The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof recently took at trip to Chad with an unlikely sidekick: George Clooney. Kristof was skeptical at first, but Clooney—always the charmer!—won him over, and thus Kristof came to see the potential benefits of celebrity advocacy.
United Nations officials are reporting that the Darfur town of Haskanita has been “completely burned down, except for a few buildings.” The Sudanese army and janjaweed militias are apparently behind the destruction of Haskanita, U.N. sources say.