Obama, during his election campaign, made the crisis in Darfur a major focus.
The crisis in Darfur is expected to be a key issue on the agenda when the African Union holds its summit early next week.
Talks on the crisis in Darfur have been extended until tomorrow to give international mediators more time to negotiate a peace deal in the Sudanese region.
He said the crisis in Darfur is a "media fabrication" and that in most of the region there is little or no conflict and people are living normal lives, he said.
In Egypt, Clooney said he found himself just trying to explain to people that the U.S. is only interested in helping end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur, and is not seeking to overthrow Sudan's government.
Indeed, the problems Ambassador Bolton will face during his first few months on the job include the crisis in Darfur, the ongoing Iraq War, Lebanon's efforts to assert its independence from Syria, the possibility of the Security Council's having to deal with Iran's nuclear program and the upcoming Volker report on possible corruption in the UN oil-for-food program.
"Over the last 12 days she has been fasting on only liquids in order to raise awareness for the horrible crisis unfolding in Darfur with the removal of 13 international aid agencies, " Freedman said.
The African Union warned today that the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's Darfur region is growing worse.
Dr. JENDAYI FRAZER (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs): Well, the basic message was that the government of Sudan needs to take responsibility for ending the humanitarian crisis and the war in Darfur.
There are -- this is a comprehensive policy that will not just deal with one aspect of the process, but will deal with both the humanitarian crisis that we face in Darfur as well as continuing the progress toward a comprehensive North-South peace agreement.
The United Nations Security Council meets Tuesday to discuss how to respond to the crisis in Sudan's embattled Darfur region and the spillover of violence to neighboring states.
The 66-year-old former Dutch Cabinet minister was in Khartoum in an effort to help resolve the crisis in western Sudan's Darfur, which is threatening to widen into a regional conflict.
But what we're trying to do is seek a comprehensive solution to this problem that, again, addresses both the humanitarian crisis that has happened and is ongoing in Darfur as well as a comprehensive peace between the North and the South.
Christian Aid warns that the current conflict in the Darfur region of Sudan -- a crisis summed up by some as the world's first "climate change war" as spreading desertification and water shortages contributed to clashes between the region's African farmers and nomadic Arabs -- could be a taste of a "nightmare scenario" set to be repeated elsewhere across Africa and the world.
The United Nations suggested that the Darfur conflict began in part because of a water crisis.
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