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Sudan masses its troops for a decisive strike on Darfur The soldier pushed at the bomb with his foot, rolling it through the dust towards the white Russian-built Antonov aircraft standing on the runway of El Fasher airport. The plane was being loaded for another bombing run, as Sudanese government forces gear up for a military onslaught when Ramadan ends today or tomorrow.	Sudan defies UN with plan to crush rebellion in Darfur THE SUDANESE government is preparing to launch a huge military offensive with the aim of crushing the rebellion in Darfur by the end of the year and emptying the refugee camps that are home to more than two million people.	Peacekeepers in Darfur pay fighters $1m a year THE AFRICAN Union is paying out more than $1 million (£550,000) a year to warring factions in Darfur who are involved in blatant breaches of the peace deal it is supposed to be monitoring.
Sudan facing fresh charges of genocide in Darfur	Divisions intensify as families join rebels	British soldiers to join Darfur peace force

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'Even the stones were destroyed' HALAWA'S body lay on the mountainside where she fell when the bombs exploded, her womb torn open, the tiny body of her unborn baby lying by her side, the blood soaking into the soil congealing in the heat of the sun. She was nine months pregnant; her friends said she was due to give birth to her fifth child within days.	Shallow grave is testimony to Sudan's lies THE grave is just a mound of earth, no more than two feet high at its peak and 10ft in diameter. It lies about 50 yards from the edge of the village of Nami in North Darfur. The nine bodies buried had lain on the ground for more than a week before the Janjaweed finally left the village and the people who had escaped the killing felt brave enough to return.	The little cowherd was just ten. They found her body riddled with bullets WHEN the men found Fatouma Abdallah Adam, their anger overwhelmed them. Her young body had been riddled with bullets; they counted seven wounds in total. The sight of her lying there was more than any of them could bear.
They wait clutching cards they hope will be their bus ticket to escape from this terrible place Koubra Hassabou watches the buses go; she and her family had packed their things away, but there was no place for them today. She sits in the sand, her face blank. "What are we to do?" she asks. "If we had donkeys we could go ourselves but we have no donkeys. We put a lot of luggage on our donkeys and they died here."	Eyewitness to murder HE WAS staring out of the window at the cattle grazing by the wadi near his house in the village in Darfur in western Sudan when he first caught sight of the Janjaweed.	UN's shame over Sudan ANOTHER month, another 10,000 dead. The United Nations will today let down the people of Darfur again. On 30 July, the UN Security Council warned Sudan that it had 30 days to clean up its act and end the persecution of its people in the region. A month later, a damning UN report demonstrated that it had done no such thing.
While they do nothing, 35,000 more die in Sudan THE price of the United Nations' procrastination over the genocide in Sudan is revealed today in stark human terms: 35,000 further deaths since the UN Security Council first warned Khartoum to clean up its act.	Slaughter of the innocents in Darfur's 21st-century pogrom IT WAS, by all accounts, a massacre. The atrocities committed by the Sudanese -government backed Janjaweed militia against the black African farmers of Darfur have shocked the world, but what happened in the town of Kailek deserves a special place in the annals of the horrors of that conflict.	Sudan: No escape from bloodlust Sudanese government-backed gunmen have clashed with Chadian army units after crossing the border to kill refugees who have fled the genocide in Darfur and sought sanctuary on land belonging to their western neighbour.
Her only chance, to run away blindly Maka Mousa was running blindly through the night, desperate to get away from the Sudanese soldiers and the militia who had attacked her village. She ran and ran all night, stumbling across the open scrubby bush, heading in the direction of what she hoped might be safety. She did not know for sure that she had made it until the dawn light came and she could look back across the wadi to Tine Sudan.	Janjaweed militia recruited for Sudanese police force in Darfur MEMBERS of the Janjaweed militia are being recruited into the Sudanese police force which the Khartoum government has assured the United Nations has been sent to the Darfur region to crack down on campaigns of ethnic cleansing by Arab militia, according to a UN official.	Outside the food tent, the women are waiting patiently. They hand over their cards and are given a meagre ration THE sides of the road to Iridimi are littered with the bodies of dead donkeys. The animals arrived with the refugees who have flocked into the camp which sprawls across the flat plain a little way from the Sudanese border, but the journey left them weak, and unable to survive in the fierce heat of a June day.
The child victims of Janjaweed onslaught THE last time Abaker Khalil saw his son Nuradeen, the boy was sprawled across the back of a camel, behind the figure of its Janjaweed rider, disappearing through a cloud of dust kicked up by the militia as they rode out of the North Darfur town of Tawila. His other son, Yassin, was behind another rider; it would be three days before Mr Khalil saw him again.	Crisis in Sudan: every refugee child under five face death unless UN acts NOT a single Sudanese child refugee under the age of five will be alive in six months unless there is immediate and dramatic international intervention, a senior United Nations official warned yesterday.	How the Janjaweed stole one family's future FOR two days, Bashir Marsal and Umal El Harif searched the hillside for each other and for their children. The sudden appearance of the Janjaweed and the sound of bombs falling on the village of Tawila had scattered them in all directions. They wandered from place to place on the sides of Djabal Atayab, asking anyone they met for help in finding the others. They had been together for more than 21 years.
Children lost will to eat after Janjaweed militia burned them out of their homes THE room is dark, the only window fastened by a battered metal shutter. A thin shaft of light filters through the open doorway, illuminating the women sitting on the metal-framed beds crammed into the small space. Beside the women, lying on the dusty bedsheets, are the shapes of tiny children, their bodies unnaturally thin. One in ten of the children who pass through this room die.	Sudan Genocide: State-led murder and rape of villagers in Darfur uncovered CONFIDENTIAL African Union (AU) reports have provided damning new evidence of the involvement of Sudanese government forces and their Janjaweed militia allies in the murder and rape of civilians in the Darfur region. AU monitors have collected photographic evidence of Sudanese helicopter gunships in action attacking villages, and their reports conclude that the Sudanese government has systematically breached the peace deals that it signed to placate the United Nations Security Council.	Who'll save the children now? FOUR aid workers dead, two raped, all in the space of two months. Save the Children has given up. It is pulling out of the ravaged Sudanese region of Darfur. Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF), too, yesterday revealed that one of its members of staff had been targeted and killed in an area into which Sudanese government forces had advanced.
Call for no-fly zone as slaughter goes on Leader: The world averts its eyes from the tragedy of Darfur Killing goes on as Sudan lies to world and defies UN Empty gestures as UN takes the path of least restistance Sudanese government forces 'directly involved in slaughter of civilians' Darfur violence still unabated	Sudan genocide: Sudan Bows to Blair demands Darfur slaughter on the increase 400 Darfur refugees dying every day Darfur agony goes on as the UN fails to act As countdown goes on, so does the killing UN halts Darfur aid work after killings Aid worker says Sudan is 'hurting its own people'	Death toll in Darfur tops 100,000 since UN directive Cash finally flows to help Darfur - but it's GBP 146m too late Only travel agents will gain from useless UN meeting says Oxfam UN's damning verdict: Sudan has failed to halt the killing

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