Aug. 14, 2010

Khartoum, 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:

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

FIGHTING FOR DARFUR: Public Action and the Struggle to Stop Genocide

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 …