Why It Would Harm Rwanda to Withdraw Peacekeepers From Sudan

As political tensions continue to rise between the United Nations and Rwanda over a report citing that former Rwandan rebels my have committed genocide in eastern Congo after ending the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the tiny African nation is threatening to withdraw more than 3,000 peacekeeping troops from Sudan’s Darfur region. Currently, the former rebels [...]

LRA Spreading Reign of Death into South Sudan

“Those Americans have strength and technology, so they can use that to catch Kony,” said Anton Juma, another member of the village militia, now sheltering at Nzara. “Our arrows are no use against their guns.” AFP When the dread-locked, AK-47 toting Lord’s Resistance Army rebels attacked the small farming village of Basukangbi in southern Sudan, [...]

Student Activists Across US Hold Candlelit Vigils to Propose Change in Sudan Policy

Last week, President Obama met with U.S. special envoy to Sudan Gen. Scott Gration and other high level officials to discuss Sudan policy.  In short, it did not go as well as activists hoped, and the proposed policy sidelined Darfur and lacked necessary diplomatic and economic pressures on the government in Khartoum.  U.S. ambassador to [...]

U.S. Envoy in Sudan Amid Referendum Discord

From the AFP: US envoy to Sudan Scott Gration arrived on Wednesday for talks as disagreements within a commission tasked with organising a southern independence referendum threatened to delay the January vote. A diplomat in the Sudanese capital said Gration’s visit was expected to last for several days. His trip comes as the commission responsible [...]

Taking Lessons Learned From Natural Disaster Response and Applying To Mass Atrocity Response in Sudan

PHOTO: A CH-46E Sea Kinight Helicopter serves an area affected by the February 17 landslide in Saint Bernard, Republic of the Philippines, February 19, 2006. (UPI Photo/ Michael D. Kennedy/US NAVY) An Operation Broken Silence Op-Ed by Mark Christopher Hackett Natural disasters and mass atrocities have many things in common, most notably the ability to [...]

South Sudan Independence Vote ‘Risks Being Derailed’

Twenty years of civil war between north and south Sudan, as well as a genocide in the south, led to a date in the very near future for southerners to vote for independence or to remain part of the nation. Today, that vote remains at severe risk of not taking place on schedule, promoting a [...]

UN Wants Sudan to Lift Darfur Camp Blockade

From the Sudan Tribune: The United Nations today called on theSudanese government to lift its blockade of Kalma IDP camp in the western region of Darfur and allow aid groups in as it started running low on food and fuel supplies. “[T]he [Sudanese] Government must resume full humanitarian access to Kalma and to surrounding areas where [...]

Darfur: JEM Will Demand Self-Determination of Violence Does Not Cease

From the AFP: Darfur’s most active rebel group said on Wednesday it would demand self-determination for the devastated Sudanese region if conflict with the government continues, a spokesman told AFP. Justice and Equality Movement spokesman Ahmed Hussein Adam said the group, which withdrew from peace talks with Khartoum in May after renewed clashes with the [...]

Jake Tapper Questions Biden on Sudan

Biden: ‘Legitimate Concern’ Over Sudan Referendum

From the AFP: The United States is working “full-time” to ensure Sudan’s January referendum on southern independence will be free and fair, amid widespread concerns of fraud, Vice President Joe Biden said on Sunday. The January 9 referendum will decide whether to grant independence for south Sudan and allow the oil-rich Abyei frontier region to fasten [...]

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