Genocide Monitor
- Kenya: As the post-election violence continues, the death toll has reached over 1,000, and more than 300,000 civilians have been displaced.
- Darfur: Ethiopia and Bangladesh have offered to loan at least five helicopters to UNAMID.
- Eastern Chad: Thousands of rebels surrounded the Chadian capital on Feb. 1, triggering heavy fighting for over three days that generated over 100 civilian casualties. International support from the United Nations and France has allowed President Deby to take back control.
- Take Action: Lobby for Darfur in your community, Feb. 25–29
- Kenya: US envoy Jendayi Frazer said the violence in Kenya, though not genocide, can be described as "clear ethnic cleansing."
- Kenya: The UN Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide sent a staff member to investigate the situation.
- Darfur: Sudanese militias reportedly attacked 21 civilians in a village in west Darfur.
- Eastern Chad: European Union foreign ministers formally launched a 3,500-strong peacekeeping mission, called MINURCAT, to protect civilians and aid workers in eastern Chad.
- Take Action: UN Peacekeepers in Darfur Need Your Support: Call 1-800-GENOCIDE
- Darfur: Musa Hilal, a Janajaweed leader who is targeted by UN and US sanctions, has been promoted to become the assistant to the minister of federal affairs in the government of Sudan.
- Darfur: Banditry caused 13 World Food Programme trucks to be stolen between September and December 2007.
- Democratic Republic of Congo: A new study finds that 45,000 civilians have been dying per month for the last decade, yielding a total of 5.4 million deaths. These are the highest morality levels in a conflict since World War Two.
- Kenya: As violence continues to devastate the country, former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya to head the negotiations between President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga.
- Take Action: Ask Congress to Support UN Peacekeepers
- Sudanese government planes bombed rebel positions in at least two villages which led to civilian casualties in West Darfur.
- A group of armed men, reportedly from the Janjaweed, overran a prison and released 90 detainees in South Darfur.
- The government of Sudan admitted to attacking a UNAMID convoy.
- As tensions escalate between Sudan and Chad over the Darfur-Chad border, Chadian warplanes bombed two villages in western Darfur on Jan. 7.
- On Jan. 8, only one week after the deployment of UNAMID, Sudanese soldiers shot at a UNAMID convoy, critically injuring a driver and destroying a fuel tanker.
- Richard Williamson, the new US envoy to Sudan, was sworn in on Jan. 7.
