As you may know, Darfur villages are under renewed attack and thousands of refugees fleeing to Chad are being turned away. Oxfam, the primary supplier of water to internally displaced persons, says it will be forced to shut down operations in three weeks. "The situation is running out of control," states Jan Eliasson, UN Special Envoy for Darfur.

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Last week's peace talks in Libya were another step in the long-awaited political process that can bring peace to Darfur.

But real peace remains elusive. The peace process could take months or years to bear fruit. Meanwhile, violence continues to ( Read more... )

(CNN) -- President Bush imposed new sanctions this week (*finally*) against the Sudanese government for its refusal to stop violence against civilians in Darfur. The sanctions are aimed at 31 companies owned or controlled by the Sudanese government, banning them from doing business with the United States or U.S. companies.

CNN.com asked readers if ( Read more... )

David Wilkerson of “The Cross and the Switchblade” and Times Square Church fame preached...

What you hear is God wants you to be rich. He wants you to go first-class. C’mon, get in on the game.

Do you know that there are six billion 500 million people on the Earth today? One billion 200 thousand live on 23 cents a day. Two billion people ( Read more... )

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I've been pondering why the 33 deaths at Virginia Tech have been getting so much more media play than the 400,000+ deaths in Darfur. Here's one guys opinion. What do you think?

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The following editorial appeared in April 20th's San Diego Union Tribune.

The government of Sudan should long since have worn out the world's patience on the continuing ( Read more... )

Time is running out for the people of Darfur. Four years of genocidal violence has left over 400,000 dead, 2.5 million innocent civilians displaced, and 4 million men, women, and children completely reliant on international aid for survival. Not since the Rwandan genocide of 1994 has the world seen such a calculated campaign of displacement, ( Read more... )

After Darfur, Starting Anew in the Midwest

FORT WAYNE, Ind. - Looking at old pictures taken in the desert sand in the Darfur region of Sudan, Fawzia Suliman pointed to one after the other: mother-in-law, sister, sister-in-law, cousin, and so on.

“Dead. Dead. Dead. Dead,” she said. “All dead.”

The last place that Ms. Suliman called home was a ( Read more... )

Time, money running out to feed Chadians living in camps

N'DJAMENA, Chad (Reuters) -- Tens of thousands of displaced people are running out of food in strife-torn eastern Chad as rising violence spilling across the border from Darfur forces more people from their homes, the U.N. food agency said on Friday.

The World Food Program said it had ( Read more... )