Darfur Peace & Development is a non-profit, non-sectarian organization with headquarters in Washington, DC and offices in Khartoum and El Fasher Sudan.

DPDO provides humanitarian and development assistance to the victims of conflict in Darfur, Sudan without regard to ethnicity, gender, age or religious beliefs.

DPDO works to foster reconciliation, to facilitate just governance and to enable Darfurians to rebuild their homeland in effective, sustainable ways.

DPDO also promotes awareness of the crisis in the United States and advocates for a peaceful resolution of the conflict.


7/17/08 - One peacekeeper killed in Sudan's Darfur

July 16, 2008 (KHARTOUM) - A U.N. peacekeeper has been killed in West Darfur in the day where the UN Security council condemned the last week killing of seven peacekeepers in the troubled region. The council on Wednesday strongly condemned the July 8 attack as "premeditated, deliberate and intended to inflict casualties," and said that attacks on U.N. peacekeepers during armed conflicts "can constitute war crimes." In the same time in Khartoum, "The (...read more...)

7/16/08 - EU urges Sudan to cooperate with ICC war crimes warrants

July 15, 2008 (PARIS) - The European Union has urged Sudan to turn over to the International Criminal Court two leading war crimes suspects. French Foreign Ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier says such a gesture "would constitute an element of positive appreciation" of Sudan by the international community. France holds the rotating EU presidency, and Chevallier was speaking Tuesday on behalf of the 27-member union. He didn't comment on Monday's ind(...read more...)

7/15/08 - Hybrid force to evacuate non-essential staff from Sudan

July 14, 2008 (EL FASHER) - The joint African Union - UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) announced Monday the evacuation of the non-essential personnel but continue to operate in the troubled region of Darfur. The announcement is made in the day where the International Criminal Court Prosecutor asked for an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president for genocide, crimes against the humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur. The joint pea(...read more...)

7/15/08 - Fates of other leaders show chance of Bashir arrest

July 14, 2008 (AMSTERDAM) - Sudan's president may not be delivered swiftly into the arms of international justice, but the fate of former leaders of Liberia and Yugoslavia suggests he might not evade the law indefinitely. The International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor accused Sudan's president Omar Hassan al-Bashir on Monday of plotting a campaign of genocide in Darfur, including the killing of 35,000 people and asked judges to issue an arrest warr(...read more...)