Darfur: Cease fire now
 It is "Global Day for Darfur", with events taking place worldwide to raise awareness of the killings in the Sudanese region.
It is "Global Day for Darfur", with events taking place worldwide to raise awareness of the killings in the Sudanese region. 
Demonstrators in Rome accused Sudan's president - who has just visited the Italian capital - of having blood on his hands. Omar al-Bashir's trip to Rome was controversial. Italy's Prime Minister Romano Prodi was criticised by human rights groups and EU politicians for hosting the Sudanese leader who pledged to observe a ceasfire from the start of peace talks next month.
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

