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“Khartoum’s Ongoing Militarizing of Oil Roads, Offensive Redeployments,” May 12, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1240 words

Deeply ominous new reports from the ground in southern Sudan, as well as aerial intelligence, make clear that Khartoum continues to be in highly consequential violation of two recent and important agreements negotiated under ...

“Egypt Attempts to Squeeze the Remaining Life out of Machakos Process,” May 1, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 713 words

Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak yesterday arrived in Khartoum, marking his first visit to this neighboring country in fourteen years. If one peels away the contrived camaraderie, the agenda for the visit is all too clear: to ...

“State Department and the White House Seek to Justify Their Assessment of the Khartoum Regime,” April 24, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 3639 words

In a series of statements and reports, all now available on the US State Department website [http://www.state.gov/p/af/ci/su/c9101.htm], the State Department and the White House seek to justify the April 21, 2003 Presidential ...

“President Determines that Khartoum is ‘Engaged in Good Faith Peace Negotiations, ‘ Not ‘Unreasonably Interfering with Humanitarian Efforts,'” April 22, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1888 words

Relying on a newly prepared report by the US State Department, President Bush yesterday certified in writing to various Congressional committees that Khartoum's National Islamic Front regime is in compliance with conditions ...

“Latest Round of Machakos Peace Talks Breaks off with No Progress,” April 17, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 977 words

For the second time in a month, the Machakos (Kenya) peace talks for Sudan have broken off with no progress on the key issues being negotiated. On March 19, 2003 the talks were suspended when no agreement could be reached on ...

“Khartoum’s Human Rights Record Rehabilitated: The Travesty in Geneva,” April 16, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1973 words

Fatally handicapped by a lack of diplomatic groundwork and effective leadership from the US State Department's Africa Bureau, Resolution L. 35 was today defeated in Geneva. This resolution at the annual meeting of the UN's ...

“Growing Chorus of Voices Demanding Continued Scrutiny of Sudan’s Human Rights Performance,” April 9, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1275 words

The Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC), in a letter today to South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, has urged that the UN Commission on Human Rights presently meeting in Geneva continue ...

“Full Confirmation that Khartoum Has Prevented the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team from Conducting Operations Throughout Sudan,” April 7, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1153 words

The UN's Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) reports today that the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) has been grounded by Khartoum for the past month: "The Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT), ...

“Khartoum Continues to Deny Flight Access to the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team,” April 4, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 1189 words

For over three weeks the Khartoum regime has denied flight access to the US-led Civilian Protection Monitoring Team based in Khartoum; the regime has also denied flight access to the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) ...

“Khartoum Obstructs Operations of US-led Civilian Protection Monitoring Team in Sudan, Clearly Violating the Terms of Deployment,” April 1, 2003

15 December 2004 | Early Analyses and Advocacy | Author: ereeves | 931 words

For two weeks now, the Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT) based in Rumbek, South Sudan, has been prevented from carrying out its important work. Khartoum has denied flight access to the CPMT despite the regime's ...