Obama and Sudan: The Futility of Mere Hopefulness
By Eric Reeves January 2, 2011 January 4, 2011 (SSNA) — In April 2008 candidate Barack Obama expressed “deep concern” that the Bush administration was making an unseemly deal…
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Encouraging Khartoum: South Sudan Victimized by “Moral Equivalence”
By Eric Reeves December 22, 2010 (SSNA) — In the grim end-game to negotiations that seek to bring about a peaceful self-determination referendum for South Sudan, the Obama administration seems…
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By Eric Reeves December 17, 2010 (SSNA) — With international attention focused so relentlessly on the referenda in South Sudan and Abyei—scheduled to be held less than four weeks from…
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By Eric Reeves December 9, 2010 (SSNA) — Commentary on the impending referenda for southern Sudan and the Abyei border region, while proliferating rapidly, has reached no consensus about how…
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By Eric Reeves November 26, 2010 (SSNA) — The carefully planned military coup that brought the National Islamic Front to power in June of 1989 was timed to forestall the…
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Khartoum is given free rein to obtain its "perfect ending" ("Misk al-Khitam") By Eric Reeves November 12, 2010 (SSNA) — The relationship between Darfur and Southern Sudan has never been…
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One year on, a look-back at a warning in The Christian Science Monitor, November 2009 By Eric Reeves November 1, 2010 November 1, 2010 (SSNA) — It has been clear…
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By Eric Reeves October 26, 2010 (SSNA) — On October 20, 2010 the Darfuri news outlet Radio Dabanga—alone among all news organizations in the world—reported a remarkable admission by Nils…
Read More Arming Khartoum: China’s Complicity in the Darfur Genocide
By Eric Reeves October 18, 2010 (SSNA) — On July 8, 2008, at approximately 2:45pm local time, heavily armed Janjaweed militia attacked a joint police and military patrol of the…
Read More SPLM Dilemma: The Futility of Rescuing the CPA from itself
By Paan Luel Wel (Washington DC, USA) Forewarned is forearmed—English proverbs. October 10, 2010 (SSNA) — Currently in Southern Sudan, there are two prevailing moods regarding the referendum: hope and fear. These two…
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