Archives for December 2004

"Fighting in Western Upper Nile Continues to Threaten the Machakos Peace Process" Intense offensive military action by Khartoum's forces continues along the main new oil transport arteries in Western Upper Nile (south and ...

"The Nuba Mountains Region: An Inescapable Issue at Machakos" The Khartoum regime has delayed, and perhaps ultimately aborted its participation in the most recent round of the Machakos peace talks. It has done so because ...

"Khartoum's Massive Military Build-up Violates October Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, Imperils Machakos Talks" Numerous highly reliable regional sources are now confirming that Khartoum's National Islamic Front ...

"Khartoum's Renewed Talk of War All Too Revealing" Both Reuters and the Associated Press today report on dismayingly bellicose language by Omer Beshir, president of that National Islamic Front (NIF) regime in Khartoum. In ...

"Monitoring Attacks on Civilians in Sudan: A Dismaying Start" On September 21, 2002, military jet aircraft of Khartoum's National Islamic Front regime strafed and dropped bombs on a Dinka cattle camp outside the village of ...

"General Lazaro Sumbeiywo and the Logic of Peace for Sudan" The Kenyan elections are looming closer, and the likelihood of a victory by Mwai Kibaki and his opposition coalition in the contest for president has become a ...

"Torture, Persecution, Arbitrary Arrest: Khartoum's Tyranny Continues" As the international community focuses on the Machakos peace process, and efforts to end the world's most destructive civil conflict, it is important ...

"Khartoum Continues Its Objections to UN Human Rights Reporting" In an all too familiar pattern, Khartoum has strenuously objected to human rights reporting by the UN's Special Rapporteur for Sudan, Gerhart Baum. Last ...

"Machakos in Suspension: Time for Tough-Minded Thinking" The current round of peace talks at Machakos (Kenya) has been suspended with very little further progress. Significantly, both the Government of Sudan and the ...

"Southern Sudan: Current Imperatives for Humanitarian Access" On October 26, 2002 agreement was reached in Nairobi over an outline for securing "unimpeded humanitarian access" to all areas and for all people in need in ...