| April 26, 2008 | - 95 Dinka tribesmen in southern Sudan were killed in clashes over cattle theft.
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Al Jazeera
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| February 17, 2008 | - President George W. Bush visited Africa to tout the success of his policies there, including his decision not to try to stop genocide in Darfur. “I'm not one of these guys that really gives a darn about elite opinion,” he explained. “What I really care about is—are we saving lives?”
| Source 1:
BBC
Source 2:
New York Times
Source 3:
Washington Post
Source 4:
New York Times
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| February 15, 2008 | -
Sudanese aircraft and Janjaweed militiamen attacked three villages in West Darfur, killing as many as 114 civilians and driving 12,000 more refugees into neighboring Chad, where they joined hundreds of thousands of refugees already there.
| Source 1:
New York Times
Source 2:
Reuters
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| December 8, 2007 | - Six French charity workers held prisoner in N'Djamena, the capital of Chad, went on hunger strike to protest the charges against them, which include trying to kidnap 103 children from Chadian villages near Darfur. The prisoners claim that they thought the children were orphans.
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BBC
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| October 28, 2007 | - The Sudanese government announced a unilateral cease-fire in Darfur during peace talks hosted by Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, who spoke about the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles before concluding that other countries should not interfere in Darfur.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 31, 2007 | - Nubian militants in Sudan were organizing efforts “to get rid of the Arabs.”
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Los Angeles Times
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| May 26, 2007 | - In Darfur, where Janjaweed leaders, frustrated with promises of land, cattle, and wealth gone undelivered by Khartoum, have joined forces with rebel factions, bandits shot and killed their first U.N. peacekeeper.
| Source 1:
Christian Science Monitor
Source 2:
USA Today
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| April 17, 2007 | -
Sudan agreed to allow more than 3,000 armed U.N. and African peacekeepers into Darfur, where government-supported militia are accused of killing as many as 400,000 civilians.
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Washington Post
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| March 2, 2007 | - After the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court filed charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity against Sudanese officials, Sudan's Minister of the Interior said that any party who tried to enforce the charges would be beheaded.
| Source 1:
AllAfrica.com
Source 2:
Sudan Times
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| March 1, 2007 | -
Senator Joe Biden (D., Del.) boasted that as president he would pull U.S. troops out of Iraq and send them to “take out the janjaweed” in Darfur, which he mistakenly placed in Somalia, not Sudan, where visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad signed a cooperative agreement on the environment and said, “Zionists are the true manifestation of Satan.”
| Source 1:
PrezVid
Source 2:
Deutsche Presse-Agentur
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| August 23, 2006 | - The International Rescue Committee announced that more than 200 women were sexually assaulted in refugee camps last month in Darfur.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 16, 2006 | -
Bill Clinton called on Sudan to accept foreign peacekeepers from Muslim countries.
| Source:
Reuters Alertnet
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| July 7, 2006 | - A United Nations official in Sudan lamented that violence in Darfur has gotten worse since the signing of a recent peace accord.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| April 28, 2006 | - In Washington, D.C., five members of Congress, all Democrats, were arrested outside the Sudanese embassy for protesting the genocide in Darfur.
| Source:
CNN.com
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| April 23, 2006 | - Via audiotape, Osama bin Laden called on his followers to travel to Sudan and fight against the U.N. forces in Darfur.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| April 6, 2006 | - The 7,000-man African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur was under investigation for raping and abusing local women and girls.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| February 24, 2006 | -
Sudanese villagers forced a man to marry a goat after he was found having sex with it; the man also was required to pay the goat's owner 15,000 Sudanese dinars as dowry.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 1, 2006 | - The number of people who have been forced to flee their homes due to violence in South Darfur reached 70,000.
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AllAfrica.com
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| December 30, 2005 | - Twenty Sudanese migrants, protesting their treatment in Egypt, were killed by Egyptian police.
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BBC News
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| December 22, 2005 | - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asked Congress for $50 million to support African troops in Darfur, but her request was rejected.
| Source:
Herald News Daily
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| September 14, 2005 | - The Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda crossed the White Nile River into southern Sudan and attacked the city of Juba.
| Source:
BBC News
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| August 10, 2005 | - Women in Sudan were committing adultery so that they could be arrested and thus obtain a divorce; Sudanese men are often resistant to divorce because it requires them to return a bride's dowry. “He wasn't caring for me,” said Ding Maker, an imprisoned woman whose dowry was 90 cows. “I don't mind staying here.”
| Source:
Washington Post
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| August 8, 2005 | - Rioting in Sudan killed 130 people.
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News24.com
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| March 16, 2005 | - The United Nations estimated that 180,000 people have died in Darfur since October 2003.
| Source:
USA Today
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| March 9, 2005 | - In Iraq, the director of the al-Furat hospital in Baghdad was shot dead. A roadside bomb went off in Basra, killing a policeman, and two Sudanese drivers who work with U.S. forces were taken hostage.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 27, 2005 | - Atrocities continued in Darfur.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 17, 2005 | -
Sudan refused to allow war-crimes suspects from Darfur to be tried at The Hague, insisting that they instead be tried at home in Sudan.
| Source:
BBC News
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| February 1, 2005 | -
Darfur's violence and mass killings failed to qualify as genocide, according to a U.N. commission.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| January 28, 2005 | - The Sudanese government dropped bombs on women and children in Darfur,
| Source:
Reuters
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| January 25, 2005 | - and the European Union reestablished diplomatic ties with Sudan for the first time since 1990.
