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Genocide in the Nuba Mountains: A retrospective on what we knew, June 2011 – 2013

Eric Reeves

October 2013

Given the tepid international response to events throughout Sudan in recent weeks, we must wonder if what we have seen for two and a half years in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile is the face of Sudan’s political future.  Certainly the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime has shown no more restraint in violently putting down demonstrations than it has in trying to subdue the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLM/A-N). Some will scoff at the suggestion, as they did when atrocity crimes were first reported from South Kordofan with chilling authority in June 2011.  That same expedient skepticism is again on display in responding to current events throughout what is now Sudan.  Silence about the deepening catastrophe in Darfur, where the last vestiges of security have disappeared, is of a piece with this response: there is no meaningful discussion of the millions of lives at acute risk if humanitarian operations collapse, which they may well do given the intolerable level of insecurity. (read more)


'High numbers' killed, wounded in S.Sudan unrest: UN

AFP

21 October 2013

 Juba — Large numbers of civilians have been killed and wounded in attacks in South Sudan's troubled Jonglei state, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said Monday.

 Authorities in South Sudan have blamed fighters loyal to anti-government rebel leader David Yau Yau, and said 78 people were killed in Sunday's attacks on villages in Twic East county.

 "The attacks resulted in high numbers of killed and wounded," UNMISS said in a statement.

 "As soon as the fighting had stopped yesterday, the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) flew health partners to the attacked areas to evacuate casualties," it said, adding that 31 seriously wounded civilians were airlifted out. (read more)


On Alex de Waal's view of the uprising in Sudan: A brief critique

Eric Reeves

17 October 2013

 

Alex de Waal presumes to offer in the Sudan Tribune his view of how to "make sense of the protests in Khartoum" (http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article48459).   There is much that is useful in his account, but also much that is tendentious—especially in characterizing the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF), with its large and growing number of deeply disgruntled mid-level officers.  And there is also much that is fuzzy or wrong-headed, particularly in his account of the economic forces that have brought Sudan to the point of 50 percent inflation, an increasingly worthless currency, a lack of foreign exchange currency—which is creating severe problems for the economy, as well as more inflation—and continuing profligate military expenditures on weapons and a vast security apparatus.  De Waal mentions the once crucial agricultural sector only briefly in passing ("the agricultural sector [will be hit hard] as diesel prices rise"); and yet the virtual collapse of the agricultural sector is one of the most destructive legacies of the Khartoum regime's 24 years of economic mismanagement. (read more)


Bashing Bashir

Sudan’s president faces his worst protests so far

 

A CRACKDOWN by Sudan’s security forces on people protesting against the lifting of fuel subsidies has left dozens of people dead in the capital, Khartoum, and elsewhere in the country since September 23rd. President Omar al-Bashir’s government was prepared for demonstrations, as its recent austerity measures virtually doubled the price of petrol and cooking gas overnight. But it did not foresee that, in carrying out what human-rights groups have described as a “shoot to kill” policy, the security forces would cause a bigger headache than had the protests themselves. (read more)


Here Sharia law in Sudan: Sudanese women flogged in the street by police

 

A video being circulated by media outlets allegedly shows an Sudanese woman being flogged by a police officer, who is supposedly punishing her just for riding a car with man she was not related to.

A disturbing new YouTube video shows a Sudanese woman crying out in pain during a public flogging.

She was reportedly guilty of riding in a car with a man who wasn’t her husband or an immediate family member, an offense that is prohibited by Sudan’s public order law.

The woman, reportedly named Halima, crouches on the ground and tries to cover her head with a light pink cloth while a police officer walks around her with a whip, stopping to aim before lashing out at her body.

At about 0:39 seconds into the video, the police officer warns the woman, “This is so you don’t get into cars anymore,” according to France24. (read more)

Uprising in Sudan: What we know now

1 October 2013

By Eric Reeves

 

Events of the past three days may not have been as spectacular in size or scale of violence compared with what we witnessed last week through Friday prayers and into Saturday; however, the significance of what we have learned in this period warrants some consolidation.  I think it especially important to understand the specific implications of current developments within historical context, fortuitously provided in brief by distinguished historian Douglas Johnson in an interview with Voice of America.  Johnson says Sudan hasn't seen such protests since two previous governments were toppled in the 1960s and 1980s, and emphasized the fact that the protests have spread beyond Khartoum:       

 

"I don't know if [the demonstrations are] being coordinated, but that is an indication of a rising sea of discontent. What you've got to have in Sudan for this to be successful is, one, you have to have a public that has nothing left to fear—and I think we're beginning to see that—and, two, you've got to see a loss of morale in security services. I don't know if you've seen that yet, but those two combined are what brought down the two previous military governments in 1964 and 1985." (Voice of America [Nairobi], October 1, 2013) (read more)


The Cruelty and Barbarism of the Khartoum Regime Are on Full Display: New website provides vast quantities of photographic/visual recordings of events
Eric Reeves
29 September 2013

Here is an extraordinary, horrifying collection of photographs taken during the current uprising in Sudan; the photographs here are from Khartoum, Omdurman, and other nearby areas (http://www.sndfca.org/crimes). They are powerful and relentlessly compelling—and they are simply painful to view (the accompanying text is in Arabic). But these images are the truth as seen by those who are on the ground; yes, their organization of the material is necessarily a form of "editorializing"; but editorials, simply because they express a strong point of view, are not merely opinions. (read more)

Uprising in Sudan: What we know now

Eric Reeves

28 September 2013

 

(A continuation of the overview of September 26: http://www.sudanreeves.org/?p=4334)

 In the wake of large, ongoing demonstrations throughout Khartoum/Omdurman on Friday into Saturday (September 28), as well as in other parts of northern Sudan, a tipping point appears to have been reached: people are now more angry than afraid, and nothing could be more dangerous to a regime that has lived by creating fear through its brutal security services and army.  Al Arabiya reports that 5,000 people demonstrated in Khartoum on Friday (September 27), and the number continues to be in the thousands today.

 We may be sure that the National Islamic Front/National Congress party regime, headed by President and indicted génocidaire Omar al-Bashir, has watched carefully the course of uprisings in Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, and Syria.  It has learned a good deal, and we are seeing the results of this unfortunate "education" in dramatic fashion in Khartoum and elsewhere.  Though information is highly fragmentary, coming from many different sources of varying reliability, there is sufficient overlap and redundancy in accounts to make out the strategy of a regime trying to maintain its stranglehold on national wealth and power. (read more)


Sudan: State of Emergency Declared in East Darfur - Governor

By Radio Dabanga

25 August 2013


Ed Daein — The Governor of East Darfur state, Abdel Hamid Musa Kasha, has declared a State of Emergency in East Darfur, and extended the brief of the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the area.
In a statement on Saturday, Governor Kasha said that he has authorised regular SAF forces "to deter criminals and militiamen." (read more)

Civilian Destruction in Jonglei: Khartoum’s Role in Arming David Yau Yau’s Militia

By Eric Reeves
22 August 2013

There is a great deal of biased attention when it comes to international assessments of the ongoing ethnic strife in Jonglei.  UN reports from the ground, primarily from the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), suggest a recent diminishment of violence, and humanitarian access may be improving.  Both UNMISS and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) are performing more effectively, and a very recent UN assessment indicated that tensions between the SPLA and civilians was diminishing.  Certainly the situation is far from stabilized; ethnic tensions remain high, particularly between the Murle and the Lou Nuer; and it must be emphasized that the previous behavior of the SPLA has entailed very serious violations of human rights and a failure to distinguish between Murle civilians and those Murle who have joined David Yau Yau’s rebellion. (read more)

Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: Relief Efforts Perilously Close to Collapse, in Two Parts
Eric Reeves, August 15, 2013

Without an urgent investment of major political energy and commitment, the international community is soon likely to preside over a catastrophic contraction of humanitarian capacity and access in Darfur.  The world must put Khartoum on notice that there will be significant consequences if the regime does not permit unfettered humanitarian access and movement of relief supplies.  The regime must also face real pressure to provide meaningful security for increasingly threatened camp areas, an effort that will entail bringing various militia forces under military and police control.  Senior officials of the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party (NIF/NCP) must also face strong pressure to cease exacerbating ethnic tensions as part of an ongoing counter-insurgency campaign of unspeakable brutality.  These political efforts to pressure Khartoum must come from the UN Security Council and UN Secretariat, as well as from those countries—especially in Europe, Africa, and the Arab world—whose continuing economic and diplomatic support enables the regime to cling to power amidst an economy that is imploding. (read more)

Dear Esther,

Schedule an in-district meeting with your Representative in Congress today!
Today we are launching a three month campaign urging our elected officials to take action and pass the Sudan Peace, Security, and Accountability Act of 2013 through Congress.
 
Introduced in April 2013, the bill presents the best opportunity to generate policy that can bring about peace in Sudan through a comprehensive approach. We need to ensure its passage, but the bill is in danger of not gaining the bipartisan support it needs to move to a mark up in committee and pass through the House. (read more)
 

Humanitarian Conditions in Darfur: A Climate of Violence and Extreme Insecurity

By Eric Reeves

4 August 2013

By way of introduction to a forthcoming overview of humanitarian conditions in Darfur, I offer here a current account of the insecurity that has long badly compromised operations of both UN agencies and International Nongovernmental (Humanitarian) Organizations (INGOs).  Security conditions have been intolerable for many years now (see declaration to this effect by fourteen UN organizations in January 2007—Appendix 1); over the past year and more, however, violence has called into serious question the viability of any substantial ongoing relief efforts in the region.  Virtually no international (expatriate) staff remain in Darfur, certainly not in the field or in remote locations—either for critical assessment work or to provide oversight for aid distribution.  And as the recent killing of two workers for World Vision in their Nyala compound makes clear, there is no place of real safety in Darfur: Nyala is the largest city in Darfur, and yet was overrun by militia forces allied with the regime.  Police reportedly looked on without acting. Threats are everywhere as lawlessness and a deliberately chaotic violence are countenanced, even encouraged by Khartoum as yet another means of waging a savage war of attrition against the civilians of Darfur for their supposed assistance to rebel groups. (read more)


Mohamed Suleiman's letter to President Obama:

Dear Mr. President,

I am an American citizen since 1992, a member of the Zaghawa tribe and a native of Darfur. Over the past several years, I have been in daily contact with my countrymen in Darfur and in other parts of Sudan. I have heard witnesses’ accounts of many acts of genocide and other atrocities committed by agents and proxies of the government of Sudan against members of my family, my friends, residents of my village and countless others. (read more)

A Policy of Rape Continues

By Nicholas D. Kristof

24 July 2013

ABGADAM REFUGEE CAMP, Chad — Kaltouma Ahmed cried softly as she told why she fled Darfur this spring: Armed men in uniforms attacked her village, shooting her 13-year-old son dead, burning her home and then stripping and raping her.
As the men raped her, she said, they shouted insults against her ethnic group, the Salamat Arabs. “We’ll exterminate the Salamat men, and Salamat women will become slaves,” she quoted one of the attackers as saying. (read more)

Darfur in 2013 Sounds Awfully Familiar

By Nicholas D. Kristof

20 July 2013


ABGADAM REFUGEE CAMP, Chad — ASIYA TAHIR, 20, had her 4-month-old baby, Mariam, on her back in April when three armed men in Sudanese military uniforms seized her and her sister at a well in Darfur.The soldiers beat Asiya and then — according to both sisters who were interviewed separately — pulled Mariam off her back and laughingly checked to see if she was a boy or a girl. Grabbing Mariam by one arm, a soldier flung her into the distance. (read more)

Sudan’s President One Step Ahead of a Suit and a Warrant

By Marlise Simons

16 July 2013

PARIS — Sudan’s president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, made a brief appearance at an African Union summit meeting in Nigeria but vanished after human rights groups filed a lawsuit calling for his immediate detention on an international arrest warrant for charges of genocide.

Mr. Bashir had arrived in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, for a two-day meeting on health issues with other African heads of state and attended Sunday night’s opening reception. But delegates at the conference said that in the middle of an official lunch on Monday, he abruptly left the room. During the afternoon session, when Mr. Bashir was scheduled to speak, he could not be found. (read more)

The Killing of Seven UNAMID Peacekeeping Personnel in Darfur: a terrible tragedy, a clear warning

Eric Reeves

14 July 2013

On July 13 seven personnel from the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) were killed and seventeen wounded north of Nyala (South Darfur) in a brutal, sustained armed assault distinguished by heavy machine-gun fire, the use of rocket-propelled grenades (RPG), and the deployment of powerful anti-aircraft weaponry mounted carried or mounted on approximately ten vehicles. The attack was almost certainly carried out by militia proxies of the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum.  Despite promises, the likelihood that the regime will allow a thorough investigation is virtually non-existent, and prosecution even less likely.  Just ten days earlier (July 3, 2013) unidentified gunmen ambushed a UNAMID patrol near Labado (South Darfur), 50 kilometers to the east of Nyala.  Since January 1, 2008 there have been countless assaults on the UNAMID and more than 50 of its personnel have been violently killed, with many more seriously wounded.  And yet there has not been a single prosecution for any of the attacks on these "blue-hatted" peacekeepers that make up UNAMID.  In turn, the failure to push adequately for such prosecution by Khartoum only increases the sense of impunity throughout Darfur, and represents yet another failure of the international community in supporting UNAMID politically. (read more)

Sudan's Bashir arrives in Nigeria to anger of rights groups

By Reuters

14 July 2013

ABUJA (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for an African Union summit on HIV/AIDS as his hosts chose to ignore an International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant against him.

