AP: In ads, Darfur activists urge Obama to get tougher. Darfur activists upset about President Barack Obama’s Sudan policy are launching a critical advertising campaign that urges him to step up pressure on Khartoum. The move comes as the Obama administration is preparing to release a delayed review of U.S. policy on Sudan. Activists, who had hoped Obama would focus more than the Bush administration did on Darfur and take a tougher line, say they fear disappointment.
Reuters: Q+A: How kidnappers have hit Darfur’s aid effort. A wave of kidnappings in Sudan’s Darfur region has increased fears for the safety of aid workers running the world’s largest humanitarian operation in the western territory. U.S. Sudan envoy Scott Gration and joint U.N./African Union mediators have said a safe environment for aid workers is crucial to any resolution to the festering Darfur conflict, which has destabilised the whole region.
Reuters: South Sudan says Khartoum is reneging on CPA deal. A southern Sudanese government official accused the Khartoum government Tuesday of trying to sabotage the right of south Sudan’s people to self-determination through a referendum. Deng Ajack, the south’s minister for cooperation, said the north’s National Congress Party (NCP) was trying to undermine the terms of the 2005 peace deal that ended a 22-year war between Sudan’s Muslim north and mostly Christian south.
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