Jul 14th, 2008 · Sudan's president has been charged with genocide by the International Criminal Court in The Hague following an investigation into atrocities in the country's western Darfur province. Judges are expected to take months to study the evidence against Omar Hassan al-Bashir.
Jul 14th, 2008 · The prosecutor at the International Criminal Court asked the court to issue an arrest warrant for the president of Sudan, who is accused of orchestrating a five-year reign of terror in the Darfur region.
Jul 14th, 2008 · A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is expected to seek an arrest warrant Monday charging Sudan's president with orchestrating violence in the western region of Darfur. Hundreds of thousands of people are estimated to have died in the violence since 2003. Deborah Amos talks with Jennie Matthew, a reporter with Agence France-Presse, about the proceedings.
Jul 11th, 2008 · The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court will seek an arrest warrant for Sudan's President resident Omar Bashir on charges of genocide in the country's Darfur region. This is the first time a sitting head of state has been charged.
Jun 19th, 2008 · U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad, now president of the U.N. Security Council, says he agrees with activists who are demanding that more pressure be applied to the Sudanese government.
Jun 4th, 2008 · Five years after the U.S. used the term "genocide" to describe the situation in Sudan's western region of Darfur, conditions remain dire. And a three-year-old peace deal that had inspired some hope may be breaking down.
May 30th, 2008 · More than 200,000 people have been killed in the four-year-old conflict in Sudan's Darfur region. Recently, a joint force of United Nations and African Union peacekeepers honored their dead. The ceremony comes at a time when the nature of violence has grown more complicated in Darfur.
May 29th, 2008 · What the U.S. wants to accomplish in Sudan, how it's working to achieve its goals and where this will all likely to lead, according to Stephen Morrison of the Africa Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.