Today marks the handoff of command from the African Union mission in Darfur (AMIS) to the UN peace support operation authorized by Security Council Resolution 1769 (July 31, 2007)---the "UN/African Union Mission in Darfur" ...
What Alternative to UNAMID Will Provide Security for Darfur?
There can be little doubt that the peace support operation authorized in July 2007 by UN Security Council Resolution 1769 is inadequate for the immensely challenging tasks of civilian and humanitarian protection in Darfur. ...
“Partners in Genocide: A comprehensive guide to China’s role in Darfur”
Two weeks ago, Britain introduced a toughly worded Presidential Statement at the U.N. Security Council, demanding that Khartoum's National Islamic Front regime turn over two gnocidaires to the International Criminal Court. ...
“Darfur’s final chance,” from The Guardian on-line, November 30, 2007
On Monday, UN under-secretary for peacekeeping Jean-Marie Guhenno raised the terrifying prospect that the UN-authorised peacekeeping force for Darfur may well have to be aborted because of obstructionism on the part of the ...
“Wanted: UN Troops,” The New Republic on-line, November 28, 2007
Darfuri camps housing some 2.5 million displaced persons are poised to explode in violence. Insecurity throughout the region is threatening further reductions in humanitarian efforts. Major combatants are edging closer to an ...
Testimony on China and Darfur, to the Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
Testimony by Eric Reeves, Sudan Adviser to the "Olympic Dream for Darfur Campaign"Chairman Tierney and other distinguished Members of this Subcommittee: As human security in Darfur and eastern Chad continues to deteriorate; ...
Darfur Peace Talks in Libya Produce Only an Emboldened Khartoum
With much talk about the "moment of truth" having arrived, the UN and African Union convened Darfur peace talks in Sirte, Libya on October 27, 2007. But all too predictably, no progress was recorded and prospects for future ...
“Doomed to failure,” from The Guardian (on-line), November 2, 2007
With terrible predictability, peace talks in Sirte, Libya between the Khartoum regime and Darfur's various rebel groups broke off today, having accomplished nothing other than to reveal the poverty of international efforts in ...
Darfur Adrift: A Skeptical Assessment of Resolution 1769 (Part 2 of 2)
The recent massacre of civilians in Muhajiriya (South Darfur)---by Khartoum's regular military forces and its Janjaweed militia allies---represents, in its vicious human destruction, the most conspicuous consequence of ...
“Moral Equivalence,” from the Guardian (on-line), October 10, 2007
Lakhdar Brahimi, a former UN envoy to Iraq and one of several international eminences know as "the Elders," briefly toured Sudan last week and declared that the Darfur rebels were being "pampered" by the "international ...
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