Over the past year, many commentators on the January 2011 self-determination referendum for South Sudan have presumed to ask, "Will an independent South Sudan become a failed state?" As often as not, their answers have been ...

Commentary on the impending referenda for southern Sudan and the Abyei border region, while proliferating rapidly, has reached no consensus about how the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum will respond to this ...

Finally! A sense of urgency about Sudan. In a major foreign policy address on September 8, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described the country as a "ticking time bomb" (http://allafrica.com/stories/201009090002.html ). ...

Despite an historic peace agreement between northern and southern Sudan five years ago, the threat of renewed civil war looms closer by the day. Any resumption of hostilities would be disastrous for a country that has ...

Eric Reeves    • LAST MONTH the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued a warrant with additional charges against Sudanese president Omar Al Bashir: Three counts of genocide in Darfur ...

Eric Reeves   • It is no overstatement to declare that the fate of the nation-state of Sudan hangs precariously in the balance. If the National Congress Party (NCP) regime in Khartoum refuses to allow free, fair, and ...

WITH A terrible predictability, Sudan's impending elections have degenerated into a chaotic mixture of massive fraud, vote-rigging, boycotts, intimidation, and abuses of national power by the ruling National Congress Party ...

For all the attention Darfur has received and for all the humanitarian assistance that it has been provided, innocent civilians are once again being killed as part of a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign by the Khartoum ...