4 Sept 06 - Responding this morning to news of Sudan’s expulsion of the African Union Mission in Darfur, Dr James Smith, Chief Executive of the Aegis Trust, stated: "Ordering the AU Mission to leave will make it virtually impossible for aid agencies to continue operating in Darfur. Three million people, predominantly Darfur's black Africans, are [...]
18 Aug 06 - Thousands to Wear Blue Hats in Call for UN protection for Darfur In exactly 30 days’ time, campaigners will hold the biggest campaigning day for Darfur since the start of the conflict. Thousands of people in dozens of cities will call on their governments to do more to protect civilians in [...]
17 Aug 06 - The Annual Aegis Student Summer Conference was held in London on 17th August. Opening the conference, Aegis Trust Chief Executive, Dr James Smith, said, ‘We have to create public interest [in preventing genocide] and that is where you can play a really important role. He told the conference, ‘At the end [...]
17 Aug 2006 - Speaking at the National Aegis Students Summer Conference in London, NUS President, Gemma Tumelty, gave her support to the Global Day of Action for Darfur taking place on 17 September. Participants in the events marking the Day will wear “blue hats,” the internationally recognized symbol of UN peacekeeping forces. Gemma [...]
Anuak massacre eyewitness speaks out 14 Aug - From 13-15 December 2003, highlander militia and Ethiopian troops (rogue elements, according to Addis Ababa) killed an estimated 400+ Anuak civilians in Gambella town, capital of Gambella province, western Ethiopia. Now an eyewitness to that massacre has given a rare interview to the Aegis Trust – on [...]
6 July 06 – Survivors of ethnic cleansing in Darfur today stage a demonstration outside the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Sudanese Minister for the Interior, Prof. Alzubeir Beshir Taha, one of 17 leaked names recommended by a UN Sanctions Committee for impeding peace in the Western Sudanese state [...]
17 June 06 – In a debate at Westminster Central Hall on the UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’, seeking to answer the question ‘How can we prevent another Rwanda?’, politicians, journalists and non-governmental organisations questioned the present lack of political, media and public outrage over genocidal violence around the world. Organised by the Foreign Policy Centre, [...]
11 June 06 – It has been reported that a curfew was imposed on Gambella town, Gambella, Western Ethiopia at 7pm local time this evening following the ambush of a bus at 6pm in which around 30 people are believed to have been killed. Gambella residents were watching action from the World Cup when they [...]
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9 June 06 - The Alliance for Direct Action against Rape in Conflict and Crises (Alliance DARC) is being launched in Geneva today. Inspired by Mukesh Kapila, the former UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, its mission is to bring practical help to women suffering from or threatened by sexual violence in conflict situations, and thereby [...]