Global Protests Call for UN Intervention in Darfur

More than 2 million civilians have fled their homes and hundreds of thousands have died in the Sudan conflict.

Demonstrators around the world staged a day of action Sunday to highlight the war in Darfur, a region of western Sudan where hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and more than 2 million have been driven from their homes. As the African Union prepares to abandon its troubled peace mission to Darfur, the region is descending ever more steeply into war as a new flood of civilians flee their burned and bombed-out villages for sprawling refugee camps.

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Bush to Name Envoy for Darfur

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 18 -- President Bush has decided to name Andrew Natsios, a former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development, as his special envoy for Darfur in the hope of reviving a diplomatic effort to end a 3 1/2 -year spree of violence in Sudan that has left hundreds...