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Tragic Deaths Underscore the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
197 mostly Somali migrants died when their overladen boat capsized in the Red Sea. Escaping a world desperately short of water, they met their end by drowning. That sad irony underscores the collective...
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Lessons from East Timor for South Sudan: Three Things Nation #193 Can Learn...
The verdict, it seems, is already in. Many are already calling South Sudan, which will become the world’s 193rd nation on July 9, a soon-to-be failed state. Indeed, the prognosis is grim: as its...
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Sudan: Kidnapping of Workers Highlights Risk for Chinese Businesses Abroad
The capture of Chinese workers by rebel troops in Sudan is putting added pressure on Beijing to protect its citizens and investments abroad. China’s Foreign Ministry says that a Chinese company...
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Must-Reads from Around the World: February 20, 2012
Changing China — The announcement that Foxconn, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of products for Apple, Dell, Hewlett Packard and others, will raise salaries from 16 to 25% at its Chinese...
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Must-Reads from Around the World: April 4, 2012
Perilous Path – The Independent of London reports on how the already dangerous journey for refugees fleeing the violence in Syria has become even deadlier in recent weeks as President Bashar al-Assad...
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In Sudan’s Nuba Mountains, Rebels Make Gains — and Talk of Marching on Khartoum
In the shade of a thorn tree on a plain of cracked earth and yellow grass, Brigadier General Namiri Murrad lays out how the rebels of southern Sudan plan to unite and overthrow President Omar Hassan...
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Must-Reads From Around the World: April 25, 2012
Preventing Atrocities Overseas - Scrutinizing the mandate of President Barack Obama’s newly created Atrocities Prevention Board, tasked with developing strategies to prevent mass killings abroad, the...
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Must-Reads Around the World, May 9, 2012
Warring Words – China’s state-run Global Times issues its most threatening commentary yet on the continuing standoff with the Philippines over disputed islands in the South China Sea. Under the...
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Out of Africa: Israel Confronts a New Generation of “Infiltrators”
Israeli immigration enforcers do not work on the Jewish sabbath and so, on a Saturday afternoon, tattered southern Tel Aviv can look like nothing so much as an African city. Having slipped into...
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Wishful Spring Thinking or the Beginning of the End for al-Bashir?
In a bunker hidden by camouflage from Sudanese bombers roaming overhead at a secret rebel base in the Nuba Mountains in southern Sudan, Major General Izzat Kuku outlined the plan to overthrow Sudanese...
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Sudan’s Blue Nile Offensive: Is This the Next Darfur?
It took weeks of walking on raggedy flip-flops and crusty bare feet, over wooded mountains and across muddy plains, before news of the atrocities could reach the outside world. Stumbling over the...
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A Year After Freedom: How to Heal South Sudan?
One year after its independence, the fledgling nation of South Sudan is torn by feuding factions, burdened by a sclerotic, likely corrupt government and forever in the shadow of war with Sudan to the...
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Displaced by War, Sudanese Refugees Face Worsening Crisis
A year after achieving its independence, South Sudan is wracked by instability and concerns over the frailties of its fledgling government. A refugee crisis, sparked by neighboring Sudan’s brutal...
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Furor in Khartoum: The Siege of the Western Embassies
Enraged by Innocence of Muslims, an amateur film mocking the Prophet Muhammad, thousands of protestors took to the streets of Khartoum, Sudan on Friday after weekly prayers to demand the United States...
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The Sudans’ Fragile Peace: Will Economic Necessity Create Brotherly Love?
The sudden spurt of activity involving the still-contentious border and oil prices has been inspired by the almost certain economic cataclysm in the event of war. So how long will this peace last?
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Did Israel Bomb a Sudanese Ammunition Depot?
Late on Oct. 23, an enormous explosion erupted around a government-run ammunition factory on the outskirts of Sudan’s capital, Khartoum. Terrified residents in the area reported a blackout, the whizz...
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Sudan: Is Bashir’s Regime Crumbling?
Shortly after midnight on Thursday a column of tanks drove slowly down one of the main boulevards of Khartoum. Although residents of Sudan‘s capital of Khartoum awoke hours later to what seemed like...
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French Family’s Cameroon Kidnapping Stokes Fears of a Pan-African Islamist War
Updated: Feb. 21, 2013, at 6 a.m. EST France began holding its breath Feb. 21 amid unconfirmed news that a French family of seven kidnapped two days earlier in northern Cameroon by suspected Islamist...
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What Does the Future Hold for the Sudans: An Assessment by America’s Envoy
Princeton Lyman continues to be troubled by the question of whether he could have done more to foresee and prevent a recent conflict that broke out in Sudan and says he will be for a long time. The...
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Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice Wants Judges to Carry Out Amputations
Sudan’s Deputy Chief Justice caused alarm among human rights campaigners last week when he announced at a press briefing that Sudanese judges may receive special training to perform amputations on...
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