Author: Ben Wallace
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Negotiating the election
In the face of a threatened boycott of the 2010 elections by Sudan opposition parties, the Sudan Tribune has an interesting report on what U.S. envoy, Scott Gration, has said to his interlocutor in the Sudanese government, Ghazi Salah Al-Deen, during his current visit to …
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The hand behind camp closure proposals – a desire for legitimacy
Driving away from outskirts of a camp in North Darfur, Sept. 2009. The camps are seen by the Government as an "eyesore"
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Finally some mainstream media coverage of impact of expulsions on women
Following the release of the Panel of Experts report last week that talked about this, we finally have a journalist with a major media organization writing on the impact of the expulsions on vital services for rape survivors. Better late than never. Thanks to Andrew …
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Panel of Experts: SGBV is “rampant” in Darfur
In what is surely the least surprising news of the month, the Sudanese government has rejected the Report of the UN Panel of Experts, released late last week. To my shame I am only reading it now. Not all the way through it yet, I …
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#AskUS: Responding to activists or managing them?
There is much hype among advocates about the meeting that Save Darfur’s Jerry Fowler and STAND’s Layla Amjadi are scheduled to have with Gen. Scott Gration and Samantha Power – a meeting that will be webstreamed in real time this coming Tuesday Nov. 10.
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Good result: Turkey buckles
A quick update on a previous post. According to AFP, the Sudanese state media is reporting that Bashir has called Turkish President Gul to say he doesn’t have time to go to attend the Organization of the Islamic Conference scheduled for tomorrow. As the Sudan …
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Audience questions from Pledge2Protect
I started off this morning with a Plenary session on Sudan at the Pledge2Protect conference in DC, with Michelle Gavin and Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdallah. The conference organizers had audience members submit questions for us on pieces of paper, which were to be asked out …
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Crowdpull: The growing influence of regional organizations
Interesting little report here from Reuters that the EU is applying pressure on Turkey not to host Bashir next week. The signal coming from Ankara is that they will go ahead anyway, but this kind of en-masse pressure has a better shot of success than …
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Abu Garda is in the dock, but he is not the only one under scrutiny
It has been a fascinating week at the ICC with the Confirmation Hearing in the Prosecution’s case against Darfur rebel leader, Abu Garda. The Prosecution is charging him with three counts of war crimes (murder, intentionally directing attacks against a peacekeeping mission, and pillaging) with …