Darfur Peace and Development

Source: Minority Rights Group International, 16 October 2006

By Sharath Srinivasan

Source: The Associated Press

Published: October 9, 2006

KHARTOUM, Sudan Sudan’s president is fighting hard to keep U.N. peacekeepers out of Darfur by accusing western “crusaders” of trying to take over the country. But what he really fears may be more basic: Losing control over a key political stronghold in the troubled region.

That determination to keep tight control of Darfur and prevent any loosening of his regime’s grip on…

Sudan crisis – current situation and Oxfam’s response

The current situation – October 2006

It is now three years since the escalation of the conflict in Darfur into a major humanitarian crisis. Today the situation is as desperate as ever. The sheer scale of the crisis is incredible:

- 2 million people – nearly one in three people in Darfur – have had to flee their homes and are sheltering in…

A UN Strengthened by and Strengthening Democracy
Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 9:16 am
Speech: US State Department
A UN Strengthened by and Strengthening Democracy
Mark P. Lagon, Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Organization Affairs
Remarks to the New America Foundation
Washington, DC
September 25, 2006

Good afternoon. I am pleased to be here with you today. I would like to thank the New America Foundation for hosting this occasion, and I…

By: Suliman A Giddo
Co Founder & President
Darfur Peace and Development Org.
www.dpado.org
June 21, 2006

Since the signing of Darfur partial peace Agreement on May 5th, 2006, expectations are that the war affected population of Sudan will return to carry on their lives. In Darfur, before rehabilitation and repatriation can occur, there are critical issues that must be resolved. The most imperative of these is security.

Security must be addressed at two…

DECLARATION OF COMMITMENT TO THE DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT
HAVING PARTICIPATED in the negotiations which led to the Darfur Peace
Agreement (DPA) signed by the Government of the Sudan (GoS) and the Sudan
Liberation Movement/Army (Minni Minawi), on 5th May 2006 and/or in our
capacity as field commanders and responsible officers of the Darfur Movements;
RECOGNISING the commitments of our Movements under the following
Agreements which form an integral part of the DPA:
. Agreement on Humanitarian Ceasefire…

By Eric Reeves
May 13, 2006

Current data for total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease

Part 1 of this morality assessment (April 28, 2006), surveying all relevant
extant data, concludes that since the outbreak of major conflict in Darfur
(February 2003), over 450,000 people have died from violence, disease, and
malnutrition (see http://www.sudanreeves.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=102).
Moreover, despite the “peace agreement” reached in Abuja (Nigeria) last week,
there is little reason to believe that…

QUANTIFYING GENOCIDE IN DARFUR: April 28, 2006 (Part 1) Current data for total mortality from violence, malnutrition, and disease

By Eric Reeves

April 28, 2006 — Currently extant data, in aggregate, strongly suggest that total excess mortality in Darfur, over the course of more than three years of deadly conflict, now significantly exceeds 450,000. As Rwanda marks a grim twelfth anniversary, we must accept that while vast human destruction in Darfur has…

By Eric Reeves
April 6, 2006

Hundreds of thousands of civilians are directly threatened with genocidal destruction by the National Islamic Front

Jan Egeland, the UN’s chief humanitarian official, was this week brazenly and contemptuously denied access to Darfur by leaders of Khartoum’s National Islamic Front (“National Congress Party”). Not only was Egeland refused entry to South Darfur and West Darfur, but he was informed through the NIF’s UN mission in New…

By Eric Reeves

In remarks that do far more to highlight US impotence and lack of resolve, President Bush went on to declare that, “‘this is serious business. This is not playing a diplomatic holding game…. When we say genocide, that means genocide has to be stopped’” (Deutsche Presse-Agentur, South African Press Agency [dateline: Washington, DC], March 29, 2006).

Perhaps President Bush has forgotten that his administration made a formal genocide determination…