UN pleads for more Darfur crisis aid

Eight foreign ministers have led a UN Security Council meeting to demand that rebel groups in Darfur join a peace deal signed last week, and warned that the fate of the Sudanese region would be a test for the powerful UN body.

“Since its inception, this Council has stood at many moments of history,” Britain’s Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett said. “Now is such a moment. For the first time in three long hard years of war the people of Darfur have some hope.”