African Arguments
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The AUPD and the UNSC
Documents from the UN Security Council discussion of the AU High Level Panel on Darfur are available here: The speech of President Thabo Mbeki: ... -
Sudan’s Census and the National Assembly Elections
When Sudan’s fifth population census was recently completed, many Sudanese citizens rejected the results, arguing that the population of Southern Sudan was significantly higher ... -
Counter-terrorism in Somalia, or: how external interferences helped to produce militant Islamism
Article by: Markus Virgil Hoehne, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Note: For more detailed analysis, download the full version of this essay on ... -
Arms in Sudan
A new publication by the Small Arms Survey, “Supply and Demand: Arms flows and holdings in Sudan,” provides the most up-to-date assessments of the ... -
Who are the Sudanese?
Sudanese cannot agree on their common identity, but up to now they have not disagreed on who counts as a Sudanese. The first disagreement ... -
Citizenship and land: a potent relationship
Recent research in Burundi on the repatriation of refugees has highlighted the strong link between land and citizenship. The research tracked the experience of ... -
Darfur: “The World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis”
The media profile of Darfur shot up enormously once the label “˜the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’ was applied, although technically the phrase used was ... -
“Congo Gold”: Three Problems with the 60 Minutes Story
On 29 November 2009, the U.S. television news show 60 Minutes aired a segment called “Congo Gold”. This segment purported to expose the link ... -
When Saviors Become Victims: Trends in Attacks Against Aid Workers and Peacekeepers
Here’s a paradox: declining levels of worldwide conflict and increasing violence against aid workers. The Human Security Report has documented a worldwide decline in ... -
Sudan’s Fighting Forces: A Study in Numbers
This article emerges from an assignment which the author completed for Dr. Jo L. Husbands-Rosenberg at Georgetown University in Spring 2009. Using only open-source ...