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September 7, 2005
Spotlight on Darfur Monthly Post
The Spotlight on Darfur contains reports and views on the Darfur genocide crisis from a diverse group of bloggers.... check it out here....August 29, 2005
Spotlight on Darfur Announcement - a call to bloggers
Via prolifeblogs: Spotlight on Darfur 1 will be hosted at Allthings2all on 1 September. It will feature posts on the current Darfur situation by bloggers from around the world. If you are a blogger and would like to send in a post for inclusion in the Spotlight on Darfur see...August 15, 2005
Was Sudan Leader John Garang's Death an Accident?
After three weeks as Sudan's First Vice-President, John Garang was killed in a helicopter crash in southern Sudan on his way back from Uganda. After a barrage of misinformation, initial reports blamed the weather or mechanical failure for the incident. For those who are unaware, Garang has been instrumental in...August 1, 2005
Southern Sudan's Garang Killed
Ingrid from Sudan Watch has been following the news related to John Garang, head of the SPLM and Sudan’s First Vice-President. Yesterday, a BBC news report said John Garang was on his way back to Sudan from Uganda when his plane or helicopter went missing for several hours. Later on...July 13, 2005
A Prayer for the Dying in Darfur
As Mark Leon Goldberg of the American Prospect reported back in April, the Bush administration was leaning heavily on congressional leaders and managed to stall, and probably killed, the Darfur Accountability Act. As Goldberg explained, the bill [E]stablishes targeted U.S. sanctions against the Sudanese regime, accelerates assistance to expand the...June 29, 2005
Darfur - Conflicting Priorities of the International Community
For more than two years, the international community has done little to stop the violence in Darfur or provide security to the millions of displaced victims. And the closer one follows the world's response to this crisis, the clearer the conflicting priorities of the major actors (the US, the AU,...June 15, 2005
The Future of Darfur, Sudan - Update
There can be no doubt that, relatively speaking, the crisis in Darfur has generated a fair amount of attention. Journalists, human rights experts and bloggers have poured a lot of energy into raising awareness of the genocide and the 400,000 lives it has taken. Unfortunately, this focus on Darfur only...June 8, 2005
The Slow Reaction to Genocide in Darfur, Sudan
The big news regarding Darfur this week is that the International Criminal Court has formally announced that it is conducting an investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity in the region....June 1, 2005
Darfur, Sudan: Improvement is in the Eye of the Beholder
Jan Pronk, U.N. envoy to Sudan, recently said that Secretary-General Kofi Annan was greatly impressed by improvement of the situation in Darfur. In Pronk's words "Mr. Annan was really impressed by the improved situation in Darfur, which he visited on Saturday," Pronk told a press conference in Khartoum. [snip] "Foreign...May 24, 2005
After Supporting Genocide in Darfur, China Pledges Peace Keeping Troops for Sudan
During his recent visit to China, Sudanese Foreign Minister Mustafa Othman Ismail emphasized Sudan’s interest in economic co-operation with the country and obtained China’s agreement to expand into more areas and raise its level of financing. In addition, Ismail said China has promised to join the United Nations peace-keeping force...May 23, 2005
Delays and Complications in Darfur, Sudan
The genocide in Darfur began more than two years ago. Since then, more than 400,000 people have died and the international community has yet to take any concrete action toward stopping the violence or helping the nearly 2 million displaced return to their destroyed villages and resume semi-normal lives. And...May 16, 2005
Genocide in Sudan - The Darfur Collection
The people of Sudan have suffered considerably in plain view of the international community. Save Darfur reports that 400,000 people have died in Dafur following the inception of the conflict two years ago. According to the Washington-based Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), 140,000 people have been killed by Sudanese government...April 27, 2005
Eric Reeves - Fighting for the people of Dafur, Sudan
On February 24, 2004, an op-ed entitled "The Unnoticed Genocide" appeared in the pages of the Washington Post warning that without humanitarian intervention in Darfur "tens of thousands of civilians [would] die in the weeks and months ahead in what will be continuing genocidal destruction."...April 26, 2005
Who Funds the Genocide in Dafur, Sudan?
