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United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) - http://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/missions/unmis/
Official site of UNMIS, established in March 2005 for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement and expanded in August 2006 to the Darfur Peace Agreement. Includes maps, documents, facts, figures, background and photo gallery. |
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Darfur Information Center (DIC) - http://www.darfurinfo.org/
Background information provided by Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania African Studies Center. |
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Eyes On Darfur - http://www.eyesondarfur.org/
Amnesty international project includes satellite evidence, conflict analysis, photo galleries, information on international response, and specific ways to take action. |
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WHO - Health Situation in Darfur, Sudan - http://www.who.int/features/darfur/en/index.html
Situation reports and technical guidance from the World Health Organization. |
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Crisis in Darfur - http://www.ushmm.org/googleearth/projects/darfur/
Photographs, data, and eyewitness testimony about Darfur assembled from a number of sources, combined with the photographic mapping of Google Earth. |
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PBS - The NewsHour: Crisis in Sudan - http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/africa/darfur/
Special report includes reports and background information, profiles on the groups involved, archive and a regional map. |
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CBC - Indepth: Sudan - http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sudan/index.html
Timeline, background information and photo gallery from inside refugee camps in Darfur. |
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Washington Post - A Climate Culprit In Darfur - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061501857_pf.html
Ban Ki Moon, secretary general of the United Nations, writes about the Darfur conflict's beginnings as an ecological crisis, arising at least in part from climate change. |
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Guardian Unlimited - Scorched - http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,,2067637,00.html
As the conflict in Darfur spreads across central Africa, with thousands more displaced and killed, Julian Borger in Chad investigates the origins and contradictions of what is likely to be seen as the first climate change war. |
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Time - How to Prevent the Next Darfur - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1615171,00.html
The roots of the Africa resource wars lie in climate change. |
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BBC News - Google Earth Turns Spotlight on Darfur - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6543185.stm
A US holocaust museum and Google Earth team up to show people what is happening in Sudan's conflict-torn Darfur region. |
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National Geographic - Photos, Video Expose Darfur Atrocities in Google Earth - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/04/070425-google-darfur.html
Images and survivor stories embedded in the virtual globe bring the violence up close and personal, while real-time spin-offs aim to track and perhaps deter armed militias. |
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CNN - Warren Buffet and Darfur - http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/17/news/companies/pluggedin_gunther_darfur.fortune/
Describes the possible negative impact on the violence in Darfur by the investment of the Berkshire Hathaway company, which is run by Warren Buffett, in a Chinese petroleum business. Article describes the trend for companies to divest in the region and the businessman's public response. |
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International Herald Tribune - A godsend for Darfur, or a curse? - http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/22/news/22polgreen.php
If environmental degradation and the symptoms of a warming planet are at the root of the Darfur crisis, perhaps the newly-discovered underground lake, the size of Lake Erie, will solve the conflict. |
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Christian Science Monitor - Africans Are Already Facing Climate Change - http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1106/p04s01-woaf.html
Scott Baldauf reviews the latest UN report about climate change and how the people of Kenya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia and Chad are already seeing the repercussions of drought, including war. |