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{Publish} Sunday, September 30, 2007 

Note that this is a preliminary article outline, the article is not to be published until September 30. Until then, this is just a place where I am collecting background.

Tutu has co-authored more than twenty books

South African activist Desmond Tutu departed this morning for Sudan's troubled Darfur region, leading a group of prominent dignitaries that hope to ease tensions by "by listening to, learning from and reporting on the views of the people in Darfur".

Archbishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is acting as the chair of a new NGO known as "The Elders", that was founded by fellow Peace Prize winner Nelson Mandela. The envoy to Darfur includes Tutu, former United Nations envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, UNICEF advocate Graça Machel and former US president Jimmy Carter.

The refusal of Sudan to allow UN peacekeepers into the region, or increase the number of African Union troops, led to a denunciation by Tutu, who called for economic sanctions against the country last year

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