What has become most notable about the human catastrophe in Darfur is its invisibility, a direct consequence of the decision by senior UN officials to shut down access to information about human suffering, deprivation, and ...
Khartoum extorts money and confiscates resources from humanitarian organizations
Khartoum extorts money and confiscates resources from humanitarian organizations . Eric Reeves, 22 January 2011 The primary obstacle to increasing humanitarian capacity is the hostility to ...
US Special Envoy on Sudan and Terrorism | July 2009
In Senate testimony of July 30, 2009, U.S. special envoy Scott Gration declared: "'There's no evidence in our intelligence community that supports [Sudan] being on the state sponsors of terrorism. It's a political decision," ...
“Celebrate Independence for South Sudan! But Remain Vigilant on Abyei,” January 13, 2011
January 13, 2011 The evidence that Khartoum has substantially increased its military presence along the North/South border is overwhelming. This is especially worrisome in the Abyei region, which remains extraordinarily ...
“Obama and Darfur: The Futility of Mere Hopefulness,” Dissent Magazine (on-line), January 21, 2011
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 ...
“Encouraging Khartoum: South Sudan Victimized by ‘Moral Equivalence,'” The Sudan Tribune, December 21, 2010
In the grim end-game to negotiations that seek to bring about a peaceful self-determination referendum for South Sudan, the Obama administration seems willing to surrender honesty in the process. Operating under the ...
“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 ...
“War or Peace in South Sudan? Khartoum Has Yet to Decide”
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 ...
“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 Obama Administration “Decouples” Darfur
The relationship between Darfur and Southern Sudan has never been well understood by the Obama administration, largely because of the incompetence of the president's special envoy to Sudan, retired Air Force General Scott ...
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