As the Kenyan capital prepares to host a two-day meeting of the United Nations Security Council this week, reports about the situation in Darfur, western Sudan, are piling up. On Tuesday, Amnesty International (AI) – the London-based human rights watchdog – issued a report entitled ‘Sudan: Arming the Perpetrators of Grave Abuses in Darfur’. The document came on the heels of an earlier report by Human Rights Watch, based in New York, which called on the Security Council to back its criticism of Khartoum with actions against key Sudanese officials. AI is calling on the Security Council to extend an arms embargo that it passed against non-governmental groups in Sudan, to include the government.