Sudan: Human Rights

This is the twelfth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they… Read more »

Sudan: Darfurians in the Civil Service and Education

This is the eleventh in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they… Read more »

Sudan: The Question of Land

This is the tenth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should… Read more »

Sudan: The Future of the Movements' Combatants

This is the ninth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should… Read more »

Sudan: The Comprehensive Ceasefire

This is number eight in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated (and especially what the different… Read more »

Sudan: Community Peace and Reconciliation

This is the seventh in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated--including which negotiators insisted on… Read more »

Sudan: Guarantees for the DPA

This is the sixth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how the Agreement was negotiated in Abuja and how it can be implemented. This… Read more »

Sudan: How to Include the Different Darfur Movements

This is the fifth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), including what has happened since the signing on 5 May. This article is concerned with the… Read more »

Sudan: The Transitional Darfur Regional Authority

This is the fourth in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they… Read more »

Sudan: Compensation and Assistance to Victims

This is the third in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they should… Read more »

Sudan: Security For IDPs and Refugees

This is the second in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated, what the paragraphs mean, and how they… Read more »

Sudan: Disarming the Janjaweed and Armed Militia

This is the first in a series of articles concerning the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), explaining how different parts were negotiated by the Government and Movement delegations,… Read more »

Sudan: A Dying Deal in Darfur

In this eerily depopulated area of war-ravaged Darfur, a woman named Ayesha explained to me why she and a handful of others refused to become refugees. "We fear another… Read more »

Tanzania: Hali Halisi: Rap as an Alternative Medium in Tanzania

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Uganda: New Film Documents Uganda's 20-Year Civil War

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Sudan: Divide and Destroy in Darfur

Negotiating the end of a war is tricky enough.  But in the case of Darfur, mediators were also faced with the implicit task of ending what the Bush administration calls… Read more »

Rwanda: President Kagame Seeks U.S. Support for Rebuilding Country

President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and U.S. President George W. Bush agreed on Wednesday that their two governments will work together to end the conflict in the Darfur region of… Read more »

Uganda: Displaced People in the North Struggle for Basic Needs

Caroline Akoko has lived for almost two years at a camp for people fleeing their homes in northern Uganda, where 18 years of war between government forces and a rebel group has… Read more »

Sudan: Democratic Leader Calls for a Stop to 'Human Carnage' in Darfur

House of Representatives Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) delivered an emotional account of the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, which she called "a challenge to the conscience… Read more »

Sudan: Matching Rhetoric with Action in Darfur

Last month, in the town of Mershing, South Darfur, there was chaos and carnage.  On a scorching day in February, four hundred Janjaweed militiamen attacked, firing… Read more »

Sudan: U.S. Pushes for UN Peacekeeping Force in Sudan

The U.S. government supports the formation of a UN peacekeeping mission in Darfur, Sudan, U.S. officials said at a press briefing Friday, the same day the African Union and UN… Read more »

Uganda: Street Children Falling Through Cracks in Response to War and Aids

The small, dirty hands obsessively fold and refold a wrinkled shirt on the long conference table, as if checking to make sure it's still there, and this isn't a dream. Read more »

Rwanda: Educators Explore Ways to Meet Millennium Development Goals

Heads of two vastly different school systems have met in New York City this week to share ideas on the major restructuring challenge they both face. Rwanda's minister of Education,… Read more »

Sudan: Powell Says The World Has Not Fully Faced Darfur Genocide in Sudan

Violence in the Sudanese region of Darfur continues to be "a situation that the world has not fully faced," former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday night as he… Read more »

Burundi: Govt Determined to Consolidate Peace and Rebuild Burundi - Foreign Minister

Burundi's socio-political history has been a complex mix of power, domination and marginalization. It has experienced bouts of armed conflicts and massacres between Hutus and… Read more »