African Arguments
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Food Rations in Darfur: Humanitarian Needs and Political Entitlements
Another excellent and invaluable report from the Feinstein Center at Tufts University. The somewhat dry title, Targeting in Complex Emergencies: Darfur Case Study does ... -
The AU Panel Hears Controversies Over Land
The AU Panel hearings witnessed some heated exchanges on the land issue including divergent interpretations of the traditional hakura system. One of these was ... -
Darfur and the Elections Dilemma
One of the most encouraging outcomes from the last few weeks of consultations and hearings in Darfur and Khartoum, conducted by the African Union ... -
Does “Save Darfur” Feed Darfur?
The Save Darfur Coalition is five years old this month. A couple of weeks ago it put out this announcement on Facebook: “June is ... -
The AU Panel and Civil Society: “There Is Nothing to Do But To Sit Around The Table.”
Across Darfur and in Khartoum over the last month, well over 2,000 leaders and representatives have interacted with the African Union Panel headed by ... -
Sudan: Measuring the Drowned and the Saved
The conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, along with the ongoing conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Somalia, represents one ... -
“˜Genocide Industry’ has Hidden Agenda
“˜Attempts at equalising historical wrongs are often aimed at Holocaust obfuscation’ Lessons for Darfur from an unfortunately not-enough-known Nazi versus Stalinist crimes debate in ... -
A Visit to Kober Prison
Any human rights activist who has worked on Sudan is familiar with the name Kober prison, the century-old British building which was “˜Cooper Prison’ ... -
On UNAMID’s Assessment of Mortality in Darfur
Just how credible are UNAMID monthly mortality figures? The unhappy truth is that UNAMID is weak, ineffectual, widely despised by Darfuris, and has a ... -
Lethal Violence in Darfur: May
I have continued to monitor closely the incidents involving fatalities in Darfur. The UNAMID monitoring reports are thorough. Cross-checking with other sources bears out ...