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	Darfur's tears by Thanos Kalamidas We all are aware of the Darfur refugee camps and the usual picture coming to mind that is fed by the media: hungry kids and poor mothers, old men and women looking desperate and sometimes uniformed men patrolling behind barbed wire. Hollywood star
	Darfur's new day by Thanos Kalamidas I’m going to go straight to the point for the ones who argue that the withdrawal of UN troops from Darfur and the prosecution of the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir for genocide will bring more trouble than good. There is only one thing to
	In Darfur, Minnesota, Another Kind of Siege by Doug McGill Every once in a while, someone in this tiny speck of a prairie town catches sight of a “Save Darfur!” poster in a magazine or a newspaper, or on the flickering TV at the Darfur Lounge on main street.What follows is

	Death screaming in Darfur by Thanos Kalamidas This week seven trucks with food on their way for the refugees in the camps of Darfur were stolen and their drivers were abducted. The UN’s World Food Programme announced that less than 50% of the deliveries actually reach the camps and the
	Whom the Goddesses would destroy, they first make unaware by René Wadlow The goddesses have a sense of tragic irony by bringing together anniversary dates with events which highlight the opposition to the values being celebrated. Thus this year, with ironic timing, the world marks March 8th as International Women
	Tchad: Veritable Test Pour L'union Europeenne by Europe & Us On a appris hier que la mission pour le Tchad allait être reportée de quatre semaines à cause des combats à N’Djamena.
	E.T phone China by Thanos Kalamidas The involvement of celebrities in major international issues often makes me feel suspicious and sceptical but, as I have often written, if it helps to highlight these issues and make more people aware of them, then well done and it doesn’t m
	In the name of teddy by Thanos Kalamidas My daughter is a very lucky child in many ways and one of them is because she’s attending a daycare school with kids of all different languages, ethnicity and backgrounds. I have to admit that from the very first parents’ meeting I was