The World Food Program (WFP) says it has been able to successfully feed up to three million internally displaced people in Sudan's conflict-ridden province of Darfur. The organization says it has been able to do this even though problems of security remain and it still has no access to certain areas.

Some of the biggest names in music have come together to raise money and awareness for Amnesty International's human rights work, with an emphasis on the Darfur crisis. Tendai Maphosa has more in this report for VOA from London.

Sudan rejected Wednesday the idea of holding an international conference on the situation surrounding the western province of Darfur, the SUNA national news agency said citing the Sudanese Foreign Ministry.

Sudan's government has accepted a plan for a joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force in the troubled Darfur region.

The United Nations is rushing aid to refugees pouring into the Central African Republic (CAR) from the troubled Darfur region of Sudan, a spokesperson said today.

A published report says Sudan is secretly working with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to spy on insurgents in Iraq. The Los Angeles Times reports that Sudan's Mukhabarat intelligence service has inserted spies into Iraq using the flow of foreign fighters who travel through Sudan as cover.

The United Nations Special Envoy to Darfur today laid out "a road map towards peace" in the war-ravaged region of the Sudan, calling on all parties to cease hostilities and prepare for forthcoming negotiations.

The United Nations and the African Union have tentatively agreed on the outline of a joint peacekeeping operation for Darfur. But as VOA's Peter Heinlein reports from U.N. headquarters, the 23,000 strong force faces several obstacles that will delay deployment until at least the middle of next year.

A pioneering AAAS program that provides technical expertise to human rights groups is helping Amnesty International USA with a new online effort to monitor threatened settlements in the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan and provide evidence of destroyed villages.

The House of Representatives has approved resolutions on Iran and the situation in Darfur. One calls on the government in Tehran to release dual Iranian-American citizens it is holding, the other urges China to do more to pressure the government of Sudan to end violence in Darfur.

Sudanese lawyers who represent victims of torture and abuse in the Darfur region of the Sudan will be available to reporters at a special press briefing to be held in conjunction with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation's Darfur Legal Training Project. Each of these lawyers has made personal sacrifices in an effort to represent those who cannot speak for themselves. The briefing will be held on Tuesday at 1 p.m. in London.

On May 30th, White Nile Ltd, a London Stock Exchange, AIM quoted oil and gas exploration company centred on Southern Sudan and the surrounding region, issued the statement below.