This is a transcript of the remarks by the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, at the UN High-Level Meeting on 24 September: I would like to thank the Secretary General for organizing this special meeting. I will be very brief

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Yesterday’s High-Level Meeting on Sudan was notable for the common messages conveyed by the speakers. The UN webcast is available on this link. This blog will carry some of the speeches, beginning with the statement presented by the AU Chairperson

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The Small Arms Survey’s Sudan Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) has launched a new ‘Sudan Facts and Figures’ web resource that synthesizes and presents more than four years of field-based research and analysis on armed groups, arms flows, and arms

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STATEMENT OF THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE AUHIP, THABO MBEKI, AT THE LAUNCH OF THE SUDAN POST-REFERENDUM NEGOTIATIONS: KHARTOUM, JULY 10, 2010. Your Excellencies, Members of the Negotiating Teams, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: On behalf of the African Union Panel

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PRESENTATION BY PRESIDENT THABO MBEKI, CHAIRPERSON OF THE AU HIGH LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION PANEL FOR SUDAN TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL: UNHQ, NEW YORK: JUNE 14, 2010. Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council: We would like to thank you

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The speech by former South African President Thabo Mbeki at the Al Jazeera Forum in Doha, Qatar, is published on the African Arguments website. It is a meticulous account of the steps taken by the ANC in deciding why, how

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Since 2008, representatives of all political forces in Darfur, including representatives of civil society, have engaged in a dialogue addressing the root causes of the Darfur conflicts. The dialogue was organized by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law

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The National Election Commission preliminary results, from its website, have been updated this week. They are available here: NEC results updated 20 May 2010

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The Human Security Report has published its response to the critique (especially by Les Roberts on this blog) of its “Shrinking Costs of War” report, which is available here: www.humansecurityreport.info. In the ‘Overview’ of the debate the HSR focuses on

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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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