A peace “agreement” between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army: Has the regime done anything but change the subject? Eric Reeves December 29, 2004 FRAMING THE QUESTION What should we make of the various announcements that a final peace agreement between Khartoum and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) will be signed in Nairobi [...]

Khartoum Triumphant: Abuja talks end without progress; Save the Children/UK withdraws from Darfur; MSF worker murdered by Khartoum’s forces in Labado (South Darfur); African Union fired upon and forced to curtail monitoring activities Eric Reeves December 22, 2004 There should be no doubt about the extent of Khartoum’s brutal triumph in furthering its genocidal policies [...]

Insurgents’ killing of two aid workers, Khartoum’s disproportional military responses threaten to create intolerable insecurity conditions Eric Reeves December 17, 2004 Exactly one year after Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs, declared that Darfur “is in all probability the world’s greatest humanitarian crisis,” this crisis threatens to tip precipitously into a cataclysm of human [...]

Eric Reeves December 12, 2004 Building on nine previous assessments of global mortality in Darfur, the current assessment finds that approximately 370,000 have died since conflict erupted in February 2003, and that the current mortality rate has increased to approximately 35,000 per month, though this figure is poised to grow rapidly in light of food [...]

Eric Reeves December 6, 2004 Though genocide by attrition daily claims over a thousand lives in Darfur, adding to a total mortality figure of approximately 350,000 human beings, the once austerely clear moral character of this human destruction is slowly dissipating. In its place, we are being encouraged in various quarters to believe that the [...]

Eric Reeves November 29, 2004 As violence intensifies in the Darfur region of western Sudan, and as growing insecurity restricts humanitarian access in ever more consequential fashion, there is a revealing failure on the part of UN officials, the US State Department, and other international actors to see present realities within the historical context of [...]

Eric Reeves November 23, 2004 The recent unanimous UN Security Council Resolution on Sudan (No. 1574, November 19, 2004) marks an extraordinary triumph for the National Islamic Front regime in Khartoum, and it has been appropriately celebrated in the regime’s state-controlled press. Official commentary, as well as Saturday editorials in Al-Ayam and Al-Rai Al-Aam, were [...]

Some context for today’s “historic” agreement on a prospective peace deal between the Khartoum regime and the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army: a return to January 2004— Eric Reeves November 19, 2004 [excerpt from analysis of January 22, 2004] Some very recent history [bearing on progress in the Naivasha peace talks]. First there was a missed [...]

Eric Reeves November 16, 2004 POLICITAL AND DIPLOMATIC CONTEXT As the UN Security Council convenes in Nairobi for an unusual meeting outside New York, it has become clear that there has been an ominous shift in approach to the Darfur crisis. This shift in strategy is twofold. First, having seen that it cannot muster sufficient [...]

Eric Reeves November 11, 2004 Though the agreement between the Khartoum regime and the two insurgency movements in Darfur (signed in Abuja on November 9, 2004) represents a modest achievement for African Union (AU) diplomats, it is extremely unlikely that Khartoum will adhere to its commitments. And despite the signing of a security protocol, the [...]