The United Nations suggested that the Darfur conflict began in part because of a water crisis.
There have been fears that the Darfur conflict could lead to a regional war.
You can read about the deep roots of the Darfur conflict at npr.org.
Today the council is weighing imposing sanctions on Sudanese officials for their involvement in the Darfur conflict.
El-Bashir rejects claims that the Darfur conflict is being fought along ethnic lines.
It is the first time that any individuals involved in the Darfur conflict have been held directly responsible for their actions.
Mr. BUCHBINDER: Up until very - not too long before the Darfur conflict began in 2003, Chad and Sudan had fairly good relations.
The Darfur conflict began five years ago, when ethnic African tribesmen took up arms, complaining of decades of neglect and discrimination by the Sudanese government.
Qatar has been mediating talks between the two sides in the Darfur conflict, which erupted in 2003 after rebels began an uprising against the Khartoum government.
The United Nations estimates as many as 300, 000 people have been killed and almost 3 million people have been displaced from their homes since the Darfur conflict broke out in 2003.
Darfur's conflict is Muslim against Muslim.
ECONOMIST: Outsiders must help to end the latest horrors in Sudan
So peace between Sudan and Chad should help resolve the seven-year-old conflict in Darfur.
Some 300, 000 people are thought to have died during a decade of conflict in Darfur, according to UN estimates.
Security Council, or its diplomatic leverage in Khartoum, to help resolve crises such as the five-year conflict in Darfur, Sudan.
The United Nations Security Council Tuesday unanimously approved measures to send 26, 000 peacekeepers to the Sudan to help end Darfur's deadly conflict.
The conflict in Darfur began in 2003 when rebels began attacking government targets, accusing Khartoum of oppressing black Africans in favour of Arabs.
The conflict in Darfur began in February 2003 when ethnic African tribes rebelled against what they considered decades of discrimination by the Arab-run government.
Furthermore, any failure to end the conflict in Darfur could have dire consequences for a longer-running war in southern Sudan and for another in neighbouring Uganda.
So what then happened was that there developed a proxy conflict in Darfur wherein the Chadian government was backing the Sudanese rebels that have been fighting in Darfur.
Negotiations to end the conflict in Darfur have been proceeding for two years, but the African Union wants a final conclusion to talks by the end of April.
China does not get involved in domestic politics in its African partner-nations and has not used its diplomatic or investment weight to help resolve the conflict in Darfur, Sudan.
She says Sudan has been prevented twice already from becoming the chair of the African Union because of the conflict in Darfur, which she says is only getting worse.
Now, however, the nature of the conflict in Darfur has mutated, making the violence more unpredictable and widespread and the task of getting a lasting peace deal that much harder.
As local rebel movements grew stronger, and the conflict in neighbouring Darfur began to spill over into Chad, the government's urge to funnel cash to the army only grew.
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.
Just as Sudan faces a renewed threat from the south, the long-running civil conflict in its western Darfur region is escalating again.
At the same time, there must be an end to attacks on civilians in Darfur and a definitive end to that conflict.
Chad, which is rich in oil, has been hit by the conflict in the neighbouring Sudanese western Darfur region, with hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing across the border.
All sides are well supplied with weapons, and the Darfur war could be poised to expand into a regional conflict.
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.
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