Africa
Arab Revolution hits Sudan
Street clashes continued in the Sudanese capital Khartoum for a second day after massive protests broke out over the regime's move to cut fuel subsidies.
Tag: Sudan
Greater Middle East
Assad to The Hague? Don’t bet on it…
Syria does not recognize the International Criminal Court, so an ICC case against Bashar Assad can only be launched by the Security Council—where Russia holds a veto.
Africa
AI: demand Sudan president surrender to ICC
Amnesty International called upon UN members to demand Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir turn himself in to the International Criminal Court to face genocide charges.
Africa
Darfur: ethnic war exploding again
Efforts by pastoralist militias to bar refugees from returning to their lands in Darfur have sparked yet a new wave of fighting and displacement—with 250,000 uprooted this year.
Africa
Egypt threatens Ethiopia over hydro project
Egyptian politicians threatened military action as Ethiopia began diverting waters of the Blue Nile for a mammoth new hydro-electric project, abrogating a colonial-era pact.
Africa
Sudan war crimes suspect reported killed in Darfur
Deputy commander of the JEM-Bashar rebel faction and international war crimes suspect Saleh Mohammed Jerbo Jamus has reportedly been killed in Northern Darfur.
Africa
Pipeline intrigues behind South Sudan fighting
South Sudan says Khartoum is fomenting rebellion in Jonglei state in a bid to block the South’s plans to build an oil pipeline through Ethiopia to a port in Djibouti.
North Africa
Playing the ‘slavery card’ against Tuaregs
Specious charges that the Tuareg still practice slavery are being used by Mali’s regime—and echoed by the Western media—to justify the mounting wave of ethnic attacks.
Africa
Protests rock Sudan, South Sudan…
Security forces mixed it up with protesters both in Sudan, hit by a wave of student unrest, and in South Sudan’s West Bahr el-Ghazal state, where 10 were killed by army troops.
Africa
Israel bombs Sudan —again?
The Sudanese government charged that Israeli airstrikes were responsible for explosions overnight at the Yarmouk Military Industrial Complex, an armaments plant in Khartoum.
Afghanistan
From Afghanistan to Tunisia: back to GWOT?
Both imperialism and political Islam see in the current crisis the opportunity to revive the dystopian dialectic of jihad-versus-GWOT—and reverse the gains of the Arab Spring.
Sudan and South Sudan strike oil deal —but border disputes remain
South Sudan and Sudan announced a deal on the south’s access to Khartoum’s oil pipelines—but it is contingent on further talks over disputed border enclaves.