IN APRIL 2008, candidate Barack Obama expressed "deep concern" that the Bush administration was making an unseemly deal with the Khartoum regime as a means to bolster the fledgling but already failing UN/African Union Mission ...
“Darfur Moves Deeper into the Shadow of Indifference,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), December 17, 2010
With international attention focused so relentlessly on the referenda in South Sudan and Abyei—scheduled to be held less than four weeks from now (January 9, 2011)—it was all too predictable that the continuing ...
“Compromising with Khartoum: Abyei and the Perils of Accommodation,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), November 26, 2010
The carefully planned military coup that brought the National Islamic Front to power in June of 1989 was timed to forestall the most promising chance for a north/south peace agreement since Sudan's independence in 1956. The ...
“The Referenda for Southern Sudan: The Cost of Belatedness,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), November 3, 2010
It has been clear for well over a year that the southern Sudan referenda (including Abyei) were deeply endangered by bad faith on the part of the Khartoum regime. The urgency of the situation was evident to all who would ...
“Darkness Visible: The UN Looks at Darfur But Refuses to See,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 26, 2010
On October 20, 2010 the Darfuri news outlet Radio Dabanga—alone among all news organizations in the world—reported a remarkable admission by Nils Kastberg, UNICEF Representative in Sudan: "[T]he Sudanese ...
“Arming Khartoum: China’s Complicity in the Darfur Genocide,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 18, 2010
On July 8, 2008, at approximately 2:45pm local time, heavily armed Janjaweed militia attacked a joint police and military patrol of the UN/African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan (UNAMID) ...
“Accommodating Genocide: International Response to Khartoum’s ‘New Strategy for Darfur,'” Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 8, 2010
"Accommodating Genocide: International Response to Khartoum's 'New Strategy for Darfur,'" Dissent Magazine (on-line), October 8, 2010 Eric Reeves | October 6, 2010 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-AN On September 16, senior ...
“Khartoum’s Electoral Strategy for South Sudan (or How to ‘Fix’ a Referendum)”
With reprehensible belatedness, the Obama administration has finally awakened to the "ticking time bomb" in Sudan ...
“The Death of ‘Ahmed’ of Kassab Camp,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), September 15, 2010
The young boy from Kassab Camp is unnamed, unidentified except by the name of his camp. He drowned last week, and notice came only in the form of a brief announcement from Radio Dabanga, which has sources throughout ...
How Many in Darfur Have Died? Dissent Magazine (on-line), May 21, 2010
Total mortality in Darfur continues to be a subject of controversy, controversy in which I've been unpleasantly enmeshed for several years. Here is an update, in the form of commentary on a July 2009 mortality assessment from ...