Aug. 14, 2010 KHARTOUM, SUDAN — Like any aspiring pro-democracy movement, the young Sudanese activists needed a name. They picked Girifna, Arabic for “We are fed up.”They chose orange for their color and the V-for-victory sign as a logo, then began distributing their first pamphlet. Challenging the ruling party was risky in a country where […]
Archives for 2010
Omar al-Bashir, fresh off press crackdown in Sudan . . .
August 16, 2010 by
Khartoum, Sudan Buoyed by a win in the disputed Sudan election in April, President Omar Al Bashir continues to thumb his nose to critics at home and abroad, jailing journalists and challenging an arrest warrant for war crimes and genocide. Read rest of article as it appeared
U.S. priorities on Sudan
August 13, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Sudan advocates are firing up about this nice scoop by Josh Rogin in Foreign Policy, documenting yet another feud between Special Envoy Gration and Ambassador Rice over the direction of the Obama administration’s Sudan policy: Rogin writes, “At the meeting, Rice was said to be “furious” when Gration proposed a plan that makes the January […]
Sudan’s post-election parliament
August 13, 2010 by 1 Comment
I just got back from Sudan and have 11 days to finish the next review stage on my book. So I made a deal with myself not to blog until that was done (you can check out reporting from my trip, which is all being posted at the Pulitzer Center – and there is plenty […]
Where’s Gration today?
July 5, 2010 by Leave a Comment
A quick note courtesy of free wi-fi – thanks Dubai airport. Just read a report in the Sudan Tribune that U.S. envoy, Scott Gration, will not be attending the meeting in El Fasher today that is supposed to bring together the (expansive) number of international envoys and mediators involved in “resolving” Darfur. It would be […]
On the carrots-sticks toolbox (& Art. 16 not being part of it)
June 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
An op ed yesterday (co-authored) by John Prendergast in USA Today argued the Obama administration should offer both carrots and sticks to get behavioral change from Sudan. In policy 101 terms that should be an uncontroversial assertion. But on Sudan, those who have suggested carrots in the past have been viewed with skepticism by activists, […]
15 years later, genocide convictions for Srebrenica
June 10, 2010 by Leave a Comment
This morning in The Hague, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) convicted two Chief of Security officers from the Bosnian Serb Army (VRS) of genocide, for their role in the 1995 genocide at Srebrenica where over 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men were killed. Both were sentenced to life imprisonment. Vujadin Popović, Chief of […]
‘Anonymous victim’ book covers
May 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
I’m in book cover process and have been a little surprised by quite how distraught I am at the suggestion of having the photo of a Darfuri women (the same would go for man or child) I have never met and will never know the name of, on my book cover. So I wanted to […]
Announcing . . .
May 20, 2010 by 1 Comment
FIGHTING FOR DARFUR: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide to be published by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, Feb. 1, 2011 If you haven’t written a book before you’d be amazed at just how hard it is to nail down a title that both the author and the sales & marketing department can agree on – […]
Girifnaقرفنا
April 11, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Following on from a comment from Mahid over at The Sudanese Guardian, I wanted to highlight the Sudanese voices at “Girifna” (We Are Fed Up/ Disgusted) – the student-driven organization that is trying to build grassroots support for change from inside Sudan. Their facebook page is full of activity for Arabic speakers, and they have […]
