October 9, 2025

Archives for 2009

Update on podcasts

Thanks to those of you who have started submitting some really thoughtful questions for my upcoming interviewees. My interview with the ICC Prosecutor is scheduled for April 27, so I should have the podcast of your questions up and out to you about 24 hours after that.

Taylor is not being tried by the ICC!

What is so difficult to understand about this?? Yes it is true that the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, is taking place at one of the ICC’s courtrooms in The Hague – but he is being tried by the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The Christian Science Monitor is the object of my […]

Review of Mamdani’s book: Saviors and Survivors

Professor and Provocateur: Factual inaccuracies undermine Mamdani’s thesis

About time Australia!

So I know this is supposed to be all about Darfur – but forgive a brief detour to my Australian home – to celebrate another small step in the long road towards chipping away at 220 years of racism in Australia. Today the Australian government led by Prime Minister Rudd, signed the UN Declaration on […]

Difficulties in NATO – AU cooperation

Check out this interesting piece on genocide prevention by Tod Lindberg  in the Wall Street Journal. His reflections on trying to get some semblance of cooperation and coordination between the various regional and international organizations who could, collectively, have pulled together the resources needed for civilian protection in Darfur, fits depressingly well with everything I […]

Clarification on GI-Net “1500” number

Last week, former U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, Andrew Natsios, used statistics from the Genocide Intervention Network to write in Foreign Affairs that “according to the human rights group Genocide Intervention Network, about 1,500 people were killed in Darfur in all of 2008, 500 of them Arabs killed by other Arabs. (The rest were Africans […]

Arab League supports Bashir

The Arab Times, Kuwait, reports that the Arab League concluded its Summit in Doha with a resolution in support of Sudanese President Omar Al Bashir: “We reiterate our solidarity with Sudan and our rejection of the measure of the … International Criminal Court against his Excellency (Bashir).” The Arab Coalition for Darfur, coordinated by five […]

What would you ask Luis Moreno Ocampo? ماذا ان تسأل لويس مورينو اوكامبو؟ Quelle question poseriez-vous à Luis Moreno Ocampo?Państwa pytania dla Luisa Moreno Ocampo

International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo, has agreed to a podcast interview of questions provided by you. If you’re interested in asking him a question on Darfur go to the “submit a question” tab at the top of this page. You can submit anonymously or not – it’s up to you. Questions go directly […]

UNSC appeals for expulsions to be reconsidered

On March 4, the Sudanese government began expelling aid agencies from Sudan, leading to the gaps in the provision of humanitarian assistance throughout Darfur that were identified in this week’s Joint Assessment Report.  Three weeks after these expulsions the UN Security Council has finally managed to: “appeal to it [the Government of Sudan] to reconsider […]

What would you ask Jan Pronk?What would you ask Jan Pronk?What would you ask Jan Pronk?Państwa pytania dla Jana Pronka Cosa chiederesti a Jan Pronk?

Jan Pronk has agreed to a podcast interview of questions provided by you – If you’re interested in asking him a question on Darfur go to the “submit a question” tab at the top of this page.