There is, at last, a "breakthrough in the crisis in Darfur. The Sudanese government has given "unconditional acceptance to a 20,000-strong force of United Nations and African Union peacekeepers. Under proposals put forward by UN and AU planners, the (...)
At last we have it. Five months after the United States promised to unleash "Plan B against the Sudan government unless it agreed to allow United Nations peacekeepers into Darfur, President George W. Bush has finally announced a package of economic (...)
It was one of those moments during the Lebanon war in summer 2006 when newspapers were glimpsing the metaphorical light at the end of the tunnel. A friend turned to me and said, without realizing what he was saying: "Yesterday we stood on the edge (...)
In the final weeks of the Darfur peace talks in Abuja, Mohamed Issa, the chairman of the Rizeigat Advocacy Council and the most prominent independent Arab observer at the talks, grew daily more depressed. Under American pressure, the African Union (...)
Andrew Natsios, America's special envoy to Sudan, has warned that the Bush administration will resort to an unspecified "Plan B if the Sudanese government does not agree to an expanded international peacekeeping force for Darfur by January 1, 2007. (...)
