> Eric Reeves charges Scott Gration, US special presidential envoy for Sudan, with misplaced optimism:
The notorious Janjaweed have not been disarmed and pose a constant threat. Even in the camps themselves, security is tenuous; women still face rape, men are tortured and murdered, and looting is commonplace.
> Ed Husain asks why the deaths of unarmed Muslims in Darfur have caused so little concern among their co-religionists?