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Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur [51min]

Top U.S. officials are calling for immediate action to end the three-year-old crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan. Diane and her guests talk about why the situation is especially fragile right now, and what can be done to keep the crisis from getting much worse. Guests: Suliman Baldo, Africa program director for the International Crisis Group; Sarah Martin, advocate for Refugees International; William O'Neill, consultant to the Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement; Asst. Sec. of State Jendayi Frazer, assistant secretary of state for African affairs; Nicholas Kristof, columnist for The New York Times.
Read entire article at WAMU "The Diane Rehm Show"