Bashir, accused of masterminding genocide and other atrocities during Sudan's Darfur conflict, which has left some 200,000 people dead, in theory risks arrest if he travels to one of the more than 120 states including Nigeria that have signed up to the ICC. (read more)

Wolf Criticizes Obama's Abdication Of Leadership In Sudan

Jill Shatzen, Contact: (202) 225-5136

11 July 2013


WOLF CRITICIZES OBAMA’S ABDICATION OF LEADERSHIP IN SUDAN
Special Envoy Position Still Vacant While Human Rights Situation Deteriorates
and Indicted War Criminal Bashir Remains at the Helm in Khartoum

Washington, D.C. (July 11, 2013) – Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA), co-chairman of the Congressional Caucus on Sudan and South Sudan and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, as well as a longtime advocate for human rights and religious freedom globally, today released the following statement charging the Obama Administration with neglect in dealing with the deteriorating human rights situation in Sudan. (read more)

The arming of rebels in Sudan and South Sudan: What is the evidence?

By Eric Reeves 

17 June 2013

News reporting in general, a great deal of analytic writing, and virtually all diplomatic pronouncements about military support for rebel groups—in South Sudan and Sudan—have had a peculiar “evenhandedness.”  Indeed, this equanimity is finally bizarre, given the many indications that such military support is so completely one-sided.  All available evidence makes clear that substantial military support—arms and ammunition in particular—flows directly from Khartoum’s security and intelligence services to various renegade rebel militias operating in South Sudan.  At the same time, no party—not Khartoum, not the diplomatic community, not credible journalists—has provided persuasive evidence that Juba is providing anything remotely comparable to such support.  Here we should bear in mind that Juba is well aware that any evidence of assistance to the northern rebels would be immensely costly in any diplomatic context; and given the difficulty of concealing major weapons transfers—especially since the South has no significant aerial means of doing so—Juba is highly unlikely to take the risk of providing the very evidence Khartoum is so desperate to claim it has.  The rebel groups inside northern Sudan understand this well, if in some cases grudgingly. (read more)

An open letter to the Public Editor of the New York Times concerning Darfur
Eric Reeves, 11 June 2013
Margaret Sullivan, Public Editor of the New York Times

Dear Ms. Sullivan:

I gather that my previous communication concerning the February 26, 2012 New York Times dispatch from the village of Nyuru, West Darfur (“A Taste of Hope Sends Refugees Back to Darfur”) seemed not to warrant a response.  I assume further that the NYT continues to stand by this dispatch as a legitimate representation of the nature of life in Darfur at the time.  This is such a deep and comprehensive failure of journalistic integrity that I feel obliged to circulate this second, fuller communication to you as widely as possible, and have begun by copying this email and distributing it by other electronic means.  In short, this is an “open letter.” (read more)

“The Collapsing Sudanese Economy: Political and Military Implications, International Obligations,”
Yale Journal of International Relations, May 22, 2013

http://yalejournal.org/2013/05/22/the-collapsing-sudanese-economy-political-and-military-implications-international-obligations/

Eric Reeves, Smith College

[This essay was written in early January 2013; little has changed in the macroeconomic picture for either Sudan or South Sudan.  Recent mutual threats of an oil stoppage would of course dramatically increase the economic crisis depicted here, and which is already threatening of peace in a range of ways.  Inflation continues its relentless rise in Sudan, despite "official figures" suggesting otherwise.  The connection between fighting in Jebel Amer (North Darfur) and the Khartoum regime's desperate need of foreign exchange currency has become steadily clearer--May 28, 2013] (read more)

Some reflections on the invisibility of Darfur

By Eric Reeves

11 May 2013

I'm often asked, "Is the Darfur situation still awful?  is it still a humanitarian crisis?"  It's a painful question to have to answer, if only because of the difficulty in providing even a superficial overview of such unfathomable human suffering and destruction; or the brutality of Khartoum's war of attrition against humanitarian relief efforts; or the massive and continuing displacement of civilians (more than 1.3 million since 2007).  And it is just as difficult to give an adequate account of the role of the Khartoum regime in sustaining what Human Rights Watch a number of years ago called "Chaos by Design."  In fact, the vast crisis in Darfur continues to be "designed"—sustained by denial and obstruction of humanitarian access; by Khartoum's granting impunity to militia proxies engaged in extortion, murder, and land appropriation; and by the relentless military assaults of the regime's regular Sudan Armed Forces and its proxy forces.  The SAF air force in particular continues its brutal assaults—largely indiscriminate aerial assaults on civilian targets, of which there have been many hundreds confirmed (seewww.sudanbombing.org). (read more)

Killing UN Peacekeepers: A Ruthless Proclivity of Khartoum's SAF, Militia Proxies

By Eric Reeves

9 May 2013

The recent (May 4, 2013) deaths of two UN peacekeepers in Abyei have a chilling familiarity, though to this point there has been no firm establishment of responsibility. Familiar also are the formulaic declarations of outrage coming from various quarters when UN peacekeepers are killed in greater Sudan.  There are three large peacekeeping missions there—operating at tremendous expense, and limiting peacekeeping capacity throughout the world.  Two of these peacekeeping missions have experienced serious losses because of actions on the part of the Khartoum regime's Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and its militia and paramilitary proxies, typically armed and directed by the SAF and the security apparatus in Khartoum, especially Military intelligence (MI). (read more)

Mr. Nafie Goes to Washington
Eric Reeves, May 2, 2013

There has been a good deal of understandable outrage at the decision by the Obama administration to invite to Washington Nafie Ali Nafie, senior advisor to President Omar al-Bashir of the Khartoum regime.  Al-Bashir himself could not be invited, of course, because he has been indicted by the International Criminal Court for genocide and crimes against humanity in Darfur, crimes in which Nafie is deeply complicit and for which he bears major responsibility.  But al-Bashir's voice and that of others in the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime will be well represented by Nafie.  Indeed, like other members of the regime already indicted by the ICC—including Defense Minister and former Interior Minister Abdel Rahim Mohamed Hussein—Nafie's own future lies in The Hague if justice is done.  His central role in orchestrating the Darfur genocide is well known, indeed is acknowledged by Nafie himself. (read more)

THE DARFUR GENOCIDE AT TEN YEARS: A Reckoning
Eric Reeves, 19 April 2013

There is in Darfur no end in sight for conflict, murder, rape, assaults on displaced persons camps, agricultural and village destruction, brutal extortion schemes, and continuing violent human displacement.  The primary targets of this mayhem overseen by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum continue to be primarily civilians from African tribal groups surviving tenuously in an increasingly chaotic Darfur; it is the cruelest of counter-insurgency strategies, since the military opponents of the regime are rebel groups that refuse to accept a peace agreement contrived in Doha (Qatar), not ordinary farmers and landholders.  Moreover, for several years an increasing number of Arab tribal groups have been drawn into the fighting, often pitting one Arab group against another; this has produced rapidly growing "collateral damage" as Khartoum seeks to subdue Darfur by means of a war of attrition in which impunity, chaos, and inter-ethnic violence serve the regime's ultimate military and political purposes.  The insecurity consequent upon such polices threatens international relief organizations, many of which have already withdrawn or been expelled, and many more are contemplating withdrawal. (read more)

Darfur Conflict: Sudan’s Blood Stalemate
By James Copnall
29 April 2013

A decade after the disastrous war in Darfur began, there is no end to sight to the fighting.

The intensity of the conflict in Sudan's western region has diminished since its early years, but most of Darfur is still extremely dangerous. More than 1.4 million displaced people still rely on food handouts in camps throughout Darfur, and many others have fled the country.

The multi-layered conflict has also done colossal damage to Sudan's image: The US and many Western activists have accused the government of genocide. Even before the war broke out, Darfur was in trouble. Like many of the regions on Sudan's periphery, it was underdeveloped and politically marginalised. Diminishing rainfall over decades had made life precarious in Darfur, leading to recurring food shortages. (read more) 


Sudan: Indiscriminate bombing exacerbates humanitarian crisis in Southern Kordofan
By Amnesty International
17 April 2013 

The UN Security Council and African Union (AU) must take immediate action to halt indiscriminate attacks in Southern Kordofan, Amnesty International said in a new report that highlights the urgent need for humanitarian access to the conflict-affected areas.

Indiscriminate bombings, lack of humanitarian assistance and massive displacement which has severely disrupted agricultural production, have all conspired to place civilians in the areas controlled by the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army-North (SPLA-N) in Southern Kordofan, in an extremely precarious situation.

This will only get worse in the next few months as food supplies are dwindling and the impending rainy season makes roads impassable.

“The international community continues to watch this catastrophe unfold as the humanitarian situation worsens in conflict-affected areas of Southern Kordofan. It’s time for some concerted action,” said Khairunissa Dhala, Amnesty International’s South Sudan researcher. (read more) 


Bombings have severely disrupted daily activities in Southern Kordofan, with civilians seeking shelter in foxholes and caves.

Sudan’s Bashir confirms he will stand down by 2015
19 March 2013
By the Sudan Tribune

Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir has reiterated his intention to step at the end of his term in 2015, saying Sudan is in need of “fresh blood”.
In an interview with Qatar’s Al Shraq newspaper due to be published on Wednesday, Bashir said deliberations were now underway within the National Congress Party (NCP) to select a new presidential candidate for the next general elections. ( Read more)

 


US advocacy group attempts to ward off Sudan envoy pick
19 March 2013
By the Sudan Tribune

As the Obama administration prepares to nominate a new special envoy to Sudan, a major Sudan advocacy organisation has urged secretary of state John Kerry not to nominate former US ambassador to Sudan Tim Carney, who is reportedly being considered for the post, according to US foreign policy blog site The Cable.
In a rare move, Act for Sudan is attempting to head off Carney’s possible nomination before it materialises amid concerns his stance on US policy on Sudan could undermine peace efforts in the region. NGOs usually wait until a nomination is announced before they express public opposition. ( Read more)

Jonglei: Dozens wounded in clashes between SPLA, rebels
18 March 2013
By Sudan Tribune

Dozens of people were wounded in fresh clashes between South Sudan’s army (SPLA) and an armed group in Jonglei state over the weekend, eye witnesses toldSudan Tribune.
Phillip Aguer, the spokesperson of the army confirmed the incident, but did not unveil further details on casualties involved. ( Read more)



Sudan accepts to negotiates with SPLM-N rebels, NCP sources
14 March 2013
The Sudan Tribune

Sudanese government has accepted to hold direct political talks with the rebel Sudan people’s Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N) but demanded a delay before engage discussions, a Sudanese source said.
A well placed source in the National Congress Party (NCP) on Thursday told Sudan Tribune that consultations are going on between a leading member of the ruling party, the head of the African Union mediation Thabo Mbeki and the SPLM-N leader Malik Agar over the resumption of talks between the two parties. ( Read more)


Sudan Sign Agreement to Resume Oil Exports
By Isma’il KusKush
12 March 2013

KHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan and South Sudan, moving to reduce the hostilities that have severely weakened both of their economies, signed an agreement early Tuesday morning that could lead to the resumption of oil production in two weeks.

“Resumption of production shall take place as soon as technically feasible,” the agreement read.
South Sudan became independent of Sudan in 2011, taking with it nearly three quarters of the oil wealth. The pipelines, refinery and port to export the oil, however, are in Sudan. ( Read more)


Ahmed Khatir, Nuba Reports
8 March 2013

On March 7, an Antonov airplane circling over Buram County, South Kordofan dropped 8 bombs in the region. Nobody was hurt in the attack. The bombings started around 3:15 PM. The Antonov dropped 2 bombs in Angolo, destroying 1 house; 3 bombs in Toroji; 1 bomb in Tabanya, causing damage to the Tabanya Primary school and 1 bomb in Buram. A Nuba Reports journalist witnessed the bombing and physically confirmed the locations of the impact sites.


© Nuba Reports, 2013


Karim Khan (L), the lawyer for Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain (C) and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus (R), both suspected of having committed war crimes in Darfur, speaks at the International Criminal Court in The Hague June 17, 2010 (Reuters)

ICC judges set May 2014 as trial date for two Darfur rebel commanders 
Sudan Tribune 
6 March 2013

(KHARTOUM) – The judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) have decided that the trial for two Darfur rebel commanders accused of killing African peacekeepers will commence in May 2014.

Abdallah Banda Abakaer Nourain and Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus each face three counts of violence to life in the form of murder, war crime of attacking a peacekeeping mission and pillaging.

The two men allegedly commanded a 1,000-strong rebel force in the Sept. 2007 attack, on the African Mission in Sudan (AMIS) base in Haskanita in North Darfur. They looted the camp of 17 vehicles, refrigerators, computers, mobile phones, ammunition and money. (read more)


10 Years Later: What Everyone Should Know Now About The Darfur Genocide 
By Zack Beauchamp, Think Progress 
5 March 2013

No one could call it a happy anniversary: roughly ten years ago, the Sudanese government embarked on a genocidal campaign in the Darfur province against local non-Arab ethnic groups, a decision which the U.N. estimated as taking around 300,000 lives. Today, violence is still ongoing in Darfur (albeit at a lower level) and, to make matters worse, the government in Khartoum is escalating a murderous military campaign against rebels and local civilians in two other provinces — South Kordofan and Blue Nile. While many experts will likely weigh in this week with detailed and knowledgable assessments of the violence in Sudan past and present (CAP’s Enough Project, for example, is doing a ten-day commemoration event), it’s also worth exploring the values at work in anti-genocide campaigns. Because a concern with protecting international human rights, and legal accountability for their violation, has deep roots in the American liberal tradition — a point that should remind us why the suffering in Sudan today should be a critical issue for progressives today. (read more)


Armed soldiers stand guard near an aircraft at Talodi in South Kordofan, 50 km from Sudan's ill-defined border with South Sudan, April 12, 2012. (Reuters/Alexander Dziadosz)

Sudan border state fighting affects 1 million, famine looms-western MPs 
By Katie Nguyen, Alertnet 
28 February 2013

LONDON (AlertNet) - The United States, Britain and Australia must urgently address the humanitarian crisis in Sudan's South Kordofan and Blue Nile states which risk suffering a man- made famine, a coalition of 98 politicians has said.

