Omodudu : I Dropped The Ball On Dafur...

Stumbled on this post during a “late nite blog hop...

2007-05-30T03:08:00.000-04:00

Stumbled on this post during a “late nite blog hopping session”. The story of Darfur is too long to be told in one post/article and much to complex to be understood from one angle. Just try researching on it and you’ll be amazed what you come up with. Sadly popular media highlights only the juicy parts that will get donor money out and for the most part, heap additional negativity and ignorance to the actual situation. There’s much more to the situation Darfur, Sudan…it’s long spread out beyond borders to Chad and CAR. The singsong of Darfur that keeps popping up doesn’t do justice to the actual situation in Sudan.

The Pambazuka article is right on point. I remembe...

2007-05-25T09:02:00.000-04:00

The Pambazuka article is right on point. I remember watching a documentary on channel four in 2005 and wondered why the media had not made a big ho-ha about the oil angle. There was also a related article in the Guardian and the Independent.

Check out the following links

(this bugger could be your neighbour if you live in West London)

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=245

http://www.twf.org/News/Y2004/0807-Darfur.html

http://dissidentnews.wordpress.com/info/focus-on-iran/485/

Darfur is nothing but genocide, even though the wo...

2007-05-22T23:28:00.000-04:00

Darfur is nothing but genocide, even though the world refuses to address it as such. Arab Africans killing off Black Africans. Arab countries do not publicly intervene, African (Black) countries fear getting involved because of the money involved. War, or in this case, genocide, is big business for some. Those profiting from this war are bed buddies with African countries and so those of us that should really do something stand by watching.

You wrote recently about whether the world is tired about Darfur. I think they are. I think people feel hopeless and if you consider the various factors and factions, there might be some relevancy to that emotion. However, there are many who do what they can and manage to have a huge impact. Recently on NBC Nightly News there was a spotlight on an American lady who raised over $10,000 that was and is being used to pay for medical care for women and their children.

I hope that stories like hers will reawaken people to the possibility of helping those that are suffering. I also hope that writings by bloggers and others will keep the genocide in our minds so that we can someday get the balls to ignore those that benefit from the status quo and do the right thing - bring an end to the suffering and killings in Darfur.

I agree. We need to write more on the Darfur crisi...

2007-05-22T10:25:00.000-04:00

I agree. We need to write more on the Darfur crisis!

Join the Dafur face book group.

2007-05-21T20:37:00.000-04:00

Join the Dafur face book group.