Monthly Archives: January 2010
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South Sudan Referendum: Twelve Months to Go
In less than 12 months’ time, Southern Sudan’s voters will pass judgement on Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which set out to make attractive the unity ... -
Sudanese Elections: A Real Electoral Contest
Sudan’s election is for real. The SPLM candidate, Yasir Arman, has set his sights on the Republican Palace. Sadiq al Mahdi has now also put forward ... -
A Controversial Chatham House Report on Sudan
Dr. Edward Thomas’s report for The Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), Decisions and Deadlines: A Critical Year for Sudan contains some very insightful remarks ... -
Darfur: New Estimates for Mortality
A survey of surveys of Darfur mortality since 2003 in the latest issue of The Lancet, by the reputable analysts Olivier Degomme and Debarati Guha-Sapir, provides ... -
Can Darfur Claim the Right of Self Determination?
There is a small but growing minority view among Darfurians, that their region is entitled to self-determination with the option of independence. This issue will be ... -
Human Security Report: A Major Blow to Humanitarian Accountability
I was sorry to see the Human Security Report (HSR) released today. I was sorry because this report draws unjustified conclusions and will leave the world ... -
Are Wars Becoming Less Lethal? The 2009 Human Security Report
The Human Security Report has become well-known for its argument, backed up by careful statistical analysis, that wars are becoming less common since the early 1990s, ... -
Sudan: The End of Trust
Once upon a time, ordinary Sudanese citizens followed a set of social mores that we all understood. Everyone’s door was open – it had to be ... -
Why Chad Isn’t Darfur
Jérí´me Tubiana has published an article under this name in a recent issue of the London Review of Books. It provides a rare, ethnographic, field-based account ... -
Being a Kenyan
The Harmonised Draft Constitution's provisions on citizenship go a long way to resolving the problems of belonging to and identification with Kenya that pertain today. Through ...