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US
/ˌdɑˈfuɹ/
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NOUN
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an impoverished region of western Sudan
Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan
How To Use Darfur In A Sentence
- The White House is already threatening sanctions against Sudan if militia attacks in Darfur continue.
- The word "issue" -- the Darfur issue, the Iraq issue, the homelessness issue -- is kind of irksome, but it hints at a vital fact: As Americans of a certain economic status and social class, our "issues" are other people's lives. Brian Palmer: We Can Help Burma
- The highly independent Fur group have been ruled by the sultan of Darfur since 1916.
- In a document obtained by Human Rights Watch, the state governor or wali of South Darfur orders commissioners ‘to recruit 300 horsemen for Khartoum’.
- And they are losing the moral high ground by making their own deadly attacks in Darfur.
- Incidentally BJ, the so-called International Court of Justice has said nothing about China's occupation of Tibet and the brutal suppression of Tibetan culture, nor the genocide in Darfur, nor the military junta in Burma etc. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- In his report to the Security Council, Moreno-Ocampo said hundreds of civilians were killed during the last six months in Darfur, while thousands more were forcefully displaced and more than 2.5 million people are suffering what he called a subtle form of genocide through rape and fear. ICC Prosecutor: Genocide in Darfur is 'On-Going'
- Perhaps you might want to ask someone from Darfur, or Somalia, or ..., places where starvation is clearly observable. The Volokh Conspiracy » More on Liz Cheney
- The big men , who command loyalty and weapons on the ground in Darfur, pointedly stayed away.
- Without the public good we're all dead -- Right and Left -- as the agonies from the Spanish Inquisition to Auschwitz to the Gulag to Pol Pot to Ruanda to Darfur bear witness. Dan Agin: Why the Right in America is Dead