Following up on an earlier post, the Appeals Chamber has agreed to receive observations from lawyers Geoffrey Nice and Rod Dixon, representing the Sudanese Government the Sudan Workers Trade Unions Federation and the Sudan International Defence Group (SIDG) in the case against President Bashir.
Security provided by those who need their security provided . . .
September 23, 2009 by Leave a Comment
A couple of days ago I did a post on the village of Ain Siro, where I was last weekend. Before I went, there had been some news reports of fighting in the area, and when I was there people said that Chadian rebels had been trying to get in. They also reported being angry […]
Ain Siro
September 19, 2009 by 1 Comment
Since Julie Flint first wrote about Ain Siro in a Washington Post article back in 2007, this small village in a mountainous region of North Darfur has become something of a poster-child for Darfuris ‘doing it for themselves.’ And, from what I saw last weekend, deservedly so. I have to admit that when I saw […]
The way forward
September 18, 2009 by 2 Comments
The big takeaway for me from the trip to Darfur this weekend was that the Special Envoy is facing a communications breakdown. In a situation like Darfur, where the IDPs in the camps are so networked into the global media and advocacy organizations this messaging problem is no superficial matter – it has a substantive […]
BBC/PRI Interview
September 15, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Link to interview about trip to Darfur with Gration is up.
Back to Darfur
September 9, 2009 by 1 Comment
Hi everyone I’m heading back to Darfur (which means this blog will once again become inaccessible to me). But this time, I’m not going solo. I will be accompanying U.S. Special Envoy, Scott Gration. The schedule for the trip is up on the U.S. State Department blog. Darfur policy under the Obama Administration (whenever it […]
Mission Not Accomplished
September 4, 2009 by Leave a Comment
By Rebecca Hamilton Two weeks ago at El Fasher airport in Darfur, I watched Sudanese soldiers load up an Antonov bomber, in full view of the U.N. plane I was seated inside. The recent headline-making comments of the outgoing U.N.-African Union force commander, Gen. Martin Luther Agwai, that the war in Darfur is “over,” therefore […]
More on the ‘war is over’ comments
August 31, 2009 by 1 Comment
So my mate Rob Crilly has written a post I need to respond to regarding my remarks on General Agwai’s comments. Maybe I’m missing something, but I’m not sure we are substantively in quite as much disagreement as Rob would like to think. He agrees with most of my comments, before concluding “But Bec charmingly […]
August 28, 2009 by Leave a Comment
BBC/PRI’s “The World” gave me the opportunity to talk about my time in Darfur. If you are in the U.S. you can listen on the radio, otherwise the audio link will be up on their site in a few hours. After the interview, a friend in Darfur sent the following comment: Gen. Agwai’s remarks (that […]
Gration, the media, and today’s Policy Review
A principles meeting is taking place today to (belatedly) finalize the outcome of the Sudan Policy Review that the Obama Administration has been undertaking since it came to office. And in a savvy piece of timing from the Washington Post, they have chosen today to run this piece on Sudan Envoy, Scott Gration, by Stephanie […]