On May 11, 2008 Sudan announced it was cutting diplomatic relations with Chad, claiming that it was helping rebels in Darfur to attack the Sudanese capital Khartoum.

On May 11, 2008 Sudan announced it was cutting diplomatic relations with Chad, claiming that it was helping rebels in Darfur to attack the Sudanese capital Khartoum

Other, much smaller groups speaking a related language and claiming a link with the Nile Nubians have been given local names, such as the Birqid and the Meidab in Darfur State.

However, the Military of Chad is notorious for severe misconduct against the population ( abuse, rape, claiming of supplies and cars ) and did not even defend the population in distress ( e. g. in the Darfur conflict ).

The conflict in the border region of Darfur has become an increasingly bi-national affair as increasing numbers of Sudanese flee to refugee camps in Chad, and Sudanese government troops and militias cross the borders to strike at both these camps and specific ethnic groups.

The proposal included provisions for a Darfuri Vice-President and an administrative structure that includes both the three states and a strategic regional authority, the Darfur Regional Authority, to oversee Darfur as a whole.

It was the center of the Sultanate of Darfur and contained both its capital al-Fashir and its biggest trading city Kobbei.

The ongoing conflicts of post-invasion Iraq, the renewed Taliban insurgency in the 2001 war in Afghanistan, the Darfur conflict, the rebellion in the North of Uganda by the Lord's Resistance Army, and the Second Chechen War are fought almost entirely by irregular forces on one or both sides.

A Zaghawa tribesman named Daoud Hari wrote a memoir about Darfur called The Translator and a Zaghawa woman named Dr. Halima Bashir co-authored a memoir with Damien Lewis called ' Tears of the Desert ', which both spread knowledge about the atrocities in Darfur.

The NIF has shown itself to be both politically adept and ruthless in its use of violence, in particular in the internal conflicts of the Second Sudanese Civil War and the Darfur conflict, as well in the provisioning of proxy forces such as the Lord's Resistance Army, West Nile Bank Front and Uganda National Rescue Front II against Uganda.

Recent conflict in both Chad and Darfur have meant that less agriculture is taking place and to an extent original flora is reestablishing.

AMIS originated in early July 2004, when both the African Union and European Union sent monitors to monitor the Darfur crisis cease-fire signed in April 2004.

The Senussi, encouraged by the German Empire and Ottoman Empire, played a minor part in the First World War, fighting a guerrilla war against the Italians in Libya and the British in Egypt from November 1915 until February 1917, led by Sayyid Ahmed and in the Sudan from March to December 1916, led by Ali Dinar, the Sultan of Darfur.

* Crisis Darfur: Bernard-Henri Lévy at PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature — as published in Guernica Magazine.

During World War I, the British, being concerned that the sultanate might fall under the influence of the Ottoman Empire, invaded and incorporated Darfur into the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan in 1916.

As such, the mission of the OSI shifted in its last years from focusing strictly on World War II criminals to seeking out and prosecuting war criminals from the conflicts in Bosnia, Serbia, Rwanda, and Darfur who have sought refuge by coming to the United States.

The fall of Darfur was actually decided, however, when Ali Dinar declared loyalty to the Ottoman Empire in World War I.

In World War I Darfur made a bid for independence by allying with Turkey against the British.

The bulk of the world ’ s food aid is given to people in areas where poverty is endemic ; or to people who has suffered due to a natural disaster other than famine ( such as the victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami ), or have lost their crops due to conflicts ( such as in the Darfur region of Sudan ).

Citing Luebke ’ s work in leading the Sudan ( Darfur ) Divestment Act, the Human Rights Coalition of North Carolina awarded him its International Human Rights award in 2007.

When Ahmad's successor, Abdallahi ibn Muhammad, himself an Arab of Southern Darfur from Ta ’ isha tribe, demanded that the pastoralist tribes provide soldiers, several tribes rose up in revolt.

Taha was quoted as saying to commanders of the Janjaweed militia, “ I don ’ t want one single village of Zurgas in Darfur.

They settled in the area of Southern Darfur and they called the land Dar El Ta ’ isha.

In late March 2010, the Sudan Envoy's Office acted on PHR ’ s recommendations and directed more than $ 2 million to support United Nations programs in Darfur to protect women from sexual assault.

* Radio Dabanga ( with daily news about Darfur )

This has been the source of ethnic tensions for many years, culminating in the Darfur conflict which began in 2003.

It has trained three 750-man battalions for peace support operations in Darfur.

Libya has supported Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir despite charges of a genocide in Darfur.

Although a long-standing member of the Arab League, Sudan has around 30 % non-Arab populations in the west ( Darfur, Masalit, Zaghawa ), far north ( Nubian ) and south ( Kordofan, Nuba ).

The conflict has been described by Mukesh Kapila, UN coordinator for Sudan, as ethnic cleansing, as Black Arab militias carry out systematic massacres of tribespeople in the Darfur region.

UNHCR presently has major missions in Lebanon, South Sudan, Chad / Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan as well as Kenya to assist and provide services to IDPs and refugees.

and a speaking appearance at youth activism event We Day Sheen has also endorsed and supported Help Darfur Now, a student-run organization to help aid victims of the genocide in Darfur, the western region in Sudan.

Castration has been used in modern conflicts, such as the Janjaweed militiamen currently () attacking citizens of the Darfur region in Sudan, often castrating villagers and leaving them to bleed to death.

Clooney has advocated a resolution of the Darfur conflict.

Clooney and John Prendergast co-wrote a Washington Post op-ed piece in May 2011, titled " Dancing with a dictator in Sudan ", arguing that: President Omar al-Bashir has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide, is escalating bombing and food aid obstruction in Darfur, and he now threatens the entire north-south peace process ... the evidence shows that incentives alone are insufficient to change Khartoum's calculations.

The Sudanese government has used scorched earth as a military strategy in Darfur.

According to China's critics, China has offered Sudan support threatening to use its veto on the U. N. Security Council to protect Khartoum from sanctions and has been able to water down every resolution on Darfur in order to protect its interests in Sudan.

The Committee on Conscience of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum has targeted genocides such as those in Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur, the Congo and Chechnya as challenges to the world's conscience.

People for the American Way, among others, criticized Graham for downplaying Bashir's war in mostly Muslim Darfur because of peace in the mostly Christian south of Sudan and because Bashir has allowed Graham and his Samaritan's Purse latitude in operating in Sudan.

The alleged genocide in the ongoing War in Darfur has been described as an example of Arab racism.

Since then, however, there has been a violent conflict in Darfur that has resulted in death tolls between 200, 000 and 400, 000.

The plight of the people of Darfur, Western Sudan, has also been a regular theme.

His attempts to bring Nazi war criminals to justice have won praise as has been his founding of all-party Parliamentary groups to bring attention and action to end the genocide in Darfur.

* Chad has about 178, 000 IDPs due to the proximity to Darfur and the civil war in eastern Chad.

* Sudan has 5-6 million IDPs due to decades of civil war in the south and the Darfur conflict in the west.

He has advocated for relief of the genocide in Darfur.