Image: Cultural Responses to Pain. How Is Suffering Expressed Around the World? Burma/Myanmar: The outgoing government of Myanmar lifted a curfew in Rakhine State this week, imposed in June 2012 after clashes that displaced over 140,000, mostly Rohingya.   U Htin Kyaw of the National League for Democracy was sworn in on Wednesday as the new president of Myanmar. In his speech, Mr. Htin Kyaw urged “patience in the pursuit of democracy”,

Keep Sudan/Darfur a High Priority for Leadership and Action Join Bipartisan Letter to President Obama   Dear Colleague, We ask that you join us on sending the letter below to President Obama urging him to re-prioritize peace, accountability and protection of civilians in Sudan during his final year in office. The human rights and humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to deteriorate. Rape, murder, the burning and looting of villages and mass

Surviving the Antonovs in Darfur By Kamal Elsadig, Radio Dabanga 22 March  2016   EAST JEBEL MARRA, DARFUR, SUDAN Many people in Darfur recognise the sound of the Antonov aircraft of the Sudanese Air Force. The converted Russian-made cargo aircraft are infamous in the western region of Sudan because their arrival means the indiscriminate bombing of villages. Civilians living in these danger zones in Darfur, however, manage to flee and outwit

A Diplomatically Corrupt Thabo Mkebi Offers His Latest “Roadmap for Sudan”: rejection by the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) was inevitable Eric Reeves,  Top News, Briefs & Advocacy: 2016 22 March 2016     Image: Meril Rasmussen. All Rights Reserved.   Some are critical of the decision by the Sudanese rebel coalition known as the Sudan Revolutionary Forces (SRF) to reject a new “roadmap” from the African Union High-Level

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

Sudan Religious Discrimination and the Quest for National Integration Sudan Democracy First Group 14 March 2016 image credit: BBC In the early morning of Friday 18th December 2015, forces from the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) arrested the two pastors Hassan Abdul Rahim Kodi and Telal Ngosi at their homes and took them to an unknown destination. The two pastors are senior clerics in the Church of Jesus Christ of Sudan. Pastor

"Raping Girls in Darfur: A Continuing Weapon of War," The Huffington Post, January 21, 2016 by Eric Reeves   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 accelerated,

Number of Civilians Displaced by Recent Darfur Conflict Increases to 73,000 United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Sudan 17 February 2016   Khartoum, 17 February 2016. The number of civilians displaced as a result of the recent conflict in Darfur’s Jebel Marra area has increased from 38,000 to 73,000, according to the latest estimates by the United Nations. Civilians have been fleeing the Jebel Marra since hostilities

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: