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# China to Darfur
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/china-to-darfur/
- Published: 2007-11-21T19:11:50.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:57:31.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 19:46

**China goes into Darfur**

Beijing will send a [corps of engineers](http://uk.reuters.com/article/homepageCrisis/idUKPEK274982.%5FCH%5F.242020071121?ref=opendemocracy.net) to join the planned 26,000-strong United Nations-African Union force in Darfur. China has been accused of abetting atrocities in the region thanks to its large investments in Sudan and tacit support of Khartoum. 

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Separatist rebels in Ethiopia claim that [Ethiopian helicopter gunships](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/world/africa/20ogaden.html?ex=1353214800&en=7affc1e1546cf110&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&ref=opendemocracy.net) have strafed nomads at watering holes in the remote ethnic Somali region of Ogaden. 

Eritrea has accused Ethiopia of ["declaring war"](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21596226.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) on its tiny neighbour by failing to implement a five-year old border ruling. Fighting between the two countries has killed up to 70,000 people in recent years.

**Easing of emergency?**

Pakistan has released at least [three thousand people](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south%5Fasia/7103266.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) detained since the establishment of emergency rule in an apparent easing of restrictions. 

At the same time, police have detained [150 journalists in Karachi](http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/20/rss.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net#35). 

Anne Patterson, the US ambassador to Pakistan, [has met with representatives of leading Islamist parties](http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/20/rss.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net#41) in the country, to discuss the path ahead to elections in January. 

[Thousands of villagers have fled](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/COL5536.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) ongoing fighting in Pakistan's rugged northwest, as government forces continue to battle Islamist and local insurgents. 

**Photographer faces terrorism charges**

The US military is set to press charges against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein for allegedly abetted insurgents in Iraq. US officials have called him a ["terrorist media operative"](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle%5Feast/7103239.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net). 

**Somali homeless**

Thanks to ongoing insurgency and abiding instability in Somalia, [over one million citizens are thought to be homeless](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7103197.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net). 

**Train attack in Bihar**

Maoist rebels in the [lawless eastern central state of Bihar](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/south%5Fasia/7103176.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) have blown up large sections of railway track, seriously disrupting the regional train network. 

**Ghost town in Niger**

As a result of the ongoing Tuareg insurrection in northern Niger, the entire population of the remote town of [Iferouane](http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/africa/7102357.stm?ref=opendemocracy.net) is thought to have fled. 

**Extremism targets women in Basra**

In the south of Iraq, Shia radicals are [targeting women who don't abide by strict interpretations of moral and sartorial propriety](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c8d12778ada7bf9273d219b96616f3e5.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net). At least ten women are killed per month in the city. 

**Generals on a mission**

Top US commanders from Iraq, including General David Petraeus, travelled to Ankara to meet with their Turkish counterparts to discuss how to combat Kurdish guerrillas who hop across the Turkish-Iraqi border with impunity. The prospect of a major [Turkish intervention in the north of Iraq has dimmed](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20457325.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net) since fighting flared last month. 

**Carnage in Thailand**

Suspected Islamist separatists killed four officials, [all Buddhists](http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BKK123095.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net), in the restive south of the country in customary drive-by motorcycle attacks.