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Mia Farrow in DarfurOn Day 12 of her hunger strike, Mia Farrow's health has severly deteriorated. Her doctor has asked her to stop fasting immediately. Sir Richard Branson was asked by Mia to take over this coming Monday after Mother's Day, but he has now asked her to stop.

"I'm honoured to be taking over the fast for the next three days from Mia Farrow in her courageous stance to support the people of Darfur."

Sir Branson has already begun his three-day water-only fast to continue to ask world leaders to take immediate action and demand that international aid is restored.

DarfurHello Friends and Familia:

I have been trying to think of what to say in this e-mail for a while now, but I'm having a hard time finding something that I have not said about Darfur before. There are new specifics and details, and the need for urgency is even greater, but words seem to not be enough any more.

Mia Farrow's exclusive dispatch: I am a witness to Darfur's suffering

Independent News
27 August 2007

My first visit to Darfur was in 2004. It changed the way I needed to live my life. I have just returned from my seventh trip to the region. I don't think I have the words to adequately represent what I have seen and heard there.

Incomprehensibly, it has now been more than four years since the killing began. Some experts believe half a million human beings have died thus far. Others bicker about the exact death toll - as if it makes a shred of difference to how we must respond.

Darfur RefugeesUN joins forces in Darfur

Steven Edwards
National Post

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

United Nations • After months of wrangling, the United Nations agreed yesterday to send 19,000 peacekeepers to Darfur to join an African Union force that has been unable to quell the violence.

The move came after an impassioned speech by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown about Western-led efforts to bring peace to the region - and his idea for a new global commitment to end world poverty.

UN backs new Darfur peace force
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BBC News
7-31-07

The United Nations Security Council has voted in favour of sending peacekeepers to Sudan's troubled Darfur region.

Up to 26,000 troops and police will make up the world's largest peacekeeping force, under a joint UN and African Union mandate.

The resolution will allow peacekeepers to use force to defend civilians and aid workers in Darfur from any attack.

At least 200,000 people are thought to have died in Darfur and some 2m have fled their homes since 2003.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon described the mission as "historic and unprecedented".

Darfur RefugeesLetter from www.StopGenocideNow.org

Stop Genocide Now / i-ACT Campaign
Dear Friends and Familia:

We are getting ready once again to travel to the Chad-Dafur border and visit the refugee camps. The mission for our project, i-ACT (interactive-activism), is to use the power of the Internet to put a face to the mind-numbing numbers of dead, dying, and displaced.

We depart Los Angeles for Chad on July 7, and Day 1 of i-ACT will be July 10.

U.S. relies on Sudan despite condemning it

The nation accused of aiding the killings in Darfur provides spies in Iraq. In return, it gets access in Washington
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Greg Miller and Josh Meyer, Times Staff Writers

June 11, 2007

WASHINGTON — Sudan has secretly worked with the CIA to spy on the insurgency in Iraq, an example of how the U.S. has continued to US cooperates with the Sudanese regime even while condemning its suspected role in the killing of tens of thousands of civilians in Darfur.

Darfur Refugee CampDarfur? It’s the Oil, Stupid...

by F. William Engdahl

Global Research, May 20, 2007

To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid,” the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa.

No. “It’s the oil, stupid.”