the wisdom and the rationale in bringing those accused
before trial in Sudan. And we strongly believe that
there are no grounds to taking suspects outside the
country.
GoS Committee headed by former Chief Justice
Dafaalla Al Hajj Yusuf announces that it has
identified suspects who should be investigated or tried
for abuses in Darfur. Yusuf says that Sudanese courts
had already sentenced more than 80 people to death for
crimes in Darfur.
UN welcomes reports that Sudan may withdraw its air
force bombers from Darfur. Earlier in the week
Sudanese papers quoted Interior Minister Lt. Gen.
Abdel-Rahim Hussein as saying the GoS would
withdraw its Antonov bombers from the region.
ICRC warns that Darfur situation is a severely
deteriorating situation. There is no place for optimism
as far as the Darfur conflictual dynamics are
concerned, according to Red Cross Africa chief
Christoph Harnisch.
African Union ceasefire monitors have failed to be
observer. Their presence has had no effect on the
ground, says Abdul Wahid Mohammed Ahmed alNur, leader of the SLM/A.

IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
AFP 9 Feb
IRIN (8 Feb)
Baba Gana Kingibe
AP
Ali Osman
Mohammed Taha
AP
Dafaallah Al
HajYusuf
AP
Abdel Rahim
Mohamed Hussein
AFP
Christoph Harnisch
AFP
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
331
Janjaweed

9 Feb
13 Feb
13 Feb
13 Feb
14 Feb
16 Feb
16 Feb
16 Feb
16 Feb
UN Special Representative for Sudan Jan Pronk

comments to the Security Council that fighting on
the ground still continues in Darfur and those
responsible for atrocious crimes on a massive scale go
unpunished.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan calls on NATO
and EU to give serious consideration to what, in
practical terms, they can do to help end this tragedy of
Darfur.
Sudanese opposition backs international trials for
Darfur crimes, with Umma Party welcoming referral
to the ICC. Communist and Popular Congress
parties support trials in Arusha, Tanzania as
proposed by the US.
On 10 Feb, herdsmen from Dajo tribe reportedly
attacked by unidentified men while traveling with
1,500 heads of cattle near Ishma, South Darfur.
Attackers reportedly looted livestock, killed two men.
US circulates draft resolution on Sudan which calls for
10,000 member UN peacekeeping mission to enforce
Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Southern
Sudan, with the option to authorize the force to assist
the AU mission in Darfur. The draft would widen an
arms sale ban to the GoS and calls for an asset freeze
and travel ban on those who are deemed to threaten
stability in Darfur.
Summit on Darfur opens in Chad.
Darfur tribal leaders sign cease-fire pact to refrain from
attacking each other and to drop blood money claims
for past attacks.
Arbour urges Security Council to refer abuses in
Darfur to the ICC, which she says is ready to go.
(AP)
Referral to the ICC is the best means by which to halt
ongoing violations prevent future ones, Arbour says.
(AFP 17 Feb)
UN estimates number of conflict-affected
population in Darfur to be 2.4 million, including

IRIN
Jan Pronk
AFP
Kofi Annan
AFP
UN Situation
Report
Ishma
AFP
AP
Chad
AP/AFP
UN Situation
Report
332
Louise Arbour
16 Feb
16 Feb
14 Feb
17 Feb
27 Feb
approximately 1.84 million IDPs. The UN notes that

despite limitations to aid operations, food assistance
covers 62% of the affected population.
UN reports the crime in West Darfur is up noticeably
over the past month especially with thefts and
property crimes in Geneina.
GoS Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail, on
the possibility of having an ICC referral or other
international trial for perpetrators of violence in Darfur:
I have to warn that a foreign trial will lead to
devastating effects on the security front in Darfur
This may cause us to face some disturbing scenarios
such as the abduction of non-Sudanese workers by
tribal activists in the area in their attempt to avenge
those tried outside the Sudan.
Village of Nazeef, South Darfur attacked on Feb 14,
reportedly displacing approximately 8,000 persons.
UN agencies report that tensions around Gereida,
Yassin and Joghana in South Darfur remain high.
UN Situation
Report
El Geneina
UN Situation
Report, citing
Al-Sharq AlAwsat
UN Situation
Report
UN Situation
Report
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
Nazeef
Geredia
Yassin
23 Feb
27 Feb
Mar
2 Mar
7 Mar
IDPs report that an attack in Thur, South Darfur on

