Despite desperate pleas from both civilians and aid organizations, in Darfur as well as in eastern Chad, security continues to deteriorate badly in the greater humanitarian theater---threatening lives, livelihoods, and all ...
The ICC “Application” Concerning International Crimes in Darfur
As the Darfur genocide enters its fifth year, and two years after UN Security Council Resolution 1593 (March 2005) referred violations of international law in Darfur to the International Criminal Court (ICC), the ICC has ...
Khartoum Accommodated: US “Lowers the Bar” for Regime’s Gnocidaires
During a recent interview on PBS's "NewsHour" (February 16, 2007), US special envoy for Sudan Andrew Natsios gave clear evidence of a Bush administration strategy to back away from meaningful efforts to pressure Khartoum over ...
Is Khartoum Interested in Darfur Peace Talks? The Case of Suleiman Jamous
Although the name "Suleiman Jamous" is hardly familiar, even within the world of Darfur advocacy, he is one of the true heroes to emerge from the desperate conflict of the past four years. Jamous, chief humanitarian ...
On China and the 2008 Olympic Games
The full-scale launch of a large, organized campaign to highlight China's complicity in the Darfur genocide appears likely to begin soon. But it's past time to start thinking about how to tap the creative power of students ...
Understanding Chinese President Hu’s Business Trip to Khartoum
To understand just how little was accomplished in halting ongoing genocidal destruction in Darfur during Chinese President Hu Jintao's much-touted business trip to Khartoum, we need to understand the larger context in which ...
Understanding Genocide in Darfur: The View from Khartoum
In understanding why Khartoum remains resolutely opposed to significant numbers of UN peace support personnel in Darfur, it is first of all critical to make sense of just what the National Islamic Front regime sees as it ...
Will Khartoum’s Omar al-Bashir Assume the Chair of the African Union?
In a matter of days, the African Union (AU) makes a decision that will do much to determine the future of the fledgling organization. At the Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) summit of January 29-30, it will either elect the President ...
Darfur and the International Abandonment of a “responsibility to protect”
HUMANITARIAN OVERVIEW Recent large-scale evacuations of humanitarian personnel from Darfur, coming in the wake of an escalating series of violent attacks, are part of a pattern that may culminate in an almost complete ...
“The Looming Chaos in Chad,” Boston Globe, April 26, 2006
“The Looming Chaos in Chad,” Boston Globe, April 26, 2006 IDRISS DEBY, the president of the central African country of Chad, may soon lose power to a group of variously motivated rebel movements. The deposing of Deby might ...