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By Lucy FlemingFrom
BBC News
With Cuban pork roast on the menu, Salsa classes on a Thursday and animated Spanish competing with the Latin beat, De Havana club in the South Sudanese capital Juba feels as though it is on the wrong continent.
It is here that a group of former Sudanese exiles, known as the "Cuban-Jubans", gather most nights to share a bottle of whisky and put the world to rights - in ...
By Maggie FlickFrom
The Enough Project
Enough experts break down the possible outcomes of the upcoming referendum vote in Sudan.
All signs indicate that Sudan, Africa’s largest state, will very soon split in two—either peacefully or violently. In a self-determination referendum scheduled for January 2011, the people of southern Sudan are widely expected to vote for separation from their northern neighbors. Yet with the security situation in southern Sudan deteriorating, next month’s national election ...
By John Prendergast and Omer IsmailFrom
The Enough Project
At the first quarterly review of Sudan policy by the Deputies Committee you will likely sense two very different assessments of what is happening in Sudan today. This divergence of opinion has major implications for your policy recommendations and decisions. One version of Sudan’s current reality will highlight recent agreements on the referendum law, high rates of voter registration, and the lack of village ...
JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - South Sudan's president on Saturday urged southerners to vote for independence in a referendum if they wanted to be free, the closest he has come to calling publicly for the separation of the oil-producing region.
The south secured a vote on whether to break away from Sudan as part of a peace deal that ended more than two decades of war with the north. But until now, southern ...
By James TraubFrom
New York Times
The Obama administration released a document last week outlining its strategy on Sudan, and in its midst was a sentiment that has become almost canonical in the first year of the administration: “We must engage with allies and with those with whom we disagree.” President Obama has pushed the “reset” button with any number of countries with whom we disagree, including Russia, Iran and Cuba. The question ...
By John PrendergastFrom
Wall Street Journal
For the past seven months, U.S. diplomacy toward Sudan has veered dangerously in the direction of appeasing Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP). Since taking power in a 1989 coup, the NCP has engaged in a systematic assault on the Sudanese people. The use of starvation as a weapon in Southern Sudan and the genocide in Darfur have killed nearly two and a half million people. Omar ...
By Brian KnowltonFrom
New York Times
WASHINGTON — Laying out the basic outlines of his Sudan policy, President Obama said Monday that he would renew “tough sanctions” against the Khartoum government and increase pressure if it failed to improve the dire situation in Darfur — but he also held out the possibility of incentives if Sudan cooperated.
“As the United States and our international partners meet our responsibility to act, the government of Sudan ...
By John PrendergastFrom
Enough
The Obama administration has almost completed its policy review on Sudan. There is, however, a major problem with the administration’s emerging policy: while an internal U.S. government agreement on tactical pressures and incentives has been reached, the broader diplomatic strategy through which these pressures and incentives will be enforced is fundamentally flawed.
It is increasingly evident that the ruling National Congress Party, or NCP, is eager to undermine ...
By Jeffrey GettlemanFrom
New York Times
NAIROBI, Kenya — The Sudanese journalist who was convicted of violating her country’s decency laws for wearing a pair of green slacks in public was released from jail on Tuesday, though she is not exactly sure why.
Lubna Hussein, the journalist, was jailed on Monday after refusing to pay a fine. Under Islamic law, she had faced up to 40 lashings, which instantly turned her case into something ...
By Eric ReevesFrom
Sudan Tribune
Has Darfur’s war ended? Has the genocidal counter-insurgency launched by the Khartoum regime in 2003 against Darfuri rebels and the non-Arab civilian population of Darfur been halted? Two departing leaders of the current UN/African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID) claim that the war is indeed over, and has devolved into a “low-intensity” security problem. General Martin Agwai, the Nigerian force commander, declared on stepping down that, “as ...
By John PrendergastFrom
Enough
The Obama administration is in the midst of a contentious review of its Sudan policy, which was the subject of three hearings on July 29 and 30 on Capitol Hill. The outcome of the debate will help determine the future of millions of people from Sudan and the surrounding region.
At the July 29 Africa Subcommittee hearing, members heard a bipartisan critique of the current direction of U.S. ...
By Colin Thomas-Jensen and Maggie FickFrom
Enough
We are confident that [the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal’s] decision will be grounded on the facts and the law, and will result in the settlement of the dispute that currently divides the parties.
--Ambassador Dirdeiry Mohammed Ahmed, Government of Sudan, closing remarks to the Abyei Arbitration Tribunal, The Hague, April 23, 2009
The SPLM/A wants to affirm to this Tribunal its commitment to implement your decision and ...
