The Red Cross is mounting a major airlift of relief supplies to Sudan’s troubled Darfur region, in its largest such operation since the Iraq war.

THE Arab League chief pledged support for Sudan's government before an emergency meeting on the violence that has killed thousands in that country's Darfur region.

TWO reports have accused the Sudanese government and Arab militia of massive abuses in the western Darfur region where one million people have been displaced.