"Darfur" Blogs & Blog Posts

The 30-year rule of Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir is over after a military coup this morning toppled his government. Defense minister Awad Mohamed Auf announced Bashir's arrest on state TV and promised elections in two years, with a military coun...

Fatou Bensouda, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, made a statement to the United Nations Security Council on the situation in Darfur last week. In her speech she gives a damning indictment of the lack of international response to...

George Clooney, along with writer/activist John Prendergast and political analyst Akshaya Kumar, has written a New York Times op-ed about the human rights violations (which include, among other horrible things, rape torture) that continue to occur in...

Sudanese soldiers systematically raped at least 221 women and girls during three days of attacks on a town in the embattled region of Darfur, monitoring group Human Rights Watch said in a 48-page report released Wednesday. Witnesses told the organiza...

Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Elizabeth Blackney are joined by Gabriel Stauring, to discuss the latest atrocities in the Sudan, how non-profit g...