Monthly Archives: August 2009
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AIDS and Peacekeepers: Reason for Good Policy, Not Fear
In the early days of AMIS deployment, the Sudan government raised fears that peacekeepers from sub-Saharan Africa would be bringing HIV/AIDS into Darfur, and talked about ... -
Scramble for Africa: Darfur Intervention and the USA – A Book that Needs to be Read -and Debated-
Two things are immediately noticeable about Kevin Funk’s and Steven Fake’s Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. The first is the long list of excerpts ... -
Reports of Oil in Darfur are Exaggerated
Claims that the war in Darfur is intimately linked to vast untapped oil reserves have been made ever since the conflict began and are revived in ... -
Is Darfur a Low-Intensity Conflict?
What is a “˜low-intensity conflict’? It is still a conflict. Even though lethal violence is low, the other other dimensions to the conflict may continue with ... -
The UN in Sudan: A Mission that Hates Success
Reporting to the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Darfur last April, the U.N.-African Union Joint Special Representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, revealed to members ... -
International Justice Debate at “African Arguments”
At ‘African Arguments’ there is a vigorous debate on international justice ongoing. The spark for the debate was a series of postings on justice and accountability ... -
Saving international justice in Africa
At the conclusion of its Summit in Sirte, Libya, on July 1, 2009, the Assembly of Heads of State and Governments of the African Union (AU) ... -
The U.S. Administration in Africa: Altruism or Oil?
It seems the White House and the Obama administration has made the African continent the focus of their P.R. campaign this summer. Secretary of State Hillary ... -
Special Tribunal Enactment: Why Cabinet, MPs, are Misleading Kenyans
Kenyans are very suspicious of the rare unity between the Cabinet and the Parliament as they jointly dismiss calls for the prosecution of the perpetrators of ... -
Kenyan Incremental Judicial Reforms
Judges deal in fear, pain and death. However exercised, judicial power has a tremendous impact on the socio-economic, political and cultural systems of a nation. Kenyan ...