This is the twelfth installment of a digest containing what I believe to be the most important stories reported by Radio Dabanga in the previous week. Radio Dabanga continues to be by far our most important and reliable ...
Archives for May 2015
What is bearing down on the people of North Darfur: some of the men and equipment from Khartoum’s primary militia proxy in Darfur, the Rapid Response Forces
What is bearing down on the people of North Darfur: some of the men and equipment from Khartoum’s primary militia proxy in Darfur, the Rapid Response Forces ...
The Rapid Response Forces (the “new Janjaweed”) are much more heavily armed that the “old Janjaweed”
The Rapid Response Forces (the "new Janjaweed") are much more heavily armed than the "old Janjaweed" ...
“Genocide is Decreed by Another Name in Darfur,” The Huffington Post | 14 May 2014
[12 May 2015 correction: corrects error in full Arabic name for "Hemeti" (a nickname with childhood origins) reported in Radio Dabanga dispatch. Hemeti's full name is "Mohammed Hamdan Ahmed," although this name is attributed ...
Darfur: Radio Dabanga, News Digest No. 11 | 10 May 2015
This is the eleventh installment of a digest containing what I believe to be the most important stories reported by Radio Dabanga in the previous week. Radio Dabanga continues to be by far our most important and reliable ...
Khartoum’s Bombing of Children in the Nuba Mountains—Human Rights Watch reports on another grim and impending fourth anniversary | 7 May 2015
Human Rights Watch today released a terribly revealing account of the lives of children in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, and how the relentless and indiscriminate aerial bombardment by Khartoum’s National Islamic ...
Khartoum’s Military Seizure of Abyei—A grim fourth anniversary looms | 5 May 2015
The Abyei region of what was formerly a united Sudan was promised a self-determination referendum in the historic Comprehensive Peace Agreement of January 2005, signed by the Khartoum regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation ...
Life—and death—in Jebel Marra, Darfur
The Jebel Marra massif in the very center of Darfur has long been a stronghold of the rebels who rose up against Khartoum’s marginalizing of Darfuris in general, and Darfuris from African tribal groups in particular. As a ...
Life in Jebel Marra, Darfur
Life in Jebel Marra, Darfur---a young bombing victims is pictured here ...
Life in Jebel Marra, Darfur
Life in Jebel Marra, Darfur; young children are often forced to grow up quickly ...