African Arguments
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Humanitarian Dilemmas in Darfur
With 13,000 humanitarian workers and a hundred relief agencies, Darfur hosts the largest humanitarian operation in the world. The aid apparatus started to be ... -
Darfur’s Crime Scenes
In the debate over the ICC, and the indictments the Chief Prosecutor has promised for this month, my concerns are primarily factual: the depiction ... -
Sudan: Buying Time
The political geometry of Sudan defies resolution. No sooner had a framework been agreed for the provisional settlement of the North-South conflict in 2002 ... -
Justice Off Course
Julie Flint and I have an Oped in today’s Washington Post. Is the International Criminal Court losing its way in Darfur? We fear it ... -
What if Ocampo Indicts Bashir? 8
The ICC’s Chief Prosecutor would surely agree that the mediators of peace agreements need to be attentive to the requirements of justice. However, in ... -
On Writing Sudan (And Getting It Wrong)
Last Sunday the Washington Post ran a column by me in the section This Writing Life. It begins: Some years ago in a rebel-held ... -
Post Islamism? Questioning the Question (Part 2)
The term “Islamism” has two common uses in the study of contemporary Sudan, what I will call “the descriptive” and “the analytical.” Descriptively speaking, ... -
Might Khartoum Hand Over Haroun?
Wednesday’s report in the Sudan Tribune re-ignited the debate over whether the Sudan Government might hand over the two men wanted by the ICC ... -
Post Islamism? Questioning the Question (Part 1)
Abdullahi Gallab recalled in his posting of June 18 that the term “post-Islamism” was coined by the sociologist Asef Bayat. Bayat used the term ... -
What Happened to Justice in the Darfur Peace Agreement?
If peace and justice in Sudan are on a collision course, one reason why is the way in which the Darfur peace talks and ...