'Muslim Live 8' Show for Darfur

August 20, 2007

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6955341.stm

A Live 8-style concert to help tackle the humanitarian crisis in Darfur will be put on by British Muslims.

Organisers said that they hoped the event at Wembley Arena in London on 21 October would be a sell-out.

They added that it was "shameful" that Muslims were not as concerned about the conflict in Sudan as they were by bloodshed elsewhere, such as Iraq.

More than 2m people have been left homeless in Darfur since fighting broke out in 2003 when rebels took up arms.