Despite weeks of opportunity to reverse, at least partially, an accelerating slide toward a massive humanitarian crisis in southern Sudan, both the UN and the United States seem paralyzed. Neither UN leadership nor the US ...

The Sudan Peace Act has been considered primarily in terms of the House version of the bill, which contains potent US capital market sanctions against foreign companies complicit in the oil-driven destruction of Sudan. But ...

It is now two weeks since Tom Vraalsen, UN Special Envoy to Sudan, negotiated an agreement with the Khartoum regime that fundamentally compromised the principle of unimpeded humanitarian access to the people of southern ...

"'Not Acceptable!'" --- Andrew Natsios, Administrator, US AID Andrew Natsios, Administrator for the US Agency for International Development, has decisively rejected Khartoum's bid to undermine Operation Lifeline Sudan relief ...

Eric Reeves [May 28, 2002] Smith College Northampton, MA 01063 ereeves@smith.edu 413-585-3326 Yesterday, the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum precipitated a massive ...

Khartoum's May 22, 2002 bombing attack on civilians at Rier has now come more clearly into focus. Geographical confusion over which "Rier" was attacked has been resolved; more consequentially, the terrible casualty figures ...

A detailed press release from the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement (SPLA/M) makes clear that the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum is continuing its massive assault on civilians in the oil regions of Western ...

The world community hardly needs further evidence of what is occurring in the oil regions of southern Sudan: all evidence available clearly reveals that the Khartoum regime is bent on destroying the indigenous populations ...

Without swift passage of the Sudan Peace Act, in its House version, American capital will continue to finance the oil-driven destruction of southern Sudan. For example, Malaysia's state-owned Petroliam Nasional Bhd., more ...

Rights & Democracy (Canada) has made clear that this is a distinct possibility. Kathleen Mahoney, a law professor at the University of Calgary and Chair of Rights & Democracy (Canada), declared in an April 30, 2002 release by ...