In an open letter to their respective foreign ministers, the politicians compared the Sudanese government's crackdown in South Kordofan and Blue Nile to its offensive to crush a decade-long rebellion in the western region of Darfur.

"Once again, civilians, mainly women and children, are caught in the cross-fire as the Sudanese Armed Forces and associated militias wage war," the letter said. (read more)


Sudan: Qatar Pledges Additional Financial Support for Peace in Darfur, Sources
By Sudan Tribune
26 February 2013

Khartoum — The State of Qatar has pledged to provide Khartoum the needed money to implement its commitments provided in the Doha Document for Peace in Darfur (DDPD), as it pushes a rebel group to conclude negotiations before a donors conference.

The gulf state which sponsors a peace process since 2009 to end Darfur conflict will also host next April a donors conference aiming to collect funds to achieve recovery and development projects, after the signing of the DDPD in July 2011. (read more) 


Sudan: Lawmaker Raises Alarm Over Fighting in Darfur
By reuters
25th February 2013

Fighting over control of a gold mine in the Darfur region has killed more than 500 people and destroyed 68 villages since January, a Sudanese lawmaker said Monday, sharply increasing estimates of the casualties from the violence. The United Nations had earlier said that the clashes between the Bani Hussein and Rizeigat tribes in North Darfur had displaced 100,000 people and killed more than 100. On Monday, the lawmaker, Adam Sheikha, a member of the ruling National Congress Party from the El Sireaf area that includes the mine, said that 510 people had been killed and 865 wounded since the outbreak of violence. Human rights groups and the United Nations estimate that hundreds of thousands of people have died in Darfur since 2003, when mainly non-Arab rebels took up arms against Sudan’s Arab-led government. In January, Arab tribes in the region, many of whom were armed by the government to help quell the Darfur insurgency, began to fight each other for control of a gold mine and other resources.

 

© The New York Times 2013.

 


“Stop the Planes”—Now! 
By Eric Reeves 
23 February 2013

The plea could hardly be simpler, or more urgent: “Just stop the planes.” This cry for help came from “Khadija,” a woman interviewed by Amnesty International (see below) while standing in front of the bombed remains of her home in a small village in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan.

“Just stop the planes.”

And yet more than twenty months after Khartoum launched its military assault on the Nuba people of South Kordofan, the bombing continues relentlessly. The same is true in neighboring Blue Nile State. And yet neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch nor the International Crisis Group nor any other major organization analyzing and reporting on the situation in South Kordofan has proposed actions or policies that will oblige the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum to “stop the planes.” In its latest analysis (February 14, 2013), besides offering the obvious urgings, ICG pleads for a comprehensive response to greater Sudan’s interlocking crises. But its specific recommendation to non- Sudanese parties amounts to a referral to incompetence and ensures inaction— (read more)


UPDATE on the Situation in Darfur

Sudan and Darfur Rebel Group Sign Ceasefire Under UN-African Union Auspices
By All Africa
11 February 2013


The Government of Sudan and one of the main rebel factions in Darfur have signed a ceasefire agreement to move the peace process forward, the United Nations-African Union mediator announced today.

"This is a major breakthrough in the road towards a comprehensive and lasting peace accord in Darfur," said Aichatou Mindaoudou, who is also the Acting Joint Special Representative in the UN-AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

The Government, represented by State Minister and Head of the Darfur Follow-up Office, Amin Hassan Omer, signed the ceasefire with Arko Sulaiman Dahiya, Vice Chairman and Head of Delegation from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), on 10 February in Doha, Qatar. (read more) 

Former UN Sudan Chief visits the country’s warzones: warns of potential for another Darfur scale catastrophe 
Aegis Trust 
18 January 2013

Dr Mukesh Kapila, Special Representative for the Aegis Trust and former UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Sudan, has just travelled 1000km through Sudan’s Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile, where international humanitarian relief access has been blocked since armed conflict erupted there between the Sudanese Government and opposition groups in June 2011. Hundreds of thousands of displaced people remain in the two areas, where Government bombing has severely hampered agricultural activity for the past 18 months, triggering desperate food shortages. Dr Kapila also visited South Sudan’s frontier with Darfur, where a ten-year crisis continues to affect millions displaced.

"I witnessed the 21st century's first genocide in Darfur during my time as UN Chief in Sudan in 2003-2004. Returning to Sudan a decade later, I saw the same tactics of systematic ethnic cleansing in full play in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile,” says Dr Kapila, whose visit to the two areas was organised by the Aegis Trust in conjunction with the Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART).(read more)


Egypt's former President Mubarak and Sudan's President Bashir shake hands, Photo: AP

Egypt to Join the ICC but also Guarantee Bashir Immunity
By Mark Kersten, Justice in Conflict
20 February 2013

Many, many months ago, I wrote that Egypt had declared it was set to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). That was back in early April 2011, when the country was in the midst of the ‘Arab Spring’. Nearly two years later, Egypt’s Minister of Justice, Ahmed Mekki has announced that the country will soon join the Court. But that wasn’t all. Mekki also announced that Egypt will sign an Article 98 Bilateral Immunity Agreement with Sudan in order to prevent Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir from being arrested and surrendered to the ICC. (read more) 


Egyptian flies the nation's flag, Photo: Carsten Koall/Getty Images
Soldiers from Sudan’s army rest after gaining control of the area, at the Blue Nile state capital al-Damazin (Reuters)

Sudan army says it recaptured area in Blue Nile from SPLM-N rebels
By The Sudan Tribune
18 February 2013

(KHARTOUM) – The Sudanese army announced on Monday that it has reclaimed back an area in the border state of Blue Nile from the rebels of the Sudan People Liberation Movement North (SPLM-N).

The army spokesperson Colonel Al-Sawarmi Khalid Sa’ad was quoted by Sudan official news agency (SUNA) as saying that they liberated Mafo which lies in the southwest part of the state.

Col. Sa’ad went on to say that the army flushed out SPLM-N rebels which he estimated its size there as equivalent to a battalion adding that they had tanks, artillery and Land Cruiser vehicles. (read more)


Darfur refugee, advocate speaks out, shares story
By: Arika Herron, Winston-Salem Journal
15 February 2013

It was hard to reconcile the words coming out of Hawa Abdallah Mohammed Salih’s mouth with the woman standing on stage at Mount Tabor High School Friday.

Salih, a 28-year-old refugee and advocate from Darfur, stood strong and proud, smiling as she thanked the several hundred Mount Tabor students who gathered in the high school’s auditorium to listen to her story. Salih’s story is one of true horrors – of burned villages, death threats, arrests, torture and the systematic killing of an entire people.

“I am a witness,” Salih said. “I lost 100 members of my family. My village was destroyed. I am a witness to the government of Sudan and the Janjaweed killing my people.”

A survivor of the Darfur genocide in Sudan -- one of the worst humanitarian tragedies of the modern era -- Salih was forced to flee her village 10 years ago when it was destroyed by the Sudanese government and its militia known as the Janjaweed. Salih and her family had to find shelter in makeshift camps for displaced people. Ten years later, Salih’s family is still there. She only gets to communicate with them every few months. (read more) 


Sudan: 13 Arrested on Charges of Plotting Coup

By The Associated Press
November 22, 2012

The Sudanese authorities arrested 13 people on Thursday, including the former director of national security, saying they were suspected of plotting a coup. The state-run Radio Omdurman said a “subversive plot” had been uncovered and aborted. Among those arrested was the former director of National Security and Intelligence Services, Lt. Gen. Salah Abdallah Gosh, left, according to Information Minister Ahmed Bilal Osman. General Gosh was intelligence chief for 10 years before being promoted to security adviser in 2009. Once a member of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir’s inner circle, he was fired in April 2011 for his criticism of the government. Last summer, Sudan crushed pro-democracy protests inspired by the Arab Spring uprisings. Hundreds of protesters angered by painful economic austerity measures were arrested and detained for demanding the ouster of Mr. Bashir.

 © The New York Times, 2012 (article)

Urgent Action 60 Nuba Civilians detained in Dillanj

The Sudanese security in South Kordofan/Nuba mountains state, started arrest campaign against Nuba peoples men and women in the past few weeks. The latest campaign in Dillanj, the second biggest city, in Nuba mountains after the capital Kadugli. On November 18th , 60 Nuba peoples were arbitrary arrested among them men and women, they were all taken to the 14th division of the Sudanese armed forces in Dillanj, but their families are not allowed to visit them. The 60 men and women are from Oncho tribe, reside near of Dillanj. (read more)


Addressing the UN on Sudan: Possibly Futile, but Still Necessary

Faith McDonnell
The Institute on Religion and Democracy
November 20, 2012

One activist has compared the fight to stop Sudan’s jihadist genocide with trying to kill a cancerous tumor with radiation. To most successfully shrink or destroy tumors, radiation oncologists attack them with simultaneously multi-directional radiation beams. Similarly, Sudan activists have learned that it is necessary to conduct multi-directional attacks against the Islamist regime of Omar al Bashir. They attempt to weaken the regime and prevent its atrocities by pressing the Administration, Congress, the media, the financial world, churches and other religious groups, and international leaders. In this spirit, even those of us who have little faith in the United Nations recently signed on to a letter to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), requesting it strongly act to protect innocent civilians in the conflict areas of Sudan. (read more)

Sudan: Power Struggle in Khartoum

By David L. Phillips and Ahmed Hussain Adam, AllAfrica
16 November 2012

ANALYSIS Sudan is on the brink. Its military has suffered humiliating defeat and dishonor. The economy is in free-fall. Islamist factions are breaking ranks with the regime. President Omar al-Bashir's allies can see the writing on the wall. Khartoum has become a snake-pit, with everyone trying to promote their power and privilege in the event of Bashir's demise. Bashir is seeking to consolidate control by embracing Islamists and Shariah law. The so-called "Islamic Movement Conference" will convene later this month to choose a new Secretary General of the Islamic Movement for Sudan. Nothing new will come from the Conference, even though Islamist leaders from around the world may join. The Movement is just a symbolic body, with no real political authority or integrity. (read more)

Muslims, Christians targeted by Sudanese strongman al-Bashir in aerial assault

By Joshua Rhett MillerFoxNews.com
November 14, 2012

Sudanese strongman Omar al-Bashir has launched aerial bombardments with increased frequency in the oil-rich Nuba Mountains, where Muslims and Christians alike are being targeted with “tremendous” force, experts told FoxNews.com. The attacks led by al-Bashir, who remains wanted for genocide by the International Criminal Court, have reached their highest levels in the past two months since the conflict began in June 2011. And while it remains very difficult to estimate how many people have died, more than 300,000 people of indigenous ethnic groups known collectively as the Nuba peoples have been displaced in South Kordofan, a province of Sudan, according to Ryan Boyette, a former American aid worker who lives in the region. (read more)

Humanitarian Crisis in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states of Sudan
Hannibal Travis
14 November 2012

There is a humanitarian crisis affecting at least 650,000 at-risk people in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states of Sudan, and refugees across the border in South Sudan. Contrary to recent suggestions that the emergency has been managed to some kind of chronic or normal condition, USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) reported this July that South Kordofan was an emergency and that conditions were expected to fall below the "stressed" condition. (read more)

International Acceptance of Khartoum's Continuing Campaign of Extermination
The Fate of the "Tripartite Agreement" on Humanitarian Access to South Kordofan and Blue Nile

Eric Reeves
November 12, 2012

For well over a year, the world has known fully—from a wide range of sources—about military efforts by Khartoum to starve more than one million civilians in South Kordofan, and subsequently Blue Nile—overwhelmingly people of the African tribal groups in these two regions.  These people are perceived by the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party (NIF/NCP) regime as the civilian base of support for the indigenous political and military rebellion by the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army-North (SPLM/A-North).  The means of destruction have been various, but starvation is the potent weapon of mass destruction that is every day more fully deployed, not only in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan and Blue Nile, but in the refugee camps in South Sudan (and to a lesser extent in Ethiopia) to which some 250,000 people have fled (OCHA Sudan Humanitarian Bulletin, October 22 – 28, 2012).  Many have died during this flight or in camps that have been nearly overwhelmed by the challenges of providing humanitarian assistance in these remote regions, particularly Upper Nile State.  Many more have died invisibly in Blue Nile and South Kordofan. Humanitarian indicators, discussed below in overview, are terrifying and rapidly growing worse. (read more)

Letter to UN Security Council

November 11, 2012

Dear Members of the United Nations Security Council,

Thank you for your attention with regard to resolving the outstanding matters between Sudan and South Sudan related to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement of 2005 and for your efforts to address the dangerous and ongoing crises in Sudan.We write to you in reference to UNSC Resolution 2046 and your expressed intention to take appropriate measures under Article 41 of the UN Charter if any or all parties fail to comply with the Resolution. (read more)

As If We Are Not Living On The Same Planet

A Congratulatory Message to President and Mrs. Barack Obama

Dear Ambassador Lyman, the U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan:

