Yearly Archives: 2009
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Alex de Waal, “Brave Thinker”
For more than 150 years, the Atlantic has told the stories of people who commit acts of moral and intellectual bravery by espousing unpopular or controversial ... -
U.S. and Sudan: On the Virtue of Clarity
The U.S. Sudan strategy is now published. After seven months of often public acrimony, the Administration has adopted its policy. One of the major benefits of ... -
Sudan: Avoiding Political Violence Through 2011?
Sudan’s upcoming seminal events – the 2010 elections and 2011 referendum – will alter the course of Sudanese history. How they happen, if they don’t happen, ... -
Africa Needs a Regional Treaty to End Civicide
There are two ways to kill in human community: you can kill a human being or you can kill the citizen. The first is biological; the ... -
Sudan 2012
The future of Sudan is uncertain. At present the international community, governments, international organisations and civil society groups are primarily focused on stimulating implementation of the ... -
Sudanese scenarios for 2011 and After: Introduction
Sudan faces two momentous events in the next fifteen months. The first is the general election, intended as the first multi-party nationwide elections in the nation’s ... -
Why All The “Howling” About Sudan’s Debt?
Mr. Badawi in his recent post “Indebted to the Save Darfur Coalition?“ plays loose with the numbers and the definition of Sudan’s “odious” debt. In addition, ... -
Politics of Aid in Darfur: The NGO Expulsions Seven Months On
When the 13 aid agencies were expelled from Darfur, about seven months ago, voices were raised about the possible humanitarian implications of this on the people ... -
Indebted to the Save Darfur Coalition?
Is the devil making work for idle hands now that the two key publicity drivers for the “˜Darfur cause’ – food in the internally displaced camps ... -
Lethal Violence in Darfur: September
The UNAMID monitoring data for violent fatalities in Darfur recorded a sharp increase in September. The usual caveats apply to the figures: they are based upon ...