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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
France, Denmark and Indonesia on Wednesday pledged to contribute to a United Nations mission to Darfur, Sudan, in an attempt to end the conflict between pro-government militias and rebels that has killed more than 200, 000 people in the last four years.
As for Mr Bashir, he will feel that the vote is at least a partial vindication of his stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC), which has indicted him for war crimes over the conflict in the country's western region of Darfur.
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The Sudanese government and the biggest rebel group in Darfur have signed a peace agreement designed to end three years of conflict in Sudan's troubled western region.
Darfur was a region already awash with military arms long before the current conflict erupted.
Now, before he left the country he held a news conference in Khartoum, and he accused the Sudanese government, and, in fact, the Darfur rebels, of what he called cynically obstructing international efforts to end the four-year conflict.
It is due to be deployed to Darfur by early next year in an attempt to bring an end to the four-year conflict in which at least 200, 000 people are estimated to have died and more than 2m have fled their homes.
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