“Sudan Oil Crisis: Extortion and misappropriation are not ‘negotiations,’” Sudan Tribune, January 30, 2012

Eric Reeves
January 29, 2012

“Sudan, South Sudan, and the Oil Revenues Controversy: Khartoum’s Obstructionism Threatens War”

Eric Reeves
January 24, 2012

A Timeline for Catastrophe: Sudan’s Continuing Slide Toward War

Historical memory is often short when Sudan is the subject, and the events of even the past year often become blurred or inadequately related to one another. This is especially dangerous because of the likely form that renewed war in Sudan will take. As Baptiste Gallopin argued at the end of August—and thus prior to Khartoum’s military offensive in Blue Nile (“Sudan: Slippery Slope”)—war will not come in the form of “an abrupt descent into full-fledged violence, but rather through a graduated series of unilateral measures that set the stage for a de facto international conflict.” The timeline offered here represents an attempt to provide a sequential account of the events, developments, and statements that have brought greater Sudan relentlessly closer to renewed war over the past year. It necessarily focuses on the “unilateralism” that has emanated from Khartoum, and taken the form of brutal aggression against the people of Abyei, South Kordofan, Blue Nile, and increasingly South Sudan itself.

Eric Reeves
December 30, 2011

“Darfur: The Genocide the World Got Tired Of”

Amidst precarious humanitarian conditions, human security is increasingly threatened in Darfur—by Khartoum’s military as well as by variously re-cycled militia forces, and in particular by the increasingly savage Abu Tira (Central Reserve Police). The UN/African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) is a conspicuous failure, and yet continues to represent the entirety of international efforts in confronting the “responsibility to protect” acutely endangered civilians

Eric Reeves
November 24, 2011

“What Really Animates the Obama Administration’s Sudan Policy?”
The lust for counter-terrorism intelligence all too easily trumps the “responsibility to protect” endangered civilians
http://www.sudantribune.com/What-really-animates-the-Obama,40386

What do we know about the role Khartoum’s putative provision of “counter-terrorism intelligence” plays in the Obama administration’s Sudan policy? A good deal, if we look at the historical record. And how, in turn, does this policy govern U.S. responses to the regime’s military assaults in Abyei, South Kordofan, Blue Nile—and of course in Darfur, which in November 2010 the Obama team announced would be “de-coupled” from bilateral discussions of Khartoum’s support for terrorism? The answers do not bear close moral scrutiny.

Eric Reeves
October 10, 2011