Darfur Aid Workers Evacuated Amid Violence
Helicopters rescued more than 40 aid workers who fled into the bush to escape fighting in Darfur on Monday as renewed violence flared in the crisis-plagued region of western Sudan.Fighting in Darfur overshadowed progress in ending Sudan’s other, longer-running civil war in the south. The United Nations announced plans to deploy 7,000 peacekeeping troops to southern Sudan were rebels and the government reached a peace agreement last week to end their 21-year conflict.Full Story