I want to offer a cautious 'woot', so this thread does not go without comments.
The trick here, for me, is to keep myself on top of the story so I'm not thinking "Ah, Darfur. That's all good now," in six months when everything has fallen apart.
Well, I guess that genocide in Sudan must have worked itself out on its own.
Anyway, ditto 1.
Yow. The Onion occasionally hits far too close to home.
In the eternal words of Diana Ross, something I very much like to be interested in.
just one small point; the offshoot SLA aren't Christians and animists. They're muslims too; more or less everyone in West Sudan is a muslim unless they happened to move there recently from the South. The JEM are Islamists as opposed to just garden-variety Muslims (ie they believe in pan-Islamism and are, IIRC, Sunni fundamentalists).
More with the total ignorance. So, where did my impression that the conflict in Darfur was broken down along government&allies-Muslim -- rebels-mostly-Christian&animists lines come from? Not that I expect anyone to be able to answer that.
A lot of Darfur commentary got mixed up with the civil war in Southern Sudan, which was very much Muslims versus Christians.
And thanks for the correction -- there's nothing worse than running off at the mouth with my facts wrong.