IN APRIL 2008, candidate Barack Obama expressed "deep concern" that the Bush administration was making an unseemly deal with the Khartoum regime as a means to bolster the fledgling but already failing UN/African Union Mission ...
“Encouraging Khartoum: South Sudan Victimized by ‘Moral Equivalence,'” The Sudan Tribune, December 21, 2010
In the grim end-game to negotiations that seek to bring about a peaceful self-determination referendum for South Sudan, the Obama administration seems willing to surrender honesty in the process. Operating under the ...
“Darfur Moves Deeper into the Shadow of Indifference,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), December 17, 2010
With international attention focused so relentlessly on the referenda in South Sudan and Abyei—scheduled to be held less than four weeks from now (January 9, 2011)—it was all too predictable that the continuing ...
“War or Peace in South Sudan? Khartoum Has Yet to Decide”
Commentary on the impending referenda for southern Sudan and the Abyei border region, while proliferating rapidly, has reached no consensus about how the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum will respond to this ...
“Compromising with Khartoum: Abyei and the Perils of Accommodation,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), November 26, 2010
The carefully planned military coup that brought the National Islamic Front to power in June of 1989 was timed to forestall the most promising chance for a north/south peace agreement since Sudan's independence in 1956. The ...
The Obama Administration “Decouples” Darfur
The relationship between Darfur and Southern Sudan has never been well understood by the Obama administration, largely because of the incompetence of the president's special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force General Scott ...
Review commentary on “A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide” (2007), by Eric Reeves
Review commentary on Eric Reeves' A Long Day's Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur Genocide (Key Publishing [Toronto], 2007) Book Cover "Not a single person in the world has done as much for Darfur as Eric Reeves. ...
“The Referenda for Southern Sudan: The Cost of Belatedness,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), November 3, 2010
It has been clear for well over a year that the southern Sudan referenda (including Abyei) were deeply endangered by bad faith on the part of the Khartoum regime. The urgency of the situation was evident to all who would ...
“Darkness Visible: The UN Looks at Darfur But Refuses to See,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 26, 2010
On October 20, 2010 the Darfuri news outlet Radio Dabanga—alone among all news organizations in the world—reported a remarkable admission by Nils Kastberg, UNICEF Representative in Sudan: "[T]he Sudanese ...
“Arming Khartoum: China’s Complicity in the Darfur Genocide,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 18, 2010
On July 8, 2008, at approximately 2:45pm local time, heavily armed Janjaweed militia attacked a joint police and military patrol of the UN/African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNAMID) ...
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