Issue 401 of New Internationalist

Reader-owned global journalism

June 2007

DARFUR: Don't look away

The UN calls it ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’. But what is causing the violence in Darfur, and why hasn’t the world acted to stop it?

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In this issue

  • *Moataz El Fegiery* and *Ridwan Ziyada* challenge the Arab world’s silence.
  • Facts, timeline and map
  • When new Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer moved into Antigua’s government offices in 2004, his predecessors had bequeathed him a scene of desolation. Wilmoth Daniel, his deputy, explained that they found ‘the drawers open – all the files were removed like a thief in the night ... What a shame of those individuals in authority to [remove] all those files, the soul and heart of the country.’
  • The future for the world can look bleak, dominated by technological and corporate power. But what if resistance to it won through? *Pat Mooney* tells a story illustrating how things might unfold differently between now and 2035.
  • Jess Worth encounters a community that’s demanding answers.
  • A history of Darfur