May 29 Watch President Bush Levies New Sanctions Against Sudan In an attempt to help end the bloodshed in Darfur, President Bush announced new U.S. sanctions Tuesday that targeted the oil industry and Sudanese individuals involved in the region's violence. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte provides details. Continue watching
Apr 18 U.S. Warns of New Sanctions Against Sudan if Darfur Violence Continues By Admin, PBS News Hour President Bush said Wednesday the United States would seek to tighten economic sanctions and impose new ones on the Sudanese government if it does not take firm steps to end the fighting in Darfur. Continue reading
Apr 11 Watch Fighting in Western Sudan Spreads to Neighboring Chad The fighting in Darfur in western Sudan has spread to neighboring Chad, where the United Nations says hundreds have been killed and villages burned. Independent Television News reports on the tension between the two countries. Continue watching
Mar 06 Watch U.N. Envoy to Darfur Discusses Continuing Crisis The genocide in Sudan's Darfur region was named the worst human rights abuse of 2006, according to a U.S. government report released Tuesday. Jan Eliasson, who has served as the U.N. envoy to Darfur since December, discusses the crisis. Continue watching
Feb 16 Watch Darfur Crisis Escalating, U.S. Envoy Says The United States urged African nations Thursday to offer troops for a joint U.N.-African Union force in Darfur as nongovernmental groups have threatened to leave because of escalating violence. Andrew Natsios, the U.S. envoy to Darfur, discusses the ongoing crisis. Continue watching
Jan 17 U.N. Agencies Say Aid Efforts in Darfur Could Collapse By PBS News Hour Fifteen U.N. agencies warned Wednesday that their relief operations in the volatile Darfur region of Sudan may collapse unless the government and rebel groups end the violence there. Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch U.S. Launches Airstrikes in Southern Somalia The United States has launched airstrikes against suspected al-Qaida forces in southern Somalia, the first acknowledged American military action inside the country since 1994. Two regional experts assess the U.S. operation and targets. Continue watching
Nov 24 Watch Holocaust Museum Exhibit Spotlights Suffering in Darfur Photographs of Darfur are being projected on the exterior walls of the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., in an attempt to spotlight the plight of people in that region of Sudan. Continue watching
Nov 17 Watch Military Intervention Necessary to Stop Darfur Crisis In the first in a series of conversations about what can be done about the Darfur crisis, Susan Rice, the assistant secretary of state for Africa under President Clinton, argues for international military forces to pressure the Sudanese government to… Continue watching
Nov 13 Attacks Kill Dozens in Darfur as U.N. Seeks to Bolster AU Mission By PBS News Hour An estimated 30 people died in the Darfur region of Sudan over the weekend when armed men on horseback and on camels attacked a village 30 miles north of West Darfur's capital El Geneina, an African Union official told Reuters. Continue reading