African Arguments
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Violent Deaths in Darfur: July
According to the incidents reported by the different branches of UNAMID, forty people were killed by violence during the month of July. There are ... -
Call to Lift US Sanctions from Sudan Deserves Praise not Derision
The US government and the American people sincerely want to do the right thing by Sudan. Help turn it into a democratic, stable, equitable, ... -
Uganda: How Not To Disarm
Everyone supports “uniform, complete, and balanced across all tribal and ethnic groups.” People are unanimous that they “want peace and they see disarmament as ... -
Celebrity Activists: A Poor Imitation of UNICEF
The celebrity factor in humanitarian politics is historically a recent phenomenon. The role of celebrities was pioneered by UNICEF in the person of James ... -
Challenges facing Kenya: decreeing and establishing a constitutional order
There is a renewed interest in a new constitutional order in Kenya. A bad constitution is blamed for the post-election crisis, allowing the president ... -
AIDS and Peacekeepers: Reason for Good Policy, Not Fear
In the early days of AMIS deployment, the Sudan government raised fears that peacekeepers from sub-Saharan Africa would be bringing HIV/AIDS into Darfur, and ... -
Scramble for Africa: Darfur Intervention and the USA – A Book that Needs to be Read -and Debated-
Two things are immediately noticeable about Kevin Funk’s and Steven Fake’s Scramble for Africa: Darfur-Intervention and the USA. The first is the long list ... -
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 ... -
Is Darfur a Low-Intensity Conflict?
What is a “˜low-intensity conflict’? It is still a conflict. Even though lethal violence is low, the other other dimensions to the conflict may ... -
The UN in Sudan: A Mission that Hates Success
Reporting to the U.N. Security Council on the situation in Darfur last April, the U.N.-African Union Joint Special Representative to Darfur, Rodolphe Adada, revealed ...