Security officers confiscated the entire print-run of El Jareeda daily newspaper this morning. According to the editor-in-chief (88) of the independent El Ayam newspaper, the Sudanese press has never witnessed such pressure ...
Archives for June 2015
Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest Number 18 | 28 June 2015
This eighteenth installment of Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest has as its primary concerns the growing water crisis throughout Sudan, but hitting Darfur especially hard, and the relentless deterioration of security and ...
Khartoum’s Arming of Renegade Rebel Elements: A serious threat to peace in South Sudan | 26 June 2015
On June 22, 2015 former Secretary-General of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) Pagan Amum flew to Juba; on June 23 he was re-instated by the government as Secretary-General of the SPLM, the dominantly ruling party ...
Text of letter from breakaway commanders in the SPLA-iO, requesting that President Omar al-Bashir of the Khartoum regime send them arms directly | 26 June 2015
[ Commentary at | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1KY ] Page one of the letter Page two of the letter ...
Corruption in the ruling African National Congress: Failing South Africa—and Sudan | 22 June 2015
Over the years, South African journalists have reported on countless episodes of corruption directly tied to members of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). Many charges have involved high level officials, but none has ...
Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest Number 17 | 21 June 2015
This seventeenth installment of Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest has as its primary concern the continuing deterioration of civilian security and humanitarian capacity and access. As many as 130,000 Darfuris have been newly ...
The View of Khartoum from Saudi Arabia: Revealing cables published by “Wikileaks” | June 20, 2015
In an extraordinary scoop, Sudan Tribune has begun to publish some of the more than 60,000 diplomatic cables from Saudi Arabia released by Wikileaks on Friday, June 19, 2015. The website has said it would release half a ...
South Africa’s Ruling African National Congress Disgraces Itself
by Eric Reeves ...
Application of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre, in the High Court of South Africa (Pretoria)
Court documents concerning the Southern Africa Litigation Centre application for the arrest of ICC fugitive Omar al-Bashir, and the flouting of judicial decisions by the ruling African National Congress (ANC) officials of the ...
Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest Number 16 | 14 June 2015
This sixteenth installment of Darfur: Radio Dabanga News Digest has as its primary context the evident decision by the Security Council to re-authorize the UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) without changes, ...