The ruthless, cruelly self-serving National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime maintains its monopoly on national power in Sudan—now in its 30th year—largely because it fully controls news media, both print and broadcast. This again highlights importance of Radio Dabanga: https://www.geef.nl/en/donate?charity=9077&mode=e

Thabo Mbeki, lead negotiator for the peculiarly named “Africa Union High-Level Implementation Panel” (AUHIP), is reported by Sudan Tribune to be on the way out, as the African Union has finally tired of his corrupt and incompetent ways. The “Implementation” in the AUHIP acronym refers to “implementation” of Mbeki’s complete disaster of 2009: his “Roadmap […]

Fuel and food price inflation set off a widespread civil uprising in September 2013:  

  Sudanese Vice President Hassabo Mohammed Abdel Rahman, directly addressing several hundred army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) soldiers (December 2014, the beginning of the “dry season campaign”): “Hassabo told us to clear the area east of Jebel Marra. To kill any male. He said we want to clear the area of insects… He said East […]

How did the Darfur genocide become invisible?

Dr. Tom Catena is the closest thing to a hero to have emerged from the ghastly conflict in South Kordofan, instigated by the Khartoum regime in June 2011.  He continues his work at the Mother of Mercy Hospital in Gidel (near Kauda in the Nuba Mountains).  His courage, compassion, and dedication are examples of what […]

Where is the UN’s World Health Organization in confronting cholera in Sudan?

Deportations to génocidaires resume in Europe…

Beyond shame, beyond scandal…simply despicable, given what UNAMID chief Ibrahim Gambari knew of al-Bashir’s crimes; this “sociability” was also in violation of UN stipulations about contact with those indicted by the ICC.  This incident was a deep revelation of not only the character of UNAMID leadership, but  of the willingness of the African Union Peace […]