There is growing awareness that national elections scheduled for April 2010 will fail on many counts, with unpredictable consequences for the Khartoum regime’s ambitions to retain its stranglehold on Sudanese national wealth and power. In turn, the prospect of an aborted or compromised Southern self-determination referendum (January 2011) looms ever closer, with the potential to trigger unfathomable destruction.

Eric Reeves
November 9, 2009

Recent heavy fighting in the Korma region of North Darfur has taken a substantial civilian toll, even as the UN/African Union force watches helplessly for days from a distance. US Special Envoy Gration gives more disheartening evidence of ignorance and disingenuousness. Withdrawals and curtailment of aid by humanitarian organizations continue.
[The Sudan Tribune, September 27, 2009 at http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article32602]

Eric Reeves
September 26, 2009

As prospects for free and fair national elections in April 2010 continue to wither, as Darfur’s ghastly status quo is preserved, the National Islamic Front/National Congress Party regime has set its sights more directly on undermining the key provision of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement, a self-determination referendum for Southern Sudan

Eric Reeves
August 25, 2009

Questions concerning the adequacy of humanitarian assistance and the nature of violence in Darfur become increasingly politicized; amidst the debate, conditions on the ground continue to deteriorate, threatening millions

The Sudan Tribune, May 14, 2009, http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article31163

Eric Reeves

“Is President Obama’s Sudan Policy Becoming One of Capitulation?”
The Sudan Tribune (http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article31026)

Eric Reeves
April 28, 2009

What are the consequences of international failure to regain re-entry for aid organizations providing over half the humanitarian capacity for Darfur? Was the ICC arrest warrant for President al-Bashir the cause of the expulsions? or the pretext? The consequences of the expulsion order, and the threat to expel all aid organizations within a year, demand a response: will it be more than rhetorical?

Eric Reeves
March 25, 2009

On the eve of the ICC announcement of a warrant for the arrest of Omar al-Bashir, charging him with atrocity crimes, security in Darfur reaches a nadir; humanitarians continue to evacuate and their operations to contract amidst growing evidence that UNAMID cannot protect them, or civilians.

Eric Reeves
March 3, 2009

"The Qatar 'Peace Process': Less Than Meets the Eye"

The Sudan Tribune (http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article30134), February 9, 2009

Eric Reeves

The impending arrest warrant for NIF President Omar al-Bashir, to be issued by the International Criminal Court in the coming days or weeks, creates uncertainty for the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, national elections, and further deployment of UNAMID (Part 2 of three-part overview)

Eric Reeves
January 22, 2009

As Darfur’s humanitarian crisis deepens, potential intra-national conflict reveals the broader failures of the National Islamic Front regime---and the ultimate threats to international humanitarian and development assistance throughout the country (Part 1 of three-part overview; Part 2 at http://www.sudanreeves.org/Article232.html)

Eric Reeves
January 1, 2009