The coverage in the US on Darfur leaves much to be desired, honestly. The regime has really only paid lip service to what's happening there, and really is not at all interested in intervening, in spite of the oil. Maybe because China wouldn't like it (and since China holds so much of our debt, we're kind of hamstrung in our ability to confront them). But having read the account of John Dau (one of the "Lost Boys") in January's National Geographic, I think it's pretty clear that what's happening in Darfur, and in Southern Sudan for that matter, is very real. The Arabic elites who run the nation seem to be intent on convert, subjugating or otherwise wiping out the Africans in the Sudan.