International prosecutors on Tuesday designated their first suspects in atrocities in the Sudanese region of Darfur, selecting a government minister and a militia commander to bring to trial.

The South Sudanese region of Bahr el Ghazal takes its name from the river.

I met her here, at a refugee camp deep in eastern Chad, just a few days after she arrived from the western Sudanese region of Darfur.

Still, in the dead of night, Ms. Ahmed and 30 families fled their village near Amborou, inside the war-cursed western Sudanese region of Darfur.

The Arab League agreed to support the Sudanese region of Darfur with US$500 million.

Officials with the Central Intelligence Agency said a reference on it to the crisis in the Sudanese region of Darfur suggested that the tape was made recently.

As many as 30,000 crossed in December alone from the sprawling western Sudanese region known as Darfur, and they are still coming.

The United States Senate and House of Representatives pass a joint resolution declaring the armed conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur to be genocide.

The Beni Halba is an Arab group located in the western Sudanese region of Darfur.

The group's goal is to focus attention on Darfur, a western Sudanese region the size of Texas.