March 28, 2024

The Heglig debate

For the Pulitzer Center, Khartoum, Sudan Published on July 29, 2010 Edward Lino, an SPLM member from Abyei, was sent to administer to the disputed area shortly before the May 2008 fighting which displaced some 50,000 people. He is now based in Khartoum, where I interviewed him last week. Although the interview was about Abyei, […]

Diaspora, maintaining the flame of protest

A few photos from a Sunday spent with the Sudanese diaspora in the build up to the UN General Assembly in New York this week. In Brooklyn, members of the 24 Hours for Darfur team screened their video of the findings of their survey on the views of Darfuri refugees in Chad on peace, justice, […]

U.S. priorities on Sudan

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

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 […]

On the carrots-sticks toolbox (& Art. 16 not being part of it)

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

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 […]

Eyes on the elections

Hi all I realize this is a terrible time for me not to be blogging, but it really is book crunch time with 7 weeks to go before my final manuscript is due (and with a current draft that is 40,000 words over my contractual word count). I am, of course, following the pre-elections build […]

Bakit

I met Bakit Musa in Goz Beida, Chad, when I traveled there with Mia in 2008. At that time Bakit was 7 years old. In January that year he had picked up an unexploded RPG when he and his friends had been out playing. It left him with only one eye, no arms from the […]

Karadzic trial: A view from Bosnia-Herzegovina

So, Radovan Karadzic is having his day in court here in The Hague. I have been following his Opening Statement in between editing draft chapters all morning; his overall defense seems be to a pretty classic ‘blame the victim’ approach (Karadzic: “Their conduct gave rise to our conduct, and that is 100% true”). But the […]

Parallel processes

Enough has posted an interesting play-by-play of the Doha process that is worth the read. It states that “The African Union-United Nations mediators, the Qataris, and the U.S. special envoy all seem to support the parallel negotiation track.” What Enough is referring to when they talk about a “parallel negotiating track” is that the Doha […]