WHAT TIME IS IT IN DARFUR?

IT IS TIME TO ACT

THE GENOCIDE ON THE DARFURI FAMILIES IS FIVE AND A HALF YEARS TOO LONG.

I urge anyone who has a conscience about genocide to take action. I ask you personnally to join me in signing the post card that can be linked to below. This email came to me today:

Dear Sandra,

During last night's presidential debate, I watched as Sens. McCain and Obama spoke about the United States' responsibility to end the crisis in Darfur.

It was a moving moment for me, and an important one for our movement. In the past week, we've heard the next president and vice president of the United States call for leadership to end the suffering.

Now we must ensure that strong words in debates turn into strong actions in the Oval Office. And to do it, we must raise our voices together as one.

Add your voice today—send a postcard to the next president urging Day One action on Darfur.

Think about it: millions of Americans just heard the next president of the United States talk about ending the genocide. This was only possible because of your outspoken support for Darfur.

We can't let up. Your actions have compelled the next president to speak strongly about Darfur. Now we must compel the next president to act strongly on Darfur from Day One of his administration.

One million voices calling for U.S. leadership—voices from all political parties, all faiths, all walks of life—can compel the next president to act.

Sign the postcard and make sure the new president acts on his promise to the people of Darfur.

When thousands upon thousands of citizens of conscience speak with one voice, our leaders listen. That's how we've gotten this far. Now let's continue to hold them accountable. Let's demand that they keep faith with the people of Darfur.

My best,

Jerry Fowler
Save Darfur Coalition

www.savedarfur.org

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Thousands flooded by Sudan dam closure: villagers

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Thousands of Sudanese villagers were flooded out of their homes on Tuesday, village representatives said, blaming the floods on a new $2 billion dam on the River Nile.

But the Sudan government's Dams Implementation Unit denied it had shut the gates of the Merowe dam, downriver from the villages, saying any floods were caused by seasonal rains.

Many villagers from the northern Manaseer area are refusing to leave their river-side farms and homes to make way for the Chinese-built dam designed to double Sudan's electricity supply.

The dam, which is due to start generating power by the end of the year, will flood a large part of the surrounding area 350 km (220 miles) north of Khartoum.

Hashim Ali, spokesman for a committee representing the Manaseer villagers, told Reuters more than 1,000 families on four islands in the Nile were stranded without food and shelter on Tuesday morning.

"Right now parts of the islands are being submerged ... Farms near the river have been destroyed. They are fighting the water. The people have had to go to higher ground on the middle of the islands," he said.

He said villagers had been left without help as local authority offices were closed on Tuesday, the first day of the Eid holiday marking the end of the Muslim Ramadan fast.

"They (the dam managers) have chosen this day to commit this crime. The officials are off and no one will hear us," he said.

Tens of thousands of other villagers have already been displaced by the dam project, but the Manaseer villagers are refusing to move saying houses built for them by the government are too far from the river and would not have the water needed to sustain their agriculture.

Ali said waters started rising on Sunday when managers closed the gates to test Merowe dam, around 100km (60 miles) downriver from the islands, and floods had peaked in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

But a spokesman for the Dams Implementation Unit dismissed the accusations. "The gates have not been shut. This area floods every year," he said.

The spokesman added that other villagers who had agreed to move had already started harvesting crops in their new locations. The local authority would have the responsibility of dealing with any people who refused to move, he added.

Access to the entire area is tightly monitored by the Dams Implementation Unit which reports directly to the presidency.

Police have killed protesters in Merowe in the past and arrested journalists going to the region to report.

Source: www.sudan.net