Khartoum, Sudan
Sudan’s president this week flatly rejected the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers in his country. “I swear that there will not be any international military intervention in Darfur as long as I am in power,” said President Omar al-Bashir. “Sudan, which was the first country south of the Sahara to gain independence, cannot now be the first country to be recolonized.” International observers have called for U.N. troops to assist the hapless African Union peacekeepers, who have been unable to stop the violence in Darfur. More than 2 million people have fled the fighting between Arab militias and black rebels there, and aid groups still cannot reach many of them.
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