Author: Alex de Waal
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Making Sense of Darfur’s Arabs
Darfur's Arabs are back in the spotlight—as victims, as Janjawiid, and as rebels. The relationship between the Sudan government and the Darfur Arabs has never been ... -
Land in the DPA: A False Agreement?
Here’s a paradox: the Sudan government and the armed movements–both SLAs and JEM–reached agreement on the land clauses in the Darfur Peace Agreement in the weeks ... -
Land, Power and Peace in Sudan
The question of land ownership lies at the heart of Sudan’s wars and the viability of its peace agreements. The configuration of issues is different in ... -
China and Sudan: Defining the Turning Point
In her posting yesterday, Mia Farrow identifies the success of the "genocide Olympics" campaign—which she was instrumental in starting—as a "defining moment." She is right. For ... -
Africa’s Thirty Years’ War–In Need of a New Edition?
The current conflict in Chad and Darfur is a reprise of the "thirty years' war" that embroiled Chad, Libya and Darfur from the mid-1960s until the ... -
Making Sense of Chad
The war for Chad is not over. It is likely to become more bloody and involve a wider humanitarian disaster before any solutions can be grasped. ... -
Survival and Governance in Sudan’s Frontiers: A Review of Two Recent Books
Two new scholarly books help us understand how people in Sudan’s peripheries survive—or don’t—and place the frontierland governance in a deep historical context. One is Wendy ... -
Darfur Activism: The Debate Continues (Part 2)
"The issues you raise are serious and deserve a serious response. Your critique of my position is, to my mind, the most thoughtful and incisive that ... -
Human Rights and the African Union: Memory and Forgetting
In an act infused with symbolism, the African Union decided to create a memorial museum to the victims of genocide and grave human rights abuses at ... -
Prospects for Peace in Sudan: December 2007
Overview 1. The crisis in the CPA unfolded with a speed that was both unexpected and alarming. At the time of writing, the SPLM and NCP ...