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Focuses on the genocide and tribal conflict being faced by Black Africans in Darfur, Sudan. Damage caused by the attacks of Arab militia on Black African villages; Efforts of Sudanese refugees to recover from the attack; Potential impact of the decision of the Sudanese government to implement the obscure 1984 land tenure law which states that the government can claim ownership of land that is not lived on for one year on Black African Darfurians.

Reports on the humanitarian crisis in western Sudan caused by ethnic cleansing as of July 2004. Problems faced by refugees including disease and starvation; Report that government-sponsored militiamen known as Janjaweed have conducted a campaign to cleanse the area of black African civilians since 2003; Claim that the United Nations and U.S. will not call the pogroms genocide in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene; Comments made by women who were raped; Pressure placed on the Sudanese government by the United States to halt the slaughter.

Focuses on the Darfur region in Sudan and its war-related strife. Profile of a young boy whose family and village were destroyed by Arab Janjaweed Militia; Background of the war between Arab militias and rebels from Darfur's black African population; Comparison to the Rwanda genocide of 1994; Details of the involvement of the United States in whether to define the situation in Sudan as genocide; Plans for providing aid from United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan; Description of the crisis as a race against time.

The article reports that the U.S. accuses the Janjaweed and its backers of committing genocide against Darfur's black African population, while Sudan's government blames the rebel Sudanese Liberation Army for the violence. The UN has proposed a 20,000-person peace-keeping force to take over from the African mission. But Khartoum says it will stop UN peacekeepers from working in Sudan, despite the threat of sanctions.

Focuses on the impact of genocide attacks by Arab Janjaweed militias and Sudanese government troops as part of the ethnic cleansing sponsored by the government on Black Sudanese villages in Darfur. Damage caused by the attacks on villages; Efforts of the U.S. government and the European Union to provide assistance and funds to help refugees in Sudan and Chad; Stand of the Sudanese government on the continued assaults on the villages.

The articles highlights the continued genocidal practices in Darfur, Sudan. The conflict between Arab Africans and Black Africans started in 2003 after the Sudanese government failed to respond to the demands of rebels for greater political and economic rights for black Darfurians. It is said that the U.S. government has pressed Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to allow peacekeepers of the United Nations to interfere in Darfur.

Discusses the response of the global community to the genocide committed by Arab militias in the Darfur region of Sudan. Efforts made by the janjaweed to carry out a campaign against the ethnically black African minority; Number of displaced black Sudanese who may perish due to starvation and disease; Definition of genocide, as accepted by the United Nations.

Expresses disappointment to the approach and response of the African Union (AU) to the increasing violent deaths of Black Africans in the Darfur region of Sudan. Condition of Black Africans; Overview of the statement issued by the AU communique in response to the situation in the region; Responsibility of the AU in providing solution to the humanitarian catastrophe in the region.

This article reports on attempts by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell and the U.N.'s Kofi Annan to ease the catastrophe in Darfur, Sudan. Looking over the calm waters of the Nile from a Khartoum café, you would not think you were in a country scourged by civil war. Seeing Arabs and black Africans rub along amicably in the city's markets, you would not think that Sudan was the scene of horrific ethnic cleansing. But it is, which is why Colin Powell, America's secretary of state, and Kofi Annan, the UN's secretary-general, paid a visit this week to try to get the Sudanese government to behave less dreadfully. Some 1.2m blacks have so far fled this campaign of burning, looting and murder. Female refugees report being triumphantly told, as they were being gang-raped, that they would bear Arab babies.