‘541 Civilians Killed in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains’: NGO Radio Dabanga Records 25 April 2016   Image: Houses destroyed by aerial bombardments (RD)   The government forces and allied militias have reportedly killed 541 civilians, including 13 children, and burned 25 villages in the Nuba Mountains during March and April this year. The Nuba Mountains Observatory for Human Rights announced that the Sudanese Air Force Antonovs dropped 563

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

GLOBAL WEEK OF ACTION AGAINST GENOCIDE IN DARFUR Organized by Darfur Women Action Group Cosponsored by Darfur Interfaith Network, Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition, Darfur Union UK & Island, Collectif Urgence Darfur of France, Waging Peace UK, and Italians for Darfur 15- 25 April 2016    Image: retrieved from the Darfur Women Action Group website   Today, Darfur Women Action Group, in partnership with the Sudanese diaspora and

Why did the Sudanese opposition forces refuse to sign the Roadmap Agreement proposed by the AUHIP? Sudan Democracy First Group: “Sudan Update” | A non-periodical issued by Sudan Democracy First Group 22 March 2016   Image:  the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel (AUHIP), headed by the former South African President Thabo Mbeki, signed, as a witness, a Road Map Agreement (RMA) with the Sudan’s ruling National Congress Party

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

Image: A Gathering of Bloggers – The Why About This, One United World. retrieved from www.thewhyaboutthis.com Burma/Myanmar: The first bill proposed by the incoming government of Myanmar’s new Parliament, led by the National League for Democracy, created a new position in the government for Aung San Suu Kyi, that of state counsellor. This position, one that has been compared to that of a Prime Minister, would skirt the constitutional ban

How to Become a Genocidal Dictator — And Still Have Western leaders Fawn Over You Rebecca Tinsley, The World Post 05 April 2016   Follow these simple steps, and you too can enjoy totalitarian power, while using your country’s oil and natural resources as your personal bank account. Learn from the experts: President Obiang of Equatorial Guinea, Field Marshall Bashir of Sudan, and the House of Saud. 1) If you are busy eliminating a section

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

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