A narrative in the U.S. media seems to be coming into focus. A narrative which I believe is intended to justify an “American Intervention” into the oil rich Southern Sudan in not too many years distant. The U.S. unflinchingly urged

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According to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), and its Three Areas Protocol, which covers South Kordofan, Blue Nile and Abyei, ‘Popular Consultations’ in the first two and a referendum in the third, are supposed to be conducted in the last

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Nobody will ever know who really won this election! The counting of votes has been so chaotic that it is simply impossible to find out the true number of votes cast for each candidate. Every single check and balance that

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A new report from the Heinrich Boll Foundation, Sudan: No Easy Ways Ahead, contains essays by leading Sudanese scholars and analysts of Sudan. Towards the end of the six-year interim period defined in the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Sudan is

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Rigging, fraud and corruption, there were. Voters excluded from the poll, last-minute registration and a roundup of voters with hastily-issued residence certificates which may or may not have matched the names on the voters’ roll, all will surely be documented

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There is one very important issue which has not been raised by anyone, as I have listened to all reports from the election observers , until now , that is the buying and selling of votes and loyalty. According to

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The Comprehensive Peace Agreement represents an important development in the recent history of Sudan. It ended the long-running civil war, laid the foundations for the Interim Constitution, and opened the doors for political participation by instilling the ideal of peaceful

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As the ICC Review Conference nears, it is time to consider how best to create a form of international criminal justice that is culturally and socially appropriate in non-Western settings. Continue reading →

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Without doubt, the statistics of Sudan’s elections will be pored over and debated at length, and the interpretation of every figure will be open to dispute. But there seems to be one consistent feature across the country. Women were the

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The last two days I have been in Khartoum, on the phone and email to people in all corners of Sudan. Places like Bor, Renk, Damazin, Aweil, Geneina, ed Da’ien, Hamush Koreb, Kadugli. Names seared into the memory. Places where

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