Not surprising, China is now the largest foreign investor in Sudan, and, when the United Nations' Security Council passed Resolution 1564, threatening Sudan with oil sanctions unless it curbed the violence in Darfur, China rendered the resolution meaningless by pledging to veto any bid to impose an embargo. Why? Sudan's...April 21, 2005
Darfur Deaths Near 400,000 - Experts Estimate 500 people Die each day
The latest update I received from Save Dafur reports that 400,000 people have died in Dafur following the inception of the conflict two years ago. According to the Washington-based Coalition for International Justice (CIJ), 140,000 people have been killed by Sudanese government forces and their proxy militia and 250,000 Darfur...April 13, 2005
Lacking the Political Will to Save Dafur
In the last few days, international donors have pledged $4.5 billion in reconstruction aid to Sudan as part of the north/south peace process. And though much if this aid is nominally contingent on Khartoum's ability and willingness to end the violence in Darfur, it remains to be seen if the...March 30, 2005
Never Again: Again and Again
In her 2001 article Bystanders to Genocide, Pulitzer Prize winning author Samantha Power recounts how President Clinton was shocked and outraged by an article written by Philip Gourevitch recounting the horrors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, prompting him to send the article to his national security advisor Sandy Berger...March 24, 2005
The People in Dafur Matter - Does the U.S. Care
From the Opinion Journal [HT: Antioch Road] As we sat in a refugee camp in Chad listening to Fatima describe how most of her family was killed by Sudanese government-sponsored Janjaweed militias, we found it incomprehensible that the world could not muster the political will necessary to protect her surviving...March 15, 2005
Update on Dafur, Sudan
"Building on eleven previous assessments of global mortality in Darfur, this analysis finds that approximately 380,000 human beings have died as a result of the conflict that erupted in February 2003, and that the current conflict-related mortality rate in the larger humanitarian theater is approximately 15,000 deaths per month. This...January 31, 2005
U.N. report says Darfur violence is not genocide
Another reason the U.N.'s problems are systemic: A U.N. commission on Sudan has concluded that systematic, government-backed violence in the western region of Darfur was not genocide, but that there was evidence of crimes against humanity with an ethnic dimension. Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Darfur...January 27, 2005
Sudan Continues to Violate Darfur Cease-Fire
Sudan violated its cease-fire agreement with Darfur rebels by bombing a North Darfur state village, sources in Khartoum's aid community said on Thursday. - moreOn the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp today, there is the terrible sense that the lessons of the Holocaust are slipping...January 26, 2005
Kofi Annan's statement on Darfur, Sudan at the UN remembrance of the Holocaust
Sudan: the Passion of the Present provides an editorial by Eric Reeves regarding the recent statements UN Secretary General Kofi Annan made regarding Sudan. As you read the first several paragraphs below recall the Russia and China have rejected sanctions against Sudan....January 13, 2005
Peace in the South Bad for Dafur?
With peace in the South, Sudan government forces can be re-directed . . . At the weekend, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the government had started a massive build-up of forces and logistics in Darfur and said they were still using the Janjaweed Arab militia in their operations rather than...January 10, 2005
Bush urges Sudan, rebels to implement peace pact in good faith
"I call on the Government of Sudan and on all Darfur rebel groups to live up to their ceasefire commitments, to end atrocities, and to allow the free movement of humanitarian workers and supplies," President George W. Bush....Sudan Peace Must End Darfur Genocide Today: Powell
US Secretary of State Colin Powell used the signing of the Sudan peace accord to demand an immediate end to the genocide and atrocities in Dafur - more. "These new ’partners for peace’ must work together immediately to end the violence and the atrocities that continue to occur in Darfur,"...January 9, 2005
Sudan Peace Accord Signed by GOS and SPLM
Associated Press - Sudan's vice president and the country's main rebel leader signed a comprehensive peace agreement to end Africa's longest-running conflict Sunday, concluding an eight-year process to stop a civil war in the south that has cost more than 2 million lives since 1983. Incredible news! After 21 years...January 8, 2005
Sudan Peace Deal Ceremony Opens in Nairobi
Kenya - A ceremony to mark the signing of a peace deal between the Sudanese government and southern rebels opened amid high hopes for a final end to Africa's longest-running conflict. The pact, which formally ends 21 years of war, was to be signed by Sudan's Vice President Ali Osman...January 5, 2005
Lasting Peace in Sudan Requires Accountability
The imminent peace accord between the Islamic Government of Sudan and the SPLM lacks several fundamental components. Notably, accountability for the atrocities committed against civilians in the South, including slavery, is not part of the deal [more from Passion of the Present]. Further, the composition of the GOS government will...Dafur Human Rights Violations Continue to be Ignored
News obsession with the catastrophic Indian Ocean tsunami, and the easy headlining of an impending peace-signing ceremony in Nairobi between Khartoum and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A), have led to significantly diminished attention to the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. This is so despite the vast, genocidal nature of human...January 4, 2005
Final Sudan Peace Agreement to be Signed
This Sunday the Islamic government of Sudan will sign a final peace agreement with the Christian and animist Southern Peoples Liberation Movement/Army ending 21 years of war. Since war began in 1983, more than 2 million people have died, approximately 628,000 Sudanese have sought refuge in neighboring countries, and more...January 3, 2005
Obstacles Remain for Sudan's New Hopes of Peace
During the next week the Islamic Government of Sudan and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement are expected to sign an agreement that many hope will raise a new era of peace out of a history marked with conflict and fighting....January 2, 2005
Will Sudan Keep its Agreement with the SPLM - Part 2?
While the SPLM is well aware of the treachery of the North, the SLM warns that "the war will take new forms." The concern being that what Khartoum could not accomplish by terrorizing the citizens of the South it may be able to achieve at the bargaining table via a political slight of hand - a new form of war.
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