A crisis that has been months, indeed years in the making has come to a head with the decision by the sovereign nation of the Republic of South Sudan to shut down all Southern oil production in the face of continuing ...

Overview There has been much discussion about the intensifying dispute between Khartoum and Juba over how much in transit fees the Republic of South Sudan (RSS) should pay the northern regime in order to transport its oil ...

Such a timeline as I offer here cannot be complete, and yet also risks omissions that are important to understanding the course of events since September 2010, the point at which this timeline becomes significantly more ...

BLUE NILE July 10: Khartoum's minister of information Ibrahim Ghandour declares that "the accusation Sudan Armed Forces deploying in Blue Nile is baseless," further declaring that such redeployments as are occurring are a ...

When the history of Sudan's third civil is written, most will judge that the precipitating event was the Khartoum regime's May 21 military seizure of the contested border area of Abyei. And it will be a terminus a quo in some ...

[a brief with the same grim and dispiriting title appeared in The Huffington Post, 16 August 2014 |  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-reeves/post_8247_b_5683453.html ]        - Eric Reeves, 24 November 2011       ...

Eric Reeves, 20 November 2011 In recent years there has been almost no reporting by news or human rights organizations on rape and gender-based violence (GBV) as a weapon of war, even as it has been one of the most brutal ...