23 Feb killed approximately 26 people.
Brazil assumes UN Security Council Presidency.
Human Rights Watch releases interview with Musa
Hillal in which the Janjaweed leader states that Arab
militias get their orders from the Western Command
Center, and from Khartoum and that all the people
in the field are led by top army commanders.
UN Humanitarian Chief Jan Egeland and MSF say
that women and girls are suffering from an increasing
wave of rapes, carried out by Sudanese soldiers and
allied militiamen. MSF reports that between October
2004 and mid-Feb 2005, doctors in North and South
Darfur had treated almost 500 women and girls who
had been raped.
UN Situation
Report
AP
AP, IRIN
Joghana
Thur
Musa Hilal
Jan Egeland
Musa Hilal links

militias directly to
GoS command and
control
http://hrw.org/video/2
005/musa/
MSF report
Crushing Burden of
rape: Sexual
Violence in Darfur
http://www.doctorswi
thoutborders.org/publ
ications/reports/2005/
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9 Mar
11 Mar
15 Mar
16 Mar
16 Mar
17 Mar
17 Mar
17 Mar
Jan Egeland says that many more than 70,000

reported last year have died in Darfur, largely from
preventable causes like pneumonia and diarrhea.
Egeland says that the 70,000 figure was released when
there were 1 million internally displaced in Darfur,
but that number has since doubled. Is it three times
that? Is it five times that? I dont know, but its several
times the number of 70,000 that have died altogether.
US Senator Joseph Biden introduces a concurrent
resolution (S. Con. Res. 17) calling on NATO to
assess the potential effectiveness of and requirements
for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone in Darfur.
JEM and SLM/A say they will not resume talks with
the Sudanese government unless war criminals in the
region are prosecuted, as justice was a precondition for
peace in Darfur. Rebels also demand the removal of
AU monitors in Darfur, saying they are no longer
impartial.
UN now estimates 180,000 dead in Darfur. UN
Spokeswoman Stephanie Bunker said that the figure
is a rough estimate based on recent decreased
mortality rates due to increased humanitarian
assistance, and higher estimated mortality rates from
pre-2004 when humanitarian aid was not getting
through to Darfur.
Eric Reeves, Professor at Smith College, issued his
12th assessment of mortality in Darfur on Friday (11
Mar) estimating 380,000 dead.
AP
Jan Egeland
Fighting in eastern Congo overtakes Darfur as worlds

worst humanitarian crisis, according to Jan Egeland,
UN Humanitarian chief.
Fighting breaks out between GoS troops and MRD
rebels in Jebel Moun.
UN Envoy Jan Pronk says that we need a robust
force, I mean of 8,000 military, for a duration of about
four yearsso that people can return to their areas.
Several UN agencies report violence in village of
AP
Eastern Congo
AP
Jabel Moun
UN officially ups the

number past 70,000,
but not specific.
Joseph Biden
IRIN
AP
Eric Reeves
AP
UN Situation
334
Jan Egeland
Jan Pronk
Totaraan
UN estimates
180,000 dead in
Darfur. Eric Reeves
estimates 380,000
dead.
18 Mar
23 Mar
24 Mar
25 Mar
29 Mar
29 Mar
30 Mar
30 Mar
31 Mar
Totaraan, north of Saniafandu, South Darfur, on 15

