The International Embrace of Khartoum Deepens: With what consequences for Sudan? Introduction and overview (first of three parts) Eric Reeves 31 March 2016   Image: People displaced from Jebel Marra to North Darfur (Sortony) Introduction The evidence of a growing international willingness to embrace the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime in Khartoum is everywhere evident. This year alone, to date, there have been numerous

Reckoning the Costs: How many have died during Khartoum’s genocidal counter-insurgency in Darfur? What has been left in the wake of this campaign? Eric Reeves 18 March 2016   There is a growing possibility that the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party (NIF/NCP) regime in Khartoum will soon prevail militarily in its thirteen-year campaign in Darfur. The current Jebel Marra offensive seems increasingly likely to overwhelm the last

Jebel Marra: Accelerating Civilian Destruction and Displacement---consequences of international expediency and indifference Eric Reeves 25 February  2016   Both the  UN and the Swiss-based Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) now report that more than 100,000 people have been displaced in the Jebel Marra region of central Darfur, driven from their homes and villages by the brutal onslaught of Khartoum’s regular Sudan Armed Forces (SAF)

On Jebel Marra: Obama Administration Sudan Policy Remains Expedient, Guided by a Perverse “Moral Equivalence” Eric Reeves 08 September 2016   Image: The U.S. State Department   Belatedly, the U.S. State Department has issued an equivocal and largely useless statement about a major upsurge in genocidal violence in the Jebel Marra region of Darfur: For Immediate Release | February 18, 2016 STATEMENT BY JOHN KIRBY, SPOKESPERSON Sudan: 

Vast carnage in Jebel Marra (Central Darfur) fails to spur the international community Eric Reeves, [Forthcoming in the Huffington Post] 16 February 2016   Feature Image: Recent photograph of civilians fleeing the violence in Jebel Marra (photography by Radio Dabanga correspondent)   On February 11, 2016 the New York Times published my brief and summary account of the current crises in Darfur, most particularly the extension of Khartoum’s

Don’t Forget Darfur Eric Reeves, The New York Times 11 February 2016   Northampton, Mass. — Darfur may have dropped out of international headlines, but that does not mean the region enjoys peace. Far from it. A renewed escalation of violence by the Sudanese government against non-Arab ethnic groups threatens to compound a humanitarian disaster that, according to United Nations estimates, over the past 13 years displaced more than 2.7 million

Sudanese journalist arrested in Saudi Arabia, faces deportation to Sudan As of February 2, 2016, Waleed al-Hussein al-Dood remains in Saudi custody, at the urging of Khartoum's National Intelligence and Security Services Eric Reeves 02 February 2016   New York, September 3, 2015--A Sudanese journalist has been detained for more than a month without charge in Saudi Arabia, according to news reports. Waleed al-Hussein al-Dood could face deportation

Raping Girls in Darfur: A Continuing Weapon of War Eric Reeves, Professor at Smith College, Huffington Post 21 January 2016     Despite an almost total lack of news coverage, genocide in Darfur is entering its fourteenth year. It is certainly the longest genocide in more than century, and shows no signs of having "decisively cooled," as a New York Times reporter suggested four years ago. On the contrary, since that time the genocide has dramatically

Criminal Financial Support for the Khartoum Regime: A Last Chance for U.S. Justice for the People of Sudan by Dr. Eric Reeves   10 December 2015                                                  -   Gayle Smith, who has long worked as a senior Africa specialist in the Obama administration’s National Security Council, was recently confirmed by the Senate to be the new head of the U.S. Agency for International Development

“Changing the Demography of Darfur,” a Briefing to UN Delegations, UN/Palais des Nations, Geneva,   Eric Reeves, Genocide Prevention Advisory Network            2 December 2015 I’ve worked for almost seventeen years as a Sudan researcher and analyst and have watched with horror as genocide in Darfur has continued to unfold over the past twelve years—and with renewed horror as ethnically-targeted violence has escalated over the