Monthly Archives: December 2009
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Sudan: Only a Free and Fair Referendum, Not Coercion, can Guarantee a Genuinely United country
The right of people of South Sudan to decide their political future through an internationally monitored referendum, which many Southerners consider to be the cornerstone of ... -
Why Would the Proponents of a New Sudan Promote Electoral Apartheid?
The Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM) yet again delivered on its thousand and one vows to boycott sessions of the National Legislature last week. The reason ... -
Why the U.S. is Losing Influence in Sudan
Why does the U.S. have so little influence over political outcomes in Sudan? Earlier this month, I made a presentation at the Council on Foreign Relations ... -
The AUPD and the UNSC
Documents from the UN Security Council discussion of the AU High Level Panel on Darfur are available here: The speech of President Thabo Mbeki: Speech of ... -
Sudan’s Census and the National Assembly Elections
When Sudan’s fifth population census was recently completed, many Sudanese citizens rejected the results, arguing that the population of Southern Sudan was significantly higher than the ... -
Counter-terrorism in Somalia, or: how external interferences helped to produce militant Islamism
Article by: Markus Virgil Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Note: For more detailed analysis, download the full version of this essay on the Crisis ... -
Arms in Sudan
A new publication by the Small Arms Survey, “Supply and Demand: Arms flows and holdings in Sudan,” provides the most up-to-date assessments of the military capacities ... -
Who are the Sudanese?
Sudanese cannot agree on their common identity, but up to now they have not disagreed on who counts as a Sudanese. The first disagreement may yet ... -
Citizenship and land: a potent relationship
Recent research in Burundi on the repatriation of refugees has highlighted the strong link between land and citizenship. The research tracked the experience of refugees returning ... -
Darfur: “The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”
The media profile of Darfur shot up enormously once the label “˜the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ was applied, although technically the phrase used was the “world’s ...