| MSF treats wounded following deadly violence in Tabarat market, North Darfur, Sudan | |
| MSF has supported several emergency responses in Sudan this year. | |
| Khartoum – Following deadly violence in Tabarat market in Tawila locality, North Darfur state, Sudan, international emergency medical humanitarian organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) provided urgent care to 46 wounded males, including one child.
Since September 2, MSF medical teams have treated 41 people in its Tawila health centre and five people in the MSF clinic in Kaguro. MSF transferred 15 of the most severely wounded to Al-Fashir Teaching Hospital, in the North Darfur capital and donated drugs for their care. “After the incident, 46 people reached our health centres, many with serious gunshot wounds,” said Alessandro Tuzza, MSF Head of Mission in Sudan. “Hundreds of families fled Tabarat area in fear, leaving everything behind. They urgently needed basic items for survival, such as shelter, as it’s now the rainy season in Darfur.” |
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Thursday, September 9th, 2010NPR: Clinton: Situation In Sudan A ‘Ticking Time Bomb’
Thursday, September 9th, 2010AFP: Darfur rebels say dozens dead in army offensive
Thursday, September 9th, 2010(AFP) – 6 days ago
KHARTOUM — A Darfur rebel group said on Friday that Sudanese forces had launched a major offensive using air power on its territory killing 74 people, most of them civilians — a claim denied by the army.
The joint UN-African Union (UNAMID) peacekeeping force which patrols Darfur said it had received reports of dozens of civilians killed in an attack by gunmen on horses and camels, but that it was still trying to reach the scene.
The rebels said 152 people were also wounded in the attack.
“On Thursday, from 2 pm (1100 GMT) until nightfall, the army attacked Tabra district in the southeast of Jebel Marra,” Darfur’s fertile central plateau, Ibrahim al-Helu, spokesman for the hardline wing of the Sudan Liberation Army loyal to Abdelwahid Nur, told AFP.
“The offensive resumed this morning with helicopters and Antonov aircraft,” he said, adding that “74 people were killed and 152 wounded, most of them civilians.”
CNN: Kenya, African Union defend Bashir visit
Thursday, September 9th, 2010By the CNN Wire Staff
August 31, 2010 — Updated 1330 GMT (2130 HKT)
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Al-Bashir, right, alongside Comoros President Ahmed Sambi Abdallah, center, and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, left.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- The Sudanese president is accused of war crimes and genocide
- The International Criminal Court has protested to the U.N. Security Council
- Kenya and the African Union say the Security Council has not acted on its own obligations
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN) — Kenya and the African Union are defending a visit by Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted on allegations of war crimes and genocide.
Al-Bashir on Friday joined other African leaders in Kenya to mark the signing of a new constitution, which is expected to usher in major change.
The International Criminal Court has protested al-Bashir’s visit to the U.N. Security Council.
Allafrica.com: Sudan: UN Protests Over Al-Bashir’s Visit to Nation
Thursday, September 9th, 2010Bernard Namunane, Fred Mukinda and Caroline Wafula
Nairobi — The United Nations Security Council will determine the punishment to impose on Kenya for hosting Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir last Friday.
On Monday, the UN said member-states were required to comply with resolutions passed on the Darfur crisis and the subsequent requests from the International Criminal Court (ICC).
This came as more countries, the national human rights agency and MPs criticised the government for inviting Mr Al-Bashir to the promulgation of the new Constitution.
LATimes: Obama administration intensifies efforts in Sudan
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
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Young activists in Sudan, where political dissent is rarely tolerated, seize on a small opening before April’s elections to educate voters.
The Obama administration, which came to office promising stronger leadership on Sudan, is now scrambling to salvage a 2005 U.S.-backed peace accord and prevent Africa’s largest nation from sliding back into civil war.
In recent weeks, the administration has doubled its diplomatic presence in South Sudan and dispatched a respected former ambassador to help with negotiations on an independence referendum for the region, which is scheduled for January
NYTimes: Obama’s Failure in Sudan
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: August 28, 2010
When President Obama was seeking the White House, he criticized Republicans for not doing enough on Darfur and insisted that he would make Sudan a priority.
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“What we have done has not been enough,” he told me in a 2006 interview when I was guest host for a “Charlie Rose” segment on Sudan. He added that Washington needed “a sustained diplomatic effort to put pressure on Sudan.”
Yet these days, Mr. Obama is presiding over an incoherent, contradictory and apparently failing Sudan policy. There is a growing risk that Sudan will be the site of the world’s bloodiest war in 2011, and perhaps a new round of genocide as well. This isn’t America’s fault, but neither are we using all of our leverage to avert it.
Sudan Tribune: QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE: Darfur Mortality Update
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010What we learn from the new report by “Darfurian Voices” (July 14, 2010)
By Eric Reeves
August 6, 2010 — In the late summer of 2004, during the most violently destructive phase of the Darfur genocide, the US State Department commissioned the International Coalition for Justice (CIJ) to oversee a systematic interviewing of Darfuri refugees who had fled to eastern Chad. It was on the basis of the report that emerged from these interviews (“Documenting Atrocities in Darfur” at http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf… ) that Secretary of State Colin Powell would make his September 2004 determination that genocide was being committed in Darfur. The personnel conducting the research included human rights experts, law enforcement officials, genocide scholars, forensic experts, and those with significant experience in the tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. They were provided with ample resources, including a full complement of translators.
Sudan Tribune journalist receives Human Rights Watch award
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010August 8, 2010 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan Tribune journalist Manyang Mayom was awarded for his ‘commitment to free expression and courage in the face of political persecution’ with a Hellman/Hammett grant by Human Rights Watch on August 4.
The annual grants are designed to reward writers ‘whose work and activism have been suppressed by their governments.’
Mayom was one of three Sudanese writers to receive the award this year.
As well as being Sudan Tribune’s correspondent in Rumbek, Mayom also works for the English language newspaper the Khartoum Monitor, and the Gurtong peace media project.
Radio Dabanga: Gunmen using government vehicles fire explosives into Darfur camp Kalma
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010KALMA CAMP
Gunmen using three government vehicles fired about 40 explosive projectiles inside Kalma camp on Thursday. The explosives fell at centres 1,2 and 3, terrorizing the remaining displaced persons in the camp. One of the leaders of young men in the camp told Radio Dabanga that the explosives did not explode and that UNAMID forces responded to the aggressors who were driven off. They fled toward the nearby state capital, Nyala. He added that the situation returned to calm and stability and called on UNAMID to protect the displaced.