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By John Pendergast
From The Enough Project
Six months before the self-determination referenda for South Sudan and Abyei, U.S. policy is not contributing in a meaningful way to peace and justice in Sudan, whether in preventing a return to war between North and South Sudan, or in resolving the escalating conflict in Darfur. The time has come for an urgent rethink of how the United States can contribute to peace in Sudan now, building ...
By Nicholas Kristof
From The New York Times
The U.N. Security Council is expected to meet today to discuss African peace and security issues, including how to prevent mass atrocities there. Presumably the Security Council will again refuse to address seriously the most important African peace issue — the prospect of a new north-south war in Sudan in the coming months.
It is so frustrating to see what’s unfolding in Sudan these days. It looks ...
By Dave Eggers and John Prendergast
From The New York Times
For many good reasons, Americans are doubting our ability as a nation to positively influence events abroad. We’re involved in two conflicts with dubious outcomes and we’ve begun to question whether any step we take, anywhere, will be the right one. But it was not long ago that the United States intervened abroad in a bold way that led to undeniably positive results.
From ...
July 9th, 2010
By Maggie Fick
From The Enough Project
JUBA, Sudan—Hundreds gathered on a rainy morning in Sudan’s southern capital of Juba to mark the countdown to southern Sudan’s self-determination referendum.
The southern referendum, slated for January 9, 2011, was a key provision of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a landmark accord that ended decades of war between the Khartoum government and the southern rebels, the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement/Army.
With only six months until southerners cast ...
By Alan Boswell
From IRIN
JUBA, 20 May 2010 (IRIN) - Southern Sudan will in early 2011 hold a referendum to determine whether to remain part of a united Sudan or become a separate state. The referendum was a core component of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended decades of conflict between the Southern Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the Khartoum government.
Should the south choose to separate, the two sides ...
Executive summary
With its Sudan policy review, the Obama administration promised a diplomatic approach based on a clear-headed analysis of the situation on the ground across a variety of indicators. According to the strategy, the parties in Sudan would be held accountable for their actions, and incentives and pressures would be deployed in response to progress or backsliding on the ground. Now, almost six months after the policy review, an honest ...
By Nicholas KristofFrom
The New York Times
We in journalism are pretty good at covering wars after they start. But we make a lousy early warning system about wars that are approaching on the horizon. That’s mostly because until people start shooting, there’s not much to write about or film; the prospect of war just isn’t very dramatic, especially in visual terms.
But we should all try to pay more attention to the risk of ...
By Laura HeatonFrom
The Enough Project
It’s official: Sudan’s National Electoral Commission today declared a victory for President Omar al-Bashir in what’s been dubbed the country’s “first democratic elections” in over two decades. The outcome, of course, is no surprise, given that Bashir was running virtually unchallenged. (I find it strangely contradictory how so many reports about Bashir’s victory lead off by writing of Sudan’s “first multi-party election” in practically the same breath ...
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has been declared the winner of this month's landmark elections, despite facing war crimes charges over Darfur.
Former rebel leader Salva Kiir has been confirmed in power in the semi-autonomous south in the first polls since the north-south war ended.
The polls were Sudan's first multi-party elections in 24 years.
Observers and opposition parties have complained of fraud and - particularly in the south - of intimidation. Sudan's election commission ...
By Mohamed Osman and Sarah El DeebFrom
AP
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- Sudan's opposition parties accused the United States of backing the country's elections despite the deep flaws favoring the government, as officials announced Monday voting was extended for two days following complaints of problems at the polling stations.
Sudan's first multiparty elections in almost a quarter century are part of a 2005 peace deal that ended 21 years of a bloody north-south civil ...
By Michael GersonFrom
The Washingtong Post
ROUM ROL, SOUTH SUDAN
For those used to seeing the faces of slaves in Civil War-era tintypes -- staring at the camera in posed, formal judgment -- it is a shock to see the face of slavery in a shy, adolescent boy.
Majok Majok Dhal, 14 or 15 years old (many former slaves have no idea of their exact age), dimly remembers his capture in the village of Mareng ...
By Maggie FickFrom
The Enough Project
Enough experts analyze the agreements being negotiated by the major parties in southern Sudan's upcoming independence referendum.
A series of deals in February 2010 over elements of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement, or CPA, largely went under the radar of international media attention, but offer important insights into the current dynamics of deal making between the National Congress Party, or NCP, and the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement/Army, or SPLM/A, ...