The SPLM-North and the majority of the Sudanese people were inspired and energized by the American election, and the core values and democratic peaceful exercises it involves that result in respect for the will of the people and the recognition of diversity as a matter of national strength for the United States.  The American election came as a contrast to the tragic situation the Sudanese people are in, being ruled for 23 years by an indicted President that is continuing to commit genocide against his own people and has used the resources of the country, the taxpayer’s money and the Sudanese national army to commit genocide and war crimes.  What a contrast.  It is as if we are not living on the same planet. (read more)


U.N. ELECTS GENOCIDAL SUDAN TO ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
UN Watch Urges U.S., EU, U.N. Chief to Speak Out

8 November, 2012

NEW YORK-UN Watch, the Geneva-based non-governmental human rights group, urged UN chief Ban Ki-moon, rights commissioner Navi Pillay, U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice and the EU’s Catherine Ashton to condemn today’s U.N. election of “genocidal, misogynistic and tyrannical” Sudan to its 54-member Economic and Social Council, a top U.N. body that regulates human rights groups, oversees U.N. committees on women's rights, and crafts resolutions from Internet freedom to female genital mutilation. (read more)

For Immediate Release
Sudan: North Darfur Attack Kills 13 Civilians Hold Attackers Accountable; Allow Peacekeepers Access

Human Rights Watch Press Release
Nairobi, November 7, 2012

– The government of Sudan should urgently investigate an attack on a village in North Darfur on November 2, 2012, that killed 13 civilians, Human Rights Watch said today. The authorities should allow African Union/United Nations (UNAMID) peacekeepers prompt and full access to the site. Witnesses told Human Rights Watch that at around 8 a.m. on November 2, scores of heavily armed men in vehicles and on camels attacked Sigili, an ethnic Zaghawa village 40 kilometers southeast of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur. The attackers entered the village, fired on civilians, and looted and burned shops and homes. Thirteen civilians, including two infants, were killed and several more were wounded or abducted. (read more)

Sudan Blocks UN Force from Investigating Deaths

ABC News, Associated Press
November 3, 2012

CAIRO -The international peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region said Saturday that its forces were blocked by the military from reaching the destination of an alleged attack that killed 10 people.
The hybrid U.N. and African Union peacekeeping force, UNAMID, said in a statement that mourners brought 10 bodies reportedly killed in Friday's attack to the gate of its headquarters in Darfur on Saturday. The Sudanese military blocked its convoy from reaching the area of the alleged attack to gather information on the incident, it added.
Friday's attack reportedly took place in Sigili village, located in the Shawa area in North Darfur state. Hundreds marched in a symbolic show of unity through North Darfur's capital city of el-Fasher to protest the incident on Saturday. (read more)


Concerning civilians in Blue Nile and South Kordofan, an open letter to:
Princeton Lyman, U.S. Special Envoy for SudanDepartment of State
Washington, DC

Eric Reeves
November 5, 2012

Dear Ambassador Lyman:
 I write to you to express my profound dismay at the character of Obama administration responses to the various political and humanitarian crises that continue to define greater Sudan. I wish in particular to express my distress at the failure of the administration you represent to respond with appropriate urgency and commitment to the vast and still-growing humanitarian crises in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states, as well as the consequent exodus of Sudanese refugees to South Sudan.  These immense and geographically wide-ranging humanitarian crises must also include the more than 100,000 Dinka Ngok who fled before and after Khartoum's military seizure of Abyei in May 2011—an egregious violation of the Abyei Protocol that is key to the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA). (read more)

Sudanese Marginalized Forum USA: Condemn the Sudanese Communist Party’s Shamed Statement on the bombing of Yarmouk Military Factory as “scandal line support of the Islamo-Arab extremists”

The Sudanese Communist Party revealed its radical nationalist Arabism face through the statement issued on October 27, 2012, after Yarmouk Military Factory was struck on Oct 23rd, the factory that produces banned weapons internationally and was founded and backed by Iran and it supports Hezbollah and Hamas as well as the National Congress Party regime, that classified as countries and organizations sponsor terrorism. The targeted factory that manufactures bombs and long range Weapons including Shihab missiles and banned bombs which have all been used against civilians and innocent children, women and elderly and have continue to destroy all infrastructure causing the displacement and replacement of the population in Nuba Mountains / Southern Kordofan, Darfur, Blue Nile and the all Sudanese marginalized regions. (read more)

Genocidal Massacres in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State, Sudan

Hashem Mekki, Genocide Watch
1 November, 2012

As a Nuban, I am disappointed that the international community has ignored the crimes against humanity committed by the Sudanese Armed Forces against our people. Because its priority is to avoid a return to war between Sudan and South Sudan, the international community has turned a blind eye to bombing, starvation and massacres in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. To make matters worse, the US and EU are now even pushing for investment in Sudan – the perpetrator of the violence – thereby helping the regime of Al-Bashir continue its human rights abuses unhindered, the same way it did in Darfur. (read more)

Across the Frontlines - Ending the Nuba Genocide from Operation Broken Silence on Vimeo.

Darfur seeks USD 8 bln from donor nations
 
Arab News, Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)
31 October, 2012
 
KHARTOUM, Oct 31 (KUNA) -- The Darfur Regional Authority announced here at a press conference today that it would ask the donor nations conference, to be held in Doha in December, for the sum of USD 8 billion.
This sum was arrived at as a result of studies jointly undertaken by the government of Darfur with its international partners and donors to determine the amount of monies needed for development projects in that region, said Authority spokesperson Ibrahim Madbo, who insinuated that the eight billion dollars might be adjusted at a later date, with the possibility of increasing it.
Madbo expressed great optimism that the Doha conference would satisfactorily address the urgent requirements of his region.
The Doha donors conference came about as part of recommendations reached at the Doha peace conference on Darfur, when the Sudanese government signed a peace agreement with the Freedom and Justice Movement of Darfur in July of last year, which ended a conflict between the two sides since 2003.
Some armed groups in Darfur refused to join the peace agreement because it did not address some of their demands. The fight between the Sudanese government and that of Darfur resulted in the death and displacement of over two million people.
 
© Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) 2012

(article)

UN demands probe into Darfur mission attack

Al Jazeera
18 October 2012

Ban Ki-moon is calling for an investigation after one peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded in an ambush. Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, has demanded an investigation after one peacekeeper was killed and three others wounded in an ambush in Sudan's North Darfur state. Martin Nesirky, Ban's spokesman, said on Wednesday that all the victims from the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) had South African nationality. "The secretary general urges the government of the Sudan to conduct a full investigation and to ensure the perpetrators are brought to justice," a statement from Ban said. "The secretary general expresses his condolences to the government of the Republic of South Africa, UNAMID and to the family of the fallen peacekeeper." A joint statement from the 15 members of the UN Security Council condemned the attack in the strongest terms, and called on the Sudanese authorities "to swiftly investigate the incident and bring the perpetrators to justice." (read more)

Fiddling While Sudan BurnsHelp Nuba – A Sudan Advocacy Organization

By Rabbi Kaufman on October 11, 2012

Furious is the word that best describes the reaction to efforts made by the United Nations, African Union, United States and Europe to improve the economic state of Sudan even as it continues to prevent humanitarian aid from reaching hundreds of thousands of people in the Nuba Mountains. The international community is so focused on prevention of fighting between Sudan and South Sudan that it has chosen to wholly abandon the demand of requiring Sudan to allow humanitarian access into rebel held areas of South Kordofan and is actively counteracting its own sanctions regimes against the genocidal government of Sudan by promoting investment. This insanity must cease! (read more) 

GENOCIDE EMERGENCY: THE NUBA MOUNTAINS of SUDAN

By Genocide Watch, 8 March 2012

After years of war, as South Sudan celebrates its independence, Sudan’s state of South Kordofan is again afflicted by genocide.  South Kordofan is situated in a geopolitical hot spot, bordering northern Sudan and South Sudan.  It is strategically, and geographically important due to the significant oil reserves in the region. Like Darfur, the state of South Kordofan suffers from long-term political and economic marginalization.

In the heart of South Kordofan are the Nuba Mountains, also known as ‘Jibal al-Nuba’, home to the Nuba people. Over fifty Nuba tribes live in the Nuba mountains.  They are not united politically.  The Sudanese government’s long-term goal is to transform Sudan into an Islamic Arab state.  The Nuba suffered genocidal massacres and were driven into displaced persons camps in the 1990’s.  They are again under brutal military attack by Sudanese armed forces.

The  Nuba people have suffered from oppression, discrimination, and genocide. In the early 1980’s the Nuba’s growing discontent with the government’s Arabist policies, drove many Nuba to join the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLM/A.)  The late John Garang’s vision of a “new Sudan” in which Sudan would become a secular state, where diversity was respected, resonated well with the Nuba.

In efforts to weaken the SPLM/A, the government in Khartoum launched attacks on the Nuba.  The National Islamic Front initiated a jihadist campaign intended to eradicate the Nuba population.  Government forces, especially the Air Force, along with government-armed militias, committed mass atrocities in the Nuba Mountains.  Under the Genocide Convention, the atrocities committed in 1990’s against the Nuba were acts of genocide.

From 1987 to 2001 the Nuba Mountains were a war zone. In 2002, a ceasefire agreement was signed. The 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement failed to address many of the issues concerning the Nuba. The Nuba were not permitted to vote in the January 2011 referendum on southern secession from Sudan.

State elections in South Kordofan were repeatedly delayed.  In May 2011, elections were held, many anticipated that Abdel Aziz al Hila, a popular former commander of the SPLA would win the election for Governor of South Kordofan.  However, the National Elections Commission appointed by Omar al-Bashir officially announced that Ahmed Haroun won the elections. The SPLM/A has stated that the election outcome was fraudulent.

Haroun is wanted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for atrocities he committed in Darfur.  He is charged with 20 counts of crimes against humanity and 22 counts of war crimes.  The Sudanese government has refused to surrender Haroun.  Instead al-Bashir promoted him from Chairman of the Humanitarian Affairs Commission (HAC) to Governor of South Kordofan.  It is appalling that a criminal like Haroun has been rewarded for committing acts of genocide. The South Kordofan elections signify the vindictiveness and incompetence of the Sudanese regime, and the elections illustrate the culture of impunity in Sudan.  Haroun lives in Khartoum and is afraid to set foot in South Kordofan.

The National Congress Party issued a letter to SPLA headquarters stating that by 1st of June the SPLA units in the state of South Kordofan must disarm in accordance to the CPA’s provision.  On June 5, 2011 under the pretext of “counter – insurgency,” the government started supplying Arab –based local militia with arms to murder Nuba civilians.  The Sudan Armed forces (SAF)  along with Arab militia are currently engaging in widespread, systematic attacks on Nuba civilians that are intended to destroy in part the Nuba ethnicity.  These acts constitute genocide and crimes against humanity.

There are innumerable reports of government military units called the "Abu Tiera” rounding up innocent civilians using prepared execution lists, proof of intentional premeditation. The Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) are using a systematic policy of intimidation, rape, torture, and detention against women and children and the elderly.  Genocide Watch has received reports that populated areas in the Nuba Mountains are subject to aerial bombings by the Sudan Air Force, followed by ground attacks.(Read More)

Activists claim video shows Sudanese forces repeating Darfur genocide

Guardian Reporter, Mail & Guardian
17 October, 2012

The Satellite Sentinel Project says it has evidence of indiscriminate attacks by the Sudanese government in the state of South Kordofan.More Coverage Dramatic video footage and satellite images have revealed Sudanese security forces are waging a violent campaign in the Nuba mountains comparable to war crimes in Darfur, activists have claimed. The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP), whose founders include Hollywood actor George Clooney, posted a video online that they say shows the terrifying ordeal of a teenager being tied up and interrogated at gunpoint as a village goes up in flames. (read more)

State news: Sudan to reopen borders with South Sudan

CNN Wire Staff
8 October, 2012

Despite periodic violence and continued unresolved issues, Sudan's president on Sunday authorized the reopening of all border crossings with South Sudan, state news reported. President Omar al-Bashir ordered the reopening of all passages -- by land, water and air -- between his African nation and its newly independent neighbor South Sudan, the official Sudan News Agency (SUNA) reported. The president met Sunday with Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti and Mutrif Sadiq, Sudan's recently appointed ambassador to South Sudan, to ask his help in carrying out the directives and make normalizing relations between the two countries a priority.Sudan, South Sudan peace talks continue. (read more)

Sudan urges cancellation of its debts

Al Jazeera
30 September, 2012

Foreign minister tells UN Sudan needs assistance to recover after critical oil revenue was lost when the South seceded.

Sudan has told the United Nations General Assembly that its debts must be cancelled and its economy supported as it struggles to recover from losing three-quarters of its critical oil revenue to South Sudan when it seceded a year ago. "Sudan requires assistance to go through this very sensitive stage towards better horizons. For that we believe that debts must be cancelled and its economy supported," Ali Ahmed Karti, the Sudanese foreign minister, said on Saturday. The International Monetary Fund this week urged Sudan to meet donors to discuss debt relief and some IMF board members called for "exceptional efforts" from the IMF and the global community to help Sudan reduce its debt of about $40bn. South Sudan seceded in July 2011. Leaders from both states finally reached a border security deal on Wednesday to restart badly needed oil exports, but failed to solve the other key conflicts left over from when they split. (read more)

Leaders from the two Sudans recently reached a border security deal to restart badly needed oil exports [Reuters]


AFS SUPPORTS GENOCIDE EXPERTS CALL FOR THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION TO ACT

By Act For Sudan / Make A Comment / Filed under Public Statements

Act for Sudan, a bipartisan alliance of American citizen activists and Sudanese U.S. residents who advocate for an end to genocide and mass atrocities in Sudan, today welcomed the letter to the Obama administration from the global genocide scholar and expert community concerning Sudan. In the letter, 62 genocide scholars stated, “Sufficient evidence exists for us to believe the Sudanese regime is attempting to annihilate those whom the government suspects of supporting the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North’s (SPLM-N) aims. Hence many local people are automatically targeted regardless of their true political affiliations.” The letter highlights the humanitarian crisis, saying, “The Sudanese regime continues to slaughter its own civilians, while denying them access to aid and in defiance of various international treaties and conventions it has signed, not to mention the Sudanese constitution” and details the steps that the United States should immediately take “to ensure aid is delivered to South Kordofan and Blue Nile.”

