Both the Washington Post Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur and NY Times Bush Sees Need to Expand Role of NATO in Sudan – New York Times ran stories on the Bush administrstion’s evident desire to move beyond the "stagnant" talks and get more aid to Darfur, as well as aiming to end the crisis.
Darfur has been a several year disaster, with about 200,000 people dead, and an estimated 2,000,000 homeless. You can find out what’s happened there by reading either of the above articles (WaPo is a little more in-depth and will be available indefinitely for free online.)
Brigid and I have been following this situation, but haven’t done much, beyond make a few calls and write some letters urging the Congress and administration to step up their efforts.
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