African Arguments
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Making Patronage Work
Alex de Waal’s Christian Michelsen lecture, ‘Fixing the Political Marketplace,’ given last month in Bergen, Norway, is now available online at this link. His ... -
The Next Sudanese Peace?
These days’ mood in Khartoum is a mixture of disillusionment, suspicion and fear: not the best feelings for a country which finds itself at ... -
Violent Incidents in Darfur: October
According to the reports received by UNAMID, there were 67 deaths directly attributable to violence in Darfur during October. This figure is subject to ... -
South Sudan Should Make Freedom of Expression a Priority
The Government of South Sudan (GOSS) has announced that it intends to establish a news agency that will cover areas of the south starved ... -
The Arab and Western Media Responses to Darfur
It is frequently heard that Arabs/Muslims and their media were silent, unmoved or without opinion over Darfur. These suppositions tend to contain a measure ... -
Thoughts on the Future of Sudan, From the Past
Thoughts on the future of Sudan from an unlikely source: Winston Churchill in his book ‘The River War‘. “It might seem at first a ... -
Reading the Responses to the AUPD Report
Most political figures and commentators, Sudanese and international, made up their minds about the AU Panel on Darfur report before they had seen the ... -
Of Lions and Mice in Darfur
The most recent effort to grapple with the far-reaching international response to the Darfur conflict comes from Steven Fake and Kevin Funk in “The ... -
Voices from the Blue Nile
War and Survival in Sudan’s Frontierlands: Voices from the Blue Nile, by Wendy James, is now available in paperback. We reprint the review from ... -
Is Darfur the First Thuraya War?
The advent of the Thuraya phone has radically changed warfare in across the Sahara desert, as illustrated in the case of Darfur. Twenty five ...