Darfur Update

062004″>reports that they’re pouring arms and ammunition into the region “in apparent preparation for a major military offensive”:

[T]he warning from the African Union suggests that the Sudanese government intends to step up its campaign against rebel forces in Darfur, placing the lives of millions more people at risk.

Nigerian Major-General Festus Okonkwo, attending the African Union-sponsored peace talks in Nigeria, said it was clear from the military build-up over the last two weeks that Khartoum intended to fight on.

“The quantity of arms and ammunition brought into Darfur to meet the present build-up of troops in the region is [so] astronomical that the issue is no longer whether there will be fighting or not, but when fighting will start,” he said.