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• All Africa.Com: Recent News Summaries on Sudan (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  News summaries in English and French are based mostly on reports from the Pan African News Agency (PANA) and other East African regional sources. Warning: all articles more than 30 days old are accessible only through a subscription. For current and recent news, see also: Sudan Tribune below.
  
  


• Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005) (via UN Mission in the Sudan)
  
  
• Darfur Crisis
  • Africa Action Campaign to Stop Genocide in Darfur: Resources & Analysis (Washington, DC)
    
    
  • African Union Mission in the Sudan, 2004-2007 (Abuja, Nigeria; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
    • News and documents on Darfur; plus links.
      
      
    • Darfur Peace Agreement, May 2006
      
      
    • Old site: African Union -- The Situation in the Darfur Region of The Sudan, 2004-2005
      
    • See also: UNAMID: United Nations--African Union Mission in Darfur (2007--) below.
      
    
    
  • BBC News In-Depth on Darfur and The Sudan: "Sudan elections put back to 2010" (April 2, 2009) -- "Warning of Darfur Arab rebellion" (November 26, 2007) -- "Civilians killed in Darfur attack" (December 10, 2006)...plus previous stories, background reports since 2004, and maps of conflict zones. (London, UK)
    
    
  • Columbia University: Exhibition of Children's Drawings from the Darfur Crisis (Columbia University Libraries and Human Rights Watch, New York)
    See also: Selected Readings on Darfur, plus Children & War.
    
    
  • Conference on "Darfur and the Crisis of Governance in Sudan," Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 21-22, 2008. Co-sponsored by Cornell University Africana Studies and Research Center and the Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University.
    
    
  • Darfur Consortium -- An African and International Civil Society Action for Darfur (Kampala, Uganda)
    This website includes action statements from African NGOs and links to documents, press releases, and other websites. "[The consortium] is a coalition of more than thirty Africa-based and Africa-focused NGOs dedicated to the working together to promote a just, peaceful and sustainable end to the ongoing humanitarian and human rights crisis in Darfur."
    
    
  • Darfur-Darfur Dialogue & Consultation (DDDC)
    Still under construction: The site offers general information about the DDDC, reports, and news on Darfur peace process and related issues. "The Darfur Peace Agreement, established the DDDC, an autonomous and non-politicized process, mandated to enable Darfurians to voice their opinions and views to achieve sustainable peace and reconciliation in Darfur."
    
    
  • Darfur Information Center (1989-2005) (Dr. Ali Dinar, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
    The site offers background history, summaries, reports, editorials, and interviews up to 2005, as well as links to current news and humanitarian web sites on the situation in the Darfur region of the Sudan.
    
    
  • Darfur Peace Agreement (May 2006) (via African Union Mission in Sudan, Abuja, Nigeria and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
    
    
  • Darfur People's Association of New York (Brooklyn, New York)
    
    
  • Enough: The project to end genocide and crimes against humanity (Center for American Progress, Washington, DC)
    -- See especially: Darfur and Southern Sudan
    
    
  • Foreign Policy in Focus: "The Crisis in Darfur: This Wolf is Real & Nobody's Listening." By Salih Booker (September 21, 2004). (Washington, DC)
    -- See also: "When Intervention is Necessary, Who Can You Call?" By Salih Booker (August 5, 2004)
    -- FPIF Global Commentary 2004 (General)
    -- Foreign Policy in Focus Home Page
    
    
  • Human Rights First on China, The Sudan & Darfur (via Columbia University Libraries)
    
    
  • Human Rights Watch: Failing Darfur: Five Years On (2008) (New York)
    The site includes an archive of HR reports and a campaign video. See also: Darfur Drawn: The Conflict in Darfur Through Children's Eyes (2005)
    
    
  • Institute for Security Studies: Darfur Conflict -- Key Documentation (Pretoria, South Africa)
    
    
  • International Center for Transitional Justice: Reparation and the Darfur Peace Process: Ensuring Victims' Rights. (November 2007) By Suliman Baldo and Lisa Magarrell. (Reparative justice series)
    -- [New York]: ICTJ, 2007. 53 pages in PDF format
    
    
  • International Crisis Group: Crisis in Darfur (2009) (Washington, DC ; Brussels, Belgium)
    --See also: "Sudan, Justice, Peace, and the ICC" (July 17, 2009)
    -- Darfur's New Security Reality (November 2007)
    
    
  • International Criminal Court on Darfur (The Hague, The Netherlands)
    
    
  • London Review of Books. (Online): "The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency" by Mahmood Mamdani (March 8, 2007). Vol. 29, no. 5.
    -- Letters from Gérard Prunier and others in response (April 5, 2007) Vol. 29, no. 7
    -- Mahmood Mamdani responds (April 26, 2007) Vol. 29, no. 8.
    -- "I will not sign: Alex de Waal writes about the Darfur peace negotiations" (November 30, 2006)
    Vol. 28, no. 23.
    
    
  • O'Fahey's "Darfur Website Documents" The Centre Studies Research Seminars, The Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bergen. (Professor Rex Sean O'Fahey, Dept. of History, University of Bergen, Norway)
    Assorted notes, historical essays, and Darfur historical documents: a catalogue--documents photographed by Prof. Rex Sean O'Fahey in the 1970s.
    