 

Act for Sudan welcomes this clear leadership from the world’s top academic leaders on the ongoing campaigns of mass atrocities being committed in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states of Sudan.

In the media release accompanying this letter, genocide scholar Samuel Totten stated,“It has become impossible for us to remain silent. We exist to remind the world that genocide is not a crime merely found in history books, but something we must stand strongly against in both word and deed right now. If we do not stand with the victims, then we are automatically standing with those who commit such crimes. We urge the Obama administration to take a stand against these atrocities now for this very reason; otherwise, history will be unforgiving for further inaction.”

Act for Sudan calls on the Obama administration to make a public statement in response to this letter and begin a new course for U.S. policy on Sudan that embraces the protection of civilians from mass atrocities.


August 27, 2012

To: President Barack Obama

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice

Special Assistant to the President Samantha Power.

From: The Undersigned Genocide Scholars

Subject: Humanitarian Catastrophe in South Kordofan and Blue Nile States of Sudan

On June 6, 2011, the Sudanese regime, led by indicted war criminal Omar al-Bashir, unleashed a wave of targeted ethnic killings against the people of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan state, Sudan. Since then this state-sponsored violence has spread to engulf much of South Kordofan and Blue Nile states.

The continuing multiple atrocities amount to at least crimes against humanity. This, in and of itself, is alarming. According to the tenets of the Responsibility to Protect now is the time to protect the targeted population. (Read More)


Dear fellow members of Act for Sudan:

Mark Hackett and I are working with a group to get desperately needed food and aid to the Nuba people. We are working with Nuba leaders, including but not limited to the Nuba Relief, Rehabilitation, and Development Organization (NRRDO), and working to get there ASAP. This action will be publicized afterward to bring much needed awareness, attention, and pressure for the world community to respond to this crisis with accelerated intervention.
Mark has offered Operation Broken Silence as the 501c3 organization to process the funds for this endeavor. 
Knowing that you are all concerned for the Nuba and others who suffer under these genocides of Sudan, we would like to offer those who would like to participate in meeting their needs an opportunity to do so by supporting this effort with whatever you may contribute, including others you know who would also like to help. 
You can donate through Mark's or Slater's fundraising pages to help us reach our committed goals, or you can create a fundraising page for yourself or form a team to work on it together.
Slater Armstrong
Joining Our Voices
End the Nuba Genocide Campaign to benefit Operation Broken Silence | StayClassy.org

Background:

The Nuba people of South Kordofan province in Sudan experienced genocide from 1985-2002, and the world was never informed about it. This was happening while we witnessed Bosnia and Rwanda and the world community cried "Never Again!" The Nuba lost approx 50% of their population as they experienced the brutality of rape and pillage tactics of the Mujahadeen ("holy warriors"); constant aerial bombardment and "peace camps" (concentration camps) by their own government; and forced famine.

"In Laying Waste to the Nuba Mountains, Amnesty International reports thousands of civilians dead, tens of thousands in peace villages, total destruction of scores of villages, and the prevention of relief efforts to respond to devastated civilians. Because of the cordon sanitaire, and without a land link to other SPLA-controlled areas, many Nuba consider themselves the Africans most exposed to the political and cultural domination of the Arab north. The Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance and the British NGO Christian Solidarity International reported the continuation of this Sudanese Government approach as this was being written in the summer of 1996." - http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/nuba.htm

In June of 2011, the Omar al-Bashir regime in Sudan once again unleashed a wave of killing, rape, and forced starvation against the Nuba people in South Kordofan province, home to the historic Nuba Mountains. Daily aerial bombardments and ground attacks against civilians have kept the Nuban people from being able to farm the land that is historically and legally theirs. With no food growing in the region and Bashir refusing to allow humanitarian aid in, hundreds of thousands of lives are now threatened by war-related causes such as preventable disease and forced starvation.

An Operation Broken Silence assesment team, a member organization of the End Nuba Genocide Coalition, slipped across the frontlines into the Nuba Mountains on the one year anniversary of the war in June of 2012. While there, the team witnessed the stunning results of the crimes outlined above. Market places are without food to sell or are completely abandoned. Small clinics have run out of the most basic first aid supplies. A failure to vaccinate the next generation of children has led to a measles outbreak. As the team drove further north into the Nuba Mountains, they passed through deserted towns, some being bombed and burned to the ground during the ongoing genocide being committed against the Nuban people. Those who survived fled across the border into South Sudan or further north into the Nuba Mountains. 

With the atrocities ongoing and no signs of Bashir allowing direly needed aid into the Nuba Mountains, we can no longer wait and hope for other governments to step in and forcefully bring relief. Daily bombings, ground fighting, starvation, and preventable disease are claiming lives right now.The End Nuba Genocide Coalition, an international network of organizations, faith-based institutions, genocide scholars, and individuals has come together to raise funds for the purchasing and delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid, including food, medicine, clinic supplies, and clean water solutions directly into the Nuba Mountains and to refugees who have fled to South Sudan. International bodies and other governments may not be willing to push aid directly into war-affected areas, but together we are.

Join the End the Nuba Genocide Campaign 

Here is how you can help support these efforts:

  1. Learn about the assessment team's trip by reading Waging Peace in a Changing Sudan.
  2. Make a one-time investment to these relief efforts.
  3. Be an important leader of the End the Nuba Genocide Campaign by becoming a core fundraiser.
  4. Spread the word. Ask your friends, family, and coworkers to join.
If you would like to donate by check or cash, please make contributions out to "Operation Broken Silence" with the words "End the Nuba Genocide" in the memo line and send to: Operation Broken Silence, P.O. Box 3715, Cordova, TN, 38018
 
Please include your email address in the envelope so we can email you a receipt. If you would like to donate to a particular indviduals campaign, please include their name as well. 


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Genocide Watch Previous Alerts

11 March 2012, "Why Save Darfur Didn t Save Darfur" By The Genocide Watch

 9 March 2012, "Genocide Emergency" , By The Genocide Watch

10 June 2011, "Genocide Watch for the Nuba Mountains in Sudan", By The Genocide Watch



 

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Law and Legislation

Proposed Nuba Mountains Legislation will track Darfur law (Click Here)

For supportive information on the extension of the scorched-earth genocide policy (Click Here)

To view the "Public Redacted Version of the Prosecutor's Application under Article 58" by International Criminal Court for the Situation in Darfur, Sudan, click here

South Kordofan a growing concern

The situation in the Nuba Mountains is dire.  The government in Khartoum continues to launch aerial attacks on civilians, humanitarian aid is restricted, and the number of wounded and killed is growing by the hour.  Hundreds and thousands of civilians are fleeing to South Sudan and Ethiopia.  The influx of refugees is creating yet another humanitarian catastrophe.  Inadequate food supplies are causing famine like conditions.  Read More

“I came because I was starving,” said Muhasin Kuwa, a 24-year-old woman who just arrived at the refugee camp. Both of her parents had starved to death, along with seven small children in her small village, she said. Click here

Sudan on the brink of War

In a two-hour interview on Blue Nile TV, the president of Sudan Omer Hassan al-Bashir stated that war is now a possibility.   "The climate now is closer to a climate of war than one of peace." Bashir  
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Updates     

20 November 2012 "Addressing the UN on Sudan: Possible Futile, but still Necessary" By Faith McDonnell

22 November 2012 "Sudan: 13 Arrested on Charges of Plotting Coup" By The Associated Press

28 November 2012 "Urgent Action: 60 Nuba Civilians Detained in Dillanj" By Arry

16 November 2012 "Sudan: Power Struggle in Khartoum" By David L. Phillips and Ahmed Hussain Adam, All Africa

14 November 2012 "Muslims, Christians Targeted by Sudanese Strongman Al-Bashir in Aerial Assault" By Joshua Rhett Miller

14 November 2012 "Government of South Kordofan Arrests Dozens of Women on Charges of Spying" By Mubarak Abdulrahman Ardol

20 November 2012 Humanitarian Crisis in South Kordofan and Blue Nile states of Sudan By Hannibal Travis

12 November 2012 "International Acceptance of Khartoum's Continuing Campaign of Extermination" By Eric Reeves

11 November 2012 "Letter to the UN Security Council"

12 November 2012 "As if We are Not Living on the Same Planet" By Yasir Arman, Secretary General, SPLM - North

8 November 2012 "UN Elects Genocidal Sudan to it's Economic and Social Council"

7 November 2012 "Sudan: North Darfur Attack Kills 13 Civilians" By Human Rights Watch

3 November 2012 "Sudan Blocks UN Force from Investigating Deaths" By ABC News, Associated Press

5 November 2012 "Concerning Civilians in Blue Nile and South Kordofan, an open letter to: Princeton Lyman" by Eric Reeves

2 November 2012 "Sudan Marginalized Forum USA: Condemn the Sudanese Communist Party's Shamed Statement on the Bombing of Yarmouk Military Factory as a "Scandal Line Support of the Islamo-Arab Extremists"

1 November 2012 "Genocidal Massacres in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile State, Sudan" Hashem Mekki, Genocide Watch

31 October 2012 "Darfu Seeks USD 8 Bln from Donor Nations" By Arab News, Kuwait News Agency

18 October 2012 "UN Demands Probe Into Darfur Mission Attack" By Al Jazeera

11 October 2012 "Fiddling While Sudan Burns" By Rabbi Kaufman

17 October 2012 "Activists Claim Video Shows Sudanese Forces Repeating Darfur Genocide" By Guardian Reporter, Mail & Guardian

8 October 2012 "State news: Sudan to Reopen Boarders with South Sudan" By CNN Wire Staff

2 October 2012 "Sudan Urges Cancellation of its Debt" By Al Jazeera

2 October 2012 "Sudan: Changes in Demographic Composition, and Ethnic Displacement" By Hamid Eltgani, AllAfrica

27 September 2012 "Sudan and South Sudan Sign Landmark Deal" By Al Jazeera

27 September 2012 "Sudan: Egyptian President Criticizes International Community for Not Rewarding Sudan" By AllAfrica

23 September 2012 "Sudanese Refugee Admission to US Lowest in 10 years but non-immigrant visas at its highest" By Sudan Tribune

20 September 2012 "
ACT FOR SUDAN LETTER TO THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL ON EMERGENCY NEED FOR HUMANITARIAN RELIEF IN THE NUBA MOUNTAINS, BLUE NILE, AND DARFUR" By Act for Sudan African Centre for Justice and Peace Studies (ACJPS)

19 September 2012 "Bashir to Meet S Sudan Counterpart at Summit" By Al Jazeera

14 September 2012 "Egypt: Arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir" By Amnesty International

28 August 2012 "Darfurs invisible voice" By Eric Reeves

27 August 2012 "Chinese arms flowing into Sudan" By Voice of America

24 August 2012 "Sudanese refugees feel unique connection to Iowa" By Des Moines Register

20 August 2012 "An urgent plea for immediate food relief to starving people in the Nuba Mountains" By Dr. John Weiss 

August 2012 "Genocide watch has signed the following petition to President Obama" By Dr. Gregory Stanton

20 August 2012 "Sudan, Obama, and George Clooney-what is the real connection" By Eric Reeves

18 August 2012 "Parts of Darfur see stability but others are seething" By The New York Times

06 August 2012 "Sudan, S. Sudan set to resume negotiations in late August" By Voice of America

4 August 2012 "'Appalling' rate of child deaths in South Sudan camps -- MSF" By Katy Migiro, AlterNet 

02 August 2012 "Sudan, S.Sudan fail to reach agreement" By Voice of America

02 August 2012 "Clinton urgers Sudan, South Sudan to settle issues" By Voice of America

31 July 2012 "Eight killed during anti government deonstrations in Nyala" By Sudan Tribune

2 August 2012 "No Deal: Sudan and South Sudan fail to reach agreement by deadline" By Shannon Orcutt, United to End
Genocide

28 July 2012 "Jeffrey Gettlemans war against the Nuba-what does not appear"  By Eric Reeves

25 July 2012 "Sudan to hold direct political talks with SPLM-N-Rebels spokesperson" By Sudan Tribune

24 July 2012 "Fighting in Sudans Darfur region" By Ghana MMA

23 July 2012 "South Sudan makes new peace offer to Sudan"  By Voice of America


23 July 2012, " Sudan: Khartoum Rejects South Sudan's 'Last' Offer On Oil, Abyei ", By All Africa

22 July 2012 "Darfur moves yet deeper into the shadow of lies" By Eric Reeves

21 July 2012 "South Sudan cancels direct talks" By Ghana MMA

21 July 2012 "South Sudan accuses Sudan of bombing village while deadline for UN-mandate talks nears" By Associated
Press

