Ban met Chadian President Idriss Deby to discuss plans to deploy a European Union (EU) peacekeeping force in eastern Chad as complement to Darfur peacekeeping, then flew to Sirte in Libya for talks with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has agreed to
UN head Ban Ki-moon has expressed his feelings of shock after a visit to a refugee camp in Darfur.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is in Sudan on a double-headed mission: to bolster the incrasingly fragile peace deal on the north-south conflict, and to push for progress in the imperiled Darfur region. An AFPTV report, using file images, looks the huma
The Darfur conflict is a complex crisis in the Darfur region of western Sudan. One side of the armed conflict is composed mainly of the Sudanese military and the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited mostly from the tribes of the northern Rizeigat, camel-herding nomads. The other side comprises a variety of rebel groups, notably the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, recruited primarily from the land-tilling Fur, Zaghawa, and Massaleit ethnic groups. The Sudanese government, while publicly denying that it supports the Janjaweed, has provided money and assistance to the militia and has participated in joint attacks targeting the tribes from which the rebels draw support.[1] The conflict began in February 2003. Unlike in the Second Sudanese Civil War, which was fought between the primarily Muslim north and Christian and Animist south, almost all of the combatants and victims in Darfur are Muslim.[2]
The government and Janjaweed attacks upon the non-Baggara civilian populace have resulted in a major humanitarian crisis. There are many casualty estimates, most concurring on a range within the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations (UN) estimates that the conflict has left as many as 450,000 dead from violence and disease.[3] Most NGOs (non-governmental organizations) use 200,000 to over 400,000, a figure from the Coalition for International Justice that has since been cited by the UN. Sudan's government claims that over 9,000 people have been killed, although this figure is seen as counterfactual.[4][5] As many as 2.5 million are thought to have been displaced as of October 2006.
There are many organizations currently taking donations, two of them are: SaveDarfur.org and Notonourwatchproject.org
