Barack Obama Opts for Softer Approach to Darfur Crisis in Sudan - The Guardian

Date: 
Oct 18, 2009
Author: 
Ewen MacAskill

The Obama administration will tomorrow roll out a new policy aimed at resolving the Darfur crisis in Sudan, a much softer and more conciliatory line than the president promised during his election campaign.

Barack Obama is dropping a plan to isolate the Sudanese government and introduce tougher sanctions. Instead he will offer incentives aimed at the normalisation of relations with President Omar al-Bashir.

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