18 July 2012, "U.S. Urges Sudan, South Sudan to Talk or Face Economic Turmoil" By William Davison, Bloomberg News

17 July 2012, "UN official says refugees from Sudan are suffering", By Associated Press

15 July 2012 "Romney advisers are zealous on Sudan, but is he?" By The Washington Times

14 July 2012 "Presidents of Sudan and South Sudan meet to avoid war" By Voice of America

12 juillet 2012 `` Droit de l`homme: Le Soudan interpellé`` Par Afriquejet

12 July 2012 " Sudan's faulty start", By The Associated Press

11 July 2012 "Forgotten Darfur- Old Tactics and New Players" by African Arguments

08 July 2012 "As Obama fiddles and makes empty promises, The Nuba mountains people continue to starve to death" By
Samuel Totten

07 July 2012 "Sudanese state officials killed in Ambush" By Voice of America

1 July 2012, " Breaking the Bareer of fear", By Aljazeera

30 June 2012 "Sudan detains anit government protesters" By AlJazeera

29 June 2012 "Obamas empty promises to halt genocide leaves it to us to act" By Samuel Totten

28 June 2012 ''Change is in he air in Sudan" By The Guardian

28 June 2012 "United Nations statement on Sudan" By Valerie Amons

28 June 2012 "Sudans 'ellbow lickers' are turning Omar al Bashir jibe against him" By The Guardian

27 June 2012 "Sudan desperate for Regime change over many years" By Eric Reeves

27 June 2012 "Recherche de fonds pour les refugiees au Soudan du Sud" Par Afriquejet

26 June 2012 "Sudan: Violent Crackdown on Protesters" By Human Rights Watch 

25 June 2012 "Israel denying refugee rights" By Africa Focus

25 June 2012 "Why the Khartoum Regime will Fall" By Eric Reeves 

25 June 2012, " Bashir says Sudan protests are no Arab Spring ", By Aljazeera

25 June 2012, " Why the Khartoum regime will fall ", By Eric Reeves

21 June 2012 "Sudan at the tipping point: Protests in Khartoum may portend regime change" By Eric Reeves

22 June 2012 "Genocide in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, one year later and counting" By Dissent Magazine

22 June 2012 "Sudan's ageing regime has few answers to the latest wave of protest" By Nesrine Malik, The Guardian

21 June 2012 "South Sudan: Arbitrary detentions, dire prison conditions" By Human Rights Watch

18 June 2012 "U.N. concerned by delays in peace bid for Sudan, South Sudan" By Michelle Nichols, Reuters

17 June 2012, "Student protests erupt in Khartoum and other Sudanese towns", By ST

14 June 2012 " South Sudan to seek International Arbitration", by ALl Africa

11 June 2012 "The truth wull out" By Eric Reeves

11 June 2012 "Nubia the right to life in ethnic cleansing" By Mukesh Kapila-Think Africa Press

09 June 2012 "From Peace Prize to paralysis" By Nicholas Kristof -New York Times

08 June 2012, " Young Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning Sudan", by SIHA network

05 June 2012 "ICC prosecutor to UN: Consider arrests of Sudanese officials indicted for crimes in Darfur" By Voice of
America

04 June 2012, " ICC prosecutor asks UN to consider asking all countries to arrest Sudan president over Darfur", By
Associated Press


03 June 2012 "Dozens killed in Darfur clashes" By Al Jazeera

01 June 2012 "Sudanese rebels call for urgent unilateral humanitarian assistance" By Sudan Tribune

30 May 2012 "Now is not the time for more lip service" By Samuel Totten

30 May 2012 " Sudan Peace talks 'Progressing Slowly'" By Voice of America

29 May 2012 " Sudans restart talks amid bombing accusations" By  Aaron Maasho and Hereward Holland, Reuters

28 May 2012 " Alarm over civilian plight in Blue Nile and South Kordofan"  By News.VA

22 May 2012 "South Sudan says Sudan bombd, shells its territory" by Juba Khartoum- Reuters

22 May 2012 " The Debating Chambers- Asking seriously about humanitarian access to Blue Nile and S.Kordofan" By Eric
Reeves, Reuters


17 May 2012 " Sudan: Repression Intensifies after Border Violence" By Human Rights Watch

10 May 2012 " In 2 Sudans, Familiarity with Path to War" By Josh Kron, New York Times

7 May 2012 "Will the Cease-fire Hold in Sudan Border Regions? A Timeline of Agreements Made and Abrogated by
Khartoum," by Eric Reeves, Briefs & Advocacy

7 May 2012 "Destiny of Sudan's Bashir lies with ICC," by Luse Kinivuwai, The Australian

5 May 2012 "Sudan says South Sudan troops inside its territory," by Yara Bayoumy, Reuters

4 May 2012 "In Sudan, Give War a Chance," by Gerard Prunier, The New York Times

4 May 2012 "Rival Sudans agree to AU roadmap," by Aljazeera.com

27 April 2012 "U.S. worsens Sudan situation in UNSC," by Rabbi Kaufman, Help Nuba Blogspot

27 April 2012 "Our Man in Khartoum," by the Wall Street Journal 

27 April 2012 "Bombing Sudan's air bases only way to protect innocents," by Franklin Graham 

26 April 2012 "U.S. introduces UNSC draft resoltuion in support of AU roadmap on Sudan," by Sudan Tribune 

26 April 2012 "UN drafts UN council resolution on Khartoum, Juba conflict," by Reuters 

25 April 2012 "South Sudan accuses Khartoum of declaring war," by Yara Bayoumy and Michael Martina, Reuters

24 April 2012 " Sudan and South Sudan on the Brink of Catastrophic War, " by Eric Reeves

24 April  2012 "Act for Sudan letter to UN Security Council," by Act for Sudan (Signed by Genocide Watch) 

24 April 2012 "South Sudan president says Sudan has 'declared war after Sudanese jets drop bombs on S. Sudan," by The
Associated Press

23 April 2012 "Scandalous International Hypocrisy on Sudan," by Eric Reeves

21 April 2012 "Sudan forces 'liberate Heglig town'," by Al Jazeera

19 April 2012 "Sudan & South Sudan on brink of all out war," by Peter Goodspeed, National Post

16 April 2012 "South Sudan- Sudan clashes spreading officials say, as planes bomb disputed town, killing 5," by
Associated Press

16 April 2012 "Sudanese Air force 'bombs UN camp,'" by Al Jazeera

15 April 2012 "S. Sudan repulsed SAF from Kuek, says in control of Heglig," by Sudan Tribune

13 April 2012 "Sudan/South on the Brink of Catastrophic War," by Eric Reeves

12 April 2012 "South Sudan refuses to withdraw troops from oilfield," by BBC

11 April 2012 "South Sudan troops move into disputed oil town," by Micheal Oyiego, Associated Press

10 April 2012 "South Sudan accuses Sudan of new attack," by Ulf Laessing & Jana Mlcochova, Reuters

9 April 2012 "In Sudan's Nuba Mountains, Rebels Make Gains and Talk of Marching on Khartoum, " by Alex Perry, TIME

8 April 2012 "Southern Kordofan: Unfinished Business," by Al Jazeera

8 April 2012 "Darfur & Kadugli (South Kordofan): Obduracy Rewarded," by Eric Reeves

6 April 2012 "Sudan and South Sudan wage propaganda war, by Ian Timberlake, AFP

4 April 2012 " South Sudan says it shot down Sudanese fighter jet as tensions escalate," by CNN

3 April 2012 "The White House Office of the Press Secretary," Statement by NSC Spokesman Tommy on Vietor on Sudan

31 March 2012 " The New York Times vs Radio Dabanga: What is the truth about returns to Darfur from eastern Chad?, " by
Eric Reeves

30 March 2012 "UNAMID officials claim 100,000 refugees returned to Darfur false," by Radio Dabanga

29 March 2012 "Sudan and South Sudan say no to war, but violence continues" by Alex Thurston, The Christian Science
Monitor

28 March 2012 "Conflict in the Heglig Region of South Kordofan: Implications," by Eric Reeves

28 March 2012 "Ethiopia to host AU -mediated Sudan talks," By Al Jazeera

28 March 2012 "Clashes continue as Sudan summit suspended" By Al Jazeera

23 March 2012 "Why George Clooney Was Arrested Last Week" by Eric Reeves

23 March 2012 " Sudan wants guarantees from Juba that Bashir will not be arrested upon his visit," by Sudanese Online

20 March 2012 "Sudan defers response to tripartite on South Kordofan aid?" by Sudan Tribune

17 March 2012 " Why No Pressure on Khartoum to Accept a Multilateral Humanitarian Access Proposal?" by Eric Reeves

16 March 2012 "George Clooney arrested in planned protest at Sudanese embassy" by Ryan Devereaux, The Guardian  

14 March 2012 "No deals in lastest round of Sudan-South Sudan talks" by AFP

14 March 2012 "George Clooney's lastest film a plea for help in South Sudan"  by Paul Harris, The Guardian

7 March 2012 "Women raped in front of son in Darfur" by Radio Dabanga

6 March 2012 "Sudan : Former UN official warns of Nuba Mts. Crisis" by Jason Straziuso, Associated Press

1 March 2012 " Sudan's defense minister wanted for war crimes"  by CNN

1 March 2012  " Women raped while fleeing South Kordofan Conflict," by Katie Nguyen, Trustlaw

28 February 2012 " South Kordofan governor comes under renewed pressure over performance" by Sudan Tribune

26 February 2012 " A Taste of Hope Sends Refugees Back to Darfur"  by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

19 February 2012 "Women in Sudan, No Escape from Misery," by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

18 February 2012 "In Sudan, Hearing Echoes of Darfur,"  by Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

17 February 2012 "Khartoum Moves to Strip Citizenship of 'Southern Sudanese, " by Eric Reeves

11 February 2012 " Sudan and South Sudan : The mother of all divorces," by The Economist

9 February 2012 "Passive in the face of Sudan atrocities," by Eric Reeves, The Washington Post

9 February 2012 " Sudan's Bashir accuses foreign groups of using Darfur for Profits, "by Sudanese Online

8 February 2012 "Go home Bashir tells Darfur's 2 million displaced," by Agence France Presse (AFP)

7 February 2012 "Civil war in Sudan Destruction, " by Eric Reeves

3 February 2012 "Sudan: U.S. Built Bible School Bombed," by The Associated Press

2 February 2012 "Sudan & Congo savaged as the world shrugs" by Michael O' Hanlon & John Prendergast, USA Today

25 January 2012 "Sudan, South Sudan & Oil Revenues Controvery Khartoums Obstructionism," by Eric Reeves

12 January 2012 "They Bombed Everything That Moved," by Eric Reeves

5 November 2011 "Sudan lodges Juba 'border war' protest at UN," by Simon Martelli, Agence France-Presse

1 November 2011 "Sudan Government Forces Kill, Rape Civilians in Blue Nile," by VOA News

24 October 2011 "Acquiescence Before Mass Human Destruction in Sudan's Border Regions," by Eric Reeves

21 October 2011 "S. Sudan welcomes US military help to fight LRA," by Reuters

20 October 2011 "Shariah advances as constitution is rewritten," by Michael Carl, World Net Daily

17 October 2011 "South Sudan: Compounding Instability in Unity State," by International Crisis Group

15 October 2011 "Sudan's Bashir leaves Malawi summit without arrest," by Agence France-Presse

14 October 2011 "Sudan's Blue Nile conflict forces painful return to Ethiopia," by Aaron Maasho, Reuters

13 October 2011 "US condemns attack on peacekeepers in Darfur," by Agence France-Presse

10 October 2011 "What Really Animates the Obama Administration's Sudan Policy?," by Eric Reeves

09 October 2011 "Leaders of Sudan and South Sudan Agree to End Disputes," by VOA News

6 October 2011 Save Darfur: END GENOCIDE ACTION SUMMIT

6 October 2011 "Congress Seeks Way Forward on Sudan Invites Enough Perspectives," by Sophie Rosenberg, Enough
Project

6 October 2011 "S. Sudan urges UN action on Khartoum troops in Abyei," by Agence France-Presse

6 October 2011 "Sudan conflict worsening food crisis," by United Press International (UPI)

28 September 2011 "Blue Nile: An imminent crisis in Sudan's war on its own people," by Eric Reeves, The New Republic

27 September 2011 "The UN panel of experts on Darfur disappears," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

18 September 2011 "The UN's man in Darfur: The expedient mendacity of Ibrahim Gambari," by Eric Reeves

17 September 2011 "Sudan vows to continue military campaign in Blue Nile," by Sudan Tribune

14 September 2011 "Sudan's NCP dismisses Wikileaks cables," by Sudan Tribune

12 September 2011 "Ethnic cleansing in North Sudan's Nuba Mountains," by Ismail Adam, Shams Alsonasi, Norman
Epstein

4 September 2011 "Sudan: UN says thousands flee fighting in two states," by James Copnall, BBC News

4 September 2011 "Blue Nile State (Sudan) and the resumption of country-wide war," by Eric Reeves, The Sudan Tribune

30 August 2011 "Darfur: No way forward from a dangerous and unsustainable situation," by Eric Reeves

30 August 2011 "Sudan still waging war in Nuba amid accusations of war crimes," by Alan Boswell, McClatchy Newspapers

25 August 2011 "Yet more compelling evidence of atrocity crimes in South Kordofan," by Eric Reeves

18 August 2011 "Reporting Darfur: Radio Dabanga and the 'black box' genocide," by Eric Reeves

15 August 2011 "UN urges probe into alleged Sudan war crimes," by Associated Press

11 August 2011 "A Creeping Military Coup in Khartoum," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

4 July 2011 "The Logic of War: Khartoum's Economy After Southern Secession," by Eric Reeves

July 2011 "Bombing Everything That Moves," by Eric Reeves

29 June 2011 "Sudan's President Visits China Ahead of South's Independence," by Haolan Hong and Jaime FlorCruz, CNN

14 June 2011 "Press Statement: Security and humanitarian situation in Southern Kordofan, Sudan," by Marc C. Toner,
Deputy Spokesperson, U.S. State Department