Mar. Many civilians allegedly injured.
UN Security Council deadlocked over how to address
Darfur crisis. French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La
Sabliere says the time has come now to adopt the
resolution that would provide for sanctions and
prosecution of perpetrators.
The US has already dropped a proposal to extend an
arms embargo on rebels and Janjaweed to the GoS.
France introduces draft resolution referring Darfur
cases since 1 July, 2002 to the ICC.
UN Security Council votes to send 10,700
peacekeepers to Sudan.
GoS says it will prosecute 164 persons, including
government officials for abuses in Darfur, with
Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail saying,
We will never hand over any Sudanese national
whether he is an outlaw, an army officer or a
governmental official for trial outside Sudan.
UN strengthens arms embargo and orders asset freeze
and travel ban on those who obstruct peace efforts in
Darfur. The arms embargo now includes the GoS
which will need approval from a Security Council
committee to bring weapons into Darfur.
Death toll in Darfur likely to be near 300,000 says
British Parliament International Development
Committee.
Hilary Benn, the UK International Development
Secretary says The honest truth is that nobody
knows the real death toll.
US drops objections to referral of Darfur situation to
the ICC.
UN Security Council refers Darfur case to the ICC
under Resolution 1593.

Report
Samfodo
AP
Jean-Marc de La
Sabliere
Janjaweed
AP
AP
AP
Mustafa Osman
Ismail
AP
AP
UK Parliamentary
Committee says
70,000 death toll is a
gross
underestimate and
figures could be as
high as 300,000
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21 Apr
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21 Apr
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Locations
UN Commission of Inquiry on Darfur hands over

nine boxes of evidence containing thousands of
documents to the International Criminal Court. UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan delivers sealed list of
51 names the Commission recommended for
investigation to ICC Prosecutor Luis-Moreno
Ocampo.
350 militiamen on horse- and camel-back destroy
village of Khor Abeche, in South Darfur.
AP
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
Khor Abache
Fighting between SLM/A rebels and Arab militias

over the past week kills seven in the Abdul Bagir
region of North Darfur.
UN Human Rights Commission condemns
continued, widespread and systematic violations by all
parties to human rights and international humanitarian
law in Darfur, specifically, violence against civilians
and sexual violence against women and girls,
destruction of villages, widespread displacement and
other violations. Sudan, EU, US all supported the
resolution after EU withdrew a stronger-worded draft.
US Senate unanimously passes Darfur
Accountability Act, spearheaded by Senator Jon
Corzine. Act condemns genocide, calls for sanctions
and the appointment of a Presidential envoy to
Darfur.
The Coalition for International Justice, working with
researchers from Northwestern University and the
University of Toronto, announces that recentlycollected information suggests that the death toll in
Darfur could be as high as 400,000. The combined
death estimate is based on 140,000 deaths directly from
violence and 250,000 deaths from disease, starvation
and other causes.
Maj. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh, head of GoS
AP
Abdul Bagir
Names
Notes
Luis-Moreno
Ocampo
Kofi Annan
AP
AP
Jon Corzine
John Hagan
Patricia Parker
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Washington,
Salah Abdallah
http://www.cij.org/pu
blications/New_Anal
ysis_Claims_Darfur_
Deaths_Near_400_00
0.pdf

intelligence agency, flies to Washington to discuss
intelligence sharing with CIA. Gosh has been accused
of planning Darfur attacks.
8 May
Two Sudanese WFP contractors are killed in South

Darfur by unidentified gunmen on the road between
Ed-Daen and Nyala.

Chronology
of Failure to
Stop
Genocide
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
D.C.
Addis Ababa
Gosh
Ed-Diein
Nyala
26
May
Donors pledge $300 million to support AU forces in

Darfur at fundraising conference in Addis Ababa.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
30
May
GoS arrests two senior MSF officials accused of libel

for their report which alleged that hundreds of rapes
had been committed in Darfur.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
6 Jun
ICC Prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo formally

opens investigation into Darfur.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
5 Jul
GoS, SLM/A and JEM sign Declaration of

Principles, agreeing to broad commitments including
respecting Sudans unity, upholding democracy and
justice and equality for all.
John Garang sworn in as First Vice President of
Sudan.
AP
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits

