As world leaders gather in Germany for the annual G-8 meeting, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur will be high on their agenda. Pew’s latest surveys find nearly half of Americans believing the United States has a moral obligation to do something about the ethnic genocide there, and a modest plurality thinking the U.S. should send troops. Clearly, many Americans want to learn more about the crisis; nearly five times as many Americans say the Darfur story has received too little news coverage as say it has gotten too much coverage.