1 April 2011 "In Sudan, violence grows in Darfur as flashpoint town Abyei arms," by Larisa Epatko, PBS NewsHour

31 March 2011 "After peace vote, oil wealth threatens to return Sudan to violence," by MG Zimeta, The Atlantice

21 February 2011 "Sudan's president, in power since 1989, won't run again, spokesman says," by Jeffrey Gettleman, The
New York Times

3 February 2011 "The promise and peril of an independent republic of South Sudan," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

February 2011 "USAID Monthly Update: Sudan," by USAID

30 January 2011 "South Sudan referendum: 99 percent vote for independence," by BBC News

18 January 2011 "Southern Sudan: UN Security Council praises referendum," by BBC News

17 January 2011 "War Crimes Prosecution Watch Vol. 5, Issue 21," by Public International Law & Policy Group

16 January 2011 "In Sudan: Early results strongly lean to secession," by Josh Kron, The New York Times

9 January 2011 "Southern Sudan chooses: Unity or secession?" by Voice of America

9 January 2011 "South Sudanese referendum begins as key issues remain unsolved," by Douglas Mpuga, Voice of America

3 January 2011 "Southern Sudan '100% ready' for independence referendum," by BBC News

2 January 2011 "News Analysis: Peaceful vote on Sudan appears more likely," by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

2 January 2011 "Clooney continues push for Sudan peace," by Joseph Weber, The Washington Times

1 January 2011 "Prosecutor confirmes accusation against Sudan leader," by Marlise Simons, The New York Times

22 December 2010 "Encouraging Khartoum: South Sudan Victimized by 'Moral Equivalence'" by Eric Reeves, Sudan
Tribune

17 December 2010 "Darfur Moves Deeper into the Shadow of Indifference," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine (on-line)

30 November 2010 "EU and Africa urge peaceful Sudan referendum," by Ali Shuaib and Christian Lowe, Reuters

12 November 2010 "The Obama administration "decouples" Darfur," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

7 November 2010 "US revises offer to take Sudan off terror list," by Mark Landler, The New York Times

November 2010 "The Lord's Resistance Army of Today," by Ledio Cakaj, Enough Project

26 October 2010 "Darkness visible: The UN looks at Darfur but refuses to see," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

8 October 2010 "UN delegation presses Sudan to allow a referendum and avert a new civil war," by Mark Landler, The New
York Times

8 October 2010 "Accommodating Genocide: The international response to Khartoum's "New Strategy for Darfur"," by Eric
Reeves, Dissent Magazine

5 October 2010 "UN collaboration in the silencing of Darfur," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

29 September 2010 "Chronicle of a Genocide Foretold," Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

24 September 2010 "Obama presses for peace in likely Sudan partition," by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times

23 September 2010 "African Regional Committee on Genocide established," by Prof. William Schabas, President,
International Association of Genocide Scholars

12 September 2010 "US steps up efforts on Sudan vote," by Mark Landler, The New York Times

10 September 2010 "Hillary Clinton says Sudan is a 'ticking time bomb': but will she be able to diffuse it?" by Eric Reeves,
The New Republic

5 September 2010 "Op-ed-The gathering clouds of war: The international community needs to be firm with Sudan's thugs:
violent conflict is not an option," by Eric Reeves, the Boston Globe

4 September 2010 "Killings in IDP Zalingei Heamedia Camp, Darfur," Zalingei Heamedia

31 August 2010 "Rwanda Threatens to pull Peacekeepers from Darfur," by Jeffrey Gettleman and Josh Kron, The New  York
Times

31 August 2010 "Darfur Humanitarian Update," by Eric Reeves

30 August 2010 "Kenya Ignores ICC Arrest Warrant and Plays Host to President Omar Al Bashir of Sudan," by Africa Legal
Aid

25 August 2010 "Who speaks for the UN on Darfur? The Rold of Nigeria's Ibrahim Gambari," by Eric Reeves, Dissent
Magazine

28 August 2010 "Obama's failure in Sudan," by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

10 August 2010 "The end of a peacekeeping presence in Darfur?," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

6 August 2010 "Quantifying Genocide: Darfur Mortality Update," by Eric Reeves

4 August 2010 "Violence said to be rising in Sudan's Darfur region," by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times

27 July 2010 "German aid workers kidnapped in Darfur are free," by BBC News

27 July 2010 "African Union asks United Nations to suspend arrest warrants for al-Bashir," by Fred Ojambo, Bloomberg

20 July 2010 "Sudan's al-Bashir plans Chad visit," by Mail & Guardian Online

19 July 2010 "War Crimes Prosecution Watch Vol 5 Issue 8," by Public International Law & Policy Group

19 July 2010 "Two genocides and the perpetrators remain free," by John Heffernan, The Huffington Post

19 July 2010 "Sudan: State brutality and intimidation of political critics on a long list of problems," by Dana Hughes, ABC
News

17 July 2010 "Sudan's army clashes twice with rebels," by Reuters

15 July 2010 "Sudan: 2 Foreign workers expelled," by The Associated Press

14 July 2010 "ICC Prosecutor: Genocide charge to pressure Bashir," by Agence France-Presse

13 July 2010 "International Criminal Court charges Sudan's Omar Hassan al-Bashir with genocide," by Colum Lynch and
Rebecca Hamilton, The Washington Post

4 July 2010 "Humanitarian conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 2)," by Eric Reeves

30 June 2010 "Sudan releases prominent opposition leader," by Mohamed Osman, The Associated Press

21 June 2010 "War Crimes Prosecution Watch Vol. 5, Issue 6," by Public International Law & Policy Group


21 June 2010 "Three Rwandan peacekeepers 'killed in Darfur'," by BBC News

21 June 2010 "Sudan's next war and the failure of US leadership," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

18 June 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol. 18, No. 21," by Public International Law & Policy Group

18 June 2010 "Humanitarian conditions in Darfur: An Overview (Part 1)," by Eric Reeves

16 June 2010 "2 Sudanese war crimes suspects surrender to court," by Toby Sterling, The Associated Press

27 May 2010 "Shake hands with the devil: UN attends al-Bashir inauguration," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

21 May 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX No. 18," by Public International Law & Policy Group

18 May 2010 "Darfur's forgotten refugees and the humanitarian crisis in Chad," by Eric Reeves, Enough Project

15 May 2010 "Sudanese army says it has seized rebel stronghold in Darfur," by Reuters

13 May 2010 "What Khartoum has learned from its electoral 'triumph'," by Eric Reeves, Dissent Magazine

6 May 2010 "Darfur in the wake of Sudan's elections," by Eric Reeves

29 April 2010 "War Crimes Prosecution Watch Vol 4 Issue 26," by Public International Law & Policy Group


27 April 2010 "Sudan's future is now, US envoy says," by Mark Landler, The New York Times


27 April 2010 "Omar al-Bashir re-election in Sudan is a farce," by Louise Roland-Gosselin, The Guardian

26 April 2010 "Bashir wins election as Sudan edges toward split," by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

25 April 2010 "58 Dead after clashes in Sudan," by Reuters

21 April 2010 "Op-Ed: Obama backs down on Sudan," by Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times

20 April 2010 "Sudan Votes: Responding to an Electoral Travesty," by Eric Reeves

16 April 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX No 16," by Public International Law & Policy Group

15 April 2010 "News Update," by World Without Genocide


9 April 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX No 15," by Public International Law & Policy Group

8 April 2010 "An Open Letter to President Barack Obama," signed by Dr. Gregory Stanton - originally from the Save Darfur
Coalition

6 April 2010 "False democracy - or what to expect from the upcoming election in Sudan," by Eric Reeves, Dissent
Magazine

2 April 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX, No 14," by
Public International Law & Policy Group

26 March 2010 "Once again, world is silent on Darfur," by Eric Reeves, The Boston Globe

19 March 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX, No. 12," by Public International Law & Policy Group

12 March 2010 "
Peace Negotiations Watch Vol IX, No.11," by Public International Law & Policy Group

4 March 2010 "Sudan: Anniversary of the closure of national human rights organisations," by Amnesty International

1 March 2010 "War Crimes Prosecution Watch Vol 4, Issue 24," by Public International Law and Policy Group


26 February 2010 "Peace Negotiations Watch, Vol. IX, No. 9," by Public International Law & Policy Group

25 February 2010 "Darfur Fighting Mars Peace Pact in Sudan," by BBC News

25 February 2010 "Enough experts lay out the preliminary deal between the Sudanese government and the Darfuri rebel
group JEM," The Enough Project Team

2 February 2010 "Darfur: Where celebrities love to tread," by Lucy Fleming, BBC News

1 February 2010 "The right terms for a wrong engagement," by Alain Deletroz, European Voice

4
February 2010 "SAAF Update 3-2010," by Sudan Advocacy Action Forum

3 February 2010 "Darfur: International Criminal Court's Decision on Bashir Arrest," by Human Rights Watch

30 January 2010 "Save Darfur President Jerry Fowler to Step Down," by Save Darfur Coalition

29 January 2010 "Will the Obama administration truly support an independent South Sudan?," by Eric Reeves

27 January 2010 "Sudan: Deposed Prime Minister to Run for President," by Reuters

17 January 2010 "Civilians at risk: Human security and Humanitarian aid in Darfur," by Eric Reeves

13 January 2010 "SAAF Update 2-2010," by Sudan Advocacy Action Forum

5 January 2010 "Sudan's new year of fear," by Ros Wynne-Jones, The Guardian

23 December 2009 "Jonglei's Tribal Conflicts: Countering Insecurity in South Sudan," by International Crisis Group

22 December 2009 "Elections Face Tribal Violence Threat," by Institute for War & Peace Reporting

21 December 2009 "Stealing an Election in Slow Motion: Time for Real Consequences," by John Prendergast, ENOUGH
Project

18 December 2009 "The Lord's Resistance Army and the Threat Against Civilians in Southern Sudan," by Ledio Cakaj,
ENOUGH Project

17 December 2009 "Field Dispatch: Jonglei, Southern Sudan," by John Prendergast, The Huffington Post

17 December 2009 "Sudan: Preventing Implosion," by International Crisis Group

14 December 2009 "Darfur Darfur peace talks between government and rebels to start in January - mediation," by Sudan
Tribune

12 December 2009 "Violence Grips South Sudan as Vote Nears," by Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times

7 December 2009 "Tensions soar in Sudan with violent clashes and political arrests,"  By Mark Tran,  Guardian


5 December 2009 "5 Peacekeepers in Darfur Die in Rebel Attacks", by the Associated Press

4 December 2009 "Prosecutor says new charges possible in Darfur," by Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press

24 November 2009 "Africa's New Threat: Sudan at Fash Point," By Eric Reeves, The Christian Science

Monitor

20 November 2009 "What To Do About Sudan Now," by John Prendergast, ENOUGH

9 November 2009 "Field Dispatch: Rampant Insecurity in South Kivu," by Noel Atama, ENOUGH Project

9 November 2009 "Election Crisis Reveals a Country Lurching Toward War," by Eric Reeves

6 November 2009 "Sudan: Reform National Security Law," by Human Rights Watch

5 November 2009 "Field Dispatch: Voter Registration Efforts Underway in Sudan," by Maggie Fick, ENOUGH

30 October 2009 "Africa backs Darfur crimes court," by BBC News

28 October 2009 "AU: Back Mbeki Panel Call for Darfur Prosecutions," by Human Rights Watch

27 October 2009 "Darfur Rebel Questions Neutrality of Peacekeeping Base," by Katy Glassborow, Institute for War & Peace
Reporting

20 October 2009 "White House Unveils Sudan Strategy," by Brian Knowlton

20 October 2009 "Talking to Sudan", by The New York Times

19 October 2009 "The Fierce Urgency of Implementation: The New U.S. Policy in Sudan," by John Prendergast, ENOUGH

13 October 2009 "A Political Settlement for Darfur: A Practical Roadmap," by Omer Ismail, Colin Thomas-Jensen, Maggie
Fick, and John Prendergast, ENOUGH

18 October 2009 "Sudan's critics relieved that Obama chose a middle course," by Ginger Thompson, The New York Times

6 October 2009 "The Way Forward: Ending Human Rights Abuses and Repression across Sudan," by Human Rights Watch

29 September 2009 "U.S. Envoy's Outreach to Sudan Is Criticized as Naive," by Stephanie McCrummen, The Washington
Post

 21 September 2009 "More than 100 dead in south Sudan attack-officials," by Reuters

 9 September 2009 "Avoiding Total War in Sudan: The Urgent Need for a Different U.S. Strategy," by ENOUGH

9 September 2009 "On genocide and 'organ theft': Misinterpreting the genocide in Darfur," Op-ed by CSM

6 September 2009 "Deaths in South Sudan tribal clash," by Al Jazeera

6 September 2009 "Tribesman attack a village in Southern Sudan, killing 20," by Reuters

3 September 2009 "Has war ended in Darfur?" by Eric Reeves, The Sudan Tribune

2 September 2009 "Commentary: Were Darfur promises for real?," by CNN News

2 September 2009
"South Sudan tribal violence kills at least 1,200," by Reuters

2 September 2009
"Resilience in Darfur," by DanChurchAid

1 September 2009 "Two Years to Self Destruct in Sudan," by John Norris, Foreign Policy

28 August 2009 "As Darfur fighting diminishes, UN officials focus on South of Sudan" by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York
Times



