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title: "Public Wants to Know More about Darfur and Many Favor U.S. Involvement"
description: "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 […]"
date: "2007-06-07"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2007/06/07/public-wants-to-know-more-about-darfur/"
categories:
  - "International Affairs"
  - "News Coverage"
---

# Public Wants to Know More about Darfur and Many Favor U.S. Involvement

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.

[Read full analysis at Pewresearch.org](https://www.pewresearch.org/2007/06/07/public-wants-to-know-more-about-darfur-and-many-favor-us-involvement/)