On Monday, UN under-secretary for peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guhenno raised the terrifying prospect that the UN-authorised peacekeeping force for Darfur may well have to be aborted because of obstructionism on the part of the ...
“Wanted: UN Troops,” The New Republic on-line, November 28, 2007
Darfuri camps housing some 2.5 million displaced persons are poised to explode in violence. Insecurity throughout the region is threatening further reductions in humanitarian efforts. Major combatants are edging closer to an ...
Testimony on China and Darfur, to the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Testimony by Eric Reeves, Sudan Adviser to the "Olympic Dream for Darfur Campaign"Chairman Tierney and other distinguished Members of this Subcommittee: As human security in Darfur and eastern Chad continues to deteriorate; ...
Darfur Peace Talks in Libya Produce Only an Emboldened Khartoum
With much talk about the "moment of truth" having arrived, the UN and African Union convened Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya on October 27, 2007. But all too predictably, no progress was recorded and prospects for future ...
“Doomed to failure,” from The Guardian (on-line), November 2, 2007
With terrible predictability, peace talks in Sirte, Libya between the Khartoum regime and Darfur's various rebel groups broke off today, having accomplished nothing other than to reveal the poverty of international efforts in ...
Darfur Adrift: A Skeptical Assessment of Resolution 1769 (Part 2 of 2)
The recent massacre of civilians in Muhajiriya (South Darfur)---by Khartoum's regular military forces and its Janjaweed militia allies---represents, in its vicious human destruction, the most conspicuous consequence of ...
“Moral Equivalence,” from the Guardian (on-line), October 10, 2007
Lakhdar Brahimi, a former UN envoy to Iraq and one of several international eminences know as "the Elders," briefly toured Sudan last week and declared that the Darfur rebels were being "pampered" by the "international ...
Jimmy Carter on Genocide in Darfur, from The New Republic (on-line)
Last week, Jimmy Carter toured Sudan as part of a group of international celebrities who are calling themselves "the Elders." Founded by Nelson Mandela, the Elders aim--in the modest words of one member, British billionaire ...
“Darfur’s bitter ironies,” from The Guardian (on-line)
It is grimly ironic that a group of international eminences---the "Elders," as they are called---arrived in Khartoum on Sunday, the same day more than 10 African Union peacekeepers were killed during a large-scale rebel ...
Darfur Remains Adrift: A Skeptical Assessment of Resolution 1769
The chances for effective deployment of civilian police and well-trained military forces to Darfur continue to be compromised by excessive international accommodation of the National Islamic Front (National Congress Party) ...
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