Author: Julie Flint
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Darfur: Going Nowhere in Doha
Djibrill Bassolé, chief mediator at the Doha peace talks, had a plan: a ceasefire between the hard men, which meant focusing initially on JEM among the ... -
Darfur: The War for Jebel Marra
Hundreds of civilians are feared killed in Jebel Marra, and tens of thousands thought to be displaced without relief within the mountain, as government forces besiege ... -
Doha: A New Beginning or Another False Hope?
The celebrations in Doha on Tuesday masked an agreement that has more questions than answers. One of these, if the so-called “Framework Agreement to resolve the ... -
The Abu Garda Case and the OTP
The decision of the ICC’s Pre-Trial Chamber to dismiss all charges against Bahr Abu Garda, formerly of the Justice and Equality Movement, in connection with the ... -
The intra-SLA Strife
The difficulties facing the Doha peace talks””highlighted in my report for the Small Arms Survey: Rhetoric and Reality. The Failure to Resolve the Darfur Conflict“”have been ... -
Civil Society and Doha: Where Next?
It is disappointing how little attention there has been, including on this blog, to the civil society conference in Doha in mid-November, the first such meeting ... -
Reports of Oil in Darfur are Exaggerated
Claims that the war in Darfur is intimately linked to vast untapped oil reserves have been made ever since the conflict began and are revived in ... -
Remembering Sherif Ishaq
Sherif Idriss Izhaq, the political officer of the SLA in Ain Siro, has been murdered. The motive of his killing, shortly after the first visit to ... -
Including Darfur’s Arabs in the Peace Process
The Sudan government and the Justice and Equality Movement are meeting in Doha, and the US envoy for Sudan, Scott Gration, is doing the rounds of ... -
Sudan: Double Standards?
Abd al-Wahab Abdalla (25 March) says “The worst massacre of the last 12 months was by JEM! It killed 128 Meidob over 2 days.” There have ...