As Khartoum holds its collective breath for the warrant for the President’s arrest we all know is coming on Wednesday (the ICC said as much with its Kafka-esque announcement this week that it will make an announcement next week), it

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In 1958, eminent Africanist scholars including David Apter, Elliot Berg, Rupert Emerson, Ruth Schachter and Emmanuel Wallerstein, among others, wrote “A New American Policy Toward Africa”. The document became the blueprint of the Kennedy Administration’s policy for an Africa then

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There has been much controversy over the numbers of people killed in Darfur. It is increasingly possible to move beyond extrapolation to an actual count of incidents and fatalities. Earlier this week, the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) published its analysis

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In November 2006, Jendayi Frazer, then Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, prided herself of “no longer traveling to Africa via Europe”, adding: “We don’t need that any more. We deal with the continent directly, our own way”. She

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Hagan’s and Rymond-Richmond’s Darfur and the Crime of Genocide contains shattering statements from direct witnesses and victims of the Darfur conflict. In addition, it provides interesting criminological perspectives on the crime of genocide. Yet where it tries to link the

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After the Sudan Government and JEM signed a ‘Declaration of Intent’ in Doha earlier this week, hopes have been raised that a ceasefire might be in prospect. We should be cautious. Since September 2003 there has been a succession of

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Darfur and the Crime of Genocide by John Hagan and Wenona Rymond-Richmond is a path-breaking book. The paths it breaks lead us into new terrain, and toward new thickets to be opened up by future work. Here are some thoughts

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The last ten years has been a remarkable experiment in using official development assistance (ODA) as a motor for development in Africa (and other developing countries too). It has been a bonanza for the aid industry and especially the favoured

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Barely a week goes by without a welter of intellectual indulgence (or think of a word that rhymes with vibration) from some more Johnny-Come-Lately American academic ‘experts’ about Sudan. I live here in El Fasher, North Darfur have traveled the

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Last Thursday night, we lost an outspoken and cherished activist, analyst, and friend, and a “most valuable player” of the Great Lakes family of analysts. Alison’s colleagues and friends in Africa, the United States, and in Europe cannot shake the

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