Despairing 14-year old Boy Commits Suicide in Darfur Camp: Suffering from which international eyes remain averted Eric Reeves  |  July 28, 2016  |  http://wp.me/s45rOG-7384 The dispatch from Radio Dabanga was terse, compact—and to my moral sensibility outrageous: A 14-year-old has committed suicide in a camp for displaced people in Zalingei, Central Darfur. The coordinator of Hamidiya camp, El Shafi Abdallah, reported the suicide on Wednesday

Politicizing Humanitarian Relief: The International Community Continues to Accept Khartoum’s Humanitarian Blockade in the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile Eric Reeves  |  June 20, 2016  |  http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Ue Unseemly haste and a disgraceful refusal to accept the moral consequences of their action have prompted European countries to accelerate rapprochement with the Khartoum regime in order to step the flow of African refugees to Europe.

Ethiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds Human Rights Watch  16 June 2016  Image: Demonstrations were triggered by an Ethiopian government plan to expand the boundaries of Addis Ababa on to farmland in the neighbouring Oromia region (AFP Photo/Zacharias Abubeker) Free Wrongfully Held Detainees, Independent Inquiry Needed  (Nairobi) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands

The International Embrace of Khartoum: Causes and Consequences for Greater Sudan Eric Reeves, School for Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London June 7 2016  Image: New York Times dispatch from Nyuru, West Darfur (February 22, 2012); the caption to this accompanying photograph reads in part, “peace has settled on the region.” I hope this evening is to make sense of my title by offering a highlighted history of the past five

Eritrean Accused of Trafficking Migrants Is Captured in Sudan, Italy Says Gaia Pianigiani and Sewell Chan, The New York Times 9 June 2016 Image: European Union delegates paid tribute before rows of coffins at an airport hangar in Lampedusa, Italy, in 2013. The coffins held the bodies of the victims of the shipwreck that killed more than 300 migrants off the Sicilian island. CreditRoberto Salomone/European Commission, via European Pressphoto Agency

U.N. Accuses Eritrea’s Leaders of Crimes Against Humanity Nick Cumming-Bruce and Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times 9 June 2016 Image: Yemane Gebreab, an adviser to the president of Eritrea, arrived at a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday to respond to the report by the United Nations commission. GENEVA — The leaders of Eritrea are responsible for crimes against humanity, a United Nations commission of inquiry said Wednesday, calling for

The International Embrace of Khartoum’s Genocidal Regime: A synopsis in Sudan Tribune Eric Reeves, Sudan Tribune  May 27 2016 What will it take to halt the hideous spectacle of an international community that now seems prepared to give an increasingly warm embrace to the Khartoum regime, guilty of serial genocides in the Nuba Mountains (1990s), in Darfur (for thirteen years), and again in the Nuba Mountains as well as in Blue Nile (2011 to the

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International Arrest Warrant Doesn’t Deter Globe-trotting by Sudan’s President Carol Morello, The Washington Post 18 May, 2016 Image: Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir laughs at a ceremony in Uganda on Thursday, defying an international arrest warrant on genocide charges. (Edward Echwalu/Reuters) For a man with an international arrest warrant hanging over his head on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, Sudanese President

The world’s abandonment of Darfur Eric Reeves, The Washington Post  13 May 2016 The Darfur genocide in western Sudan — the first genocide of the 21st century and the longest one in more than a century — is about to achieve another distinction. It will be the first genocide in which the victims will be abandoned. An international peacekeeping force designed to halt violence against civilians and humanitarians — the United Nations-African