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The New york Times
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| January 9, 2005 | - Political leaders in Sudan signed a peace deal that did not include Darfur.
| Source:
News.com.au
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| December 21, 2004 | - 10,000 people were dying each month in Darfur.
| Source:
CNN
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| December 18, 2004 | - A general from the African Union called the situation in Sudan a "bomb that could explode at any moment," as a deadline to end hostilities there was ignored.
| Source:
New York Times
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| November 22, 2004 | - The U.N. announced plans to send 7,000 peacekeeping troops to Sudan.
| Source:
Globe and Mail
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| October 6, 2004 | - The genocide in Sudan was continuing.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 24, 2004 | - President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria said that the African Union will send thousands of troops to keep the peace in Sudan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 19, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council passed another resolution asking the Sudanese government to prevent its proxies from slaughtering people in Darfur (China, Algeria, Pakistan, and Russia abstained). The resolution, which for the first time formally invokes the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, says that the council will "consider" sanctions if the genocide continues.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 27, 2004 | - The World Health Organization said that hepatitis E cases have tripled in the last month in Darfur.
| Source:
New Scientist
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| August 22, 2004 | - A Sudanese sheikh accused of being a leader of the Janjaweed militias that have been killing and raping black farmers in Darfur admitted that he had been "appointed" by his government to "defend their land."
| Source:
Telegraph
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| August 11, 2004 | - A plague of locusts was heading for Darfur, Sudan,
| Source:
Reuters
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| August 3, 2004 | - The United Nations Security Council passed a resolution calling on Sudan to disarm its militias in Darfur but declined to use the word "sanctions" and made no mention of using force to stop the ongoing genocide; Sudan denounced the resolution as a declaration of war.
| Source:
Daily Times
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| July 25, 2004 | - Europe and the United States both continued to threaten Sudan with economic sanctions unless it stops the genocide in Darfur, where government-sponsored Arab militias have been slaughtering and raping black farmers.
| Source:
Reuters
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| July 19, 2004 | - A court in southern Darfur sentenced ten Janjaweed fighters to have their left hands and right feet amputated; the Sudanese ambassador in London denied that his government was supporting the militias.
| Source:
BBC
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| July 17, 2004 | - The United Nations continued to issue warnings about the ongoing genocide in Sudan, where Arab militias, known as Janjaweed, have been slaughtering and raping black farmers in Darfur; more than one million people have fled their homes and hundreds of thousands of refugees could soon die of cholera and other diseases.
| Source:
Reuters, Associated Press
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| May 5, 2004 | -
Sudan, where government-sponsored Arab militias called Janjaweed have been slaughtering black farmers, was elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights over the objections of the United States. One Sudanese diplomat scoffed at the U.S. objection and pointed to the American atrocities in Iraq.
| Source:
New York Times
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| April 23, 2004 | - Pro-government militias in Sudan continued to slaughter people in Darfur.
| Source:
BBC
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| April 8, 2004 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who as the U.N. head of peacekeeping failed to intervene to stop the Rwandan
genocide, said that the reports of massacres and rapes in Sudan "leave me with a deep sense of foreboding."
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 27, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 26, 2004 | - Political violence continued in Kosovo, Gaza, Ivory Coast, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan, Taiwan, Afghanistan, Thailand, and Syria; there was unrest in Haiti, where armed gangs continued to terrorize the people; in Congo, where the government put down a coup attempt; and in France, where firefighters battled police during a strike over retirement benefits. The firefighters threw garbage cans, firecrackers, and smoke bombs; the police fired tear gas.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 19, 2004 | - A United Nations official said that Sudan now has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and he compared the government's program of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, and murder to the Rwandan
genocide.
| Source:
BBC
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| October 23, 2003 | - Colin Powell was trying to make peace in Sudan.
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 20, 2002 | -
Sudan changed its national slogan from “Jihad, Victory, and Martyrdom” to “Peace, Unity, and Development.” Saudi Arabia beheaded an Egyptian for murder and cut off the hand of a Syrian pickpocket.
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| May 7, 2002 | -
Ugandan rebels known as the Lord's Resistance Army attacked a funeral procession in the Sudan and forced 60 people to cook the corpse in sorghum and eat it, whereupon they were all shot.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Somalia, Yemen, Sudan, Libya, the Philippines, Indonesia, and North Korea were also being mentioned as future targets.
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| November 20, 2001 | - John C. Danforth, the American special envoy for Sudan, jumped over a dead cow.
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| July 10, 2001 | - A peace plan was accepted in Sudan, where an 18-year civil war has caused almost two million deaths.
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| April 17, 2001 | -
Sudan flogged 53 Christians, including four women and two children, for rioting.
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| December 26, 2000 | - Over 3.2 million Sudanese were endangered by food and water shortages.
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| December 12, 2000 | - A man named Abbas Abbas shot up a mosque in the Sudan, killing twenty people, three days before general elections, which were being boycotted by opposition parties.
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| September 19, 2000 | -
Christian Solidarity International, a Swiss aid group, bought 4,435 slaves in Sudan and set them free; so far the group has bought 38,000 slaves, causing some to wonder whether they were contributing to the market in human chattel.
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