This report, released this month by the Small Arms Survey, on the people who were recruited as proxy militias by the Sudanese government in Darfur, is well worth the read. Its author is Julie Flint (who wrote Darfur: A Short History of a Long War …

Yesterday, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the ICC issued its decision on the confirmation of charges laid by the Prosecutor against Congelese MLC leader (and former Vice-President), Jean-Pierre Bemba, for crimes committed in the Central African Republic, 2002-2003.

I have been advised that my last vent, caused by having the same message delivered, on the same day, by both SUNA and the “new” NGOs for Darfur, MercyCorps Scotland and CARE (Switzerland), was misguided. Rather than it being a case of the NGOs repeating …

So – I was about to get off the computer, but I just caught sight of these, and they warranted the creation of a new category: “WTF?”

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The Balkans is not my area of expertise, but the issue of territorial gains from genocidal policies is going to come up in the future of Darfur as it is today in Bosnia, which it why it seems relevant to highlight this recent interaction between …

Too tired and too many interview notes to go over to do a proper post, but just to say that today covered the extremes. I started the day interviewing the Secretary General of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, and finished the day in the overcrowded …

Picture for a moment, a non-English speaking Muslim tourist in – name your location – Sydney, Amsterdam, New York. What are the chances she would be taken, literally, by the hand, by a group of uni students who knew absolutely nothing about her, and invited …