Our daughter, Ruhiyyih, on the right, spent the weekend in Washington DC, participating in the Global Night Commute in honor of Northern Ugandas' "Invisible Children". 
She participated in a 'sleep in', sleeping with 1400 other youth from all over the East Coast to demonstrate what children in the Acholi province of Northern Uganda have to do nightly to avoid being abducted into the LRA rebel army. 
She called me several times during the Global Night Commute, and was quite encouraged by the promotion by the media for this event. She also attended the Washington rally "Save Darfur". George Clooney, Rev. Al Sharpton, Russell Simmons, and other celebs were on hand to speak about the genocide in Darfur, in the Sudan.
Clooney teamed up with Oprah recently, to discuss the genocide in Darfur. Traveling with a cameraman, Clooney and his father, Nick, a former television anchorman, documented horrible conditions in Sudanese refugee camps. He showed video excerpts of their interviews with families who said militias murder civilians, rape women and lay waste to villages.
"What we cannot do is turn our heads and look away and hope that this will somehow disappear," he said. "If we do, it will disappear and an entire generation will be gone and then only history will be left to judge us." The Fox News Network indicates that African Union mediators are brokering peace talks among warring parties in Sudan's Darfur region. Sunday, they were extending by 48 hours a deadline for the peace parley's end. Salim Ahmed Salim, a lead mediator for the African Union, said the talks would continue until midnight on Tuesday, pushing back the deadline for talks that have gone on for two years but so far failed to halt the violence. More on the Darfur Peace Talks here.
