US to slap new sanctions on Sudan
Reuters - May 29, 2007

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The United States plans to announce tough new sanctions against Sudan on Tuesday before working out a resolution in the United Nations in an effort to end the bloodshed in Darfur.
President George W. Bush will announce the sanctions in a speech, imposing unilateral punitive action against 31 companies and four individuals.
"(Sudanese) President Bashir's actions over the past few weeks follow a long pattern of promising cooperation while finding new methods of obstruction," Bush will say, according to a draft of his speech.
The new U.S. action is being launched in parallel to a broader effort by United Nations officials to pressure Sudan's government to end the violence that has devastated Darfur since 2003 ...