It is more than six weeks since UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland warned the Security Council that, "[the humanitarian gains of the past two years in Darfur] can all be lost within weeks---not months. I cannot give a starker ...
Paralysis in Darfur: Khartoum Achieves a Final Diplomatic Success
The final shape of Khartoum's diplomatic strategy in seeking to retain ultimate control over security arrangements in Darfur is now clearly in evidence; so, too, is the shameful success of this ruthless strategy. By ...
Khartoum Strong-arms, Negotiates to Retain Control of Darfur Security
The recent and fulsome decision by the African Union to agree with Khartoum on the question of deploying a UN force to Darfur almost certainly ensures that the National Islamic Front regime retains unthreatened control over ...
A Spectacle of Impotence at the UN: Darfur Security Remains Solely with AU
Despite glib talk in various quarters of a "partial" or "temporary" success this past week in renewing the African Union mandate for Darfur, the UN's refusal to move toward urgent deployment of the Darfur protection force ...
Two Weeks After UN Security Council “Acts” on Darfur: Diplomatic Paralysis
The cataclysm of human suffering and destruction in Darfur continues to grow, with no end or even mitigation in prospect. The Khartoum regime is currently accelerating its vast military offensives in North Darfur and eastern ...
Khartoum’s Ultimatum to the African Union: “Leave or Stay on Our Terms”
The ongoing collapse of almost all civilian and humanitarian security in Darfur is the context in which we must understand the significance of Khartoum's unrelenting opposition to a large and robustly mandated UN peace ...
UN Peacekeeping Resolution Greeted by Khartoum’s New Darfur Offensive
On Thursday, August 31, 2006, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1706, "inviting" the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum to allow a large and robust UN to enter Darfur with the primary goal of protecting acutely ...
Darfur: An abject abandonment of the “Responsibility to Protect,” July 4, 2006
Darfur: An abject abandonment of the "Responsibility to Protect" The UN and African Union yield to Khartoum's genocidal tyranny in Banjul, Gambia Eric Reeves July 4, 2006 It is difficult to see how the people of ...
Darfur Security in Freefall: Humanitarian Collapse May Occur Any Moment, July 11, 2006
Minni Minawi faction of SLA now actively coordinating with Khartoum's military forces in North Darfur Eric Reeves July 11, 2006 The multiples failures of the African Union mission in Darfur have for the past week been ...
Darfur: The Final Decision
The final moment of diplomatic truth for Darfur has at last arrived. All evidence suggests that the international community is prepared to acquiesce before the military onslaught Khartoum's National Islamic Front is ...