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.

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

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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

Alex de Waal declares Omar al-Bashir Worthy of a “Nobel Prize in Financial Management”—Irony or Perverse Self-congratulation? Eric Reeves | May 7, 2016 | http://wp.me/p45rOG-1Te A video from April 2014, with clips of Day 2 of the Third Tana (Madagascar) Forum on Impact of Illicit Financial Flows on Peace and Security in Africa (April 27, 2014) has recently gained wide circulation among Sudanese—and with good reason (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHwMkcPPBCw&sns=fb&app=desktop).

The International Embrace of Khartoum Deepens: With what consequences for Sudan? Introduction and overview (part two of three) Eric Reeves 18 April 2016   View this article on the Sudan by Eric Reeves website.                   . Introduction The evidence of a growing international willingness to embrace the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum is everywhere dismayingly evident. This year alone, to

Notes from the Field on Yida Camp for Refugees, Unity State, South Sudan: Dereliction of duty by the UN High Commission for Refugees Eric Reeves 9 April 2016   Image: Shrapnel from a barrel bomb of the sort deliberately dropped on Yida refugee camp in November 2011; a piece of this size can easily slice a human being in half; one bomb, which did not detonate, landed immediately adjacent to a rudimentary schools. Such bombs are what the Nuba

European Hypocrisy on Sudan: Expedient, euphemistic efforts to buy a halt to migration from Africa to Europe Eric Reeves, Top News, Briefs & Advocacy 7 April 2016 Image: Neven Mimica, European Union Commissioner for International Cooperation & Development. I have written recently about the growing international embrace of the Khartoum regime (the first of a three-part analysis: “The International Embrace of Khartoum Deepens: With what

UPDATE to: “Continuing Mass Rape of Girls in Darfur: The most heinous crime generates no international outrage” | January 2016 |  Eric Reeves, Blog 3 April 2016   Image: As a weapon of war, nothing could be more dispiriting than the rape of girls and women---and yet in the face of a conspicuous epidemic of sexual violence in Darfur, the world remains essentially silent Rape—and particularly the rape of girls and women under 25 years of