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...Undaunted by such diplomatic sensitivities, Beijing has demonstrated its willingness to focus first on protecting its energy interests. Last month, the United Nations discussed imposing sanctions on Sudan as a punishment for sponsoring human-rights abuses in Darfur. China has invested a reported $15 billion in Sudanese oil projects, and Sudan nowadays supplies about 7% of China's oil imports. China, which sits on the U.N. Security Council, threatened to veto the sanctions. The U.N. instead passed a watered-down measure...
...government aimed at ending 21 years of civil war resumed in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi. The two sides were to finalize details of a peace plan they had already agreed in principle. The two-year-long negotiations have been overshadowed by the separate conflict in Sudan 's western Darfur region. Back in the Saddle AUSTRALIA Prime Minister John Howard said he was "humbled" after winning a fourth term in office. Early results showed his conservative coalition taking more than 52% of the vote, increasing its parliamentary majority...
Sudan Exclusive photos by James Nachtwey and on-the-scene reporting by Simon Robinson document the tragedy in Darfur. What will it take for the world to forcefully intervene...
COVER: Mother cares for her ill son in a refugee camp in the western Darfur region of Sudan...
...word has done little more than set off a new round of bureaucratic shuffling. Some who recall the Holocaust and Rwanda don't believe Darfur measures up. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he will appoint a commission to investigate the charges. European ministers, who have been reluctant even to acknowledge ethnic cleansing, are scrambling to draft legal briefs. The Arab League and Sudan have scoffed at the U.S. claim, charging Bush with having an anti-Islamic agenda. Meanwhile, the killings, rapes and torchings continue...