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 »

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 »

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 »

Sudan: Senior U.S. Envoy to Promote Peace Prospects for South and Darfur

American officials are cautiously optimistic that Sudan's comprehensive peace agreement will be implemented as scheduled, according to the U.S. special envoy Roger Winter, even… Read more »

Rwanda: 'History Repeats But Doesn't Teach,' Rwanda Hotel Hero Tells Students

Paul Rusesabagina, the courageous hotel manager portrayed by Don Cheadle in the film "Hotel Rwanda," has received many honors and addressed numerous gatherings since he emerged as… Read more »

Zambia: Debt Relief Puts Zambia on the Threshold to Move Forward - Foreign Minister Shikapwasha

Debt relief for Africa is a top issue under discussion in capitals around the world and is a lead item on the agenda for the G-8 summit in early July of the leading industrial… Read more »

Sudan: Opportunity to Jump-Start Sudan May Be Lost Over Darfur - U.S. Negotiator

After decades of neglect, world attention has recently focused on Sudan, Africa's largest country with a land area about one-quarter the size of the United States. A peace… Read more »

Sudan: Powell Declares Darfur Crisis Is Genocide

Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Thursday that the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is a genocide. This was his first… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Scramble for Resources in DRC Leads to Massive Deaths, But Scant Attention

With an estimated 3.5 million Congolese dead over the last six years due to war, starvation and disease, the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo is one of the… Read more »

Liberia: Refugees `Wasting' in U.S. While Wanting to Work

Torli H. Krua, founder and president of Universal Human Rights International (UHRI), came from Liberia shortly after the war started and is an active advocate for African refugees. Read more »