Khartoum and also travels to Abu Shouk refugee
camp in Darfur. Rice says that, a genocide was
committed here.
While the number of civilians killed in Darfur has
dropped from over 300 in January to less than 100 in
June, rape and intimidation persist, according to UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Darfur may be a
less active war zone than it was a year ago, but
violations of human rights continue to occur frequently
and active combat has been replaced by a suffocating
environment of intimidation and fear, perpetuated by
AP
Condoleeza Rice
AP
Kofi Annan
9 Jul
21 Jul
21 Jul
Luis-Moreno
Ocampo
Abuja
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
337
18-20
Sep
ever-present milita.
US names Roger Winter, current USAID assistant
administrator for democracy, conflict and humanitarian
assistance, as Special Representative for the Deputy
Secretary of State, on Darfur.
SPLM/A leader John Garang killed in helicopter
crash.
GoS soldiers and Janjaweed fighters attack more than
20 villages in North Shareya in South Darfur.
19 Sep
26 Jul
30 Jul
26 Sep
27 Sep
26 Sep
28 Sep
9 Oct
10 Oct
3 Nov
21 Nov
23 Nov
AP
Roger Winter
John Garang
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
North Shareya
SLM/A take control of Shareya after heavy fighting.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
Shareya
Janjaweed fighters reportedly enter Chad on an

apparent cattle-rustling raid, killing 36 and losing 7 to
Chadian forces.
Special UN advisor on preventing genocide Juan
Mendez says Khartoum has done little to disarm
militias or end the "culture of impunity" there.
UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian
Affairs Jan Egeland announces UN will suspend
relief work in many areas of Darfur due to sharp
escalation in violence and insecurity.
Rebels abduct 18 African Union monitoring team
members, releasing most the next day.
Minni Arko Minnawi elected new president of
SLM/A, with incumbent president Abdel Wahed
Mohamed el-Nur not recognizing the election as the
rebel group continues to splinter.
BBC
Chad
BBC
Janjaweed
Janjaweed
Juan Mendez
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
WP
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns that in

Darfur the looming threat of complete lawlessness and
anarchy draws nearer.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
15,000 newly displaced seek refuge in Gereida as

fighting continues across Darfur with the ICRC
reporting hundreds killed.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
338
Abdel Wahed
Mohammed
Ahmed al-Nur
Mani Arkoi
Minawi
Kofi Annan
Gereida
19 Dec
9 Dec
ICRC reports clashes between two communities of

Arab nomads near Zalingei that has left 60 dead.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
Zalingie
19 Dec
Horse- and camel-mounted militias attack Abu Sarouj

village killing 20.
IRIN Sudan:
Year in Brief
2005
Abu Sarouj
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Abaker, Abaker Ayoub

MP, West Darfur

Abdallah, Jaafer Ahmed

GoS official in North Darfur

Abdallah, Mohammed Ali

AU Commission Chair overseeing Abuja peace talks

Sudan Deputy Humanitarian Affairs

Sudan National Security Chief; Major General

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Adam, Adam Jamaa

GoS commissioner for Nyala

Nigerian Foreign Minister

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Alak, Chol Deng

Minister of State, GoS Foreign Ministry

Mohammed Hamid Ali

Sherif Ahmed Badr

Al-Bait, Sadek Abbas Dhaw

Nazir, Berti community of Jebel Marra

Balyel, Makki Ali

Former Presidential peace advisor

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French Foreign Minister

Osama bin Laden

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CARE regional director for East and Central Africa

Domee, Abdullah Hasaballah

Moctar Wawa Dahab

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Egyptian; Secretary-General for Arab Organization for Human Rights of UN

US State Department Deputy Spokesperson

Maged Abdel Fattah

US State Department spokesman

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Gassis, Macram Max

Charge daffaires at the U.S. Embassy, Sudan

Sudanese school teacher.

Hamid, Ibrahim Mahmoud

GoS Humanitarian Affairs Minister

Ibrahim Mahmud Hamid

Hamid, Khalid Abbas

Sudanese consul-general, Sudan mission to Chad

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Ahmed Mohammed Haroun

Haroun, Mariam Azraq

Darfur tribal singer, indicted for inciting ethnic violence

Hussein, Abdel Wahab Hassan