    
  • Radio Dabanga (via Press Now, Hilversum, The Netherlands)
    This web site features current news briefs (in English and Arabic) and selected downloads from radio broadcasts in Arabic. "...reports from inside Sudan as well as abroad, producing independent news and relevant information for all Darfuri: city folk, villagers and herdsman, IDP's, Refugees, Darfuri abroad and in Sudan...a project of the Radio Darfur Network, a coalition of Sudanese Journalists and international (media) development organizations..."
    
    
  • Save Darfur Coalition (Washington, DC)
    "[The coalition is] an alliance of over 100 faith-based, humanitarian and human rights organizations [in the United States]. Our mission is to raise public awareness and to mobilize an effective unified response to the atrocities that threaten the lives of two million people in the Darfur region."
    
    
  • Sidney Morning Herald. (Online): Drawings from the Killing Fields of Darfur. A multimedia exhibit in FLASH, featuring childrens artwork. (Sidney, Australia)
    
    
  • Social Science Research Council Blog: Making Sense of Darfur by Alex de Waal et al. (New York)
    --See also: "Saviors and Survivors" with Mahmood Mamdani and others, April 2009 to present
    
    
  • United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: Darfur Humanitarian Needs Profile. Part of UNOCHA Sudan (Khartoum, Sudan; Geneva, Switzerland)
    
    
  • University of California: Understanding the Human Catastrophe in Darfur (2008) Understanding Sudan, A Teaching and Learning Resource (Berkeley, California)
    
    
  
  
• Maidan, al-. (Online). -- Khartoum: The Sudanese Communist Party, 1999-
  The most recent monthly electronic issue (online or downloadable) and several back issues of an Arabic language news magazine ("newspaper") published since 1954.
  
  
• Le Monde Diplomatique Archives, 2003--: Soudan
  On peut aussi chercher << Soudan >> dans les archives.
  
  
• Norwegian Refugee Council Global IDP Database: Sudan Information (Global IDP Project, Geneva, Switzerland)
  A compilation of reports from humanitarian and human rights organizations. See also, NRC Home Page (English).
  
  
• Ray al-Aam, al-. (Online) -- Khartoum: Al Rayaam, 2002-
  The electronic version of this Sudanese Arabic language daily newspaper, with an archive of back issues since January 2002.
  
  
• Reporters sans frontières -- News and Reports on Sudan (English version) (Paris, France)
  
  
• Sudan briefing. (Online) -- London: Justice Africa, 2002-2006.
  See also: Justice Africa's programme on Sudan
  
  
• Sudan Infonet (2001) (Sudan Working Group, USA)
  • A compilation of news reports and documents on the "peace process" in Sudan 1998-2001, plus links to news stories from NGOs and major Western news services.
  • Second Kampala Declaration on Human Rights, Democracy and Development in Sudan, 17-20 July 2000
  
  
• Sudan News and Views Newsletter (Online) Archive -- London: s.n., 1994-97 (via University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  Archive only, 1994-1997. "Sudan News & Views (originally distributed via e-mail) is an independent electronic newsletter working to advocate peace, human rights and humanitarian aid for the Sudan."
  
  
• SPLM Today -- Official Website of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement/Army (Juba, Sudan ; Nairobi, Kenya)
  • The website includes news, documents, and related links.
  • SPLM 2nd National Convention, May 10-16, 2008
  • SPLM 15 Point Programme (January 2007)
  
  
  
• Sudan Tribune (SudanTribune.com, Ltd., via Agence des Médias Numérique, Paris, France)
  • A current, daily news portal in English on the Sudan and Africa based on a variety of news sources, mostly from outside Africa; plus commentary...with articles since July 2003.
  • Documents on the Sudan
  
  
• Sudan Update (Online) Archive -- London: Sudan Update, 1995-1999. (via University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  Current issue and archive. Issues are available for a fee via e-mail subscription. This site is compiled from e-mail messages by Dr. Ali Dinar, University of Pennsylvania. "Sudan Update is an international media review, published twice monthly, recording news and comment on Sudanese affairs from all quarters to promote dialogue and education."
  
  
• United Nations on The Sudan -- News
  • UN System in the Sudan, Sudan Information Gateway (New York)
    
    
  • Report of the Secretary-General on The Sudan, April 22, 2008 (S/2008/267)
    -- See also: Special Envoy for Darfur, December 2006 to present
    
    
  • UNAMID: United Nations - African Union Mission in Darfur, 2007-
    News, reports, and related links on the UN and the AU in Darfur since July 31, 2007.
    
    
  • Report of the UN Secretary General...on Darfur, The Sudan, 30 August 2004 (S/2004/703) (New York)
    
    
  • United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Geneva, Switzerland)
    • IRIN--Integrated Regional Information Network on Sudan
      -- Latest News from Sudan
      -- Sudan: a future without war, IRIN In-Depth on the prospects of peace in Sudan (March 2004)
    • ReliefWeb News on The Sudan
      • Links to current or breaking news stories. The reports are compiled from various news agencies and the OCHA's Integrated Regional Information Network (IRIN).
      • Highlights of Signed Peace Accord, January 9, 2005