The Security Council passed a resolution on July 30, after much negotiation, threatening to consider sanctions against Sudan if it failed within 30 days to apprehend and prosecute the Janjaweed. Sanctions against the North African country’s oil industry are also under consideration. It remains to be seen when the Security Council will take up the new U.S.-proposed resolution. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Darfur in early July and appealed to U.N. member nations to provide more financial support to U.N. humanitarian efforts in the region.
Powell, in Sudan, Presses for Action (The Washington Post, July 1, 2004)
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Sudan Accused of Blocking Darfur Relief (The Washington Post, May 28, 2004)
Refugees Moved Before Annan Visit (Washington Post, July 2, 2004)
U.N. Adopts Resolution on Sudan (The Washington Post, July 31, 2004)
Sudan Accepts African Troops, but No Peacekeepers, in Darfur (Reuters, August 8, 2004)
How Does This Relate to Sudan’s Civil War?
Sudan has been wracked by a 21-year civil war between the Arab Muslims in the north, who dominate the government, and black Africans in the south, represented by the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army, who are mostly animist or Christian. More than 2 million people have been killed, mostly due to starvation. A U.S.-backed peace deal, signed in May in Naivasha, Kenya, paved the way for a power-sharing agreement designed to end the continent’s longest-running civil war.
Based on reports from Washington Post correspondents as well as the Associated Press and Reuters.
