Sudanese government soldiers and militia have forced kidnapped men, women and children into labour and sexual slavery in the war-torn region of Darfur, a coalition of African charities said on Wednesday. The Sudanese military said the allegations were not worthy of comment and a government spokesman was not reachable for further response. The Darfur Consortium said it had uncovered evidence ...

A limp soft-soaper, he wouldn't say Boo to a goose. Cautiously neutral, he tried emollience, thereby creating genocide -- the massacre of the Tutsis by the Hutus. He similarly failed in Bosnia where Unprofor, the UN mission, vetoed the use of airstrikes to save Srebrenica. Now twenty thousand slain lie incognito'd. But from these holocausts was nothing learnt? Not ...

Peter Oborne reports from the battlefield on the Chad-Sudan border where Janjaweed bandits, armed with AK-47s, grenades and helicopter gunships, are ethnically cleansing local African tribesmen Adre, Chad When we visited the scene of the battle we found that bodies had been shoved hastily into mass graves. An arm stuck out from under one bush, and the flesh had ...

Rebel commanders in Darfur on Sunday accused Arab militias, which are backed by the Sudan government, of attacking villages in the southern swathe of the region, killing civilians and torching homes. The accusations, on top of fighting in North Darfur said to have displaced thousands of civilians, are likely to increase Western concern over President Omar al-Beshir who is facing ...