The U.S. has this wonderful piece of legislation called the Freedom of Information Act – commonly known as FOIA. Through it, people can request to have government documents made publicly available – subject to certain exceptions.

Friends of mine in Sudan have been emailing to tell me that this website is not accessible.  People who are trying to submit questions from inside Sudan get told that the page cannot be displayed.

Thanks to those of you who have started submitting some really thoughtful questions for my upcoming interviewees.

What is so difficult to understand about this??

Professor and Provocateur: Factual inaccuracies undermine Mamdani’s thesis

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 …

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 …

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 …