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Home >> Africa Sudan Sudan-Chad Truce : Light at the end of the Darfur Tunnel?
Abdul Ruff - 4/3/2008
On the sidelines of the OIC summit in Dakar, Senegal, the presidents of Chad and Sudan Chad's Idriss Deby and Sudan 's Omar al-Bashir, have signed an accord on 13 March aimed at halting five years of hostilities between the two neigboring countries. They agreed to implement past failed peace pacts at a Dakar summit. The deal - known as the Dakar agreement - commits the two nations to implementing past accords that have failed. The accord was struck under Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's mediation. The signing ceremony was witnessed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade brokered the agreement at his palace in the capital. Early CIA Involvement in Darfur Has Gone Unreported
Jay Janson - 10/1/2007
There has been a glaring omission in the U.S. media presentation of the Darfur tragedy. The compassion demonstrated, mostly in words, until recently, has not been accompanied by a recognition of U.S. complicity, or at least involvement, in the war which has led to the enormous suffering and loss of life that has been taking place in Darfur for many years. In 1978 oil was discovered in Southern Sudan. Rebellious war began five years later and was led by John Garang, who had taken military training at infamous Fort Benning, Georgia. "The US government decided, in 1996, to send nearly $20 million... Will the UN resolution on Darfur make any difference?
Saberi Roy - 8/12/2007
Finally, the UN Security Council has authorized 26,000 troops and police to protect civilians in Darfur and the peacekeepers are also allowed to use force to protect the civilians and aid workers. But considering the fact that 200,000 civilians have died in the region in the last four years and 2.5 million people have been displaced, it’s a tough job for the UN. Sudan’s pro-militia government has been resisting UN intervention all these years but finally agreed to deployment of UN forces after insisting on considerable changes to the resolution. What critics consider as a largely ‘watered down... UN Inaction Would Have Led To Another Genocide In Darfur!
Iqbal Latif - 7/11/2007
The Sudanese government has agreed to the deployment of a joint African Union-UN peacekeeping force to Darfur, a move facilitated by the UN Security Council.Dumisani Kumalo, South African ambassador to the UN, said: "Sudan has accepted the hybrid force without any conditionality … The acceptance was confirmed by President Bashir." New Proposal to Alleviate Darfur Crisis
Amit Pyakurel - 6/28/2007
It's all the grieving situation with about 200,000 dead and over 2 million people displaced due to, what we perceive, as one of the most glaring humanitarian crisis of today in Darfur. The dread only seems to be elevating and the crisis has ever been sustaining its grip in the region, albeit the international efforts lurking with one or the other humanitarian aides, including the imposition of harsh measures, like economic sanctions by the U.S. and other UN member states, in an attempt to discourage the internecine war taking place between the rebelling groups and the government deployed troops in the region. Darfur Crisis: Towards An Ever Greater Tragedy
Amit Pyakurel - 4/24/2007
The situation in Darfur seems to be bleaker day by day, notwithstanding the abundance of media coverage and ostensible international attention. May the cause is easily acknowledgeable: it's due to the inadequate international attention, let alone the international efforts, alongside the Sudanese government's indiscriminate offensive against its civilians rather than looking concretely towards the reason of the crisis, that Darfur is rapidly drowning deeper into the humanitarian catastrophe. Darfur - Why UN Troops are not the Solution!
Sajjad Khan - 9/18/2006
Thomas Jefferson once said ‘The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.’ The sanctity of life however took a huge knock in the twentieth century and we are still feeling the consequences in the new millennium. Mankind lost millions in WW1in European trenches, we lost tens of millions in WW2 including 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians and tens of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the Korean peninsula 3-4 million civilians were killed as a result of the conflict, in Vietnam 58,000 US soldiers were killed as well as 2 m... China’s Alarming Involvement in Sudan
Frederick Stakelbeck, Jr. - 3/26/2006
Sudan’s brutal Islamist President Omar al-Bashir and Chinese President Hu Jintao have become fast friends as of late, forging a Sino-Sudanese alliance that has serious implications for the Sudanese people and the future stability of the African continent. “China has burst on the African scene with a presence that has been frightening to many people who hadn’t realized how wide its reach is,” U.S. Representative Randy Forbes (R-VA), chairman of the new House China Caucus, noted in January. Was The Death of Sudanese VP a Planned Murder?
Jan Lamprecht - 8/14/2005
The recent death of the Vice President of Sudan John Gurang in a helicopter crash brought a lot of unrest in the Sudan. One needs to ask why the death of this man resultedin unrest - and what is going on in the minds of the Sudanese. What makes it more interesting is that Sudan is trying to recover from a civil war and this man was one of the principle people involved in this. Slaves in Sudan: Hoax To Fundraise for Sudanese Separatists?
Antero Leitzinger - 3/15/2005
Slave-trade is flourishing in Southern Sudan. We know this for it has been widely covered in news by, among others, the German TV company ZDF already in December 1995. Since then, journalists from various countries have been witnessing the slave-trade show several times every year. The show is every time arranged by a Zürich-based international human rights organisation "Christian Solidarity International" (CSI), which boasts for having bought free more than 33,000 slaves. The money comes from huge contributions that the organisation gets thanks to the publicity. Price of Peace in Africa: Agreement in Sudan Between Government and Rebel
Adesola Orimalade - 2/10/2005
Perhaps the recently signed peace accord in the Sudan between the government and the John Garang led Sudan People's Liberation Army is worth celebrating. I am not too convinced. While positive minded people will look at the future and argue that the peace accord will bring in a period of peace, social and economic development, re-construction, social and political stability and most importantly peace of mind and security of lives and property. Sudanese children can begin to walk into a future without war. |
