On Monday, UN under-secretary for peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guhenno raised the terrifying prospect that the UN-authorised peacekeeping force for Darfur may well have to be aborted because of obstructionism on the part of the ...
Archives for November 2007
“Wanted: UN Troops,” The New Republic on-line, November 28, 2007
Darfuri camps housing some 2.5 million displaced persons are poised to explode in violence. Insecurity throughout the region is threatening further reductions in humanitarian efforts. Major combatants are edging closer to an ...
Testimony on China and Darfur, to the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Testimony by Eric Reeves, Sudan Adviser to the "Olympic Dream for Darfur Campaign"Chairman Tierney and other distinguished Members of this Subcommittee: As human security in Darfur and eastern Chad continues to deteriorate; ...
Darfur Peace Talks in Libya Produce Only an Emboldened Khartoum
With much talk about the "moment of truth" having arrived, the UN and African Union convened Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya on October 27, 2007. But all too predictably, no progress was recorded and prospects for future ...
“Doomed to failure,” from The Guardian (on-line), November 2, 2007
With terrible predictability, peace talks in Sirte, Libya between the Khartoum regime and Darfur's various rebel groups broke off today, having accomplished nothing other than to reveal the poverty of international efforts in ...