27 August 2009 "War in Sudan's Darfur 'is over'," by BBC News

27 August 2009 "Sudan's Darfur no longer at war: peacekeeping chief," by Reuters

26 August 2009 "Obama's Envoy Agrees: Sudan Is Urgent," by Chris Good, The Atlantic Monthly Group

26 August 2009 "Sudan Now," by John Norris, The Huffington Post

26 August 2009 "Leader of Darfur Peacekeeping Mission Resigns," by Reuters

25 August 2009 "Khartoum's strategic assault on Southern self-determination referendum," by Eric Reeves

25 August 2009 "Sudan critics follow Obama to Martha's Vineyard," by Foreign Policy

25 August 2009 "Activists press Obama on Darfur," by Foon Rhee, Boston.com

24 August 2009 "In Ads, Darfur Activists Urge Obama to Get Tougher," by The Associated Press


24 August 2009 "Thousands flee renewed LRA rebel raids," by IRIN

21 August 2009 "'Progress' at Darfur peace talks," by BBC News

19 August 2009 "The 'genocide' in Darfur isn't what it seems," by Marc Gustafson, CSM

13 August 2009 "Khartoum denies arming militias," by BBC News

11 August 2009 "End Violence in Jonglei State," by Human Rights Watch

10 August 2009 "Horrors of South Sudan massacre," by BBC News

6 August 2009 "Dialogue with Sudan government, rebels needed: U.S. envoy," by Louis Charbonneau


4 August 2009 "160 killed in Sudan tribal attack" by Reuters

23 July 2009 "Court redraws disputed area in Sudan" by Sharon Otterman, The New York Times

27 July 2009 "Chad's Domestic Crisis: The Achilles heel for Peacemaking in Darfur," by ENOUGH

25 July 2009 "Darfuris 'face election hurdles'," by BBC News

23 July 2009 "Court Redraws Disputed Area in Sudan," by Sharon Otterman, The New York Times

23 July 2009 "Hague border ruling raising peace hopes in Sudan" by Aaron Gray-Block, Reuters

18 July 2009 "Sudan: Cooperation Better, U.N. Finds," by Reuters


17 July 2009 "Sudan: Justice, Peace and the ICC," by International Crisis Group


15 July 2009 "Abyei: Sudan's Next Test," by Colin Thomas-Jensen and Maggie Fick, ENOUGH

13 July 2009 "The Seven Excuses of Inaction for Darfur," by Dr. Mukesh Kapila, UN Watch

8 July 2009 "Sudan: Prosecutor Appeals for Genocide Charge Against President," by Reuters


1 July 2009 "
Escalating Violence In Sudan Raises Concerns Over Stability," by Nadia McGill, ADRA

30 June 2009 "Africa and The International Court" by Kofi Annan, Op-Ed Contributor for The New York Times

29 June 2009 "Africa issues year-long ultimatum to ICC over "impartiality charges"" by PANA Press

26 June 2009 "ICC Prosecutor wins right to appeal dropping genocide charges against Sudan's Bashir" by The Sudan Tribune

24 June 2009 "White House Boosts Effort to Salvage North-South Peace in Sudan," by Mary Beth Sheridan, The Washington
Post

22 June 2009 "Sudan: The countdown," By Gerard Prunier and Maggie Fick, ENOUGH

21 June 2009 "Southern Sudan: Improve Response to Ethnic Violence," by Human Rights Watch


21 June 2009 "Guns, children, and cattle are the new currency of war in Southern Sudan" by Tracy McVeigh, The Observer

19 June 2009 "Human Rights Council to Continue Monitoring Darfur" Associated Press

18 June 2009 "Sudan's 'Coordinated' Genocide in Darfur Is Over, U.S. Envoy Says" by Colum Lynch, Washington Post Staff
Writer

18 June 2009 "US Tries to Walk Back From Comments Downplaying Genocide in Darfur," by Elizabeth Gorman and Devin
Dwyer, ABC News


17 June 2009 "Attacks by Forces on Civilians in Darfur Continue, U.N. Official Says" by Reuters


14 June 2009 "Whitewashing Darfur" by Eric Reeves, The Guardian

12 June 2009 "Sudan again allows aid groups" by Neil McFarquhar, The New York Times

11 June 2009 "Bashir slips out of court's grasp" by Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

10 June 2009 "Sudan's Election Paradox" by Adam O'Brien, ENOUGH

4 June 2009 "Falling Short On Sudan," by John Norris, ENOUGH Project


31 May 2009 "
Doctors Group: Rape is Common Against Darfur Women" by Peter James Spielmann, The Associated Press

29 May 2009 "
Sudan says 244 have died in clashes this week" by Agence France-Presse

29 May 2009 "
Sudan Says 244 Have Died in Clashes This Week" by Agence France-Press

26 May 2008 "Clashes Near Chad?s Border," by Reuters


25 May 2009 "Sudan: Clashes Near Chad's Border" by Reuters

24 May 2009 "Britain Failing to Make Bashir's Arrest a Priority, says ICC's Chief Prosecutor" by Afua Hirsch, The Guardian

21 May 2009 "Prevent Recurrence of Violence in Southern Town," by Human Rights Watch

21 May 2009 "Tribal Violence Threatens Sudan Elections" by The Associated Press

18 May 2009 "Darfurian Rebel Commander to Face War Crimes Charges" by Marlise Simons, The New York Times

17 May 2009 "Sudanese Rebel Leaders Face War Crimes Charge" by Colum Lynch, Washington Post

1 May 2009 "Sudan: Aid Workers are Freed" by The Associated Press

27 April 2009 "

US State Dept. moves toward appeasement policy with Khartoum
" by Sudan Tribune

26 April 2009 "

Ethiopia's Regional governor blasts ICC's decision as "madness"" by Sudan Tribune

25 April 2009 "

Sudan's Bashir will not be invited to Zuma's inauguration: report" by Sudan Tribune

25 April 2009 "A Town Constantly on Brick of Chaos" by Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post Foreign Service

25 April 2009 "Precarious South Essential to Sudan" by
Stephanie McCrummen, Washington Post Foreign Service

23 April 2009 "

Sudan sentences more 11 Darfur rebels to death over May attack" by Sudan Tribune

22 April 2009 "UN boss says Sudan denying camp space to 36000 Darfur refugees" by Sudan Tribune

22 April 2009 "Sudan's Bashir welcomed in Ethiopia despite warrant" by RNW International Justice Desk

22 April 2009 "France says arrest warrant for Darfur suspects must be executed" by Sudan Tribune

22 April 2009 "
100 Die in Southern Sudan in New Outbreak of Old Tribal Conflict" by Adam Nossiter, The New York Times

20 April 2009 "ICC prosecutor adds new name(s) to case against Darfur rebels" by Sudan Tribune

19 April 2009 "ICC prosecutor calls for isolating Sudan president" by Sudan Tribune

16 April 2009 "Egypt FM challenges ICC to execute warrant against Sudan's Bashir" by Sudan Tribune

14 April 2009 "9 Are Hanged for Newspaper Editor's Murder" by Reuters

31 March 2009 "Often Split, Arab Leaders Unite for Sudan?s Chief" by MICHAEL SLACKMAN and ROBERT F. WORTH, The New
York Times

31 March 2009 "Obama Urges Sudan to Allow Aid Groups Back Into the Country" by Peter Baker, The New York Times

30 March 2009 "The Darfur the West Isn?t Recognizing as It Moralizes About the Region" by Howard French, The New York
Times

30 March 2009 "Arab Leaders Back 'Wanted Bashir'" by BBC News

28 March 2009 "Punishment or Aid?" by Chrostophe Fournier, Op-Ed in the New York Times

27 March 2009 "Sudanese President Reportedly Visits Libya" by Sharon Otterman, The New York Times

25 March 2009 "U.N. Official Calls Darfur Aid Tenuous" by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times

24 March 2009 "Sudan?s President Makes Trip Abroad" by Anahad O'Connor, The New York Times

21 March 2009 "U.N. Official Says Darfur Continues to Crumble" by Neil MacFarquhar, The New York Times

21 March 2009 "Darfur, an ICC Arrest Warrant, and the Humanitarian Imperative" by Eric Reeves, The Boston Globe

20 March 2009 "Darfur Betrayed, Again" by John Morlino, The Sudan Tribune

18 March 2009 "Sudan: Gunmen Kill a Peacekeeper" by Reuters, The New York Times

18 March 2009 "Adding Pressure to Sudan, Obama Will Tap Retired General as Special Envoy" by Peter Baker, The New York
Times

16 March 2009 "Village Raids Kill Over 200 in the South of Sudan" by Reuters, The New York Times

16 March 2009 "WANTED: New Recruits and Energy" by The Center for American Progress

14 March 2009 "ICC prosecutor seeks appeal on Sudan president genocide charges" by Sudan Tribune

14 March 2009 "ICC to add genocide to Beshir warrant" by The Syndey Morning Herald

11 March 2009 "Sudan's Bashir to travel 'selectively' and in 'secrecy'; Official" by The Sudan Tribune

10 March 2009 "Sudan Releases Opposition Figure" by Lydia Polgreen, The New York Times

10 March 2009 "ICC Prosecutor Press Judges for Ruling on Rebel Case by Wednesday" by The Sudan Tribune

9 March 2009 "Sudan?s President Issues a Warning" by The New York Times

8 March 2009 "Watching Darfuris Die" by Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

7 March 2009 "Omar al-Bashir may face New Charges for Ousting Aid Agencies from Sudan" by Catherine Philip, The Times
(London)

7 March 2009 "U.N. Panel Deadlocks Over Taking Any Action on Sudan" by Neil MacFarquhar and Sharon Otterman, The New
York Times

7 March 2009 "Holding Mr. Bashir Accountable" Editorial, The New York Times

6 March 2009 "To put justice before peace spells disaster for Sudan" by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, The Guardian

6 March 2009 "Bashir Defies War Crime Arrest Order" by Neil MacFarquhar and Marlise Simons, The New York Times

5 March 2009 "International Criminal Court Working to Protect African Victims" by Amnesty International

5 March 2009 "Will an International Arrest Warrant for Sudan's President Help the People of Darfur?" Editorial, The Washington
Post

5 March 2009 "Court Issues Warrant for Sudan's Leader" by Marlise Simons & Neil MacFarquahar, The New York Times

5 March 2009 "Sudan Ousts Aid Groups After Court Pursues President" by Stephanie McCrummen & Colum Lynch, The
Washington Post

5 March 2009 "Grounding Sudan's Killers" by Merrill A. McPeak & Kurt Bassuener, The Washington Post

5 March 2009 "A President, a Boy and Genocide" by Nicholas D. Kirstof, The New York Times

3 March 2009 "Khartoum's Threats" by Eric Reeves

3 March 2009 "Will Africa Let Sudan Off the Hook?" by Desmond Tutu, The New York Times

3 March 2009 "Put Peace Before Justice" by Franklin Graham, The New York Times

26 February 2009 "Africa's Obama School" by Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times

24 February 2009 "Hague Court Will Pursue Sudan Leader" by Marlise Simons, The New York Times

18 February 2009 "Sudan and Darfur Rebel Groups Agree to Peace Talks" by Sharon Otterman, The New York Times

17 February 2009 "International Community Fails to Protect Darfur" by Amnesty International

17 February 2009 "Darfur Endgame: Peace or Justice in Sudan" by Eric Reeves

12 February 2009 "What the Warrant Means" by ENOUGH

12 February 2009 "South Sudan soldiers guilty of abuses - report" by Reuters

12 February 2009 "Judges Approve Warrant for Sudan?s President" by MARLISE SIMONS and NEIL MacFARQUHAR

3 February 2009 "Another Bloodbath in Darfur?" by Eric Reeves

2 February 2009 "Sudan Asks Peacekeepers to Leave a Town" by The New York Times

2 February 2009 "Eric Reeves comments on UNAMID pullout from Darfur town" by Eric Reeves

1 February 2009 "Sudan orders UN peacekeepers out of Muhajeriya, South Darfur" by Aegis Trust

28 January 2009 "Living in fear after LRA atrocities" by Peter Martell, BBC News

26 January 2009 "Sudan?s Government Bombs Rebel-Held Town in Darfur" by The New York Times

24 January 2009 "Sudan Fired on Civilians Unlawfully, Report Says" 
by Colum Lynch, The Washington Post

15 January 2009 "Political Foe of President in Sudan is Arrested, Family Says," by Reuters

1 January 2009 "Darfur Enmeshed Within Sudan's Broadening National Crisis" by Eric Reeves


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For More Information, Please See:

Judgement on Genocide in Sudan: Indictment of Omar al-Bashir, Trial in New York City, 13 November 2006.

Genocide Emergency Update: 14 June 2006

Ideology in Arms, by Julie Flint and Alex de Waal, The Sudan Tribune, 30 August 2005

Overview from UNHCR: Chad/Darfur Emergency

Sign a petition to save Darfur: Demand international action.

Grassroots call to action for Darfur- OurPledge.org: Communities Against the Darfur Genocide

Reports and Analysis from other Human Rights Organizations

Reports and Analyses from Eric Reeves

Sudan: Amnesty International

Crisis in Darfur: International Crisis Group

Sudan: Human Rights Watch

Genocide Intervention Network

Darfur Peace and Development Organization


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