Why South Sudan fails politically and economically
South Sudan’s Kiir. Photo: Reuters By James Tot Mathiang June 30, 2017 (SSNA) — South Sudan is a country created after 50 decades of brutal civil war, that ravaged the…
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Letter to Congress from Former Special Envoys for Sudan, Throwing Their Weight Behind Lifting of Sanctions on Sudan: A Critique
Sudan’s al Bashir. Photo: Getty Images/File By Eric Reeves June 30, 2017 (SSNA) — Yesterday, June 29, 2017, former Obama administration Special Envoys for Sudan Princeton Lyman and Donald Booth, along…
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Why does South Africa return to its darkness moment?
South African national flag. Photo: Getty Images By Dr. Gatluak Ter Thach* June 27, 2017 (SSNA) — In June 1961, African National Congress (ANC), the current Republic of South Africa’s…
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Cholera Epidemic in Sudan Now Reaches Darfur: As the rainy season begins in earnest, the implications are terrifying
Photo: sudanreeves.org/Getty Images/File By Eric Reeves June 25, 2017 (SSNA) — What we know from previous reporting about cholera in Sudan and the country’s collapsing medical system: “The collapse of…
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Slashing UNAMID Translates Into Numerous Base Closings; Results Will Likely be Catastrophic in Some Areas
Photo: sudanreeves.org By Eric Reeves June 23, 2017 (SSNA) — Sources within the UN have released the list of UNAMID bases to be closed or stripped of a military (as…
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Sudan, Libya, and Support for Radical Islamic Militants: A Vignette
“General and First Vice President, perhaps the most powerful man in the Khartoum regime—certainly he is essential to President al-Bashir’s grip on power. He was director of the National Intelligence…
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World Refugees’ Day: What does it mean for you and me?
“A young refugee from South Sudan at the Numanzi Transit Center where meals and temporary accommodation are provided by UNHCR in Adjumani, northern Uganda.” Photo: UNHCR/Getty Images/File By Dr. Gatluak…
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UN Security Council to Slash UNAMID
UN Security Council. Photo: UN/File Khartoum applauds UN move; Darfuri displaced call it a “major disappointment and flagrant mistake”; Human Rights Watch declares that deep cuts are “misguided” and based…
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New ideas: Culture of crime
A soldier of the SPLA. Photo: Eye Radio/File By Amb Dhano Obongo June 16, 2017 (SSNA) — A few days after the Easter break, a friend of mine, a colleague,…
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An open letter to UNSC Chair
Photo: UN R: IGAD Chair and Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia R: Field Marshal Omer Hassan Ahmed Al-Bashir, President of the Republic of Sudan R: President…
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“Almost 4,000,000 Sudanese displaced by fighting”— Norwegian Refugee Council
A Darfur refugees camp. Photo: Getty Images/File This Al Jazeera dispatch hardly suggests that humanitarian access has improved in Darfur or anywhere else in Sudan: “Hundreds of thousands of people…
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U.S. Sudan Policy Continues to be Defined by Disingenuousness and Distortion: Radio Dabanga’s interview with former Obama administration Special Envoy for the Sudans Donald Booth
Former US’s Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donlad Booth. Photo: sudanreeves.org/Getty Images/File By Eric Reeves May 21, 2017 (SSNA) — In a wide-ranging interview with Radio Dabanga published a…
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New Militia Attacks on African Villages in Darfur Are Emblematic of Continuing Genocide: The World’s Forgetting and Ignoring is Now Complete
Photo: sudanreeves.org/File By Eric Reeves May 8, 2017 (SSNA) — The militia attacks near Nierteti (western Central Darfur) reported today by Radio Dabanga are identical to those that were occurring…
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Former U.S. Special Envoy for Sudans Princeton Lyman—still pushing expedient, mendacious claims about Khartoum regime
Former U.S. Special Envoy, Princeton N. Lyman. Photo: Reuters By Eric Reeves May 6, 2017 (SSNA) — If anyone thought that the views expressed by former Special Envoy for the…
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Atrocities for sale in South Sudan
“The U.N. has accused South Sudan of perpetrating war crimes in a new report that reveals that children have been burned alive and women have been raped as payment. March…
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Analysis: The real reasons behind South Sudan crisis
Government soldiers. Photo: Reuters By Peter Gai Manyuon April 26, 2017 (SSNA) — Comparatively, the combination of parasites, pests, bedbugs and suspicion within Sudan People Liberation Movement (SPLM) leadership caused…
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