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The Global Famine Review Committee declares a famine in Darfur, Sudan, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification.
2024-08-1

The trial of Ali Kushayb, one of the suspects in the genocide in Darfur, Sudan, begins at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands. Kushayb pleads not guilty.
2022-04-5

According to the Sudanese electoral commission, more than 97% of voters in Darfur choose to remain as five states rather than form a single region. However, The vote was held amid ongoing insecurity and many of Sudan's 2.5 million displaced people were not registered to vote, with the U.S. State Department warning that the referendum could not be considered credible "under current rules and conditions".
2016-04-23

The Sudanese People's Armed Forces claim that the leader of the Justice and Equality Movement in Darfur, Khalil Ibrahim, has been killed.
2011-12-25

Darfur is to be divided into smaller states by Sudan, causing rebels in the region to protest.
2011-03-8

Sudanese government forces clash with Arab fighters in the country's Darfur region, according to the U.N. and rebel sources; the Sudanese army denies any fighting took place
2010-11-11

Two Russian pilots are abducted in Sudan's western Darfur region.
2010-08-30

The head of the United Nations and African Union peacekeeping missions in the Darfur region of Sudan calls for the immediate lifting of restrictions on their movements.
2010-07-6

Two Sudanese, Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus, surrender to the International Criminal Court in The Hague to be charged on Thursday with "murder", "intentionally directing attacks against peacekeeping personnel" and "stealing property" in relation to a 2007 attack on African Union peacekeepers in Darfur, which killed 12.
2010-06-16

41 people have been killed in fighting over the past three days in Sudan's western region of Darfur according to a Sudan tribal leader.
2010-06-6