BOB GELDOF admits to have underestimated the significance of China during last year’s Live8 rally but now he sees its role as central to ending the “ongoing massacre” in the Sudanese region of Darfur.

OF the litany of human rights abuses taking place in the west Darfur theatre in Sudan, perhaps the greatest and the most difficult to understand is the sheer indifference of the UN security council to the plight of the vulnerable millions of innocent people.