Illinois Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Barack Obama speaks during a services at Trinity United Church of Christ Sunday, Oct. 31, 2004, in Chicago.(AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Despite all contradicting evidence, Obama admin still thinks Khartoum regime can “carry out reform via constitutional democratic measures”:
“We [the Obama administration] do not want to see the ouster of the [Khartoum] regime, nor regime change. We want to see the regime carrying out reform via constitutional democratic measures.” (Former Special Envoy for Sudan Princeton Lyman, Interview with Asharq al-Awsat, Dec. 3, 2011
From Radio Dabanga (www.radiodabanga.org/), last week of 2016:
Sudan: El Tayaar paper seized for fifth time in a month | Dec. 25, 2016 | KHARTOUM
Sudan’s El Jareeda seized ten times in a month | Dec. 28 2016 | KHARTOUM
Sudanese Congress Party leader ‘witnessed severe torture’ in detention | Dec. 30, 2016 | Khrtm
Students injured as police raid Port Sudan boycott action | Dec. 29, 2016 | PORT SUDAN
Concern for Sudanese activist held incommunicado | Dec. 28 2016 EL GEDAREF
Former prisoner tells of torture of politicians, rebels in Sudan | Dec. 2, 2016 | KHARTOUM
Sudanese human rights activist detained in Darfur | Dec. 30, 2016 | EL FASHER
Darfuri student leaders fear arrest in Khartoum | Dec. 25, 2016 | KHARTOUM
‘Sudan’s 2017 budget will lead to continued crisis’: Economist | Dec. 25, 2016 | KHARTOUM