Africa: A Continent of Hope
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Photo: AFP/Getty Images By António Guterres February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Far too often, the world views Africa through the prism of problems. When I look…
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The Increasingly Ominous Fate of U.S. Sudan Policy under President Trump
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Tom Pennington/Getty Images By Eric Reeves February 3, 2017 (SSNA) — Among the myriad Executive Orders that President Trump has inherited from the Obama administration…
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New ideas: Israeli politics
Ambassador Dhano Obongo. Photo: File By Dhano Obongo February 2, 2017 (SSNA) — In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. Then He made people and things became complicated. At…
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Trump bans Sudanese from entering to U.S territory
US President Donald Trump. Photo: Business Insider/Getty Images/File By Eric Reeves January 28, 2017 (SSNA) — Here is a revealing glimpse into the kinds of indiscriminate, ignorant, ham-fisted policies that…
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What the Cholera Epidemic in Sudan Tells Us About the Absurdity of Lifting U.S. Sanctions on Khartoum
“Cholera—the face of human suffering.” Photo: sudanreeves.org By Eric Reeves January 25, 2017 (SSNA) — Former Obama administration UN Ambassador Samantha Power’s claim that there has been a “sea change” of…
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Civil lawsuit on behalf of Sudanese victims of Khartoum’s atrocity crimes brought against BNP Paribas in U.S. Federal District Court (filed January 20, 2017)
Sudan President Omar al Bashir. Photo: Reuters/Getty Images By Eric Reeves January 21, 2017 (SSNA) — The civil suit brought yesterday on behalf of victims of atrocity crimes for which…
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Did Sudan use chemical weapons in Darfur last year?
Sudanese President Omar al Bashir. Photo: Sudan Ministry of Information/Getty Images/File By Jonathan Loeb [Note: many of the chemical weapons attacks in the nine-month assault on Jebel Marra occurred during…
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The Final Betrayal of Sudan: Obama administration’s lifting of economic sanctions
US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power. Photo: sudanreeves.org The Final Betrayal of Sudan: Obama administration’s lifting of economic sanctions; UN Ambassador Samantha Power justifying the move, claiming a…
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New ideas: Biblical teaching and civil rulers
Ambassador Dhano Obongo By Ambassador Dhano Obongo January 13, 2017 (SSNA) — When I went to Australia in 1997 for resettlement as a political refugee, the commonwealth government offered the…
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The Nertiti Massacre: The real meaning of al-Bashir’s declared “cease-fire”
Photo: sudanreeves.org By Eric Reeves January 2, 2017 (SSNA) — We learn today from a wide range of sources just how meaningful Omar al-Bashir’s declaration of a one-month extension of…
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How Uganda Outsmarts the United States in South Sudan
Uganda’s President, Yoweri Museveni. Photo: Findlay Kember/AFP By Duop Chak Wuol December 30, 2016 (SSNA) — Ugandan President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is the epitome of a Pan-Africanist who can praise…
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Women on the move
Ambassador Dhano Obongo. Photo: Youtube/File By Ambassador Dhano Obongo December 28, 2016 (SSNA) — These days we observe that around the globe, women are rising in all fields including political…
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U.S. State Department Praises Khartoum’s ‘Promises’ of Improved Humanitarian Access
Photo: sudanreeves.org By Eric Reeves December 28, 2016 (SSNA) — The U.S. State Department yesterday issued a statement praising Khartoum’s promise to improve humanitarian access in Sudan. But as the actual language of…
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Governor of Eastern Nile State Chol Thon is responsible for slaughter of Mabaan people on December 24-26 2016
“Displaced women and children under a hot sun in South Sudan’s Maban County, where food shortages are causing tension.” Photo: UNHCR/P. Rulashe By: Philemon Daud December 28, 2018 (SSNA) —…
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December 19 in Context: Incentives and challenges facing those who would oust the Khartoum regime
Sudanese Women protesting in Khartoum. Photo: sudanreeves.org By Eric Reeves December 26, 2016 (SSNA) — Reporting on the campaign of civil disobedience that culminated with large-scale “stay at home protests”…
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Is the President’s Speech on National Dialogue Initiative a Divine Intervention to Salvage South Sudan from Its Total Collapse?
South Sudan’s kiir. Photo: Getty Images/File By: Juma Mabor Marial December 22, 2016 (SSNA) — Just like many other South Sudanese citizens who have been victims of bad governance and…
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